Steal the Spotlight: Perfect Party Makeup Guide
With party season in full swing, it means it's time to start prepping your ultimate party look. Here are our top tips and tricks for festive beauty, after all 'Tis the season! From enchanting eyeshadows to bold lip choices, our guide has everything you need to create a show-stopping appearance this holiday.
Smoke It Out
The classic go-to for dialling up a look from day to night is a smoky eye. If you’re going for a bold eye look, choose a nude lip colour that doesn’t wash out your complexion.
Charlotte Tilbury Easy Eye Palette
The palette features six of Charlotte’s favorite shades curated for a signature, sunset-inspired eye-glow look. You can create glowing eye looks from bronzed copper, peachy pink, rosy terracotta, and chocolate brown eyeshadows to define, smoke, and illuminate the eye.
NARS Voyageur Eyeshadow Palette
Make eyes wherever you go with a lineup of six high-impact eyeshadows in one on-the-go palette. A unique curation of shades inspired by destinations around the globe—buttery mattes, lustrous satins, and multi-dimensional glitter formulas—transport you to a place of uninhibited artistry.
Metals for an Edge
You can focus on the eyes with shimmery eye shadows that catch the light beautifully. Metallic greens and golds can be blended to create a smoky, sultry effect, while a touch of champagne or gold shimmer in the inner corners of the eyes to add a twinkle.
Charlotte Tilbury Eyes To Mesmerise Exagger-Eyes
Enriched with Vitamin E, this buildable, water-infused formula has soft-focus pigments that blend out beautifully. 'Exagger-Eyes' is a shimmering nude-gold shade that'll make your eyes look wider.
Bobbi Brown Luxe Eye Shadow
This multidimensional metallic eye shadow formula designed to give eyes instant incandescence. In three new lustre, metal and sparkle finishes, this molten shadow can be applied dry for instant impact or applied with a damp brush for a liquid metal look.
Urban Decay 24/7 Moondust Shadow
High-performance, vegan eyeshadow packed with microfine eye glitter for the most sparkly, supercharged color and shimmery finish for glitter eye looks that last up to 16 hours.
A Pop Of Green
Seal the deal with a pop of green, not usually a go-to colour, but a wearable olive will go a long way and is flattering on all complexions. You can use olive green eyeliner to create a bold winged look or a smudged, smoky effect, perfect for adding depth and drama to the eyes.
Fenty Beauty Flypencil Longwear Pencil Eyeliner
A creamy longwear, water-resistant pencil eyeliner in a rainbow of 20 matte, shimmer, metallic, and glitter shades for effortless no-limit looks that last. Create a bold statement and standout with the gorgeous olive green shade 'Bank Tank'.
Chanel Stylo Yeux Waterproof
A waterproof eye pencil that traces intense eyes. Its very long-lasting line resists water, humidity and sebum. Its retractable tip and integrated pencil sharpener facilitate application.
Full, Fluttery Lashes
Another way to accent your eyes for a party? With lashes, of course. Use a volumising mascara to finish off and create a wide awake look.
Lancome Le 8 Hypnose Mascara
The first serum-infused volumising mascara by Lancôme leaves your lashes looking stronger and fuller in 4 weeks. It delivers instant sculptural volume and revitalises lashes over time.
Guerlain Mad Eyes Mascara
Mad Eyes Mascara offers lash-by-lash buildable volume in an instant. Lashes are thicker and with more curl. The soft fiber brush is calibrated to increase the density of each lash after every stroke, for spectacular volume and water-resistant wear.
Iconic Red Lip
You Can Never Go Wrong With a Red Lip. A top tip for a festive party make-up look is and will always be a strong bold lip. Lining your lips with a liner then applying a similar lipstick shade will help the colour stay on all night! Red is always fab!
Clarins Lip Comfort Oil Shimmer
Lip Comfort Oil shimmer offers bright, eye-catching colour, thanks to its combination of intense pigments and highly-concentrated fine shimmer. Lips appear visibly plumped, enhanced, nourished, and protected. The shimmery 'Red Hot' shade is perfect for the festive season.
Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture The Bold Lipstick
Iconic red shade 1971 Rouge Provocation will ensure you steal the spotlight this holiday. Bold colour and shine in one stroke - clutches your lips and holds strong without running, so intense yet so thin in a stretchable texture
Gucci Lip Pencil
A lip liner that naturally enhances the fullness of the lips and offers an instant and intense bold colour result, whether it is worn alone or in preparation for a truly long-lasting lip makeup. With a soft and blendable formula, the lip contour pencil glides across with ease for the ultimate precision finish.
Seamless Complexion
It's super important to have a beautiful canvas to work with, and the best tip is to go for a beautiful blendable foundation and an illuminating blush that will deliver that beautiful glow instantly.
NARS Light Reflecting Foundation
See your skin in its best light with this foundation. This innovative blend of makeup and skincare instantly blurs imperfections, smooths the look of textured skin, and helps conceal blemishes, dark spots, and redness. Visibly improves skin’s clarity after six weeks of daily use.
Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Light Wand High Blush
A multi-use illuminating gel that can be worn as a highlighter or blush for buildable color and an instant glow. For a gorgeous, glowing highlight-blush, Glowgasm Beauty Light Wand in Pinkgasm adds a kiss of rosy pink colour to your cheeks and is inspired by the beautifying effects of fun!