Do you ever get together with a few of your close friends and just put the world to rights" Add a bottle of wine, a few make-up bags and you have last Friday. The most amusing dynamic of my friendship circle is that most assume that because I somewhat work in the field of beauty, that I must be able to forecast what the biggest and best beauty products of 2017 will happen to be. Yes and no, the beauty world not only moves quickly but is terribly fickle too - do you remember when every brand and their mother, rushed to create magnetic nail polish, only for the trend to pass as quickly as it arrived" If I was to predict a few trends or movements, it would be the following:

1, Matte liquid lipstick is going nowhere - Back in 2015 it was all about lip liner (in no small part due to Kylie Jenner's then yet to be confirmed lip fillers and media attention), the deeper the nude the better. Kylie Jenner stated she used MAC Whirl or MAC Soar lip liner to define her pout and the internet all but exploded as did MAC sales nationwide. As we eased into 2016 it become evident that we were ditching lip pencils in place of matte liquid lipsticks. At this moment in time, I am hard pushed to think of a key beauty player who doesn't offer such lipstick formulation - this is bandwagon that even the budget beauty brands have jumped aboard and to their credit, mostly executed well. I'm not sure if we will finally step away from the grungy, deeper, 90's nudes in favour of a more nat...