Experiment with these trendy yet elegant 5 DIY festive looks

This festive season, look your best and experiment these 5 DIY make-up looks suggested by Guneet Virdi, Make up Artist & Skin Care Expert.

Look 1: Be Bold

The first step is to keep the base perfect, matching your skin tone. Next, apply pink blusher or any light shade, matching your ensemble. Keep the eyeshadow matching your eyeshadow and then apply eyeliner and kohl. Finally, keep your eyebrows natural and enhance your lashes with heavy mascara. Finish the look by applying hot or crimson red colour lipstick and to spark a little more, add a hint of gloss on it. Pin your hair on one side to get a clean, elegant yet trendy look.

Look 2: Be Smokey

This look is apt for day celebration or get-together. Smokey eye enhances the shape of eyes and goes well with any ensemble, whether a sexy eve gawn, a traditional net saree or an off shoulder kameez with Patiala. To get this look, apply heavy mascara on the lashes, keeping the eyebrows natural. Enhance the eyes with a mix of dark shadows like grey or black. Next step is to apply a orange or peach lip gloss to get on vogue look. Contouring is not required and the base is kept very subtle. Apply peach blusher and blended well. Tie the hair from the front and keep the rest part open and messy.

Look 3: Go Traditional

Festive season is all about being traditional, so try the traditional red ensemble like a red saree with golden shimmer blouse or a red lehenga. Now, make-up should be subtle for which keep the foundation natural by applying a BB (Beauty Benefit) cream. Light contouring is done with powder to highlight cheekbones and forehead. Glossy red lips is been done. Apply two shades on eyes, golden in the inner side and giving a smokey look, so apply dark brown at the outer side edge and blending both the shades well. After that, apply a thin line of eyeliner, avoid kohl and instead apply light fake lashes to enhance the eyes in a much sober way. Make a messy side bun in the hair with artificial flower or any other decorative to complete the look.

Look 4: Glamorous Look

As Diwali is a big festival and is celebrated at offices also with great enthusiasm, so one should look elegant in the office celebrations as well. For the elegant office look, tie- up your hair with a puff at the centre of the forehead. Keeping in mind the cooperate attire, keep the make-up minimal. Play with the eyes by using black kohl all over the eyelid and smudging it with black eyeshadow. Keep the lips normal using nude lip colour, applied with a shimmer gloss.

Look 5: Be Quirky

Be traditional in a quirky way by adding a hint of neon in your ensemble. Wear neon lehenga or any other designer outfit.  Try wavy curls on the hair, tie the mane with a slight puff in the centre, if like, accessories the hair. For eyes, apply eyeshadow in the inner corner, can use golden with a tint of neon matching your outfit. Give smokey effect to the end corners of the eyes. Avoid liner, but try artificial eyelashes to enhance the eyes with a dark stroke of kohl on the water line of the eyes. Finish the look with pink blusher on cheeks and doing a light contouring.