Kelly & Leigh's Go-To Event Season Makeup

Published Dec 22, 2024, 6:30 PM

What’s the beauty game plan for Christmas Day makeup? Or what about Friendmas with the girls? Kelly and Leigh are here to share their go-to looks—whether you’re all about that effortless, pared-back vibe or going full-on boujee and dressed to the nines.

And of course, we’re spilling the tea on what we’ve put on our beauty wish lists for Santa this year!

LINKS TO EVERYTHING MENTIONED: 

Le Base Instant Glow Skin Serum $58

UV Daydream Screen SPF 50 Tinted Veil $55

Tower 28 MakeWaves Lengthening + Volumizing Mascara $33

Tom Ford Shimmering Body Oil Duo 2 $176

MECCA MAX Single Shadow $10

Sephora Collection Original Colorful Eyeshadow Mono $16

Sephora Collection Original Colorful Eyeshadow Mono Champagne $16

Sephora CollectionMoving Lights Galaxy Jam (Holiday Limited Edition) $19

MECCA MAX Flying Colours 25-Shade Eyeshadow Palette $44

Morphe 9 Pan Gold Seeker Artistry Palette $23

PAT McGRATH LABS Luminous Legends: Mega Eye Shadow Palette $131

Charlotte Tilbury HYPNOTISING POP SHOTS EMERALD EYES $51

Smashbox Always On Liquid Lipstick $45

IL MAKIAGE INFINITY LIP CREAMLong-Wear Matte Lip Color $46

Revlon Colorstay Limitless Matte Lipstick Top Talent $29

Urban Decay Star Holiday Eyeshadow Palette $115

Dermal Therapy Tinted Lip Balm – Cherry Red $9.99

PATRICK TA Major Skin Hydra Luxe Skin Perfecting Foundation $102

Chloe Atelier Des Fleurs Ylang Cananga $272

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Hosts: Kelly McCarren & Leigh Campbell

Producer: Cassie Merritt 

Audio Producer: Lu Hill 

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On Makeup is My Therapy.

I'm I'm obsessed and I don't even feel guilty about it. Hello, and welcome to Your Beauty, the daily podcast for Your Face. I'm Lee camp or.

I'm Kelly mccaren and it's summer break.

Baby. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. I've got bells on my something and.

You're a fanny do jingle jingle.

Just because it's the holidays does not mean we're stopping bringing you all some beautiful beauty content. Lots of you might be at home with family, wanting a little break from the chaos or cherished family time. So today Kelly and I are in the studio talking about holiday party, getting ready with us Christmas. Maybe you don't do Christmas, but you might be just chilling out with friends and families. So we're going to talk to our go to looks we're whipping out this week. But first, kel, what does your Christmas Day look like?

Well? I found this episode concept quite funny because producer casts popped in the notes you know, let us know what your makeup look would be and your outfit and your perfume and everything. And I'm like, well, my Christmas is mostly spent submerged in water. So I either alternate between the pool and then the ocean, and then I'll occasionally like roll up to your house up at my parents place. They live on the beach way up north. Oh it's so nice. I'll roll up the hill from the pool at some point for a bit of spiked punch or some zcchini slice or something, and then heaven. So, in all honesty, Christmas makeup is a crock of shit because the only thing I wear is SBF. But I have fancy in laws, oh yeah yeah, And so like every second Christmas we go to like a fancy lunch, like.

A buffet, a fancy buffet. No, not even a fancy buffet, but like you know those fancy people that actually book rests, oh Christmas Day because they're too fancy to cook.

We did that.

One year we did that. We went it's actually a great idea. I think we went to Star City and went to one of those fancy restaurants. But I'm a much the same. We always go to my brother's place. He's got thirty five acres, you know, an hour and a half north of Sydney. So I'm the same.

Our Christmases are not fancy.

