19 Party-Proof New Year’s Eve Makeup Looks

Give your New Year’s Eve makeup a magical metallic party glow by packing a stunning silver eyeshadow onto the lids. Icy silver shades will create a show-stopping strobing effect that will ensure all eyes are on you! To get the look, discover the Cyber Silver shade in my Beautyverse Palette to create an out-of-this-world silver smokey eye. This eye-enhancing silver shade is perfect for creating a trending Cyber Silver look and creates effortless, strobing-effect, starry eyes! Alternatively, my Luxury Palette in The Rock Chick has a quartet of rock 'n' roll silver shades that are perfect for creating punk-inspired party eyes!

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Darlings, the Digital Lilac shade from my Beautyverse Palette has been my shade of the party season! Across the red carpet and all-over social media, this gleaming lilac shade has been seen all over the eyes to create colourful makeup looks filled with euphoric disco energy! The Crystal Glow formula adorns the lids like crushed diamonds and will give your New Year’s Eve makeup look a pop of crystalline colour that will glisten under the lights as you count down to midnight.

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New Year’s Eve should be full of sparkle and magic and the best way to celebrate is with dazzling, dancefloor eyes! Use a sparkling eyeshadow topper to make your eyes shine like reflective disco balls! I recommend using my Bigger, Brighter Eyes Palette in Exagger-Eyes to give your New Year’s Eve makeup some celebratory sparkle; it’s a glimmering, rose-gold palette with a transparent topper shade designed to light up the look of the eyes and helps them to look bigger and brighter.

Tilbury Tip: Complete your look with my Exagger-Eyes Volume Mascara for maximised, high-volume lashes!

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Are you Ready for Lust, darlings? My NEW! Rock Lips lipstick is a perfect red lipstick to wear with your New Year’s Eve makeup look! Whether you’re looking to dial up your look with a party-ready red lipstick or need a lip shade to match the drama of your eye makeup, this radiant, raspberry shade adds instant impact to your look. The satin finish of my famous K.I.S.S.I.N.G lipstick formula ensures your lips feel smooth and hydrated as they’re transformed with this ravishing shade of red.

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There’s nothing like finding a nude lipstick with the perfect texture and tone that complements your natural features and goes with every outfit. I’ve created a whole wardrobe of nude lipsticks so that everyone can find their perfect nude to wear with their New Year’s Eve makeup. Discover supermodel-inspired lipsticks from The Super Nudes collection like Runway Royalty; celebrity-inspired shades like Very Victoria or Nude Kate; shades of my AIRbrush Flawless Lip Blur liquid lipstick like Nude Blur; and more in my legendary lipstick line up.

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If you’re anything like me, darlings, you’ll be the last one on the dancefloor this New Year’s Eve! When you’re partying all night, it’s important to wear a long-wearing foundation that will look flawless throughout all the fun. To keep your complexion looking airbrushed and flawless this new year, apply your perfect shade of my AIRbrush Flawless Foundation for magical, matte skin with lasting effect. This foundation formula delivers full coverage with a natural-matte finish, giving you that flawless feeling into the early hours!

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Being a bronzed bombshell is a year-round occupation, darlings! The night might be cold, but you can always reach for a velvety, warm-toned bronzer to create a sensationally sun-kissed New Year’s Eve makeup look! My AIRbrush Bronzer is a modern, matte bronzer that I use to bring warmth back into the complexion and create a light, sculpting effect. 

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Light up the night with a gorgeous, glossy glow! My makeup secrets are beautifying, glow-boosting formulas that play with the light and look radiant from every angle; they’re dreamy additions to your New Year’s Eve makeup look and create the most gorgeous, glossy glow on the lips, cheeks and eyes. Delve into my makeup wardrobe and discover my sensation glow secrets: there’s Beauty Light Wands which are the secret to cheekbones that glow forever; Collagen Lip Bath lip glosses to help lips to look fuller and glossier; Hollywood Flawless Filter for radiant, red-carpet skin.

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For eyes that hypnotise this New Year’s Eve, adorn your lids with a gleaming copper-gold eyeshadow that enhances and illuminates the look of your eyes. Golden shades give your eye makeup a warm glow and the magical, metallic finish will flicker under the new year lights. I adore the Golden Galaxy shade in my Beautyverse Palette – it’s a shimmering amber-gold with a Crystal Glow finish that’s like gorgeous gift wrap for the eyes!

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Looking for an understated, minimal makeup look? Create a simple, soft glam makeup look with my best kept beauty secrets! Discover fool-proof beauty tricks that are shortcuts to no-fuss party makeup such as using a light-coverage illuminator like Hollywood Flawless Filter to give skin a gorgeous glow; applying a flurry of Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes! mascara to instantly enhance the look of your eyes; and blotting a liquid lipstick like AIRbrush Flawless Lip Blur onto the lips with your ring finger to give them a natural-looking tint. Little hacks like these make creating a New Year’s Eve makeup look easy for everyone – even makeup beginners!

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I always say it, darlings – smokey eye ‘til I die! I just love the drama of a smokey eye and New Year’s Eve is a perfect time to dial up your eye makeup! You can personalise your smokey eye makeup by using your favourite colours; perhaps you want to create a subtle eye look with the matte shades in my NEW! Pillow Talk Beautyverse Love Palette or a colourful look that matches your outfit. My personal favourite is a beautiful, brown and black smokey eye using the deepest shades in The Super Nudes Easy Eye Palette to give the look a classic, rock ‘n’ roll feel.

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I’m always inspired by makeup looks of the past when creating new makeup looks, darlings, and the 60s was full of fabulous makeup inspiration. Channel the wide-eyed, babydoll look of the 60s into your New Year’s Eve makeup look by creating a graphic, 60s-inspired eye makeup look and pairing it with a powder-pink lipstick. Some makeup essentials for this look include an easy eyeliner pencil like The Classic, a liquid eyeliner like The Feline Flick, and a pale lip colour like Kim KW Hot Lips.

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The 70s was the era of disco fever – what could be more fitting to inspire your New Year’s Eve makeup look? From colourful party eyes to bronzed, glowing skin, discover 70s makeup trends that would look sensational at any modern New Year’s Eve party. With my beauty secrets like The Rebel Luxury Palette and Goldgasm Beauty Light Wand, you can create a dazzling, disco-inspired makeup look that’s ready for the dancefloor!

If you love colourful makeup looks, the 80s is the era for you. This New Year’s Eve, embrace 80s makeup trends like colourful eyeshadow, bright blushes, and bold lip colours to celebrate in true 80s style! Putting the finishing touches on your look with a vivid lipstick shade like Velvet Underground K.I.S.S.I.N.G Lipstick or a poppy blush like Cheek to Chic in Love is the Drug will give your makeup an unmistakable 80s flair that feels oh so retro.

Throwback to the 90s this New Year’s Eve with a super nude, super matte 90s makeup look! The 90s was the era of the supermodel where neutral, pared-back, flawless-looking makeup looks graced runways, red carpets and magazine covers. This New Year’s Eve, you can get the 90s look with my beauty secrets! Discover my Super Nudes collection including my all-matte Super Nudes Easy Eye Palette and The Super Nudes nude lipsticks – each inspired by the supermodel icons that ruled the 90s.