At fashion month Spring/Summer 2026 , the beauty looks are just as fundamental as the garments are. For designers, hair and makeup are an artistic medium to extend their collections’ ethos far beyond the realm of fashion. Yet, with the whole world watching, fashion houses continue to send bare-faced models down the runway . Consequently, the no-makeup makeup look has become a staple of fashion month. In the midst of the avant-garde glam and innovative beauty details, the clean girl aesthetic continues to dominate the runway at large.
Beyond fashion month, stripped-down makeup occupies a large portion of the beauty landscape. On TikTok , Gen Z is trading smokey eye looks and mermaid waves for glass skin and slicked-back buns — and as a result, editorial makeup is few and far be