Ready to wear: Make-up artists may say 'dewy' but in real life, it's oily
Just as the designer "show piece" – anything from flashing shoulder pads to glow-in-the-dark jellyfish dresses, say – is rarely seen away from the catwalk, so various hair and make-up looks are unlikely ever to make it into real life. These vary from the extreme – think anything courtesy of Pat MacGrath for John Galliano – to the more deceptively usual, the kind of thing that innocent onlookers might think they'd like to emulate but do so only at their peril.
Take dewy skin as a prime example. "Do you really want to look like someone spat on you?" muses a colleague who may always be relied on to call a spade a shovel. She has a point, though. What make-up artists might describe as dewy, mere mortals might more readily call oily, shiny or just damp, hardly likely to be favoured by working women of style.
In a similar vein is wet-look hair. The idea in this case evokes decadent young things clubbing in the wee small hours or indeed Ursula Andress emerging from the sea in a white bikini. Away from the screen, however, and "lean back on your chair and you'll leave a grease mark", says my colleague again.
导语：知名美发全球造型创意总监Eugene Souleiman