Holiday Makeup with a Twist

Oh, hello! In my latest YouTube video I created this look for the holidays. This is a wearable festive look, with a little twist on the usual gold and red look.

You can find my video here:

Holiday Makeup in Reverse

Lately I've been watching so many makeup tutorials with little variations on the same gold eyeshadow with bold red lips - look, that I thought I would turn the whole thing upside down, and do red eyeshadow with gold lips. Also I wanted to try something different for the face as well, so I switched up blush and highlight, placing blush more towards the highpoints and highlighter on the apples of the cheek. You can see my glowy cheeks here:

Let me walk you through the steps quickly:

- I primed with a Strobing Creme by Revolution to achieve a glowing base and used the Smashbox Studio Skin foundation, which gave me the perfect blank canvas to paint on. 😃 I bronzed up using my favourite S.HE bronzing powder and applied Maybelline Face Studio blush in Cosmopolitan to the cheeckbones, more to the back of the face. As a final touch I highlighted the apples oy my cheek with Obsession Highlighter in Moon.

- For the eyes I used four (!) different eyeshadow palettes

First I used the Jeffree Star Androgyny palette:

I used Safeword all over the lid and  I mixed Charm with Fetish for a transition shade, high high above my crease. Then I deepend the crease and outer corner with Androgyny.

To achieve a vibrant red look I mixed two shades from two different palettes.

An oringe-y red shade from Makeup Revolution Eat Sleep Makeup Repeat palette:

It is the shade called Say It Now, and I put this all over the lid, under the crease. This is a very intense shadow, but not as deep red as I wanted so I used a more pinkish, raspberry red shade from another palette.

To deepen the color I used the NYX Ultimate Brights palette:

This pinkish red was very pigmented and brightened up the color instantly.

I could have left the look like that, for a complete matte look, but I wanted some shine on the lids, so I added a little shimmer with another palette.

The NYX Ultimate palette in Warm Rust:

I used the two middle shades in the shimmery row with my finger to give the eyelids some sparkle.


-Then added more Androgyny to the corners and the lower lashline.
I winged it out very carefully, because if there is a look that needs liner then this is the one.
Something that blew my mind was the new eye highlighter pen from Catrice. I used the one in 010 an it made my eyes pop instantly:

-For lips I used Milani Amore Matte Metallic Lip Créme in Chromatic Addict:

Since I don't usually do a gold lip, I don't own a gold lipliner, so I used a gold eyeliner pencil by Trend It Up. As you probably notice this lip color is not downright gold, it's more beige-y, I added a yellow shiny lipglaze.

I used the Catrice Prizma Lip Glaze in Enchanted Gold:

To tell you the truth, the actual look came out quite wearable... for the holidays at least. I thought it would be a lot more crazy, but I liked it overall. I could have added glitter to the eyes, but maybe in my New Years party look.

I hope you like it, and try for this holiday season.

Check out the whole process in my YouTube video

Love,