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FALL 2008…Looking to the future…longing for the past.

1. Gray is the new black.

Shades from gunmetal to pale smoke coated models’ nails on fall runways— including Louis Vuitton's—and will be the season's must-have nail color. Nail polish can also be an added accessory to any outfit which makes any of these rich fall shades perfect for everyday wear. Be sure to touch your hands up at least once a week to keep your color fresh and sophisticated. OPI "You don’t know Jacques" - available at The Loft
2. Gold is the metal of choice for breathtaking eyes.
Artfully apply golden shadow over lids to achieve an end result which is modern and smoldering.
 
Dimensional Shadow Amber Glow
   
3. Fall Hair: It's Full and Foxy

After several seasons of strand styles with lift just at the roots, the hottest heads now have volume throughout the length of the hair rather than near the crown. It's all about glamorous, lusher-than-lush tresses. There are no excuses — this look can sizzle on anyone — so say sayonara to limp, lifeless locks and go for a magnified mane.

This look can be
achieved with PureOlogy PureVolume Shampoo, PureVolume Conditioner, and Blow-dry Amplifier.
   
4. Perfect Luminous Skin

Inspired by High Definition, the new skin radiance is nothing overly powdered or shiny. Simply flawless, as if fresh from a facial, with a light sateen mineralized feel.
   

5.The Fringe

We saw plenty of the fringe at the start of 2007, and then somewhere in the first half of the year it simply lost its buzz. Then, as the year drew to a close, it became a certain hair trend for 2008 when hypermodel Kate Moss got a fringe. What's best is that as a trend, you're going to have plenty of options to make it your own.
How many trends really have that many different styles? Few. But with the fringe hair trend in 2008 there are three main ways you can wear it;
1. The Blunt Fringe - the style that is the safest choice. Cut thick by bringing in hair from near either temple, the thick, blunt cut fringe remains the most popular way to wear this hair trend.
2. The Kate - that's what we've dubbed Kate Moss' fringe as she's wearing it in quite a unique way: fairly long. While having hair sitting in front of our eyes, almost below them, would annoy us mere mortals for Kate it’s a signature part of the look.
The Pixie - the fringe that takes the most confidence to pull off, ultra short and quite boyish the pixie fringe really sits as part of the 2008 cropped hair trend but is an element you can easily borrow.
   
6. Lips: Bold or Muted!

The pouty lip is as much as a staple of Fall as the vintage-inspired fashion. Brillantly creative crimsons and pouty flesh tones snare the spotlight, always undeniably chic. Sensual in attitude, lips mirror the new mood of the season.
   

7. The Bob

Amazingly versatile, there are so many ways to wear the pob (poshe bob) this year that you're going to be perfectly on trend but still 100% unique. If you're more traditional, wear it as a natural accompaniment to the revival of 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s fashion trends (think Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago). Or go the other end of the spectrum with something far more modern like Hayden Panettiere. Or how about letting out your inner sex kitten with the rock-chic version we've been fantasizing about on model Freja Beha Erichsen (below right)? You can make it your own in plenty of other ways: fringed or fringeless, blonde or brunette, short at the back, or blunt cut all over.
These looks can be achieved with a variety of Redken products that can be customized by your stylist.
   
8. The 60’s sex kitten returns: smoky eye and pastel lip

Inspired by Raquel Welch and Bridgette Bardot…Purrs from the past. This mod vixen has kittenish eyes, frosted pastel lips and unfussy bedroom hair.
   
9. Return to Glamour!

With Veronica Lake waves rolling down her shoulders, fall’s woman splurges with unabashed glamour.
   
10. The men: School Boy or Rocker!

2009 sees men's hair styles fall into two distinct categories: school boy and rocker. But while the rocker look is certainly a 20th Century creation, the resulting hair style finds its roots (if you'll pardon the pun) distinctly in 19th Century Britain. And so it is in 2009; while the odd 2009 runway collection featured something akin to a grunge revival, the majority of us will live out 2009 with a refined, classically inspired hair cut.
  The incarnate of the “Cesar Cut” as seen on Burberry’s Runway.
 
  “The Rocker” as seen on the Gucci Fall Runway.
Short but choppy with a lot of texture  
The point is not to look like you rolled out of bed without looking in the mirror and combing your hair, but to allow for your hair to fall more randomly.
Partless slickback on Jil Sander’s men’s catwalk
The newest way to wear long hair is with lots of texture and long layers, especially around the perimeter of the hairline.