15 Holiday Makeup Looks to Wear This Season

You've figured out your party dress and how you're going towear your hair, but how the eff are you going to do your makeup?! Need a little inspiration? These celebs looks will give you an idea of what you should flaunt to all of the festive cocktail parties you've been invited to.

By Carly Cardellino

1. An icy blue eyeshadow and a heavily lined eye, like Nicole Richie's.

To steal Nicole's shimmery shadow look, swipe a baby blue cream eyeshadow, like Shiseido Shimmering Cream Eye Color in Ice, over your eyelid, work a soft bronze powder into the crease of your eye using a blending brush, line your entire eyes with black liner, and finish with a few coats of mascara. Pair the entire look with a nude lip and go!

2. Megan Fox's bombshell bronze smoky eye and dusty rose lip.
Switch up your look from a dark smoky eye to a softer version by swapping your usual black or gray shade for a bronze one, like Avon True Color Eyeshadow Single in Bronze Luster. Need a smoky eye tutorial? Click here, and then complement your look with a dusty rose lip color.

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3. A wine-colored smoky eye, like Kristen Stewart's.
Nail K. Stew's sultry burgundy eye makeup with the help of this how-to, and an eyeshadow shade like Make Up For Ever Diamond Shadow in Diamond Burgundy.

4. Beyoncé's subtly silver eye and glossy lip.
Look like Sasha Fierce herself by brushing on a show-stopping shimmery shade of pearl-y taupe shadow, like L'Oréal Paris Studio Secret Pro Eye Shadow Single in Satin TuTu from the inner corner of your eyelid to the center of it, diffusing it out toward the outer corner of your eye. Finish by lining the outer "V" corner of your eye with black liner, swipe on some mascara, and then apply a clear gloss over your lips.

5. Cara Delevingne's smoky-eye-red-lip combo.
To nail this look with your eyes shut - OK, you might need to keep them open actually - follow this tutorial to a T or click here.

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6. Bella Thorne's gorgeous gold-rimmed, winged eye.

Spice up your usual winged black liner look by tracing your entire eye with a gold shadow and liner pencil, like Palladio Shadow & Liner Herbal Crayon in Gold Dust.

7. Jessica Alba's multi-tonal eye look.
Holiday parties call for festive makeup, so make a statement by applying two different tones on your eyes. Use a gold liner from the inner corner of your eye to the center of your lashline, and acobalt one from the middle of your lashline to the outer corner, mirroring the same look along your lower lashline. Lastly, dust anapricot-colored shadow on your eyelid all the way up to the crease, pat the same shadow on your cheeks to warm up your skin tone, and apply a coat of mauve gloss over your lips.

8. Camilla Belle's oxblood lip and ethereal eyes.
With a deep burgundy shade on your lips, ethereal eyes are your best bet. To score a lip shade like Camilla's, click here. And for a how-to on soft, shimmery eyes that balance out this dark lip look, check out this tutorial.

9. Blake Lively's lashes for days.
Sometimes the only thing you need to flaunt is a set of sexy, full lashes. To make yours look like you're wearing false lashes, follow this step-by-step.

10. A red-hot swipe of color on your lips and a mauve smoky, cat eye, like Rihanna's.
A crimson lip is sexy any time of the year. But pair it with a bold red dress and a soft smoky eye during the holidays, and girl, consider yourself on another level. To redo Riri's stunning look, swipe a blue-based red lipstick, like Dior Rouge Dior Lipstick in Sterling Red, over your lips and apply a wash of mauve eyeshadowfrom your lashline to the crease of your eye before drawing on a cat eye with black liquid liner.

11. Miley's metallic mint green eyeshadow.
"We Can't Stop" obsessing over MC's metallic mint eyeshadow. To steal her mermaid-like eye look, apply a mint eye pencil, like NYX Cosmetics Eye Pencil in Seafoam Green, from your lashline to the crease of your eye. Then, top it with a jade eyeshadow from your crease to your browbone before lining your lashline and inner rim of your eye with a black eye pencil.

12. A pop of magenta on your mouth, like Olivia Wilde's wearing here.
An instant way to wake up your face and look party-perfect? Adding a pop of color onto your lips. Follow Olivia's lead and swipe on a hot pink hue, like Revlon Colorburst Balm in Lovesick. To intensify your overall look, line your entire lashline - both top and bottom - with a bronze eye pencil, coat on some mascara, and you're good!

13. Chanel Iman's come-hither 360 degree eye liner.
Follow this model's beauty behavior and line your eyes with an emerald eye liner, like Sephora Collection Nano Eyeliner in Emerald Green. Next, smudge it out a bit using your finger to give it that perfectly undone look, and then line your eyes again using a black liner to really make them standout.

14. Emma Stone's gunmetal-meets-silver smoky eyes.
Um, hello metallic gorgeousness! To wear Emma's stunning chrome look, swipe on a gunmetal-colored cream shadow, likeRevlon ColorStay Smoky Shadow Stick in Volcanic, smudging it out toward the end of your eye to give it a winged effect. Then, pat your finger onto a pressed powder silver eye shadow and apply it to the center of your eyelid before lining your eye with a black gel pencil, and adding a coat or two of mascara.

15. A wash of purple smoky shadow paired with a lined eye, like Jennifer Lawrence's.
Smoky eyes don't always have to come in black. Mimic J. Law's hazy purple eyeshadow by applying Dior's Diorshow Mono Wet and Dry Eyeshadow in Velvet with an angled makeup brush, and then lining your lashline and inner rim of your eye with black liner.

Wear any of these makeup looks and you can bet your ass you'll get noticed as soon as you step foot into any party. Have fun!

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