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The holiday season is a perfect time to try a new, daring look. For example, try a smoky eye with a little bit of glitter on top.

The holiday season is a time filled with many festivities, family gatherings and parties. It is the perfect time of year to amp up your makeup looks, be a little more creative and add a lot more glamour to your makeup routine. Whether it is glitter, smoky eyes or a bold lip, try something different this holiday season.

One of the most beautiful looks you can pull off is a classic smoky eye with a metallic twist. Start off by creating a smoky eye look with a black, matte eye shadow on the base of your eyelid and then blend a charcoal grey shadow into the crease of your eyelid.

Next, apply a soft white eye shadow to the brow bone to create a highlighted and lifted look. To make the smoky eye a little more festive, tap on some loose silver eye shadow pigment to the centre and inner corner of your eye. This is a really easy look to pull off, but will add elegance to your holiday look.

If you are one who doesn’t like to wear a lot of eye makeup, try popping a little bit of glitter to your lash line. Start by adding black, grey or silver eyeliner to your top eyelid, which will help give some definition. Next, apply some false lashes and then blend it with your natural lashes by applying some mascara. Once everything has dried, press on some glitter right to the base of your lashes. This look is simple but definitely is a showstopper.

If eye makeup isn’t your thing, try a deep, bold lip colour. Start by applying a waterproof, dark red lip liner to the edge of your lip to make sure you have perfect definition. Then take the same lip liner and fill in your entire lip, this will help your lip colour last longer and prevent it from bleeding. Next, chose a deep plum, cherry or wine colour lipstick and blend overtop of the lip liner. To finish everything off, apply some sparkly lip-gloss to the inner part of your lips.

Even though wearing a dark lip colour can be high maintenance, follow these steps and you will need minimal touch ups throughout your evening.

While we always seem to get stuck wearing the same makeup throughout the year, the holiday season is the perfect time to venture out and try something new. Be festive and daring by adding a little bit of glamour to your everyday makeup routine.