16 Festive Ways To Do Your Makeup This Holiday Season

The holiday season offers people a lot of ways to get creative; whether it's cooking holiday treats, decorating their house, or donning their favorite ridiculous Christmas sweater. One other way to show your love for the season is with some festive makeup. For your next family gathering or holiday party, try out some of these holly jolly makeup ideas.

Shimmer And Highlighting

For an eye-catching shimmer, apply glittering powder over the cheekbones, on the inward corner of the eyes, and below the brow bones. For light skin, pink based highlighter should be used. For medium and dark skinned women, the golden tones should be tried.

Frosty Eyes

For a more dramatic look around the eyes, applying a smoky look is one sure way. You can apply silver, metallic, or even a white color eye shadow underneath the lower eyelid. You can also apply the smoky look around the eyelids, or you can apply the gold colored eye-shadow on the upper lid, for example.

Bedazzled

There are different ways to create great bedazzled looks. You can create great bedazzled looks on your nails, eye areas, and your lips. They come in different colors, so you can coordinate accordingly with your makeup.

Nail Polish

There are so many choices, that you can find a great color to go along with your attire. Many are using the rich burgundy color now, because it wears longer than the black nail polish, it’s richer than red, and it’ll never be out of style. Plus, it’s a perfect warm color for the holidays.

Nail It

Not only are there truly amazing nail polish colors from every color of the rainbow and beyond, there are also a plethora of ways to create amazing designs. With all the professional nail artists in the world, the sky is the limit on creation. To get a cute design for the season, draw inspiration from holiday classics like snowflakes, trees, ornaments, reindeer, or lights!

Gloss It Over

Lip gloss always adds a certain flare, because of the unique shine it adds to your lips. Lip gloss comes in very subtle colors as well as vibrant colors, and everything in between. There are some that are also flecked with shimmer, for a more festive look.

Eye Shadow

There are so many ways to create spectacular looks with eye shadow. You can use gray shadow, gold, purple, and green, for instance, in multi-textured ways to create a magnificent look by properly containing it between the crease and the lid. There are many great eye shadow colors to use accordingly for wonderfully, spectacular looks.

Blush

Blush is usually not required many times; however, it can be a great additive to your whole look. For that pretty, holiday look, you can enhance your natural rosiness by combining one lighter and one darker colors. Otherwise, you can start lightly with the compact’s paler shade, and then by applying the darker shade accordingly, to create that wonderfully, festive look.

Lip Stick

From chocolate colored to the standard red lipstick, there are so many varieties to choose from. You just have to coordinate your shade of lipstick accordingly to your eye shadow and blush. You can also use glimmering lipstick to give it that sparkling, festive, holiday appeal.

French Manicure

A French manicure will always spice up your look for any occasion. You can be simply professional yet glamorous with the standard pink and white colors. Otherwise, you can glam it up more, from somewhat subtle to very vibrant colors.

Holiday Ponytail

To be sure that you are showing off all of this glam makeup, wear your hair in a ponytail. You can spice up the ponytail, by teasing your hair at the crown while the nape of the neck being secured, or you can pull a strand of the hair from the ponytail, in order to bring it around the elastic.

Easy Eyeliner

Certain celebrities have created wonderful looks with the eyeliner. Angelina Jolie, for instance, always wears her signature eyeliner look easily. To create that look, all you have to do is to use a gel or liquid liner, and with the eyes closed, glide the eyeliner from the inward to outward corner with it slightly winged upward at the end.

Changing Up Parts

If you wear your hair parted on the left side all the time, then wear it parted on the right side or in the middle. If you mainly part it in the middle, then part it on one of the sides. Doing this step alone will greatly enhance your look, especially when you and others always see the same side or middle parted.

Art Deco Gradients

This wild and popular party look is inspired by Asian party makeup. Vibrant colors, such as blues, pinks, and plums, create lovely gradients that will give eyes a mystic look. This look goes well for any party. This makeup makes everyone look more lively, and ready to party.

Dramatic Lashes

The color of eyelashes are the same as the eyeliner color. For extended eyelashes, you should use great brands from Maybelline or Covergirl, for instance, that promote extended eyelashes. You can also wear eyelashes, or use a eyelash curler for more dramatization.

Accessorize

When deciding which makeup colors to apply, it’s usually a good idea to coordinate appropriately with accessories. Coordinating appropriately with accessories will really make yourself stand out. You will be the envy during the holiday season, with your different colored hair accessories, for instance, since it’s so close to your beautifully made-up face.