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Christmas Fantasy  To be truly enchanting this Christmas, focus on jewel shades. Top make-up artist James Kaliardos shows you how.
With top tips from how to create the perfect luminous base to nails made to be noticed, winter glamour is made easy to achieve.
Step 1
Luminous Base
The secret to any wow look is a flawless base. This season, skin should radiate health with a light-reflecting and silky-smooth complexion:
Healthy Skin
When the temperature goes down, central heating goes up, dehydrating your skin. To soothe and refresh the skin, apply a moisturiser to cleansed skin and leave bare for 5 - 10 minutes.
Pick me up
When you're out on the party circuit, Touche Magique is your secret weapon. It perfects and rejuvenates your complexion, banishing signs of tiredness. Apply under the eyes and around the nose.
Translucent Skin
For a glamorous veil of luminous skin, blend a light-reflecting foundation into the skin with fingertips or a make-up sponge. Formulated with micro-powders which reflect and diffuse light, Translucide creates a radiant and flawless finish.
Step 2
Starry Starry Eyes
The spotlight is firmly on eyes this season. Dare to dazzle with a spectacular sweep of shimmering ultra violet.
Violet Crystal Eyes
To set the stage for holographic eye colour, apply a touch of foundation to the eye area and set with powder. Avoid complex shading with a sweep of multi-tonal, shimmering ultra-violet eye shadow which changes with the light. To build intensity, apply the shadow more heavily at the outer corner of the eyes and, with a fine brush, smudge along the lower lash line.
Bold, bright and Sparkling
For added definition, highlight the inner corner of the eyes with a snowy white shadow and apply a platinum liner along the lash line.
To perfect this bright-eyed beauty, use a curl enhancing, eye opening mascara in an intense black. For best results, apply mascara to the lower lashes first.
Then lift the top lashes from the base using the full length of the wand.
Brush and lift lashes up and out to create the most flattering shape. Remember, if applying two coats do not let the first coat of mascara to dry before applying the second or lashes will clump together.
Step 3
Fuchsia Fantasy
Compliment your eyes with a sparkling Christmas pout.
Crystal Shine
Full, fuchsia lips are the ultimate in Christmas glamour. For an explosion of colour and lips that sparkle from every angle, use a moisturising lipstick in bright pink. To really accentuate your lips, apply with a lip brush. To glam up the look, dab a fuchsia lip gloss to the centre of the lips for a sexy, plumped-up party effect.
Top Lip Trick
To keep your lips kissably soft, buy a child's toothbrush, add a touch of lip balm, and brush gently across your lips twice a week to exfoliate and boost their moisture and condition.
Step 4
Precious Nails
For an eye-catching finishing touch, create jewel-like nails that fascinate and mesmerise.
Gems at your Fingertips
Inspired by dazzling jewels, coat your nails in holographic colours and textures designed to add a sprinkling of precious gems to your fingertips.
For the perfect polish, apply varnish in three strokes, beginning in the centre of the nail and leaving a tiny margin of bare nails at the edges for a professional, precise finish.
What are you waiting for?
Time to get out there and show some Razzle Dazzle!
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