I have been doing this long enough to know better than to promise any trend forever. Beauty, like fashion, breathes in and out. There will absolutely be a counter-swing eventually — probably something graphic and architectural, born of whatever cultural mood we’re in by 2029. But Soft Blur Makeup feels less like a look and more like a release valve. And those tend to stick around in some form, even when the surface evolves.

What I’d bet on: the velvet finish, the blurred edges, the skin-as-the-event philosophy — those are not going anywhere fast. The vocabulary may change. The products certainly will. But the underlying permission, the one that says your face is allowed to look like a face, is the kind of cultural shift you don’t really walk back.