Here’s How to Try the Faux Facial Piercing Trend From the Givenchy F/W ‘22 Runway

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Hear us out: Today’s facial piercings are not necessarily your mother’s facial piercings. At the recently wrapped Paris Fashion Week F/W ’22, several storied fashion houses, including Dior, Givenchy and Rochas, sent models strutting down the catwalk wearing different iterations of alternative punk rock, or as one editor calls it “industrial-tinged,” styles, with even tougher-looking, faux facial accents accompanying them. Bulky, silver studs decorated the Givenchy models’ foreheads and upper lips — known in the piercing world as a “double Monroe” —while Balmain opted for a single, but very large, silver lip ring. Extreme or avant garde facial piercings and adornments are nothing new to the fashion world, but what’s different about today’s facial jewelry is the fact that we’re starting to see these styles off the catwalk and in ordinary places, like the grocery store or coffee shop, not just some underground cool kids dance party. “I think this is a trend that’s already been happening, and now that Givenchy showed it, it has gotten an even bigger boost,” explains celebrity makeup artist and founder of Neen, Jeanine Lobell. “Look at Facelace

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