Twice a year, New York Fashion Week descends upon the city in a tsunami of style—and with it comes a trend-inspiring wave of beauty that accompanies, but shouldn’t come second to, its runway counterparts. We beauty editors are often buzzing around backstage to get inside scoops on the hair, makeup, and nail looks that will soon float down the runway, closing the loop on every ensemble and sending those final, subtle messages that the designer intended. Think: windswept, tousled hair giving life to the too-busy-for-beauty citydweller that inspired Simkhai S/S 26, or the watercolor eye shadow at Sandy Liang’s last show that actualized the collection’s “sleepy girl” muse (per the show’s lead makeup artist, Charlie Riddle, in a previous interview with Who What Wear).

Last season, we used our forecasting skills to predict which beauty trends would have major moments on the most influential American runways, and we accurately predicted a handful: wearing hair as an outfit (never forget Collina Strada’s literal take on “hat hair”), and sculptural updos (as seen at Prabal Gurung and Luar), to name a few. Instead of playing psychic this time, we decided to throw our beauty manifestations out into the void—speaking them into existence, if you will.