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Holiday make-up: 4 tips for a sparkling finish

Lacking the time or simply the desire, our make-up routine often stops at the complexion and enhancing the eyes with a touch of mascara. For others, more adept with a brush, there's no need for an occasion to achieve make-up that's almost on a par with the professionals. On the other hand, for the holidays, it's unanimous: we flaunt our most beautiful holiday make-up ! Here's our guide Holiday make-up ideas.

Christmas make-up tip no. 1: Adopt a glowy complexion!

For Christmas Eve and New Year's Day, what could be better than a glowy complexion? Here are the crucial steps to get your holiday make-up :

Apply a treatment oil as a base. This will provide a very good base for the complexion and give it that very luminous look.
Create a backdrop with your foundation to even out skin tone. But be careful not to overdo it. If you have imperfections or redness to hide, we'll use a concealer a concealer afterwards.
Perfect your complexion with a concealer by applying it to the lower eyelid to camouflage dark circles, redness or imperfections.

Enhance cheekbones with blush. Pat on the inside of the cheeks. The more you blend, the more you tap, the more patient you are and the more certain you are of a truly natural result!
The final touch that brings glow to Christmas make-up: illuminator. Apply to highlight areas: cheekbones, bridge of the nose, upper lip and under the brow bone.
For combination to oily skin, apply a powder to the T-zone to mattify the complexion.

And to learn a little more about the products to use, be sure to watch the Pauline's glowy complexion tutorial.

Holiday makeup tip #2: Focus on the eyes!

To intensify and brighten your eyes, in your christmas make-upplay with light and shadow to enhance your eyebrows, eyelids and lashes.

Use a brow powder or pencil to fill in or even slightly reshape your brow line. Start at the top of the eyebrow and continue along the brow, hatching inwards to fill in any small gaps. Finally, use a brush to blend for a more natural look.
Use iridescent eyeshadow to bring out the light, and play with shadows and highlights to open up your eyes. On the mobile eyelid, apply light shades and combine with a darker shade to apply to the outer part of the mobile eyelid. For even more light, use a golden shade or your illuminator in the corner of the eye. A sparkling look guaranteed!
For your holiday makeupdare to use eyeliner! When clean and precise, it enlarges the eyes.
Finally, enhance your lashes with mascara to give structure and intensity to your eyes.

To follow all these steps, watch Ambre's Ambre's tuto, party make-up.

Christmas make-up tip no. 3: The red mouth

While there are no absolute rules when it comes to make-up, if you've opted for a lighter eye make-up, a pretty red mouth is bound to be very pretty.

Outline with a lip pencil, starting at the heart of the lips. Continue along the corners of the mouth, using small hatch marks, until you reach the lines. Avoid continuous lines for ease of application and naturalness.
Color the inside of the lips, again with pencil, using crosshatching to ensure long-lasting colour.
Switch to lipstick (in the same shade as the pencil) and start at the heart of the lips, then use small touches to color the whole. Use the bevelled side of the lipstick for contours..

To see it on video, follow the steps with Marion in her red mouth tuto !

Latest holiday make-up idea: beautiful down to the tips of your nails...

Don't forget the pretty manicure and push your Christmas make-up right down to the nails. And we're daring to go a little more crazy at the end of the year! Reserve your traditional red or pink nail polish for the rest of the year, and dip into the more glittery and iridescent ones for the festive season. And why not mix and match?

In this tutorial by Pauline, discover how to create a multicolored manicure.

Above all, trust your instincts: the most important thing is to feel pretty, whatever your choice of beauty. We wish you all the very best for the festive season, and hope that the New Year will bring some wonderful surprises.

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