They are spf and it's funny because we've got Canadian family. And I remember one of the Canadians said to me one day, like, we're swimming on Christmas Day and I was like, yeah, he's like, I'm normally shoveling snow. Yes, it's like minus theirs and eaten turkey.

I was just going to say, so I have got some ideas for Christmas makeup. Yeah, you weren't going to be submerged all day.

Even you know New Years is just around the corner. People might be doing.

There's different holiday parties.

Yeah, all right, let me talk to you about my Christmas Day. So I do try and put it in a beautif effort. Oh, wear something a little bit festive, but usually just like a little dress addressed with lots of room for all of the food, correct, something like that. I often do my hair because I think, well, we'll have a family photo because now you know we've got kids. Yes, you try and get that one nice photo before you God, I just.

I can on the hinged background extra in mine.

But I think also with our jobs, it's nice to have a break for a week or two where we don't do a lot to our face. But what I do do is and I've got some show and tell. This launched a couple of months ago. It's called La Base and it's by a Sydney makeup artist. It's called the Instant Glow Skin Serum, Hydrate, Prime and Illuminate. I saw you talking about this instant and you can borrow it. It is so good for holidays. When I went to Europe a few months back, I took that. So it looks like it's bronzy, but it's not. So it's skincare, but on top of your sun's screen beautiful. You're like just so glowy. It's so beautiful. Squaleen, Vitamin E smell, it's like musk sticks, Vitamin E, Apricot, kern oil, cammal extack. So think of it as skincare, but you put it on over your non tinted sunscreen if you want, and it's just like you've had a holiday in a bottle. It looks like it's tinted, but it goes on. I've seen her do very dark models, very fair models, and it just makes everyone look delicious. So I'll be putting that on my face. If I do want a bit more coverage, I just go crazy. I was gonna say, go Ham, I go Chrismy.

I go Chris Ham, a bit of a Christmas pun if you will.

With the sunscreen. So obviously a tinted sunscreen is never going to be your full layer of SPF. But the ultraviolet, I'm not talking about the sunscreen factor. I'm talking about the coverage factor. The ultraviolet SBA fifty day dream screen tinted veil is delicious. Think of it as your foundation. I wear either Shade four or Shade five, depending if I've put some gradual tan on my bodre. But I don't gradually tan my face because it picks up all my pigmentation exactly.

It's I don't understand people that can get away we're doing it nicely. I'm like, all it does is make my dark spots dark.

Up me too. So this is just like a sheer foundation, and it's got sunscreen as a bonus. So think of it like that something I don't have for show and tell, but I absolutely love because we might be swimming, it's just hot and perspirry. So I love a tubula muscara because unless you rub your eyes when you get out of the water, because usually you need warm water to remove a tubulamascara or a bit of my cellar water or something correct. So I can, you know, dive in and get up. As long as I don't rub my eyes, it stays. And this is just for general holidays as well. Is the Tower to Tower twenty eight. It's a relatively new launched to mecca You beauty host erin actually interviewed the founder, so we're gonna link that in the show notes. But I want to tell you about the mascara. I love it. The Tower twenty eight make waves lengthening and volumeizing mascara. It doesn't explicitly say it's tubula on the website or on the branding, but I have used it obviously, so I believe it to be. You should see the before and afters on mecha of this mascara. So good and like I say it, will I put mascara on Christmas Day. Maybe it's got a special aquaflex technology that's humidity proof. So Australian summer come at me. And then my last little tip is, you know, do I wear a fragrance? Stop looking at my goodies.

Honestly, she's got the oddest assortment of things here.

She's got a protein shake, she's got some Zappos. Oh my Zappo addiction. I know it's unrelated to beauty bar the grape, the grape, grape, goat grape. A beautiful body oil. So obviously if you're going out the sun where ESPF. But what I love. This one's mine from a while ago, tom Ford Shimmery Body Oil. So if you're having a nice Christmas photo, or if you're going somewhere fancy, or even if you're not, you know, light the good candle, use the good products. This one I've got here isn't brand new, but there's a beautiful set at Mecca. The tom Ford Shimmering Body Oil duo. So you get two one hundred and seventy six dollars, not as big as that.

