Makeup tutorial: The perfect New Year’s Eve makeup in 10 steps

Step 2: Prepare your New Year’s Eve eye makeup

Once you’re happy with your face makeup, you can move on to the highlight of your New Year’s Eve styling: your eye makeup. In this step, we will be applying a base that will make your eye shadow glow later. It also ensures that your eye makeup lasts the whole evening. You can either use a light, creamy eye shadow, or apply a special eye shadow base.

Step 3: Apply light eye shadow

The next step is to apply eye makeup for New Year’s Eve. Take a light eye shadow of your choice and apply it to your closed eyelid. It’s best to use a flat eyeshadow brush and make sure that you only colour the eyelid.

Step 4: Add depth to your New Year’s Eve makeup

For the next step, choose a darker shade that perfectly matches your lighter eyeshadow colour. Apply a little dark eye shadow with a smaller blending brush. Before you apply it, give it a quick tap to make sure you don’t have too much product on the brush. Start at the outer corner of the eye and shade your crease. Use light pressure and circular motions to work your way towards the centre of the crease, allowing the dark shade to gradually fade.

Gradually work your way up and intensify the colour by repeating this step.

Step 6: Extra glitter: the wow effect for your New Year’s Eve makeup look

What would New Year’s Eve be without a little extra glitter? To make your eye makeup eye-catching, add a little more glitter. You can either use glitter pigments or liquid eye shadow with a metallic or glitter effect. Dab a little glitter on your closed lid and blend the transitions to create a harmonious look.

Step 7: Highlight the look

To make your eyes shine a little more, use a bright, softly shining, eye shadow as a highlighter. To do this, take a thin eye shadow brush and apply a light eye shadow to the inner corner of your eyes. Alternatively, you can use your little finger for this step.

Step 8: Seductive lashes for New Year’s Eve

Next, it’s time for your eyelashes. Start by applying mascara. To intensify your look, you can even apply false eyelashes. The most natural look is best achieved by adding single false lashes in the right places, rather than gluing on a complete false lash line. This makes your lashes look fuller, but not artificial.

Step 9: Apply highlighter for a shimmery New Year’s Eve look

Now that your eye makeup has become sparklingly eye-catching, you need some highlighter on your face. Take a flat highlighter brush and apply the shiny powder above the cheekbones, on the tip of the nose and on your Cupid’s bow.

Step 10: Lips with gloss and glitter rounds off your New Year’s Eve makeup

The only thing missing is your lips. To avoid stealing the show away from your eye makeup, use a light colour with glitter particles. Lightly coloured lip-glosses that subtly accentuate your lips work best.