24 Festival Make-Up Ideas Taking Your Look From Alright To All Nighter
Time to get your glitter on.
Despite loving festivals, and spending the majority of our monthly pay cheque on them each year, we're inevitably still a little horrified by the OTT festival make-up that's more than extra. Like, how could glitter go that wrong?
The festival make-up fear is real.
Which is why we've rounded up the festival make-up ideas you could, and should, be working when you're rocking around a field, sipping on a plastic cup of cider and feeling like world peace really could happen if we all just learnt to love (and wear way more glitter).
Say hello to Coachella make-up inspo, and goodbye to festival make-up FOMO.
To complete the look, see our favourite festival hairstyles.
Collina Strada
Leave the make-up brushes at home and go for a painterly effect created with only your fingers.
Ashish
If understated isn't your bag, then go for all-out festival glitter a la Ashish.
Eckhaus Latta
Subtle, marbelised lips give any festival make-up look a 'now you see it' twist.
Manish Arora
Use stencils or cut up pieces of paper to create a multi-coloured airbrush effect that lasts until the final act.
Acne
Get your eyebrows involved in the festival make-up fun by painting them mismatched pastel hues.
GCDS
Ring your eyes with electric blue eyeshadow for a superhero-inspired look that's easy to find in a crowd.
Halpern
Give your glitter a retro 60s twist by lining the edges of your sparkling cat eye with black kohl.
Anna Sui
Mimic the sunset hues of sitting in a field as a summer evening sets in with a soft wash of pink and yellow blusher taken up to your temples.
GCDS
Embrace your inner raver meets A Clockwork Orange with an asymmetric painted on lash look.
Dries Van Noten
More isn't always more when it comes to glitter. For a simpler festival make-up look, a sprinkling above and below your eyelids on bare skin looks seriously pretty.
Chromat
Take your day make-up firmly into night time with neon bright eyeshadows and brushed up brows.
Jeremy Scott
Give grainy glitter lips a miss and go for a satisfyingly sci-fi foil finish pout instead.
Manish Arora
Coloured mascara is officially back with the fashion week seal of approval. Go for more is more chunky lashes in bright pink, blue or yellow.
Preen
An ethereal take on festival glitter, get a friend to blow some shimmer onto your forehead and hair line for Preen's delicate twist on the OTT look.
Peter Pilotto
The easiest festival make-up look ever, simply daub mismatched coloured eyeshadow above and below your eyes.
Moncler
If your festival vibe is more English fields and vegan food than space buns and bum bags, go for sunkissed low blusher and a sheen that says , 'I'm just really really healthy.'
Missoni
More than achievable whilst standing in a field, a watercolour wash of blue on your eyes looks high fashion and festival appropriate.
Jeremy Scott
Nu-rave is back people. Take your eyeliner to the next level with 3D paper cut outs stuck on to the outer corners of your eyes. Finish with dots of glow paint ideal for that silent disco.
Delpozo
Paint swatches of silver daubed onto eyelids feels festival ready without the expected sparkle.
Dior
If you take one make-up product with you to a festival this year, make it a colour pop liquid liner or cream eyeshadow and join the crayola crew.
George Driver was the former Senior Beauty Editor - Digital at ELLE UK.
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