The Perfect Makeup for Your Party Dress

The best part about dressing up is wearing insanely glamorous clothes that you normally don’t wear and experimenting with eye and lip hues that you never thought you could pull off. We asked top makeup artists to come up with the best party makeup ideas to complement your dress color.

By Ariana Finlayson

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Dress Color: Red

Light Skin Tones

Choose a creamy champagne eye shadow for your lids, with a smudged brown liner. (Try TheBalm Batter Up Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow in Base Hit Kit, $18; sephora.com) Then, go for a soft nude lip with a sheer red gloss on top. (Try Neutrogena MoistureShine Lipstick SPF 20 in Just Whisper, $9.49; drugstore.com)

Medium Skin Tones

Apply a creamy, champagne eye shadow all over the lid and a thick black liner along the top lid only. (Try Clinique Colour Surge Eye Shadow Duo in Buttered Bronze, $17.50; sephora.com) On lips, wear a creamy red lipstick. (Try Trish McEvoy Gorgeous Lip Color in Gorgeous Red, $25; trishmcevoy.com)

Dark Skin Tones

Use a deep brown eye shadow on lids with a black liner. Dot a shimmery cream or tan shadow on the brow bone, and stipple a warm, reddish-brown eye shadow right in the crease. (Try Stila Pretty in Paris Travel Palette, $10; sephora.com) Choose a deep, warm red lipstick and add a pop of gloss to the center of lip. (Bonus: The Stila palette listed above comes with a brick red lip color!)

—Trish McEvoy, celebrity makeup artist and founder of Trish McEvoy beauty

Pictured: Black Halo Red Carpet Dress, available at renttherunway.com.

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