St. Patrick Inspired Makeup Looks – Super easy to recreate at home for the holiday!
Looking for last-minute St Patrick makeup looks? Recreate any of these 4 looks that are toned down and wearable for the occasion. While the main theme is green and gold, you can always add a twist with a shamrock symbol.
These 4 St Patrick makeup looks I created out of inspiration alone will be sure to have you both looking and feeling festive in no time! Each look was also created with a dedicated palette to get the perfect look in one palette!
Look #1
I created an olive-tone cut crease with a reverse liner, almost having a double wing effect! While cut creases may not be an entry-level look, my foolproof method is to start off with a brown smokey eye. Using a micellar water/eye makeup remover, I then clean up my crease with a flat-edged brush. From there on out, I apply my second layer of colour. The reversed wing was easy to replicate even though it was my first time – using a precise blending brush and a flat angled brush, I first sketched out the liner before smoking out the lower lash line with the blending brush to gently diffuse.
I love how you can still pull this off as a daily glam look, but using a touch of gilded gold and olive added a subtle hint of colour! All the looks I created don’t need lashes, but they’re nice to compliment the look! The lashes I wore in this look were Cloud Nine from Velour Beauty’s Plant Fibre Collection. I have a full in-depth review of their Plant Fibre Collection which you can read here!
To create this look, I used Violet Voss’ Olive You Forever Palette – It features 12 beautiful neutral shades that complement their olive and green tones. This palette leans towards the warmer side with 6 satin-matte neutral shades perfect for an everyday look, and 6 shimmery shades that can be used daily to highlight or to add a neutral pop of colour. I love that the green hues aren’t overwhelming and can be toned down! The formula is pretty much the same as their pro eyeshadow palette and blended beautifully on just concealer.
I tried to utilize all the ‘Olive’ shades in the palette as they transitioned beautifully. Olive You Forever Palette retails for $34 USD and can be found on Sephora and Violet Voss. If you own this palette already, I would recommend you try to give this look a go!
Look #2
Look number 2 was much more green and I think would fit the St Patrick’s makeup look vibes the most! This would be the perfect time to add tiny shamrocks everywhere if you’d like. I was eager to create this look as it was the most colourful one of the bunch and I challenged myself from using any browns or neutral colours. I also wanted to avoid using lashes for this specific look to highlight the colours.
I’ve had the Child Palette from ColourPop for a while now but never had the heart to open or touch it. The colours are absolutely beautiful and I adore the art but felt that this was the perfect moment to dip my brushes into the green hues! My heart hurt a little as I love collecting makeup, sometimes more than I enjoy using it. A part of me wished I purchased two of these so I could have a backup!
This palette features 9 shades from satin-matte, shimmers, and glitters! Baby Face is more mint in my opinion while the rest of the palette becomes gradually warmer. The shade names each bring up a core memory from Disney’s The Mandalorian and it was so much fun creating a look with this palette! I essentially applied Baby Face all over my eyelid with a soft blending brush, then using my fingers I patted Sipping Soup onto the center of my lid and Right Hand Mando onto the inner corners. I topped off the look with Precious Cargo near my tear duct, Little Frog on the lower lash line. The cherry on top for this look is using a flat angled liner brush and Float Your Crib to create an elongated winged eyeliner look.
This look is what I believe to be more beginner-friendly and can easily be recreated (minus the winged liner) with just your fingers! Since I dipped my brushes in this palette already, I can’t wait to create more looks with you. You can still get your hands on ColourPop’s The Child Palette on their website for $16 USD! I might just grab another backup or two for myself ahahah.
Look #3
The third look was tricky for me as I had planned out the looks by first picking out the eyeshadow palette and this look was created by using Huda Beauty’s Mercury Retrograde Eyeshadow Palette. When I saw the glittery green shade and mint in the palette, I thought to myself, wow this is perfect! To my disappointment, the warm eyeshadows in the palette that I thought would be a good transition colour all ran really pink on me even though they looked warm and yellow in the pan. I managed to make this work by creating a reverse liner instead with the glittery green shade and was content with the look that came out.
I first prepped my eyelid with Momentum on a fluffy brush and used that as a transition colour. Then I started to build pigmentation up with Karma and deepened the outer corner with Crash. I also used Vortex to create a soft wing at the end which I ended up layering Mercury over top. For the lower lash line, I just went right in with Mercury and connected the reverse liner to the winged liner up top. I felt the look was too matte for my liking so I topped my eyelids with Gold Glitch and Galaxy on the inner corner of my tear ducts. To top off the look, I wore Second Nature from Velour.
While the shades are truly beautiful in this palette, I found it strange how all the ‘warm toned’ shades ended up becoming muddy and pink on my eyelids. I think if I were to create a purple look with this palette it would come together effortlessly. Considering how this is a cult brand, I would assume most people have already tried Huda Beauty’s products or even own this palette. You can shop Huda Beauty’s Mercury Retrograde Palette for $33.50 USD on Huda Beauty or Sephora, I believe it’s currently on sale at the time of writing this post!
Look #4
Okay, this last look may by far be my favourite of the bunch. I bought this Ciate London Editor Palette in New England on a whim off of BoxyCharm as it was on sale for only $6 USD. I was like, heck, 6 buckaroonies? Why not? I was entranced by how beautiful the shimmers were in the palette and how it had an array of colours yet still looked toned down and wearable. What I was not expecting was how the eyeshadows would perform! They were soft, buttery, and blended with ease while being pigmented with the slightest tap.
Featuring 18 gorgeous jewel-toned colours, I’ll be sure to get more uses out of this palette whenever I can. I started the look off by using the light brown shade (I just realized this palette doesn’t have any shade names) on a flat-angled liner brush and started my liner from the inner corner. I then built up the depth by using the darkest brown to elongate my wing and went with a thicker wing style. Using a flat shader brush, I started to pack the olive green shimmer onto the inner corner of my eyelid and diffused it outwards before layering the warm gold with the same brush near the center of my lid. Using a precise blending brush, I ran the same two colours on my lower lash line but reversed the shades so my inner corner was gold and the outer corner was olive!
Honestly, I’m still shocked that I managed to snag this palette for $6 USD – you can shop it on Ciate London’s website for $32 USD or take a look around BoxyCharm to see if it’ll go on sale again.
If you happen to create any of these St Patrick makeup looks, tag me on social as I would love to see them! It was a ton of fun for me to create all these looks for the occasion as I haven’t worn any eyeshadow in a long while. I was able to get my creative juices flowing again and was content that I hadn’t lost all my MUA skills over the years! I hope if you’re celebrating this tradition, you’ll have the best time and stay safe 🙂
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