Beauty

To look extra fly for her cousin's wedding, Mariel Concepcion decided to put a little oomph in her hairdo. The gorgeous, 28-year-old associate editor of Dominican descent normally wears it naturally curly with tight ringlets, but she decided to kick it up a notch and put a hot curling iron to it to further define the look. "I thought, 'I look fabulous,'" she says, "but as soon as I walked in, the first thing one of my cousins told me was that he had a bottle of gel in his car to lend me if i needed it!"

The Bryant Park tents are one of the best places to look into beauty’s crystal ball. That’s where all the hair and makeup practitioners are working their voodoo and showing off the latest trends for 2009. We checked them out, and now we're ready to report back so you can be the first one in your office or your class to rock the next, next look.

Click here to view the top beauty trends for next spring--from eyegloss to orange lipstick--and test them out before anyone else does!