Zendaya Posted a Makeup Tutorial for the Ultimate New Year’s Eve Smoky Eye
If there’s one night of the whole year to go all out glam with your makeup, it’s New Years Eve. We’re talking glitter liner, unicorn highlighter, a bright red lip—now’s definitely the time to try a bold look. Party makeup, after all, was basically made for celebrating the start of the new year. There are a ton of amazing celebrities’ beauty looks that would be perfect for the occasion, but Zendaya just gave us a step-by-step tutorial for nailing her own choice of look for the evening: a (very sultry) smoky eye—with a twist.
The actress, who happens to be extremely talented when it comes to doing her own makeup, filmed a makeup tutorial with beauty influencer Alissa Ashley so the pair could take us through the process of getting two statement-making smoky eye looks just in time for Sunday’s round of parties.
For the tutorial, Zendaya went with a dark bronzey eye—a twist from the normal gray-based tones—and a glossy lip. She starts with her eye makeup, leaving her skin bare until the smoky eye is almost complete. Then she focuses on her skin, leaving her brows for last. “It’s my little treat at the end,” she says.
After priming her eyes, she smudges the CoverGirl Perfect Point Plus Eyeliner ($5.19) up from her lash line and onto her lid to create her smoky eye. She tops it off with some false lashes before patting on a bronzey shadow just in the center of her lid as an added highlight.
For the skin, Zendaya uses foundation as her base and her contour, blending them all together before setting her makeup for a seamless finish. “I use just darker shades of foundation, basically,” she says. “And I like to blend it in with a fluffy brush, so I blend my creams in with a blush brush.”
Zendaya uses the shade Shell from the CoverGirl Tru Naked Eyeshadow Palette ($9.99) as a highlight on her cheekbones. It’s a frosty shade that still looks natural and not too in-your-face, keeping all the attention on the eyes. She topped it all off with some lipgloss and some setting spray (because no one’s got time to retouch on New Year’s Eve).
Best of all, the final product is easy enough to recreate before heading out to dance off the last of 2017. Watch a sneak peek of the tutorial below…
…and then head to her website for the full how-to.
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