Iam faithful to wearing eyelash extensions, but before heading to Paris Fashion Week, I had no time to get a refill. So I’ve been walking around with barely there lashes. I felt naked for the first half of the week until I saw my sparse lashes mirrored back to me on Tom Ford Beauty’s mood board backstage ahead of their spring 2026 show. The board read, “dramatic broken lashes,” and the images showed eyelash extensions sparingly worn in between natural lashes coated with mascara. “You’re already on trend,” Lucy Bridges, the newly appointed global makeup artist for Tom Ford Beauty, said to me looking at my three-week-old extensions, I guess I’ll call them “broken” now. Bridges worked with Haider Ackermann on his Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture SS23 show, where they did a more dramatic versi
Backstage Beauty at Tom Ford’s SS26 Show

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