Style Guide To Trendy, Traditional Navratri Looks By Nykaa

With the festival of Navratri, dandiya nights and Durga puja on, we are bound to care about the way we look! Here are some looks dolled out by Madhavi Irani, Chief Officer – Content at Nykaa.com, amulti-brand beauty retailer selling cosmetic and wellness products, founded by Falguni Nayar, that you can follow as per the colour code.

Navratri, Day 1:The Blue Shadow

Push the envelope this festive season and let your eyes do the talking with the Royal Blue Eyeshadow! So edgy, yet to so elegant, this eye trend is tailor-made cruise your way through this Navratri!

1. Prep your skin with an HD Face Primer - Clear. Skip the concealer and jump directly to the foundation. Dab on the Nykaa Sculpting & Hydrating Foundation and blend well for a flawless base.

2. Don’t forget your compact. It keeps your base intact and gives you a super matte finish. Go for the Nykaa SKINgenius Skin Perfecting & Hydrating Compact.

3. Now coming to your brows, pull out a tinted brow mascara. Using the brow mascara wand, apply 3-4 gentle strokes to keep the look understated.

4. Here’s letting you in on a superb beauty hack before you start on your lips. Dab some concealer on lips before applying lipstick to keep it in place.

5. To complement this majestic beauty look, go for some gorgeous nude lips to keep it classy. Opt for a caramel toffee lip colour.

Navratri, Day 2: Not-So-Mellow Yellow

This festive season, rebel and revel in the unexpected. With colour blocking making a comeback, mixing yellow and pink doesn’t seem all that outré anymore. Dare to give it a go?

1. Since the rest of your look ought to scream and shout, keep your base clean. Dab a face oil for a balmy texture. A hydrating day cream to plump your skin. Try a face oil and grapeseed hydrating spa water.

2. Prime your eyes and generously swipe a bold dash of yellow across your eyelids. Define eyes with eyeliner and mascara.

3. A nude lipstick will make you appear blanched. A loud pout (pink, mauve, red...) complements. You can go glossy in texture too.

4. Last, of all, polish your tiny bits with a gelnail polish in the shade yellow shock.

Navratri, Day 3: Go Green

Don’t shy away from colour this festive season. A thick swipe of green eyeshadow, is the snazziest new trick in town.

1. After grooming your brows, begin by layering an eye primer on your entire lid. This lets your eyeshadow last longer without budging.

2. Create a thick-winged eye until your crease lines with a shadow stick. Blend, blend, blend till it fades away. Smudge the shadow in your lower eyelid too.

3. Line your waterline and lash line with an eye pencil that matches your eyeshadow. Brown (not black) mascara will add a softness.

4. A matte nude lippie strikes a bold balance. Then, highlight or illuminate your upper cheekbones for high-shine or subtle radiance respectively.

Navratri, Day 4: The Grey Frenzy

Get the grey frenzy right this Navratri by recreating Aishwarya’s look.

1. Cleanse your skin and dab a base of liquid foundation for the perfect start.

2. Now swirl your brush round to highlight your cheekbones using a shimmer highlighter.

3. Time to get some smouldering eyes! Add a coat of diamonds eyeshadow and blend the product on your lids and the lower lash line.

4. Next up, use the volumising mascara - black for fuller, voluminous lashes.

5. Lavish your pout with a glossy tint in the shade rustic mirage. This gorgeous tint is going to last you all day long!

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Navratri, Day 5: Coral Crush

Go monotone with your festive beauty, this season. Just as Sonam Kapoor sports her fiery orange pout with a sun-kissed glow.

1. Prep your skin with a primer. Clear visible flaws with concealer and matte foundation.

2. Keep the eyes simple with a muted, brown shade on your lids, and quick strokes of highly-pigmented black mascara opens your eyes.

3. Angularly stroke an ombre blush on your apples for a youthful glow. While a cream blush adds dewiness.

4. Line your lip with a coral lip Liner before you fill them in with a matte lipstick in the shade orange vice. For an enhanced pigment, fill in your pout, smack your lips shut in a tissue and wipe off the colour. Now fill them in again. Do this for a budge-free stain that’ll last longer than your meal.

Navratri, Day 6: Swish Me White

Embrace the beauty of White this Navratri with a classic white-winged liner and how to pull off this daring beauty move without looking too over the top!

1. Start your base by smearing a clear face primer. Follow this up by dabbing HD photogenic concealer wand on your problem spots.

2. Complete your base with an illuminating liquid foundation, and blend evenly to achieve a stunning even tone base.

3. Pull out the bold eyeliner in White and make a neat winged liner and take it all the way your upper eyeliner.

4. Layer this lower section of your liner with the black magic liquid eyeliner and draw out two tiny sleek wings!

5. No festive look is complete without the magic of bronzer! Apply a baked bronzer on your cheekbones to get a punch of that dreamy bronzy hue.

6. Finish this look with a velvet matte lip pencil. Swipe this gorgeous pink stick on your lips and girl, you’ve got yourself some jaw-dropping matte lips to pout all day, all night!

Navratri, Day 7: Cherry Lips

Cherry lips for the woman of the mystery night. Let’s face it, you can’t go wrong with red. However, picking the right red is key. So, here’s how to get the most followed lip trend in beauty this Navratri right.

1. Dab on a primer and blend well to create the perfect canvas for your base makeup. Apply an HD concealer on dark patches and spots. Top this up by evenly blending a few drops of liquid foundation to achieve a smooth base.

2. Get your hands on a strobe highlighter and apply this miracle formula on the apple of your cheeks, nose line and chin to get that classic glow!

3. Before you start your lips, moisturise your lip base with a lip balm in shimmer to keep your lipstick from cracking and creasing.

4. For those yummy cherry lips, start by using it to accentuate your lip line. Fill this up with the highly pigmented lip crayon in a berry red shade.

5. To keep your making staying without budging, spritz on a finishing mist to keep your look intact. Bring on classic cherry lips and look like a super goddess this festive season.

Navratri, Day 8: The Sky Blue Muse

Look as sizzling as Sonakshi this Navratri by sporting this breathtaking Peacock Green shadow for a sensational ethnic punch!

1. Start by prepping your skin and eyes with a no-sebum blur primer. Naturally arch your brows

2. Moving to the winner of this look, pick up the green eyeshadow. Follow the shape of your eyelid with your brush and blend well on your eye pocket to achieve a stunning Peacock Green hue! Dab on some glittery shadow for some drama.

3. Sweep a bold dash of liquid eyeliner on your upper eyelid. And complement it with a mascara.

4. As for those rose-tinted cheeks? After clearing blemishes and imperfections, stroke a fine layer of a shimmer highlighter with an angular brush.

5. Lastly, a muted pout lets your eyeshadow stand out. So dab a nude lipstick and you are ready!

Navratri, Day 9: Pretty In Pink

This Navratri, let purple make a triumphant return. It’s all about leaving all your inhibitions behind and enjoying being the cynosure of all eyes.

1. Prepping your skin plays a major role before any makeup look. After you cleanse, tone and moisturise, start with a primer. Then choose your foundation shade and get blending! Use a setting powder to finish the perfect base.

2. Use a blush, bronze and brighten to bronze up your look. This baked formula blends perfectly, making you look radiant as ever!

3. Let the eyes be the focal point of the entire makeup look. Start with a layer of eye primer. Next up, use an eyeshadow in the shade whimsical, applying it across the entire lid from the lash line to just above the crease. The more you blend, the better the result. Stick on false lashes for added drama if you like.

4. Finish the look with a long wear matte lipstick

5. Spray a makeup extender to lock your makeup.

Happy dancing!

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