The beauty message for next fall is this: Stake your claim and make it strong. Whether you're rocking bold strokes of charcoal like the models at the Catherine Malandrino show or soft blushes of pinks, as seen on models at Philip Lim, the look and the choice, say makeup experts, is yours to play with. And they want you to play -- where the wild things are and with pretty, sexy, looks.

"I see makeup for fall," says Napoleon Perdis, key makeup artist at Elise Overland. "This woman is not afraid of lipsticks, shadows and lengthy, natural-looking lashes."

At Derek Lam, makeup master Tom Pecheux created a look that recalled primal instincts by channeling Native American beauty: charcoal-dusted eyes with a touch of bronze and berry-stained lips

"You shouldn't try at home," he says of the look. "This look is for the show, but for your own use you'd want something different and more paired down."

So what can you expect to see come fall? A push of greys, blues, corals and pinks. It's a mishmash of spring and fall shades. You'll find a twist on the smoky eye (shadows swept within the inner corners only or deeply rimmed eyes), dark liner with thick stripes of gray, and on the opposite spectrum, light pink nudes on eyes and lips.

Check out our favorite looks to rock next fall.

Okay, real talk. I'm hairless on my gams and thank God every day for it. For with all the other grooming areas to be concerned with, hairy legs are a beauty issue I'm blessed not to be worried about. So I feel for women who have to shave every day. Really, I do. But when photos of Mo'Nique at the Golden Globes appeared where she gladly showed off her hot steppas-topped off with a French pedicure-- full of hair, I gasped and did a double take! Is that hair fuzz I see in those photos? Yes, indeed. Why would she groom her face, her underarms, and her toes and not just shave those legs for such a special moment. It reminded me of Julia Roberts hairy reveal a few years ago. Julia, while walking the red carpet, raised her arm to wave at fans and at least three inches of underarm hair waved back. She said Benjamin Bratt, her boyfriend at the time, liked it.

No longer viewed as something gangbangers and bad boys wear, tattoos are becoming more and more acceptable in the mainstream. So when everyone started rocking those Polynesian symbols -- think Mike Tyson, but not on the face -- rarely were people offended to see them on the small of the back on women or around the biceps of men. The beauty in those tribal designs elevates the art form to a better status.

However, every time tats show up on the red carpet as the accessory a female celebrity truly couldn't leave home without, I can't help but wonder if that celebrity regrets inking her body in that way. Witness Mary J. Blige's humongous tats on both of her toned arms; they always seem to detract from her entire look. Or the numerous tats Fantasia wears on her thighs and arms and hands that makes her look like Lil Wayne's twin. Those tear-drop tats that seemingly decorate Lil Wayne's entire body always make me think he needs a good scrub. But on the flip side, the tats on Angelina Jolie or Meagan Fox never stopped anyone from calling them glamorous or sexy. Nor do the small tats trailing the neck bone of Rihanna make her look anything less than gorgeous. On her, it looks rather chic, in that alien kind of way. In Alicia Keys' video for 'Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart, we see her flower-painted back that takes tattooing on a painterly, Georgia O'Keefe-type of path.