Our favorite beauty moments from PFW SS25 – Essence

On the ultimate stop of the spring/summer 2025 season, Paris Fashion Week produced many viral moments. This included Cardi B’s knockout looks and front row displays that carried the identical weight.

Mugler, for instance, referenced the Nineteen Nineties with a sliced, angular curtain. Acne Studios then turned wigs into twisted fairies, and Junya Watanabe showed off science fiction-inspired makeup.

Below, ESSENCE highlights the beauty highlights from the Paris Fashion Week runways.

Last season, Pat McGrath’s profession-defining porcelain skin on the Artisanal Couture show at Maison Margiela won essentially the most iconic fashion week moment in history. But for spring/summer 2025, Mugler had an equally improbable moment – digging out archival beauty references to have fun the home’s darkly dramatic fiftieth anniversary.

Before (and beyond) Cardi B’s striking curtain bangs by a wigmaker Zhou Xue Ming their cut-up, vision-saving hair guards have gone viral on the Internet. Pieces of hair that evolved from theirs Fascinators from the 90s past the season, transforming the wigs into an updated, reinterpretation of the style codes they’re known for.

In Junya Watanabe, a sci-fi/thriller movie inspired a makeup artist Isamaya in French transform models right into a robot-human hybrid, thus adding to the twisted fantasies of Paris Fashion Week. “We create the perfect effect, almost a mask shape around the face, black contact lenses, sculpted, we get rid of the eyebrows” – Franch said on Instagram styling, which we finished with a lilac highlighter (in the colour “Sweat” from the Isamaya Beauty palette Industrial palette of color pigments).

Shiny, asymmetrical bald spots within the hair highlighted by a hair stylist Eugene Souleiman reminds us what hairpiece season is (think: Mugler), putting a dark twist on last season’s doll beauty.

Pixie hairstyles and bobs didn’t end when summer ended. At the SS25 Acne Studios show, the ’50s housewife wig struck a sweet spot between the 2 by way of cut, with the style itself mimicking the curled curls of a kiss. Definitely some of the fashionable sorts of the season due to the hair stylist Anthony Turnermakeup artist Karina Westerlundwhich accentuated the look of a traditionalist with traces of yellow eye shadow and kissable lips.

Under the patronage of Comme Des Garcons Noir, Kei Ninomiya hired a hair stylist Ryoji Imaizumi for a group of curly hair moments. A glance often used for pin-shaped curls, twisted and pinned right into a bobby, curly afro-shaped Imaizumi strands with brown hair accessories placed on top. Meanwhile, other looks were more luxuriant and explosive, woven into Marie Antoinette’s costume wigs from centuries past.

Makeup artist Shu Uemura mixed the look with ’90s grunge makeup, but as an alternative of the conventional shades of taupe, he used red eyeshadow and lipstick so as to add a layer of mysterious romance to the gathering.

In Rick Owens’ Paris Fashion Week collection titled “Hollywood”, the gravity of a star’s sin is shown through makeup inspired by the Bible – angular gray eye shadowbloodshot, partying eyelinerand black contacts and head covers.

One message: God save Hollywood.