Holiday makeup is allowed to go where everyday makeup wouldn’t dare. Bold and demanding attention, the eyes can be laden in splashes of color and glimmer that border on theatrical. For an attention-getting holiday look, you can wear it.

A glittery holiday look is a dark eyeliner with a white, or metallic shimmer eye shadow extended up to the brow line. Laura Mercier Metallic Creme Eye Colour comes in 8 gorgeous glowing shades and is an Allure magazine Best of Beauty pick for 2006.

For eyeliner, go darker and bolder than you normally do. Define those eyes; if you ever wanted to line the whole eye including the lower lid, this is the time to do it. Extend the eyeliner and smudge a bit into the corner of the eye as well. Go ahead and wear those false eyelashes. Brush brows and use a gel color to define and set them.

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Covergirl makes it easy to draw, smudge and blend those lines on eyes to create your perfect look. Perfect Blend is a classic eye pencil with a blender tip.

Whether you want precise lines or soft lines, you can get the perfect blend for you. Simply draw on the eyeliner then smudge and blend for your desired look.

Perfect Blend comes in six shades.

Maybelline’s Line Stylist eyeliner has become my favorite eyeliner pencil in my makeup bag. For a pencil, it creates a very fine line. You can make the line a thick as you like, however, it’s the precision that makes this pencil unique. It’s also safe for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers.

Line Stylist comes in 8 shades. Basic colors are included but so are shades such as Plum Shimmer, Jade Flash and Bronze Gleam. Mine is Sapphire Glimmer so obviously not a color I would wear every day. I guess I will just have to pick up a couple more…

This bust of Nefertiti is one of the most famous examples of classic beauty. Wife to the pharoah, Akhenaten, her name means “the beautiful (or perfect) woman has come”.

We can see why she was so named. Note the symmetry of the face, the distance between the eyes and their shape are both perfect. High cheekbones and a well-shaped mouth add to the classic ideal of beauty. But notice also what she has done to emphasize her natural attributes.

The eyebrows are soft arches in a natural line. They are neither too thick and bushy nor are they pencil thin and sharply angled. The high cheekbones are emphasized with a deeper shade of makeup under the ridge. Slight shadows in the crease of the eyelid make the eyes appear deeper. Eyeliner was popular in Egypt and Nefertiti made good use of it, lining both the upper and lower lids; defining the eyes and emphasing their shape. The lips are stained with a berry red.

The Egyptians were some of the most ardent and artful masters of makeup the world has known. Although the images we often see appear to be overstated in the use of makeup, this bust of Nefertiti was used by the scupltor as a guide for creating official portraits and was not itself for display. Therefore, this is most likely to be a true representation of one of the most famous faces of all history.