The Holiday Season is here and many of you may be looking for a fun holiday makeup look. So today I created this soft Smokey Eye with a pop of Red eyeliner using the Huda Beauty Pretty Grunge Palette*. I love creating a fun festive eye makeup look for the holidays, applying eyeshadow is always my favorite. I’ve included a YouTube video with a step-by-step tutorial of exactly how I applied this look. At the bottom of the post you can also find most of the products I used, excluding brushes no longer available.
I don’t think this look is limited to just the holiday season, you could totally wear this look with any color eyeliner of your choosing. The base look of this is super wearable it’s really only a brown Smokey Eye with some fun pops of pink. It would look awesome with simple black or brown liner.
Products Used
Getting Started
To begin, apply a few dots of Natasha Denona Hy-Glam concealer* to the lid and blend evenly with your finger. You want a nice even thin coating of this on the entire lid. This concealer is my current favorite, I’ve really been loving how it blends out and looks on the skin. To set the concealer in place, pat a translucent powder all over the lid lightly with a fluffy brush to get rid of any stickiness.
Now that the lids are prepped use a thin pencil brush, I used the Morphe V203 brush*. Apply the shade Rise Up from the Huda Beauty Pretty Grunge Palette* following the curve of the crease across the lid like an arch. Keeping the application of the shadow about the thickness of the brush, worry about blending the edges later and just worry about the application of the color.
Next step would be to draw a triangle like shape in the outer corner of the eye following the upward slope of the lower lash line as well as the curve of the crease.
Apply the shade rise up to the lower lash line area keeping the application of the color the thickness of the brush and brining it all the way in to the inner corner.
Once all the colors are in place, softly blend the edges with a larger brush using little circular/side to side motions on the edges of the color to get rid of any harsh edges. For this I used the Morphe H205 brush* and a Morphe Blending brush, be careful to not blend this color up to high.
Dipping into the shade Hope apply this onto the outer v in the outer corner of the eye and blend/smoke that out into out previous shade for a Smokey Eye look. Blend this shade until the two become seamless, use a fluffy blending brush as needed to further blend. Take a little bit of this shade as well and blend it on the outer corner of the lower lash line to add depth.
Once those two shades are blended take a flat shader brush, I’ll be using the Morphe H2 brush*, and sweep the shade Stand Up just on the center portion of the lid, keeping it below the crease line where the two brown shades we applied. Feather the edges lightly towards the outer corner to get rid of any harsh lines.
Grabbing a shader brush once again dip into the shade Luv Anarchy and apply this to the remaining front portion of the lid avoiding the inner corner, feather the edges of this shade up into the crease of the inner corner and blend into the shade Stand Up.
Once that color looks seamless, with the same brush dip into shade Freedom and use this just on the inner corner portion of the eye. Feather this shade onto the lid and onto lower lash line area as well, blending out all edges.
Now that the eyeshadow portion is complete lets go in with a pop of eyeliner, for this I used the Revlon Colorstay multi player liner in shade 406 queen of hearts*. Make sure your pencil is freshly sharpened as needed, start in the inner corner creating a thin line as tight as possible to the upper lash line. Slowly make your way across the upper lash line, pulling the line towards the outer corner gradually making the line thicker.
When you get to the outer corner this is where we start to make the wing. Pull a line upwards and outwards following an imaginary line from the lower lash line. Imagine if the upwards slope of your lower lash line were to continue onwards and upwards, this is the guideline we’ll be using to draw on the lower portion of the wing. To finish the wing, connect the liner from the upper lash line across meeting the tip of the line we drew for the bottom of the wing stopping short of just the tip to make it as sharp as possible.
Fill in any remaining portions that are blank on the wing, you can use concealer to clean up the tip of the wing as needed if you’d like it sharper.
For an inner corner wing to pull the look together, I used the Too Faced better than sex chocolate liner*, I have a whole blog post about how to draw a wing on the inner corners of the eyes, that may be helpful.
To finish the look off, I curled my lashes with the Velour Lash Curler*, added a coat of Milani highly rated lash extensions mascara* and added some trimmed down falsies to the under side of my lashes. I used some lashes from Amazon in style delicate, and used the inner corner portion.
That completes the whole look, I think the look pairs well with nude lipstick, I have some nude lipstick inspiration here on this post. Or for a dramatic look you could go in with a bright red lip to pair with the red liner making it look more monochromatic.
If you’re looking for another holiday makeup tutorial, I created a similar look using a green liquid liner for a pop of color, check that post out here. I love adding a fun pop of color for a wing, but you can also never beat the timeless look of a classic black liner cat eye. Thank you for stopping by!
