How to Create a Gorgeous Indian Festive Makeup Look This Season
The Indian festive season is upon us and Durga Puja, Dussehra, Navratri, and Diwali are occasions when I want to look my best, not to mention weddings too. So, I created a very simple yet elegant Indian festive makeup look that I'm going to share with you here. It's time to celebrate in style!
Tools and materials:
- Moisturizer
- Foundation
- Concealer
- Makeup brush
- Finishing powder
- Brow pencil
- Sellotape
- Eyeshadow
- Glitter liquid eyeliner
- Black liquid eyeliner
- Mascara
- Fake eyelashes
- Tweezers
- Contour
- Blush
- Highlighter
- Lipstick
1. Prep your skin
Start off by prepping your skin using an illuminating moisturizer to nourish your skin and make it glow. As soon as you apply it, it will give your skin that gorgeous glass-like effect.
2. Foundation
Apply a foundation that gives you full coverage. This way, you won't need to use any corrector because it will cover every little flaw you have on your skin.
3. Concealer
Take some concealer, apply it all over the center of your face, and use it as an eyeshadow primer. Proceed to take a brush and blend it all in with your foundation.
4. Finishing powder
Next, you're going to set everything in place using finishing powder.
5. Brow pencil
Take a brow pencil and lightly fill in your brows, and shape them.
6. Stick on some tape
Before moving onto the eyeshadow, take some sticky tape, and stick it to the back of my hand to make it less sticky and gentler. Then take it off your hand and, following the natural shape of your lower lash line, stick the tape at a diagonal slant to your lids.
7. Apply eyeshadow
Go with an eyeshadow palette that has lots of beautiful, vibrant colors to choose from. I went for a light green eyeshadow and applied it to the outer ⅔ of my lids.
Then, taking a darker green shade, I concentrated it onto the outermost V of my eyes to give my eyes some depth. Blend it into the previous shade.
Next, take a black eyeshadow and smudge it out on your upper lid where you would normally apply eyeliner. Finally, take the green eyeshadow again and blend everything out. This is so easy because of the tape, and you're going to get a nice clean line.
Repeat the process on the other eye.
8. Glitter liquid eyeliner
Next, take some sparkly liquid eyeliner and apply it to the center of your upper lids. This will give your eyes a beautiful glittery effect.
9. Black liquid eyeliner
Next, extend the inner corners of your eyes by applying a very thin line of liquid eyeliner across your lash line.
10. Mascara and false lashes
Coat your upper lashes with some mascara. Then, go ahead and take some individual lashes and apply them to the outer corner of your eyes to give you that nice lifted, cat-eye sort of effect.
11. Remove the tape and apply under eye makeup
The next step is to remove the tape, which will have given your eyeshadow such a clean line finish. Now, you need to fix the concealer under your eyes. Just take some more concealer and blend it all in, and also set your cheeks with some finishing powder.
Taking the darker green shadow, apply that on your lower lash line and finish the eye look with some mascara on your lower lashes.
12. Contour
Go ahead and contour the sides of your face as well as your forehead and jawline. You can also contour the sides of your nose to make it appear taller and slimmer.
13. Blush
Take some blush and apply it over the contour and then blend it all in.
14. Highlighter
Apply highlighter to the high points of your cheeks, your cupid's bow, and the bridge of your nose. Add some on top of and under your eyebrows and to the inner corners of your eyes.
15. Lipstick
To finish off the look, apply some liquid matte lipstick. To help you choose the color lipstick that is right for you, Amazon has a virtual tool that allows you to see what a lipstick will look like on you simply by uploading a photo of yourself!
Indian festive makeup look tutorial
That is my finished makeup look for the Indian festive and wedding season! I love how it turned out; the greens and gold are so glamorous. I am ready to celebrate in style! Let me know in the comments if you like this look and if you'll try it out yourself.
Products used
- SUGAR Cosmetics Bling Leader Illuminating Moisturizer - 02 Pink Trippin'
- Maybelline New York Super Stay 24H Full Coverage Liquid Foundation, Warm Nude 128
- Maybelline New York Instant Age Rewind Concealer, Caramel
- Maybelline New York Fit me Loose Finishing Powder, 15 Light
- Lakmé Absolute Micro Brow Perfecter, Coffee
- Makeup Revolution Maxi Reloaded Palette Monster Mattes, Multicolor
- Miss Claire Pearl Eyeliner, 16 Glitter Gold
- Maybelline New York Colossal Bold Eyeliner, Black
- L'Oreal Paris Lash Paradise Mascara, Waterproof
- ARDELL Individual Knot Free Natural Long Black Eye Lashes
Enjoyed the project?
Suggested materials:
- Moisturizer
- Foundation
- Concealer
- Makeup brush
- Finishing powder
- Brow pencil
- Sellotape
- Eyeshadow
- Glitter liquid eyeliner
- Black liquid eyeliner
- Mascara
- Fake eyelashes
- Tweezers
- Contour
- Blush
- Highlighter
- Lipstick
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