A festive make-up look for the holiday season.

Merry dingin’ Christmas, as Belinda Carlisle once famously never sang.

I wish you all a tremendously happy, fun, safe festive time, and hope that Uncle Nige can keep his sherry intake capped at eight glasses this year, so we don’t have a repeat of “the incident.”

I’ve done a basic How To here, for a glamorous, high-gloss, eyes and lips combo, inspired by the new emphasis on both I’ve seen a lot lately.

My version is a gentle bronzed eyelid with a HIGH VOLTAGE! HIGH-SHINE! POP-POP! red lip. (In this instance, Tom Ford’s new Ultra Shine Lip Gloss in Lost Cherry – the current superstar of the lip world.)

I also use:

Chanel Illusion D’ombre Eyeshadow in shade 82
Revlon CustomEyes Shadow & Liner

Try it for a party, or even on Christmas day, why don’t you? I highly encourage a festive lip on this Day of Days, even if you skip the fancy eye makeup and choose to wear a Santa Hat, as I am wont to do.

Til next year, you splendid rascals! X

Zoe Foster is an author and columnist and Contributing Editor for Mamamia. She has previously been the beauty director for both Cosmopolitan and Harper’s BAZAAR magazines, and the Editor at Large of Primped.com.au. Zoe has published four books; Air Kisses, Textbook Romance (which she wrote with Hamish Blake), Playing The Field and Amazing Face. You can follow Zoe’s tumblr here and her Twitter here. You can and should buy Amazing Face here.

 

What festive look will you be wearing this Christmas?