I think eight different fragrances, yes, one mine's a little bit different from that.

One sol Ill Knee and one sol Little Blanc, the gold and the silver.

I think I've got the Solil Blink.

Oh so beautiful and then you've got two steps in one, well three you kind of shimmery, moisturize, and smell good for when you hug Uncle Bob under the Christmas tree. So yeah, that's kind of Christmas in my world. And Kelly, after the break, I want to hear all about this imaginary fancy Christmas Day.

Okay, So it's not just for imaginations, it's for holiday parties. I just think it's really fun to play with makeup, as you know. So for eyes, you could do gold or green glitter, and that would.

Just be so green, yes, green, yes, green Christmas green glitter.

No, would you wait? Would you wait? Please, my friend. You don't need to be really good at makeup. You just use your bronzer with like a big fluffy blending brush to lightly put color in your crease.

It's like your elbow of your eye exactly, Oh my god.

Exactly, great analogy. So it's where that meat. So you just lightly dust some bronzer in that area. We'll do that part, yes, and then just use your finger pack pigments straight onto your lid.

Fun. Yes, okay, I can do. So.

I've got some recommendations for people who love makeup palettes. And also some single eye shadow options if you're not going to use a whole pilots. Okay, okay, so we've got to start off with the Mecha Max single shadow in space jam ten dollars. Have a look at this color ly Oh okay, it's green, but it's like an.

M But I was thinking you meant glitter, glitter like oh god, grown up, I mean like a shimmery Barkley Ieshall like fil spot Sorry we're not going to spotlight no oh god, no no, I really yeah, I really.

This is low maintenance as well, like, okay, Christmas or any sort of holiday makeup should be able to last for a long time ago and you want to use it again pretty much on the good for like editorial, fun halloweeny stuff. So they're ten dollars and they are amazing. And from Sephora, there's one in the shade that I actually think I prefer a little bit more because it's a little bit more emeraldy. It is go green, and it is nine dollars and sixty cents, so that's good. They've also got a shade called Champagne. Please look at Is that not the truest gold? Oh yeah, that's like a yellowy gold yellow gold gold. So depending on like what's us.

Sort of getting Aussie vibes like green and gold. We're not together though, okay. I also there's nothing wrong.

There's nothing wrong with that. You could definitely make it work. Now from SEFORI, you can get this product called Moving Lights Galaxy Jam and that is more of a proper glitter but because it's kind of wetsh to apply and then it's.

Dries, it's a makeup product. It's a macacraft exactly.

So you can get that in gold or silver if you wanted to do something a little bit more intense. In the single pot, that's nineteen dollars.

That's a good price.

Now the Mecca Max Flying Colors twenty five Shade eye Shadow Palate, that's their limited edition palate for this year. Every year they release one that one's got the most fun bright emerald, shimmery gold glitter color. It's also got a gold in it. It's just a great palette if you love eye shadow palates. Like, there's heaps of purples and blues. There's a beautiful shimmer. No, it's a beautiful blend of matts and shimmers. I'll show you.

Oh yeah, that's heaven, I mean gorgeous. It terrifies me.

But if you're into color, I imagine how much fun I could have with that. Yeah, forty four dollars. Okay, Morphy have got a beautiful nine pen gold Seeker Artistry palate to three dollars. Look at the gold in the middle.

That's me. I want that. I'm getting it twenty three dollars. Gosh, Morphy's got good prices, neutral bronze browns, but then it's a really GOLDI gold.

And there's also two other shimmers in there, but it's like a champagne and then a more bronze. But the gold, oh my very word, it's glorious. And then, if you wanted something a little bit more spendy, the Pat McGrath a mini eye shadow palette for fifty one dollars, so still reasonable, but it's quite small, but it's great for travel, and that's got This is also a U palette. Beautiful, it's beautiful, neutrals sad fifty one fifty one dollars travel size one.

