Shanghai Chic by Day and Evening Looks

Double the fun if you celebrate the Chinese New Lunar Year, when it’s customary to visit family homes, dress in red (a symbol of joy, good luck and fortune) and give children money in beautiful red envelopes. Of course, it’s all the better to ring in the New Year with a pretty face, and so we found ourselves at Lancôme’s studio asking the make-up experts for two Shanghai Chic-inspired looks, one to help celebrate by day and the other by night.

Want to know how you can duplicate these looks at home? Lancôme’s National Make-Up Artist, Lara Srokowski, set to work on our Founder Carrie Kwan to create each Shanghai-inspired look and filled us in on the exact technique.

How to Video: Create the Shanghai Chic – Day Eyes Look

The first look – Shanghai Chic (day eyes), while understated gave us serious case of good things heading our way in the coming year.

Lara tells us, “Lancôme’s Hypnôse Doll Eyes palette lets you create a range of looks for eyes that look larger and more luminous with a fresh, natural glow.” The key here is to emphasise your eyes with Artliner, an easy-to-handle, liquid pen featuring a uniquely shaped foam tip that lets you line, shape and define eyes to create any look you like.

How to Video: Create your Shanghai Chic – Dramatic Evening Eyes Look

The second look ups the glamour voltage. Using shades from Lancôme’s ST4 Gris fume Hypnôse eye palette, we were shown how to work the shimmery, champagne-y shades to highlight eyes, while concentrating charcoal coloured shadow towards the corner and lashline. The key here is using eye shadow dry for blending (be patient and build colour) and using it wet for deeper colour intensity.

Finish with Hypnôse Star mascara and you’ve got yourself longer, thicker-looking lashes and show-stopping eyes.