Festivals provide a venue to show off your makeup skills with fun, colorful looks. Try out some of these ideas to step outside of the usual smokey eye.
1. Bold Lip
The look: A dark, bold lip is something anyone can try out to transition makeup from day to night.
Tips: Wear a deep, berry color on your lips with bronzed cheeks and copper-colored eyelids to make the dark color pop. Draw more attention to the dramatic color choice with a dust of highlighter on the Cupid’s bow above your lip.
Products: MAC Cosmetics’ Satin Lipstick in Rebel is the perfect plum hue for layering, depending on how dark of a shade you’d like. Any of Urban Decay’s Naked palettes offer a multitiude of shadows in brown, copper and gold to create a neutral look for the eye. Too Faced’s Soleil Matte Bronzer can be used to contour.
2. Gilded Brows
The look: Get your eyebrows “on fleek” by applying a color to them. Gold or silver eyebrows complement every hair color.
Tips: Trace your natural eyebrow shape with a colorful eyeliner or cream shadow. Then, fill it in. Highlight just under the arch of your eyebrow and the inner corner of your eyes to further accentuate the area.
Products: Use Make Up For Ever’s gold and silver Flash Colors for the eyebrow. Highlight with MAC Cosmetics’ Pigment in Vanilla. Apply a metallic eyeshadow, like Urban Decay’s Verve, all over the eyelid.
3. Face Paint Palooza
The look: Get playful with face paint to create a colorful look.
Tips: Apply face paint with brushes to blend the colors and create different shapes. Use darker colors where you would normally contour and lighter colors where you would normally highlight. Don’t be shy — have fun with it.
Products: Make Up For Ever’s 12 Flash Color Case has every color you need and applies smoothly, making it easy to blend. It feels comfortable on your face, which makes it easy to wear all day and night.
4. Crazy Eyes
The look: Wear colorful eye makeup with a neutral lip and simple face makeup to keep all eyes on you.
Tips: Use a Q-tip to dot colorful cream shadow, cream eyeliner or face paint below your eye. A triangle shape going toward your cheek highlights cheekbones. Draw a sliver of eyeliner on your upper lashline and finish the look with a swipe of mascara.
Products: Make Up For Ever’s 12 Flash Color Case is highly pigmented with a creamy texture that’s great for the sensitive eye area. Stila’s Smudge Stick Waterproof Eyeliner in Bluefin applies softly as well, but it has the power to stay on for an extended amount of time. Its shimmery, blue color perfectly complements the technicolor dots. Urban Decay’s Perversion Mascara creates bold, defined lashes.
5. Set to go
The look: A weekend of long hours dancing could mean disaster for makeup. Thankfully, setting spray can prevent runny makeup woes.
Tips: Once your makeup is finished, spritz your favorite setting spray a few inches away from your face to keep it in place.
Products: Mario Badescu’s Facial Spray with Aloe, Herb and Rosewater is a great option for its hydrating and soothing skincare benefits. At $7 for four ounces, it’s a beauty steal without sacrificing quality.
6. Hair Tattoos
The look: Just when flash tattoos became boring, Kylie Jenner updated the look by wearing one in her hair. Just like that, the celebrity trendsetter brought the tatts back.
Tips: Brush hair and smooth it down. Then, spray the desired area with hairspray to keep it in place. Apply the tattoo as per instructions and gently peel it off.
Products: Flash Tattoos, hairspray and a wet washcloth are all you need, making this the easiest look to try on-the-go.
Sarah LeBoeuf is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from Alexandria, Louisiana. You can reach her on Twitter @sleboeuf23.

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Voodoo festival offers a platform for festival goers to be bold with their make-up options.