Sparkling Christmas Beauty Tips from Nikki

December has finally arrived and we are all set to sparkle and shimmy through Christmas.  With parties and glitter on our minds we are delighted to share some fabulous make up and beauty tips from our make up expert Niki at Marbella MakeUp to ensure we are all glittering for the festive season!

Our gorgeous tips from Niki.

 

Add a hair accessory for instant glamour opt for diamante clips and combs which are easy to grip into the hair.

Apply a touch of glitter or shimmery lipgloss. This can be worn alone or apply over the top of your favourite lipstick.

 

For gorgeous glowing skin this winter apply a highlighter.  I prefer crèmes rather than powders which can appear heavy.  Apply using fingertips to blend gently under the arch of the brow bone and down onto the top of the cheekbones. I love Benefit Highbeam and Moonbeam as well as MAC's strobe cream.

For glitzy nails choose a glitter nail polish, this can be clear and worn alone over a bare nail or on top of your favourite colour.  Choose the latest craze 3D nails! Nazila's nail glitz will embellish your fingertips with beautiful jewels.

Apply a shimmering body lotion or oil for gleaming radiant skin.  I love Nuxeshimmer oil this hydrates skin and leaves a gorgeous golden sheen.

If you are all about the eyes apply a line of glitter gel eyeliner along the lashline or add a touch of glitter on top of your eyeshadow.  If you like to experiment with colour use a shimmering bright eyeshadow or pigment to create dramatic eyes.

 

Accessorise your eye makeup by added a set of sparkly false lashes.  If you are not quite that daring try applying a few individual cluster lashes or a set of corner lashes for a more subtle glamorous effect.  Apply using DUOadhesive available at MAC for long lasting wear.

 

Create a metallic silver smoky eye.  Apply a kohl pencil around the eye smudging and blending well using a small firm brush.  I like to use MAC's 219 brushfor this.  Apply a little black or dark grey shadow on top to set the liner and intensify the colour. Next apply silver over the lid up to the socket blending well.

For some more festive inspiration see my glitter and sparkle mood-board on Pinterest and wishing you all a very sparkly Christmas!

More Festive Fun

December has finally arrived and it does not seem that long ago I was packing away our decorations, but this morning heralded, not only my much needed tea, but the opening of the advent calendar and a very excited Twinkle Toes!

This afternoon our tree was resurrected and is now work in progress for the next few days!

Last year we started a fun Compare your Christmas tree decorating efforts and this year we would like to do the same so send us photos of your trees for us to post and inspire everyone.
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We will be posting on here so email us your photos info@reviva-weddings.com

We will be sharing many festive ideas with you over the next few weeks and would like to wish all our clients, suppliers and readers a truly festive, fun and peaceful December.
Our lovely images are from Pinterest.

A bit of Festive Fun continued

As our festive fun continues this week, we are delighted to receive these photos of Claire's fabulous gold and red Christmas tree.

A glorious festive, twinkling tree filled with with lots of lovely details from the gold reindeers, a personalised bauble I spotted and cute snowmen and gold angels. I love it and it is so glittery with the traditional rich deep reds and glorious golds.

Big thank you to Claire and it does look like there are some rather large pressies under the tree which is exciting, only 5 more sleeps!!!

A Bit of Festive Fun

The much coveted Christmas tree :)

I just love this time of year and spend hours and days decorating my house, digging out my Nigella Lawson and Delia Christmas cook books, and generally preparing for this magical time of year with shopping, cooking and lists coming out my ears!

I adore dressing my Christmas tree which can take as long as a week

as I go back to it all the time! I have taken some photos as it is now, by the time we get to Christmas I will take some more as it will be laden around the bottom with pressies :)

I confess, having had many years of bringing up children and not much time to clear up, is I have a false tree, probably purchased about 15 years ago now, which is rather scary, I would love a real tree, but it would annoy me if it was not symmetrical and I cannot bear the needles, plus I have it up for too long!

However, I offset this with buying lots of blue pine to decorate my sideboards, tops of bookcases and anywhere really I can put it to get that wonderful Christmas smell of pine in my home.

What I love about my tree is the fact there is a very retro collection of ornaments dating back some 25 years, things I have bought pre daughters, ornaments bought every year for the girls, ornaments bought for me by me from Harrods :), I have also been collecting handbags, shoes and cupcake ornaments for years and everything is thrown on with a great vengeance every year! I love it :) Even some of the ribbons on my tree are dare I say it, vintage, they are over 25 years old, snagged from Sandersons when I was assistant display manager, and are carefully ironed every year, how sad is this! I actually wanted olive and magenta velvet bows this year but ran out of time to order any ribbons so have made do yet again!

After much gently nagging from my friends, my brides and work colleagues I have decided to host a bit of festive fun for all us creative individuals who want to show off their decoration skills over the festive season.

Many of my girlfriends revel in decorating their Christmas trees, including me, so we have decided to all post our Christmas decoration photos on the Reviva Weddings Facebook page for a bit of fun, to share our trees and wallow excitedly in our decorating glory together.

We would love to see your photos of your festive creations, trees, decorations so in order to get them posted on our facebook page, tag me Laura Charles on your photo, or send your photos to info@reviva-weddings.com and we will post them to our Facebook page so we can all twitter excitedly together about glitter, shiny ornaments, handmade goodies and perhaps even a Pagan Christmas as one of my male friends has stated he will have this year!