There’s a lot to love about Winter: the holiday season, coffee, cozy movie nights with family, cute coats, and, depending on where you live, the snow days. Another plus? How we don’t sweat off our makeup within minutes—all the better for testing out new lip, eye, and cheek trends. Here are the top makeup trends to make a statement this Winter 2023!
Cherry Girl Makeup
Cherry Girl makeup is all about striking a balance between innocence and seduction. It typically includes elements like rosy cheeks, flushed lips, dewy skin, and subtly defined eyes. The key is to create a look that’s as sweet as a ripe cherry but with a hint of mystique. Move over, strawberry girl.
Pumpkin Spice Makeup
Transition fall’s latte makeup trend into winter with slightly warmer, burnt cinnamon shades as seen on the Burberry spring 2024 runway. And for the indecisive, the trend can be worn on eyes, cheeks, and lips.
Metallic Cooled Tone Looks
Now is the time to shine brighter than a diamond with shimmering makeup looks, metallic liners, glitter, sparkle and pearlescent skin. The easiest way to oomph up your winter look would be to use a shimmery, metallic eyeshadow on your eyes. Think cool blues, shiny lilac, or shimmery silver. They look really beautiful and festive as well.
Vampy Lip
As soon as the mercury dips, the deep, rich lip colours come out. Berry, plum, or burgundy shades are the most popular but if you are feeling more adventurous, you can also go for shades of brown. Keep the rest of the face clean and nude. You can even add a smoked-out short-winged eyeliner.
Latte Makeup
Latte makeup is a new take on the bronzed, beautiful, sunkissed-glow look. Think all the shades of brown with a hint of shimmer and shine. So easy to do- earthy tones on the eyes, followed by a smudged brown eyeliner and a well-contoured face with lots of bronzer and highlighter. No pinks or peaches on the cheek.
Tinted Highlighters
A good highlighter never gets out of trend. It adds a glow to the face, but what is most exciting about the coming season is the use of fun, cool-coloured shimmery highlighters with a hint of peach or a hint of pink or a hint of lilac. These add an extra dimension to the face and give a futuristic look. A definite must-try!
Major Lashes
When it comes to lashes, the theme is bigger, longer, and extra dramatic this winter Make your lashes the main event by either layering on many coats of mascara—clumpy is the name of the game here—or stick on some false eyelashes in a fun shape. Don’t be afraid to add some individual clusters to your bottom lashes for a fanned-out, mod effect.
Blushed Look
The runways were dominated by heavy blush looks in bright hues. And unlike seasons past, cheeks aren’t the only place on the face that are getting the full-flush treatment. Dab your cream blush over your nose for a sunburned effect (also known as the “strawberry girl makeup”), or dust a powder blush on the center of your chin and forehead for an all-over flush.
Double Graphic Liners
Thick black eyeliner never fails, so why not double up? Draw on a regular cat-eye on the top lid, then simply extend the bottom liner out as well to create a parallel line to create a bold statement this Winter.
Cold Girl Makeup Look
Makeup artists and influencers are capturing a freshly frostbitten look with more blush than usual, limited contour, voluminous lashes, and—of course—glitter everywhere to give the face that “I just ran through a snowstorm and somehow my makeup is still intact” look. Sure, the winter weather certainly isn’t for everyone, but the cold girl makeup trend is. Whether your skin is clear or textured, dry or oily, and regardless of your skin tone, this frostbitten look is the new it-makeup trend of the season, and everyone is obsessed.
Cherry Girl Makeup
With over 40.1 million views on TikTok, ‘Cherry Girl’ makeup is the latest fruit trend taking the beauty world by storm. A deeper, more glam take on the Strawberry Girl trend of the summer, it shows that red really is the colour of the season.Cherry Girl makeup is all about striking a balance between innocence and seduction. It typically includes elements like rosy cheeks, flushed lips, dewy skin and subtly defined eyes. The key is to create a look that’s as sweet as a ripe cherry but with a hint of mystique. Move over, strawberry girl.