Let your personality shine through at your holiday parties with one of these perfect holiday beauty looks.
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The sexy siren
Let your eyes do the talking with this dramatic and sexy look. Concentrate on the eyes, using rich, bold colours like navy, plums, greys and charcoals. Keep the lips soft and pale, allowing the eyes to pop.
How to get the look:
When creating dramatic eyes it's best to start with them first, as flecks of dark colour have the potential to wreck a freshly powdered face.
A quad of colours designed for smoky eyes
is perfect to use. The palette will contain four colours in the same family, which will compliment and blend well together. Begin by applying the lightest shade all over the eyelids. Line the bottom eyelid with an eye pencil and blend with a q-tip to create a smudge and soften the line. Then brush the middle shade right along the brow bone, blending down onto the eyelid.
Using the darkest shade, blend the colour into the crease and on the eyelid. Line the upper lid with the darkest colour, blending well. For more drama use an eye pencil or liquid liner. Curl eyelashes with an eyelash curler and apply mascara on both the top and bottom lashes. For extreme sexiness add a pair of false eyelashes.
Finish with a pale lipstick or gloss in nude or pink tones.
The edgy
Make a statement with winged liner. Liner was seen all over the runways this fall including Versace and Alexander McQueen. When balanced with a natural, bare face, winged liner looks artsy, edgy and very cool. Lips should be left naked, except a touch a lip balm.
How to get the look:
A steady hand definitely helps, but there are a few tricks you can use to get a straight line. First start with a black eye liner pencil to draw the wing shape. Using a pencil makes it easy to clean up mistakes and perfect the line. Starting at the inner corner of the eye, trace your upper lash line with black liquid liner, making the line thicker as you extend it. Keep a q-tip handy for quick touch ups if your line gets a little too thick. Line up slightly past the outer corner of the eye.
The rest of the face should be kept to a minimal. Dust the cheeks with a soft powder and finish with a tasty lip balm.
Freelance makeup artist Alie Johnson has been doing makeup for over 10 years, working at companies such as Aveda and MAC cosmetics where she was a MAC artist for five years. She also was a makeup artist for Champions Athletic wear campaign and catalog. Specializing in beauty, fashion and bridal makeup, Alie hopes to make the transition into print and editorial.
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