28 Bridal Hair and Makeup Ideas Straight From the Fall 2023 Runways

Look no further for a refreshing roundup of cool-girl wedding-day inspo.

Typical bridal hair and makeup inspo can often range from “twee” to “pageant,” with little concern for anything that could ever be considered “cool,” “understated” or “stylish.” But what if we all took a detour from traditional channels for wedding beauty ideas for a moment — no offense to the remaining bridal mags out there, of course — and started paying attention to the fashion week runways to fill our vision boards for the big day?

Just because you’re a bride doesn’t mean you’re required to wear the hairsprayed-to-a-crisp barrel curls or excessively airbrushed makeup that have come to be synonymous with the wedding-day beauty aesthetic. There are plenty of other ways to go, and you’ll find them on the Fall 2023 runways, which are brimming with fresh takes on unexpected-yet-wedding-appropriate lip colors, modern updos, your-texture-but-better hairstyles and more.

In the galleries below, we’ve rounded up 28 beautiful bridal hair and makeup ideas, fresh from the runways. Scroll through and consider “research hair and makeup ideas” officially crossed off your wedding planning to-do-list.

Easy Hair

Who says a bridal hair moment has to be stuffy or traditional? Take a page from the undone, natural-texture-but-better looks models wore on Ulla Johnson‘s Fall 2023 runway instead. Whether subtly bendy waves, defined curls or a soft fringe of bangs, any of these styles would make for the perfect counterpoint to a more-is-more bridal gown.

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An Unexpected Lip Color

It’s your wedding, and you’ll wear a bold lip color if you want to. Forget the out-of-date idea that bridal makeup has to include a nude lipstick — or that it’s “supposed” to look any specific way at all, for that matter. Whether going for cheerful fuchsia (as seen on the Christian Siriano runway), a muted brick tone (à la Ulla Johnson), dusty rose (like Carolina Herrera‘s models) or even a vampy bit of dark lip liner (like at the Kim Shui show), it’s totally fine to change things up and have a little fun with wedding-day makeup.

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A Modern Updo

Forget everything you think you know about bridal updos. Instead, turn your attention to the latest crop of sleek, ultra-shiny buns, twists, chignons and even rosettes (!) we spotted on the runways this season; any one of them would look phenomenal beneath a veil.

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A Luminous Pop of Highlighter

Perfect for brides who want to keep things subtle — but still elevated and infinitely photographable — a strategic bit of highlighter can be a beauty statement all on its own. Take, for example, the makeup look from Sandy Liang‘s Fall 2023 show: Models wore a glow-y highlighter in place of eye shadow and along the inner corners of their eyes, and the effect was downright ethereal.