Beauty post of the week

While students return to study halls across the country boasting newly snipped lengths, bushy brows, and of-the-moment manicures, we find ourselves inspired by a similar back-to-school spirit of reinvention. During such formative years, your end-of-summer beauty haul has less to do with how you spent your vacation as it does with whom you will sit with at lunch. So too a sooty line of kohl or perfectly delineated lipstick nonverbally associates you with the artist, rebel, or valedictorian you once were. Which is to say that deciding on the contents of your fall beauty bag is as simple as identifying your aesthetic clique. Outdoorsy types of the less-is-more camp would do well to look to Arizona Muse, who lets her immaculate complexion and air-dried lengths speak for themselves—perhaps with a dab of peachy lip balm and highlighting cream for illumination’s sake. The artistically inclined might rightly rely on an extra dose of high-pigment eye color à la Cameron Russell, while Edie Campbell’s downtown set prefers to lean against lockers sporting metallic makeup, glitter-coated nails, and playfully molded hairstyles. And for the ladies of the private school ilk, prep can be modernized in the style of Georgia May Jagger, whose nude lips and sideswept blowout bring a welcome polish to the library . . . or the boardroom. Here, our back-to-school beauty shopping lists for every personality.