Top Festive Makeup Looks

Festive Makeup Ideas: Key Takeaways

● A flawless base is the secret to any festive makeup look: start with long-lasting foundation and concealer.
● Choose from easy and simple, glamorous, or Christmas party makeup looks. 
● Rich red or berry colours instantly add a festive, party-ready touch.
● Metallic and shimmer eyeshadows in gold, bronze, and copper create instant glamour.
● Add bold colour with eyeliner or mascara in green, burgundy, or glittery gold for a festive twist.
● Keep your skin glowing with hydrating, illuminating formulas to last through every celebration.

Easy Christmas Makeup Look

Set the foundation

Festive makeup starts with a flawless, radiant canvas. Dab on Fit Me Foundation in a skin-matching shade using a damp beauty sponge or your fingers. Its micro-powders minimise pores and control shine all night long, for a lasting matte finish.

Clean and conceal

Dab Instant Age Rewind Concealer under your eyes to get rid of dark circles, brightening and illuminating to keep all eyes on you.

Festive eye makeup

Keep it classy and simple with a winged eyeliner. Maybelline’s Hyper Precise Liquid Eyeliner makes application a breeze thanks to its ultra-thin, felt tip. To make it more Christmassy, why not use the Jungle Green colour, which will instantly add a pop of festive colour to your look.

Classy Christmas lips

Now, add the piece de resistance to your festive makeup look with one of Maybelline’s pigment-rich red lipsticks. Try SuperStay Matte Ink™ Liquid Lipstick in Individualist, Heroine, or Dancer. Apply in the centre of your upper lip before following its contours, then glide along your bottom lip.

Glam Christmas Makeup

Create a strong base

Glamorous makeup for Christmas starts with a flawless base. Apply a foundation like our Super Stay 30H Active Wear Foundation that’s transfer-resistant, water-resistant, and sweat-proof, so no matter what you do, you’ll look glamorous!

Contour and define

To achieve a glam Christmas makeup look, you’ll want to contour and highlight your face to draw light and glow to all the right places. Apply our illuminating Sunkisser Highlighter to cheekbones, down the bridge of your nose, and on the inner corners of your eye to add a fabulous glow.

Shine with festive eyeshadow

Add ultra-flattering depth to your look with blend-able shades of gold, bronze and copper. Maybelline’s Nudes of New York Eyeshadow Palette is your one-way ticket to Glamourville, with a creamy formula and a bevy of shimmer-enhanced metallic neutrals to mix and match.

Dial up the sparkle

Next, enhance your festive eye makeup with a swipe of our legendary Sky High Mascara in the ultra-festive Space Diamond, Rose Gold, or glamorous (and TikTok viral!) Gold Glitz shades. You’ll be giving tinsel a run for its shimmer!

Finish with Christmas lip gloss 

Complete your glam Christmas makeup with our shimmery, plumping, and hydrating Lifter Lip Gloss packed with moisturising Hyaluronic Acid, so your lips won’t just look fabulous, they’ll feel so too!

Christmas Party Makeup

Prep and prime

The best Christmas party makeup starts with one clever trick: primer. Who knows when the party will end? Thankfully, our Grippy The Serum Primer ensures your skin stays hydrated and your makeup set for up to 24H. 

Add festive eye makeup colours

Shades of berry, burgundy and plum give a sultry, wintery vibe to your going-out looks. Put a modern holiday twist to everyday mascara with Lash Sensational Sky High Mascara in Burgundy Haze, giving you fluttery, voluminous lashes with a pop of colour.

Smoulder in style

Continue the winter-berry theme by lining your top and bottom lash lines with Tattoo Studio Gel Pencil Liner in Rich Be. Then, finish your festive makeup look by buffing in creamy layers of Colour Tattoo Eye Stix, available in matte and shimmer shades.

Give a pop of colour to your Christmas lips

Finish off your Christmas party makeup with a deep, rich coloured lipstick. For the iconic vinyl effect, opt for our Super Stay Vinyl Ink Liquid Lip in a festive colour like Royal, Unrivaled, Wicked or Fearless.

Creative Christmas Makeup

Keep you base simple

Opt for a simple, hydrating foundation packed with Hyaluronic Acid and Collagen, like our Dream Radiant Liquid Foundation to keep your skin nice and plump during the cold winter season. 

Go bold with graphic eyeliner

Use Maybelline’s Tattoo Liner in shades of blue disco, ultra pink or vivid green when you need bold makeup looks for parties. Create a classic, colourful wing or get creative with geometric, floating, and double-liner designs.

Let the liner shine

Coloured liner makes a bold statement all its own, so you’ll want to dial down the rest of your look to let the eyes take centre stage. Team vibrant pinks and greens with minimal eyeshadow like The Blushed Nudes Palette.

Sculpt and lift

No festive eye makeup is complete without perfectly sculpted brows, and Maybelline’s Tattoo Brow Gel has you covered. The spoolie applicator makes touch-ups a breeze, while the smudge and transfer-proof formula keeps every hair in its place.

Keep the eyes on your eyes 

This creative Christmas makeup look is all about the bold eyeliner, so keep your lips nice and simple with a nude colour like our Colour Sensational in Bare Reveal or Stripped Rose shades.

Shine bright with our festive makeup this season

Will it be rich berry brights or shimmering disco lights this holiday season? Whether you’re seeking standout Christmas eye makeup for a night out or classic head-to-toe glamour, Maybelline can help you with all your makeup looks for parties. There’s no better time of year to switch up your usual style and play around with fun, festive makeup styles that make you look and feel your absolute best.