Festive Face

Seasons greetings :)

With Christmas coming up, we're required to look good for multiple dinners and nights out, Christmas day and New Year's. I wanted to try something new again so here's a make-up tutorial for how to dress up your face a bit for this festive season. Enjoy...

Face

Step 1:

Use primer to even tone and ensure long lasting make up.

Step 2:

For a natural look and minimum waste, mix a pea sized amount of foundation with the same amount of moisturiser and blend- a tide line is not the one. With my 2 in 1 brush (H&M £2.99), I use the foundation brush to apply and buff with the blush brush.

Step 3:

Cover with powder. I use Clique's stay matte pressed powder.

The Eyes

Step 1:

Cover eyelid with a shimmery neutral tone.

Step 2:

Use a lighter shadow (much lighter than your skin) and use in the inner corners of your eyelid and blend. This fools people into thinking you have big doll eyes.

Step 3:

Add a dark shadow to the outer corner, edge, 1/3 of the lid and 3/4 of the eye crease and blend. I used black because of my dark skin and cheap eye shadow palette. 

Step 4:

Cover the space in between the dark and light with a gold/bronze tone and... you got it- BLEND!

Step 4:

Apply liquid eye liner along the lid and up to the edge of the black eye shadow.

Step 5:

Add a pair of fake lashes.. because I'm from Essex. Eyelure is good, I tend to make a quick trip to primark for their £1, "natural look" (they're really not) lashes, but I bought these in a pack of 10 for 99p off ebay- thanks China. 

Just buy good glue and the lashes don't really matter.

Step 6:

Add mascara to bottom lashes.

Step 7:

Apply pencil/kohl eye liner inside the bottom lid and inner corner of the eye then use the neutral shadow to neaten up the line a bit. All these hi-lights make the eyes look bigger.

 

 The Brow

Step 1: 

Brush upwards

Step 2:

Use the brush to shape brow- this makes it easier when it come to pencilling it in.

Step 3:

Line the brown and lightly shade in. I use black eye liner for my eyebrows because I like them to look fairly thick dark but go for a dark brown for a more natural look.

Step 4:

Use finger to blend the pencil into the eyebrow, just a quick wipe across will do. I'm not really into the whole  obvious and square brow look so this creates a naturally thick look.

The Lips

Step 1:

I still haven't gotten around to buying dark lipstick yet because this Barry M one was more of a deep red than the dark purple I expected, so try lining the lips with eye-liner if you're in the same dilemma. 

Dark lipstick is very in so it there's any time to try it, it's this winter season.

Step 2:

Fill in with lip stick and BLEND. I used Barry M Black cherry 160 (Boots £4.49).

The End

 So this is my final look with and without flash.

Excuse the shocking lighting in my room...

As you can see I've only done basic face coverage, my eyes and lips as I'm not the kind of gal to wear blusher or contour but Youtube it and there'll be a million videos on all that jazz.

 In conclusion

If you add enough gold and red- you're ready for this holiday!

Add to this look with some false nails from Primark- £1 a pack.
Mix and match for a new look each time!

Stay Beautiful x