The festive season is just around the corner and this year it demands lot more than wrapping gifts and decorating the house. The most merry and beautiful time of the year calls for glitz and glam. Choosing the right dress and perfect accessories to match is not enough anymore.
‘Tis the season to look gorgeous, glitzy and glamorous’
Dazzle this holiday season with radiant skin and create a makeup style that is modern, sophisticated yet glamorous, and make you look and feel beautiful with.
Express your personal style with our beauty tips and must haves for the season. Go classic with a red pout or add a little drama with smouldering shimmery eyes: just keep in mind the rule of thumb. Play up one feature at a time. Clear, unmistakable color statements are more effective made only once. If your eyes are the focus, keep your lips subtle.
“SKIN DEEP”
Dazzle this holiday season with skin that glows and a makeup style that creates allure. Great skin is the first step in looking beautiful. Start your makeup with a freshly cleansed, toned and moisturised face. ‘Beauty Flash Balm’ by Clarins, is an instant beauty booster that helps to eliminate signs of fatigue and restores the skins vitality. Makeup looks best on a relaxed and toned skin, so de-stress your skin with a gentle exfoliating scrub followed by a firming and hydrating mask. Pamper yourself; create a home spa with aromatherapy candles infused with scents of lavender and ylang ylang oil to relax and rejuvenate.
‘PRIME TIME’
For a long lasting makeup that looks fresh and stays on for hours – face, eye and lip primers are your best friends. A light weight primer will help to minimize the appearance of pores, controls excess shine and evensout skin texture. One of many makeup artists’ newest favourites is Make Up For Ever’s High Definition Face Primer, available in different shades to neutralize different skin tones or use clear neutral for all skin tones and types.
Always use finishing powder – Our pick, Mineralize skin Finishing Pressed powder from MAC, works well when you want just enough to set your foundation. For added warmth enrich your makeup look by dusting on some bronzer.
RED IS THE COLOR
Keep that glam going with rich, radiant red lips. New and hot for this festive season, the perfect red lips are a classic. Bring back the energy, the oomph and vigour this season to your style. Add to your visage a vivid persona. Find a shade with a cool blue undertone if you have a warm skin tone and go for a warm orange red for light skin. Bobbi Brown’s Glitter Lip Gloss (limited edition) will add sparkle to lips. For those who are a little hesitant to wear a strong hue of red try a gloss with some glitter in a red tint to show off the glam side of you. ‘Tis the season to wear red’ it is Xmas.
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Cool or warm – the choice is yours. Rich gold shimmers or dazzling silver eye shadows are must haves for a party perfect makeup. Layer it, blend it, or line it. Gold and silver shimmery eye shadows are one of the hottest trends for the holiday festive look. Use them all across the lid or as an accent color; but, remember to choose the texture according to the time of the day. Keep frost and high pigment glitters for the evening and more satin ones for the day.
Experiment with a different shade of kohl pencil to color the lower rim of your eyes, like a deeper shade of green. Especially, if you find your eyes are looking tired or red. Define them by lining just under the lower lash line with a gold or bronze eye pencil. Complete the look with some faux fun. Invest into a good pair of false lashes or create the effect giving your lashes a few coats of volumizing mascara. Lancôme’s new Oscillation mascara is a high-tech tool of trade with color for the lashes. The vibrating brush coats lashes all around, giving them maximum volume.
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL
For a more flamboyant look, try a combination of satin and matte shades of grey and black shadows. Add a gold accent on the center and inner corner of the eyes and see a difference in yourself. Line the rim of your eyes with black liner and add some sparkle to highlight the brow bone to give you that evening smouldering eye. Complete this edgy look with your pout all dressed in soft shades of berries or a gloss with a hint of red. This is an all time favourite with the stars for the glitzy, glamorous holiday season.
SHIMMER AND SHINE
Blush is an accent. Coordinate it with your lip color. Think sheer; sculpt the cheeks by using a matte blush. Using soft iridescent powders on the cheek bones or liquid illuminzers added to your foundation will create that stunning highlighted look. Keep the shimmers under control, too much can take away from the dazzling look you want to create.
Restrict it to the featured areas of the face. Fusion Soft Lights an illuminating powder by ‘Smashbox’ has shades that work for every skin tone, making your skin look radiant and illuminated from within.
Whatever looks you create, always remember your personal style. These stunning looks can be achieved, even by keeping the makeup understated or modest, but still using the hot colors and popular styles for the season. Wear what you feel most comfortable with.
Let yourself glow with new intensities. This season all that glitters is gold and all that sizzles is silver, and a passion for red to add that dazzling accent.