Smoky green eyes: Festive makeup

Well hello to you my reader chums! Christmas is under a week away so whether you want to try a new makeup look for the big day itself or have any parties beforehand, I've put together a smoky, olive toned eye to share with you. Instead of my usual go to gold/copper eye with a red lip, I thought this look was a bit more daring, especially for those who love a smoked up shadows.

Here's how to achieve the smoky green eyes:

Christmas makeup ideas

Christmas day makeup

Sephora shadow stick:

To begin and ensure my eye make up lasts the entire day, I applied Sephora shadow stick in 'Kaki'. As it's in a pencil shape, you can easily draw it on and blend out with your fingers. I like to take the stick all over the lid and into the crease, blending it out to achieve an ultra shimmery, khaki base. The consistency is incredibly creamy and a dream to blend onto the eyes. It's highly pigmented and densely packed with shimmer, ideal to use in the festive season for a top notch glittery eye.

Too Faced Chocolate Bar palette:

For more intensity and to darken the look further, I packed on shade 'Gilded Ganache' all over the lid, a dark and olive coloured shimmery shade. Then for extra smokiness, blended out the shade 'Triple Fudge', a matte, khaki colour on the outer corner and under my bottom lash line. To finish, I applied shade 'White chocolate' on the inner third of my eye, for a brightening effect.


Christmas day makeup ideas

Lips:

Since the eyes were quite intense, I toned down the look slightly with a nude lip, Nyx matte lip cream in 'Cannes'.

How to do a smoky eye

I hope you enjoyed this quick and easy eye makeup look. What's your go to festive makeup?

Thank you for reading <3




18 comments

  1. omg the eyeshadow looks amazing. such pretty colours and a good combination. I would love to recreate this look! nice post hun x

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  2. Such a pretty look! I have always wanted to try the Chocolate Bar palette, it looks like such a lovely palette!

    Grace x
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    1. Thank you lovely! It is a gorgeous palette with so many different colours to choose from xx

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  3. That looks so lovely on you! I hope you had a lovely Christmas hun x

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  4. I'm dying to get my hands on this palette!

    Terri x
    www.c0yoteugly.blogspot.com

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  5. This is a beautiful look! It looks lovely on you.

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  6. I love this palette! Love the colours you used:)
    http://www.izzieslife.co.uk/2016/12/what-i-got-for-christmas-2016.html

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  7. I just wrote a whole comment and I don't know where it is any more?! haha I was saying that I love the look of this palette and when I next buy one it's definitely going to be this one!
    I have to say though lovely, I find the colour of the writing on your blog really hard to read! I love the background and everything but I think the writing might be a tiny bit too light! <3

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    1. That's weird! Thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it. Will need to sort that xx

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  8. This pallette is gorgeous! Looks so good on you :)

    Tiffany x www.foodandotherloves.co.uk

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  9. I love using this palette especially this time of year. It looks stunning on you x

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