Can you send me the link? I only ever want travel size. I don't want a giant palette, even if I'm not traveling, because who is going through all that eye shadow? Fair very fair travel size.

You could also do either or a red lip. I don't think I would ever do a red lip with a green eye, but if I was doing a gold eye, I would do a red lip. Okay, But you must make sure that it's matt and long wear.

That's what I was going to say. I've tried to do a lip before on Christmas when I'm fancy, but then I start on the mimosas as we're making.

And it needs to be something that's going to last all So some really good options that I love are the smash Box Always on liquid lipsticks in the shade Bang Bang Yes Ill Mackyage in the shade, it's like a lip Infinity in the shade, Matt Geisha, and then the Revlon Color Stay Matte lipstick in Top Talent. Those are all brilliant reds that do last all day. I actually brought one. Oh. I also bought a little Oh that's another one I forgot to talk about. There's Charlotte Telree pop Shot.

I know we got that. No this one, actually, I oh, I gave you one of mine. I know you did give me this once. I did the Charlotte Kelly was over at my house and I was like going through my eye shadow, going Lee, who are you? Oh my god? Why did I give that to you?

Is that not just the most fun shimmer?

Oh my godfather, I'm a dolphin, I mean a mermaid.

So it is the Charlotte til Ree pop shot. They're fifty one dollars per pen. They are a special treat. They're gorgeous. This shade is called Emerald's Eyes. I would say it's closer to a teal or an aqua, or it's not an emeralds. Emerald is deep and dark green.

That's like it's got a bit of blue in it, but it's green.

It's beautiful. I would ask for it for a gift.

Okay, Or I would go on by that other one. Okay. Well look, I feel like I've just gone real low key and you have gone real fancy and I love it.

The funny thing is is that both of us, come December twenty fifth, we'll be wearing SBF.

For that next year. It's too late. We've only got two days to go. Let's take each other up for a fancy lunch.

And actually do this, and do this that sounds like a lovely idea. Yes, all right, Well, coming up after the break our tricks and tips for the holiday season and what we want Santa to bring us.

Let me show you so host Hack, which is a bit of holiday themed. Can I go first, because I'm so excited?

Of course you can.

Don't look at my staff. Many many months ago, probably at the start of this year, actually, I recommended a grown up glitter eyeshadow so vibing you. It was the single pot of the Urban Decay space. Cowboy love this because what I do is I do mind boring makeup, as Kelly would, and then I just if I'm going somewhere fancy Christmas New Years, I just put a tiny press two daisy year maybe my birthday. I touched my finger in the palette and I do a tiny dot and it just gives this iridescence of like her eyes are sparkling.

And also if you place it in the middle of your eye, it makes your eyes appear bigger.

Correct. So what have Urban Decay done? They've put it in a palette with others.

You O, my god, do you know how hard I tried to get this last year for their limited edition one last year.

Oh it's the Urban Decay Star Holiday Palette. It's eighty nine dollars for six shades, so it's actually much better. Alic, now, listen, I've already made a bad mistake. Oh no, the brown brown fun is So that's the shade in the middle is iconic, like that's their most iconic best selling eyeshadow. Then you've got a matt sort of beige, a matte what do we call that? Crease colour, trasition color. Okay, Then this is a bit shimmery. It's like a brown with a gold fleck. And then you've got sparkly brown, sparkly rose gold, and the space cowboy in the middle. So that is great for party season if you are a bit more subdued with your makeup, but you do you want a bit of something something.

I mean, I'm not subdued and I want this part.

Yeah, it's kind of if you and I had a baby. That's a palette because it's a bit you and a bit me. And also you'll just have it for all year rounds. So just put a little bit of sparkle. You don't have to go full kel. You can just go a bit late eighty nine dollars. So if you haven't got your Christmas present sorder yet for yourself, grab it on mecha and I love it. So I'm doing a little bit of sparkle over the next time.

