Before we know it, there’s only one week left until the Lunar New Year. Have you refreshed the beauty items in your makeup bag? ZTYLEZ has curated a list of the top 10 “Red Beauty” essentials. Grab these limited-edition items for the Year of the Snake and easily enhance your charm and luck in love. On the first day of the new year, use these tips to create a prosperous red makeup look and kick off a beautiful and lucky year ahead!
2025 New Year Makeup Key Point 1: Light, Natural, Long-lasting Base Makeup
In terms of base makeup, it should be lightweight and breathable while looking authentic and natural, but also pay attention to coverage and longevity to ensure a flawless look throughout the day and avoid awkward makeup breakdowns. The editor recommends using cushion foundation for a light and natural finish, which is also convenient for touch-ups on the go, creating a polished and radiant look!
The classic PARURE GOLD CUSHION reinterprets the popular 00N shade with the enchanting deep crimson compact, celebrating the mysterious and rejuvenating powers of the spirit serpent. Formulated with 24K gold ingredients, it creates a radiant matte complexion and offers a flawless long-lasting effect for 24 hours. The compact features a refillable design, showcasing a rich and varied woven texture of rare rose gold dual-tone fabric, adorned with luxurious gold thread embroidery that echoes the dazzling reflective scales of the serpent.
Combining luxury, practicality, and sustainability! The PRADA light-infused cushion foundation comes in four shades, with a formula that perfectly embodies the iconic qualities of Prada Re-Nylon regenerated nylon. Its lightweight and delicate texture provides a radiant glow, creating a weightless, dewy finish that refines pores and imperfections like a filter. With long-lasting wear of 24 hours without fading, it showcases a flawless and refined natural complexion, adding a touch of confident brilliance to your New Year look!
(Refill HK$425)
Nu Colour® Luminescent Double-layer Cushion Foundation features a lightweight concealer on the top layer that adheres seamlessly to create a naturally flawless complexion. The cushion foundation formula helps maintain skin hydration, ensuring long-lasting wear that feels fresh and non-greasy, showcasing a dewy, healthy glow. It provides a refreshed and vibrant base for your makeup, infusing energy and vitality into the new year!
2025 New Year Luck-Attracting Makeup Focus 2: Creating a Single-Ready Eye Look
With a long-lasting flawless base, the next step is to create a winning eye makeup look. Bright, captivating eyes are definitely a key to winning hearts and attracting romance! Focusing on earthy tones, embellished with peach, rose, and purple hues, your gaze will exude a soft charm, making eye contact feel more approachable and instantly bringing you good luck and romance!
This Lunar New Year, Shu Uemura’s limited edition New Year fan collection features a fan motif, symbolizing prosperity and happiness, making it the perfect gift to welcome the new year. The four-color limited edition eyeshadow palette combines softly saturated pink and brown shades, complemented by striking highlighter colors that accentuate a natural fan-shaped eye look for a 3D dimensional effect. Whether you’re visiting elders for a refined and elegant appearance, sparkling with elegance on a date, or looking chic and charming with friends, this palette has you covered!
Bobbi Brown’s limited edition Lunar New Year Moonlit Shimmer Eyeshadow Palette draws inspiration from the dazzling night sky illuminated by lanterns. Featuring a harmonious blend of warm browns and soft pink shimmers, it includes enchanting shades like light brown, pearl rose, peach, and brick red that exude a festive spirit. This palette is perfect for creating a striking peach blossom eye look, allowing you to shine brightly and showcase your captivating charm throughout the new year. It’s the ultimate secret weapon for your festive makeup!
MAKE UP FOR EVER’s brand new ARTIST TO GO Long-lasting Fusion Six-color Eyeshadow Palette brings together shimmering and matte shades. With a lightweight texture and a skin-fusion formula, the colors blend seamlessly and last longer. If you’re looking to boost your confidence and allure, consider the 808 Star Sand Wild Berry shade, which offers a delightful range from charming pinks and mysterious purples to practical browns. It makes it easy to create an elegant, ethereal New Year’s look, and it’s compact enough to fit in your clutch for effortless touch-ups while out and about!
2025 New Year Makeup Focus 3: Bringing a Soft Pink Glow to the Cheeks
Soft pastel pinks with low saturation, or a hint of coral peach on the cheeks, are most flattering, instantly enhancing your complexion while also providing a friendly, approachable vibe. It’s a casual yet clever trick to attract attention! In addition to applying on the cheeks, you can also lightly dab blush on the cheekbones and the bridge of the nose. Pair it with natural highlighting powders to give your facial contours a luminous and three-dimensional effect!
In the Year of the Snake, if you want to attract fortune and romance while adding a natural rosy glow to your cheeks, we recommend the new YSL Haute Couture Leather Cream Blush in the delicate soft rose shade N°06 Rose Haze. Inspired by the enchanting allure of the Saint Sulpice Church in Paris, this matte rose hue instantly brightens the cheeks, creating a naturally radiant makeup look to welcome good luck in the Year of the Snake with elegance and a healthy complexion!
YSL Beauty Haute Couture Leather Blush N°06 Rose Haze HK$465
Nars Amour limited edition blush, adorned with elegant heart-shaped packaging, is an essential makeup item for this New Year. With its Cherish 925 soft peachy pink shade, it naturally creates a flawless rosy glow, allowing your cheeks to bloom like flowers. Effortlessly radiate an endearing charm and boost your romantic luck for the new year!
2025 New Year Makeup Essentials 4: A Swipe of Confident Brightening “Red Lipstick”
During the New Year, you can’t miss a festive red lipstick to welcome the 2024 Lunar New Year with “red lips” – ensuring good luck flows abundantly! A swipe of red enhances your complexion, giving your overall makeup a confident charm. Wearing it instantly elevates your aura while still looking delightful, making your makeup pop and shine!
GIVENCHY debuts a snake skin pattern on lipstick for the first time in history, featuring high color intensity, a semi-matte finish, and an ultra-comfortable silky feel. The formula is rich in plant oils, ensuring long-lasting hydration for the lips. The brand’s new limited edition shade N331 for the 2025 Lunar New Year boasts a vibrant, lively, and bold reddish-brown hue, perfect for a confident look that welcomes the new year with a radiant glow!
HOURGLASS has launched the new PHANTOM VOLUMIZING GLOSSY BALM lip gloss series, featuring the iconic Red 0 lipstick. Crafted with the brand’s classic long-lasting red formula, this “most versatile red” adds a touch of luck and vibrant color to your New Year’s makeup, instantly brightening your complexion and elevating your overall look, transforming you into a radiant and confident presence!
HOURGLASS Phantom Volumizing Glossy Balm Red 0 HK$330