Beauty Boy: Holiday trends 2012

Header image for Interrobang article CREDIT: LISE WATIER
Lise Watier's Winter collection, Glamour Rose, incorporates beautiful red lips and metallic eye shadows.

The winter holidays are finally here, so it's time to glam up your makeup look! The winter season always has beautiful, glamorous trends that are easily incorporated into your evening looks and can be effortlessly added to your day makeup routine. This holiday season is full of reds, golds and silvers that can create a really sophisticated yet glamorous look. Brands such as Chanel, Dior, Lise Watier and Clarins have added limited edition pieces to their line that are perfect this holiday season.

If you prefer to wear more eye makeup, then the golds and silvers are what you want to add to your look to get that festive feel. Covering your entire eyelid with a metallic gold eye shadow and contouring with a deep chocolate brown will make a very sexy, elegant look that will make any eye colour "pop." Another way to incorporate these metallics is by creating a traditional smokey eye and lightly dusting gold pigment on top of the black. This way the gold is subtle but still transforms a smokey eye into a festive makeup look.

If you are someone who doesn't tend to wear too much eye makeup, dusting a gold or silver eye shadow over the eyelid will create a very luminous look that can be complemented with a bold lip. Red lips are one of the most common trends for the holiday season; so many cosmetic companies will release limited edition lipsticks or even collections that revolve around the red lip. Dior, Chanel and Lise Watier are all lines that launched beautiful red lipsticks that vary in texture and shade so that everyone can find their perfect colour.

Adding a slight contour to your complexion will make your makeup look a little bit more sophisticated and elegant. All you need to do is find a dark, ashy shade that you can easily blend into the hollows of your cheeks. Chanel recently released an exclusive contour shade that is perfect for all skin tones. However, you can always use a matte eye shadow as a contour colour such as MAC's Wedge or a matte bronzer. The key is to avoid anything that is too warm-toned as it will lose its structured, elegant look.

If you love wearing all sorts of makeup, then incorporate all the makeup trends for the holiday season. Golden eyes, red lips, a contoured complexion and false lashes will beautifully accentuate your own features and add a bit of a festive flare to them! Will you dare to add a bit of metallic sheen to your evening look?