Okay, well I'm covered with sparkle at the moment. My hack is basically that if you really cannot be bothered, but you want to look like you've popped in a little bit of effort, may I suggest the relatively new I think it came out maybe a month or so ago, Germal Therapy tinted lip balm in cherry red.

I squealed, oh my goodness a few months ago.

Germal Therapy is an iconic brand. Their lip balm is cult.

I think it won one of the U Beauty Awards. That it's normally in that quiet kind of pharmacy packaging, and it's clear they've come out with three colors. I haven't tried the red.

And it's really fun and it's quite pig into, but it's still that beautiful really that I thought moisturizing.

So it's like, look up, people, it's the peachy one and it's in cooler packaging, no offense. Thermal Therapy. We love you and your other packaging's great, but this looks more like you got it from asaphour or your mecha exactly.

It looks more like noturium. It looks almost stain, a stain. People be like, oh, she's got something. No, no, she doesn't, she's just Scott lip balm on. Yeah.

Oh she ate all the cherries from the Christmas tree exactly, plate Christmas plate.

Lee. What is the one product that you are asking Santa for?

Okay, I have really our Santa for this, like real life. Oh my god, is that.

The Augustinis Beta Advent calendar was one thousand dollars.

No, I'm asking Santa for legitimate things I think he can afford. Okay, it's a foundation. I saw a billion people talk about it on the internet before it was available here. It is the Patrick Tar Major Skin hydro Lux Luminous Skin Perfecting Foundation for natural Glow. That's the product's name. It's very long name. It's only fifty eight dollars and oh my god, I want to too. It comes in about forty shades. It's fifty eight dollars at Sephora. I've asked Santa hopefully might have popped in and got shade matched and might have given it to his husband to put under the tree. Anyway, I'm confused.

I also really want this product and at one of this yes, this one, because the rep from Patrick Tar absolutely sold it to me at the last Sephora show. I didn't even see them then, and then she was like, oh, but we don't have it yet, and I'm.

Like no, no. Also reference Santa think some shade nine. I haven't been allowed to play with it yet, so I will report back in the new year. But that's what Santa, I believe went to Sephora and purchased and wrapped up for me. What about you?

So I've recommended a couple of fragrances in this range before. It's the Chloe atalier. Oh you know they have fancy range. Yes, I mean, like all Chloe is fancy, but this is the extra fancy fragrance range that was created by different noses, which are the fancy fragrance people that have special notes.

Which not all fragrances are created by an official nose. Being a nose is an official career whereby you can't eat chili, you can't drink coffee, you can't smoke because you have to keep your nose.

In just could never. But the one that I want for Christmas is the Ylang ye Lang cananger edp let me tell you love you? I love Yanglang same And that's why I smelted at the airport and I was like, oh my very word.

Tell Santa to go back and get it for you and put in his bag.

No. I just felt like, oh, Kelly, you don't need a fragrance, and so I walked away from it.

And it was about needs. I mean, I know that for some people it is, but this is where you get to say, Santa, I want that.

I cannot stop thinking about it. It is just so beautiful. Let me tell you what the fragrance notes are.

Can you tell me how much it is? First, because I don't want to fall in love with it.

Two hundred and thirty dollars for fifty mils.

Okay, so pretty average. But it's not your tom forwards or your creeds exactly.

Hundred top of the line, like fragrance without being like what sorry, how much is having heart attack? Yes, it's yellow flowers and white flowers. It's a floral amber fresh fragrance. Oh yeah, exactly, But it's not really strong like the most perfect, unique, fresh floral summer fragrance with a little bit of sexiness.

Okay, I'm into that. I'm just going to get my phone and text look I mean Santa with a recommendation. I hope everyone has a wonderful time over the next few days. Will be back next week answering some summer beauty questions. We've got a good one plan talking about all things travel and how to save your hair from the sun, the swimming, all the things that a lot of us might be doing over the break. So come back then.

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