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5 Inspiring Beauty Trends from Fall 2018 Bridal Fashion Week

Sarah Schreiber, Senior Digital Editor
By Sarah Schreiber
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No matter how stunning the wedding dress, no bridal look is complete without elevated hair and makeup.

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If you're a bride-to-be, you know that finishing touches complete your big-day look. Sure, your wedding dress is a focal point, but hair and makeup are equally as responsible for transforming a woman into a bride—which makes beauty inspiration just as important as fashion inspiration. What better place to look for your big-day look than New York City's Bridal Fashion Week? The industry's elite designers send their latest wedding dresses down the runways along with their freshest takes on makeup and hair trends—some of which are absolutely worth a try at your own nuptials.

Here, we've rounded up five of our favorite beauty trends from Fall 2018's Bridal Fashion Week, and each is sure to inspire your own hair and makeup trials. From loose, romantic waves, to bold lips, and colorful eyeshadow, these trends are easy to replicate on your big day. Also noteworthy? The pretty, inspired takes on floral hair accessories (move over flower crowns!). Embedded into wispy buns and draped around the ears, they create a whimsical, effortless look that will wow on your walk down the aisle. 

Whatever your vision—daring, natural, and everything in between—Bridal Fashion Week delivered wedding day beauty looks fit for any bride who's interested in trying something new. Click through for your favorite designers' new takes on bridal beauty and get ready to screenshot. You'll want to share these great ideas with your hair and makeup stylists!

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Marchesa Flower Hair Accessory
Credit: Jason Carter Rinaldi for Morrocanoil

Flower crowns have some serious competition. As it turns out, there are a million ways to wear flowers (real or faux!) in your hair on your wedding day, but we plucked our top three from a few of our favorite designers. First up? The stunning silk flower headpieces at Marchesa. Voluminous rosettes and cascading vines gave the models' upswept buns—which hairstylists achieved using Moroccanoil products—garden vibes.

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Reem Acra Babys Breath Flower Crown
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Reem Acra replaced the standard, flat flower crown with baby's breath tiaras that were more regal than bohemian.

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Lela Rose Flower Hair Accessory
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Lela Rose also got on board with the cascading floral trend by looping flower vines around models ears and around low buns.

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Bold Lips

Davids Bridal Hot Pink Lips
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Natural lip colors will never go out of style, but many designers chose to pair bold, rich lipstick hues with their newest designs. The result? A shock of color that's romantic and chic, never jarring. Take David's Bridal's Fall 2018 collection, for instance. Makeup artists polished off more fashion-forward designs, like this cropped two-piece wedding suit, with a pop of hot pink on the lips.

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Naeem Khan Ruby Lips
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Naeem Khan sent models down the runway in glossy dark ruby lips.

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Temperley Pink Red Lip
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Temperley proved that there's nothing prettier than a lipstick that walks the line between berry and red.

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Bliss by Monique Lhuillier Soft Waves
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There's a reason why dreamy, soft waves have graced runways (bridal and couture!) for seasons—loose, ethereal curls exude pure romance. Of course, there's always room for variation, especially within a trend as pervasive as this. At the Bliss by Monique Lhuillier presentation, Moroccanoil Artistic Director Kevin Hughes used Moroccanoil Dry Texture Spray to create beachy waves. The casual look perfectly offset the feminine wedding dresses.

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Oleg Cassini Soft Waves
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Soft waves also cropped up on Oleg Cassini's runways in the form of barely-there, fallen out waves.

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Laure de Sagazan Soft Waves
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Laure de Sagazan debuted her own take on soft waves, with stylists loosely curling the hair before pinning it back into a simple and elegant half-up, half-down look.

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Colorful Eyes

Theia Pink Eyeshadow
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We've seen lots of colorful wedding dresses in recent seasons, and now the color trend has infiltrated eye makeup, too. Theia models wore pearlescent pink eyeshadow, which makeup artists achieved by using one wash of color.

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Alexandra Grecco Blue Eyeliner
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At the Alexandra Grecco Fall 2018 presentation, models sported a whimsical baby blue cat-eye that paired perfectly with the collection's modern wedding dresses.

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Berta Copper Eyes
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Don't toss that multi-toned palette yet, though. Berta sent models down the runway sporting a coppery eye that deepened into burnt bronze at the outer corners.

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Fresh Updos

Inbal Dror High Messy Bun
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There's so much more to wedding updos than the basic ballerina bun or chignon. Hair stylists at Inbal Dror sent long-haired models down the runway in loose top-knots with lots of baby hairs around the face, but brought the look together with structured metal bun-cuffs.

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Ines di Santo High Messy Bun
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The hair at the Ines di Santo runway featured a vintage-inspired beehive updo, but was made new again with some strands of hair left hanging free.

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Monique Lhuillier's models walked down the runway with chic low buns that didn't skew too precious. The secret? Allowing natural wisps and bumps to show through.

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