Updated 11/10/21

As the days get shorter, it’s time to dig up those darker dresses, chunky knits, and deeper-colored lipsticks.

We called in makeup artist Jenny Patinkin to demystify how to create a “lazy perfection” holiday look that makes you look fresh, glowing, and full of cheer.

This 10-minute application is easy and includes a few back pocket tricks that’ll last you the holidays and beyond.

Enjoy!


To recap Jenny’s tips:

  1. Optional: Apply your base. Jenny opted for Lily Lolo’s BB cream, but you could also use foundation, tinted moisturizer, or tinted face oil. This evens out your skin tone and helps remove redness.
  2. Definitely consider wearing concealer! Concealer can brighten up your overall complexion and blur discoloration. Using a brush, apply it underneath the eyes and blend. With what you have left on the brush, buff it onto the eyelids and any other areas of redness or pink tones, for example between your eyebrows, on your nose, around your nostrils, and on your chin. We want to make sure that red lipstick isn’t accentuating redness elsewhere on the face.
  3. Time for super-simple, neutral eyeshadow — Jenny uses Alima Pure’s Pressed Eyeshadow in Isla. Gently tap it onto your lids. This helps set the concealer and gives you a slight sheen.
  4. Take an eye pencil and draw little dashes into your eye socket line (no precision required) and blend with a brush. This gives the illusion of a deeper shadow along the socket line, which makes the eyes look bigger. Jenny uses brown in this tutorial. For more drama, reach for black.
  5. Take that same pencil and “tightline,” or apply it underneath your upper lash line to frame out the shape of the eye.
  6. Next, mascara! We love Lily Lolo’s Natural Vegan Mascara. Apply it using the “press, wiggle, and fluff” method. Press into the roots of your lashes, wiggle so they don’t get clumpy, and fluff so you get a little drama. For more drama, add more coats.
  7. Now, we’re finishing off the eyes with a soft, smoky look. Take a brush (we love this vegan line smudge brush) and smudge it across the tip of your eye pencil and then softly smudge that along your lower lash line. You’ll get the long wear of the eye pencil but the smoky look of a shadow.
  8. Optional: apply mascara to your lower lashes.
  9. For warmth, apply blush along the hollow of your cheeks. To make your complexion look dewy and fresh, follow it up with highlighter applied just above the line of blush. We especially love Kosas’s Color & Light dual blush and highlighter compacts for a 2-in-1 product (Jenny uses Tropic Equinox here). Find your perfect blush with the NakedPoppy personalized assessment. 
  10. Optional: Apply a bit of the highlighter to the tip of your nose and inner corners of your eyes for added brightness.
  11. Last, the red lip! Honestly, this does take a little bit of precision. So, instead of applying the lipstick with the flat part to your lip, flip the lipstick over and apply with the point first. You’ll be able to trace out the shape of your lips much more easily. Jenny wears Kosas’s Weightless Lip Color in Fringe, but as always, find the perfect shade for your unique skin tone, undertone, and coloring by taking your 3-minute personalized beauty assessment.

Voilà!

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