Christmas Day Makeup | collab with emsirose

Today's post is a collab with the lovely Emsirose! She is one of my favourite bloggers so I feel very happy to be doing a collab with today. We will be sharing with you our Christmas Day makeup looks - make sure you check out her blog after my post because it is amazing!

My face product of choice for today's look is the Bare Minerals matte powder foundation, along with their mineral veil powder. I chose these mostly because they are my favourites but particularly because it is matte so you won't look too shiny on all your Christmas photos! I also use my L'Oreal touche magique concealer alongside these. I actually purchased a new one of these lately because it is that good - I use it everyday because the shade 'Rose Beige' matches my skin perfectly.

I then use the makeup revolution Iconic Lights Contour palette to bronze and highlight my face - using the third from the left contour shade because this is the only one that isn't too dark or orange-toned for my face. However I do use the other shades as eyeshadows often, and because the pans are so big the palette is definitely worth getting! I also use a selection of the highlight shades, along with Benefit's high beam because I love a liquid highlighter and it is so pretty.

Onto the eyes - my favourite bit of the look! I am much more a girl who does more to the eyes and pair it with a nude lip, I just find eyeshadow so fun to do! I'm mostly using the Naked 2 palette, my current favourite. I'm using 'Tease' as a transition shade because I think it works so well!

I then actually work my NYX High Definition Glow Blush lightly over the top of that to bring a little bit of a burnt orange tone to it. It may be a blush but it wouldn't suit me at all as one, I actually bought it to use as eyeshadow because it's SO PIGMENTED compared to normal NYX shadows, it's incredible, and I have nothing that orange tone, that is really in right now, already.

I then add the shade 'Undone' from the Naked 2 basics palette in the crease - I'm trying this whole cut crease thing but I don't think I'm that great at it! I blend this out a bit with the NYX product. On the lid I really wanted a shimmery shade - it's Christmas after all! I opted for Chopper from the Naked 2 palette because it's the most shimmery of them all, but to keep in with the Christmas theme you could use Half Baked instead, a perfect gold shimmer.

I then finish of my eyes with mascara and as I mentioned earlier, decide to go for a more neutral lip. Of course red lips are very fitting for Christmas (I recommend SEVENTEEN's Rioja Your World) but because I feel I don't suit them that much I used my new MAC Pro-longwear lip pencil in the shade 'In Control'. It came with a MAC Christmas set so I thought this would fit perfectly with the theme - I may be writing up a whole post about the set in the near future! I used my Bobbi Brown Luxe lip colour in the shade Neutral Rose over the top, I thought this has a very luxurious feel on the lips so perfect for Christmas day.