If your New Year’s plans involved the great indoors this year, you’ve likely clocked in a repeat viewing of Bridgerton over the long weekend. Helmed by the hitmaker behind Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, Shonda Rhimes’ newest oeuvre takes an undiscerning look at matchmaking in the Regency era. However, if you thought that eighteenth-century finery was restricted to sideburns and spiral updos, allow the dames and damsels of Bridgerton to convince you otherwise. From high-impact embellished hairdos to rosy, glowing skin that slots in neatly with the recent buzz around cottagecore, here are the hair and makeup looks that you’ll want to take with you into the new year.
Though often considered the remit of edgy street style savants, baby bangs now come approved by the Incomparable of the season, Daphne Bridgerton. Down the pages of history, cropped micro bangs have been known to elicit polarising reactions, but in the young debutante’s hands, they find form as face-framing wisps that can be worked into a wide array of hairdos for her commitments on the social calendar.