By Bella Blissett
Fashion Week always throws up a mish-mash of references from days gone by – but today it was all about a look that was unmistakably seventies.
Strictly for grown ups, the ever-empowered Issa woman emerged from the Amazon, pairing dark, bronzed limbs with a feline seventies eye, created using L’Oreal Paris Superliner Perfect Slim.

Stalking through the jungle, her intricately woven, toweringly high topknot caught on nearby orchids - the exotic leaves lending a final couture finish to the new Issa warrior woman.

A hop, skip and a jump away at Moschino Cheap and Chic, make up artist Hannah Murray took her cue from the psychedelic seventies prints of the collection to create a girlier spin on the decade. Laying MAC’s aquamarine Hi-Def Cyan Chromagraphic Eye Pencil beneath a slick of the royal blue Marine Ultra Pigment, she left lids naked bar for a pop of clear gloss.

By that time, the spring summer 13 tide had well and truly turned towards the seventies. With some braids, a clamping iron and a misting of Pantene’s Pro-V Normal to Thick Hair Instant Damage Defense Conditioning Spray, Sam McKnight created ‘ripple effect’ hair inspired by, (yes - you guessed it) the seventies the that made us think mermaids had come to town.

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Watch below backstage at Issa with L'Oreal Professionnel...

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