Kiss This Year Goodbye With Shimmery Glam Holiday Makeup

New Year’s Eve is a time to shine, no matter how you’re spending the evening. Whether you’re cozying up on the couch or celebrating with your quaranteam, these holiday makeup tutorials will ensure you look and feel your best–and I couldn’t think of a better way to start the year.

Scroll on to see how to score an instant glam look for New Year’s (or any occasion)–and then how to take it up a notch. Let the countdown begin!

Instant Glam Holiday Makeup

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Instructions:

1. Keep the skin fresh and glowing with a water-based foundation that hydrates the skin through the coldest and driest of months.
2. Pop a dewy cream-based concealer that’s one to two shades lighter under the eye. This brightens the center of the face and add fullness to an area that can sometimes appear to fall flat.
3. Go ahead and moisturize the lips with lip conditioner, giving it ample time to soften and penetrate the skin while you apply the rest of your makeup.
4. Next, warm up the skin by dusting bronzer onto the cheekbones, jawline, temples and into the hairline before softly contouring the sides of the nose and the creases of the eyes. The eyes for this festive holiday makeup look will be a bit smoky, so I like to balance it out with a soft pink cheek.
5. After grooming the brows with brow soap, precisely fill them in where needed, making hairlike strokes with a thin brow pencil.
6. For the eyes, grab a deep rich shadow with sheen or shimmer and tap it into the outer corner of the eyelid in a sideways ‘v’ shape. Blending the edges of the ‘v’ are key to creating depth and a flattering elongated, cat-like shape.
7. Apply the same shadow to the outer corner of the lower lash line before adding a waterproof black liner to the top and bottom waterlines.
8. Finally, swipe on a healthy coat of black mascara to round out the look.
9. Compliment the pink cheek and smoky lid with a soft pink lip and coordinating lip pencil.

Looking for that extra twinkle this holiday season? Glitz and glam your eyes by adding a pressed glitter shadow. You can even create your own custom shade with loose glitter and glitter adhesive. 

Glittery Holiday Eyes

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Instructions:

1. To start, brush a warm matte shadow through the crease to create a soft transition from the lid to brow.
2. Next, tap the glitter onto the area where you’ve already placed your deeper shimmery shadow, the outer corner of the lid and below the outer lashline.
3. Gently blend the edges up and out to disperse the glitter.

Did you try this holiday makeup look? Show us your shimmery New Year’s Eve makeup on Instagram @Lulus using #lovelulus–and start off the year right with some New styles! 

Sheila Wright Akinsete is a professional makeup artist, beauty expert, and luxury marketer with over 15 years of industry experience. She has honed her craft working backstage at Fashion Week alongside industry greats and working in Consumer Marketing for MAC Cosmetics. She recently founded her own company, The Wright Stuff Agency, exploring and expanding her artistry and business savvy into her own Creative Arts Studio. For more beauty tips and tricks, check out @thewrightstuffstudio on Instagram.

This post was originally published in 2013 and has been updated with new content.