Festive Makeup Looks You Can Wear With a Face Mask

The Best Festive Makeup Looks You Can Wear With a Face Mask This Year

Nov 12 2020 by Jessica Harrington

Just because you'll be wearing a face mask this festive season, doesn't mean you should let it stifle your creativity or stop you from going all out with your festive beauty look. Makeup for the upcoming winter festivities will focus on the eyes — just like it did for Halloween. If you want to look on the bright-side, you don't have to worry about reapplying your lipstick all night, and instead of just matching your makeup to your outfit, you get to match it to your mask, too.

Instagram is a goldmine for glamorous holiday makeup looks. Be it an intimate family dinner or Zoom New Year's Eve party that you're looking to get glammed up for, you should have no trouble finding inspiration. We encourage you to go big — breakout the false eyelashes, commit to a full eyeshadow look, add rhinestones as a finishing touch. When you're finished and the compliments come rolling in, you'll forget about the face mask you're wearing altogether.

To get you started, we rounded our favourite eye-focussed holiday makeup looks you can wear with a face mask below.

Festive Makeup Look: Frosted Purple Eyeshadow

This frosted purple eyeshadow look is perfect for someone who wants to look festive without being limited to typical holiday colours.

Festive Makeup Look: Silver Smoke With Burgundy Wings

Here's an example of how to use typical festive season shades — red and silver — but in an unexpected way.

Festive Makeup Look: Rhinestone Studded Green Shadow

Created a winged shadow look using green various green shadows — use lighter shades at the inner corners and darker hues for the outer wings — then outline it all with tiny crystals for a festive makeup look that's merry and bright.

Festive Makeup Look: Chunky Gold Glitter

Using loads of chunky gold (biodegradable) glitter is an easy way to get into the festive spirit with very little effort. Just spread it all over your lids, brow bones, and dab a bit under your lower lids for good measure.

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Festive Makeup Look: Green and Gold Eyeshadow

Here's another example of playing with Christmas colours in a fun and interesting way. We love the faded green wings that sit just along the outer half of the lids, with a hint of gold eye shadow traced along the inner corners of just the lower lash lines.

Festive Makeup Look: Allover Sparkly Blue Shadow

Festive makeup, but make it disco, by encircling your eyes with a shimmery blue-green shadow — yes, even up to the brow bones. Speaking of brows, brush the hairs upward to truly give the look a disco vibe.

Festive Makeup Look: Black Cat Eyes and Silver Confetti

Another maximalist makeup look that only appears complicated. Just trace your eyes with your creamiest black eyeliner, extend the liner past the outer corners of your eyes into dramatic wings, then top your lids with the chunkiest silver glitter you can find.

Festive Makeup Look: Icy Blue Eyeshadow

Black winged liner makes a frosted blue eyeshadow instantly sexier.

Festive Makeup Look: Pearl Studded Eyes

Get creative by ordering tiny flat-black pearls that you can adhere to your skin with eyelash glue. We love these dainty flowers, but you can also scatter them around your eyes randomly, or even line them up along your lashes like eyeliner.

Festive Makeup Look: Disco Ball Double Wings

Light up your New Year's Eve Zoom party with iridescent shadow that will definitely glint and gleam on screen.

Festive Makeup Look: Soft Glam

Your makeup look doesn't have to include bold colours and glitter. This soft glam makeup with black winged liner is beautiful for the festive season.

Festive Makeup Look: Draped Blush

Channel the '80s this festive season with a bold blush. Using powder or cream, whatever you prefer, start by applying the blush at the top of your cheekbones and blend it upwards towards your temples in a "C" shape. Then, bring the blush (or a matching shadow) onto your lids as well, finishing off the look with black liner and mascara.

Festive Makeup Look: Burnished Green and Red Shadow

By using a pewter shadow with a hint of green shimmer, and a copper shadow with a hint of red, this eye makeup gives the illusion of wearing red and green shadow but in a much softer, muted way.

Festive Makeup Look; Mint Green Eyeliner

This colourful look is sweet and simple: Draw mint-green eyeliner along your top lashes, add a few coats of your favourite mascara, throw on your make, and you're good to go.

Festive Makeup Look: Glitter Tears

A fairly simple look (inspired by Venetian Harlequin masks) that has maximum impact. To create this look, makeup artist Jo Baker used glitter and crystals to create the tiny "V"s underneath Lucy Boynton's lower lashes, followed by lots and lots of mascara brushed onto her top lashes.

Festive Makeup Look: Evergreen Shadow

To crate this look on Tessa Thompson, makeup artist Alex Babsky used the green shade from the Christian Dior Limited Edition 5 Couleurs Happy 2020 Palette (£50_. The trick here is to limit the green shadow to just your mobil eyelid (so don't bring it up to the brow bones) and really buff the edges of the shadow to give it a soft, diffused look. Then finish with short black winged liner and mascara.

Festive Makeup Look: Sheer Gold Shimmer

If you like a bit of shine on your lids, try adding a wash of gold shimmer — either with a bit of loose shimmer pigment or a glittery eye gloss — to your black winged liner. Don't have either of those products? Dip you finger in a gold powder shadow and simply spread it onto your lids and under your eyes with your finger.

Festive Makeup Look: Smoky Eyes With a Twist

Dress up classic black-and-grey smoky eyes with tiny flat-back crystals dotted along the outer wings.

Festive Makeup Look: Red and Green Colourblocked Shadow

A great way to incorporate both red and green into your eye makeup without looking like you dressed your lids in wrapping paper.

Festive Makeup Look: 3D Optical Illusion

We're obsessed with this 3-dimensional makeup look that involved applying flat-black crystals all around your eyes. Look closely, however, and you'll notice that bit of red along her lower lashes is actually red eyeliner or shadow traced along her lash lines and painted onto her bottom lashes.