How to do neon festival make-up - without harming your skin

ByMichelle Roberts

Digital wellness editor

Festival season's present and neon make-up is everywhere.

Bright graphic eyeliner, vampy lips and holographic highlighter are immoderate of this year's biggest quality trends for the main stage.

But immoderate of these make-up products, which are being sold by third-party sellers connected online marketplaces specified arsenic TikTok Shop, tin incorporate a big of toxic chemicals, warns the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, external.

So here's what to look retired for – and however to enactment harmless portion serving festival glam.

How to get the look: Dominic Skinner, make-up creator and justice connected the deed BBC amusement Glow Up, came into the BBC's London offices to amusement america however to execute the cleanable festival look and marque it creation and party-proof.

If you privation colours to "pop", helium says usage a achromatic oculus pencil connected the tegument archetypal and past property agleam eyeshadows connected top.

"It volition marque bold colours much intense, and past each night."

What to beryllium alert of: Banned ingredients tin origin atrocious rashes and allergic reactions, truthful cheque the statement and debar products that accidental they're "not for cosmetic use" - adjacent if they accidental they're for the skin.

Also look retired for banned colourants, similar Solvent Yellow 172, CI 45161 (Basic Red 1:1) and CI 45174 (Basic Violet 11:1).

Be cautious of inexpensive products oregon sellers you've ne'er heard of, says Skinner.

"There are immoderate items that are UV reflective, glow-in-the-dark oregon neon that are made by cosmetics brands but are softly labelled arsenic a 'non-cosmetic paint'," helium adds.

How to get the look: Fairycore-inspired make-up is in, which means sparkles, look gems and glitter.

Don't spell for subtle, says Skinner. "The 'no make-up look' is gone. Clean miss is out!"

There's a child-like prime to festival make-up, helium says, truthful clasp it - deliberation playful colour and crystals.

To basal out, helium suggests utilizing glitter successful hairsbreadth partings oregon your shoulders.

"Personally, I accidental usage gems arsenic they're bigger and much impactful, positive you tin peel them disconnected astatine the extremity of nighttime and reuse them successful the morning."

What to beryllium alert of: Skip adjacent the eyes to debar nasty scratches connected your cornea, says the British Skin Foundation's Dr Emma Wedgeworth, and ne'er usage trade glitter.

Use biodegradable, eco-friendly products that are amended for the situation and softer connected the skin. Safe adhesives, similar lash glue, volition support it successful place.

How to get the look: Vogue says 2026 is each astir juicy and blurred lips, external that play with texture much than colour. Think "your-lips-but-better", utilizing stains and glosses.

InStyle mag recommends dramatic, acheronian reddish vampy lips, external arsenic a breakaway from summer-friendly pinks and peaches.

Use a liquid articulator product, Skinner says, due to the fact that it won't budge.

"You tin bash immoderate drinking, you tin bash immoderate snogging."

And helium says permission that articulator liner until past - it'll conscionable "highlight however wonky your drafting skills are". Colour first, liner later.

What to beryllium alert of: Whatever your look, don't stock your balm oregon lipstick. That tin dispersed nasty infections similar acold sores.

Cross-contamination is real, and wherefore make-up artists sanitise everything successful betwixt clients.

Use high-protection sunscreen - astatine slightest SPF 30 - arsenic a basal earlier the make-up and fto it soak successful similar immoderate primer, says Wedgeworth.

Skinner recommends matte oregon sweat-proof SPF to assistance your make-up past longer.

Reapply passim the day, astatine slightest each 2 hours. Don't hide your hairline and immoderate partings to support your scalp.

Sprays fto you furniture implicit make-up, but tin beryllium hard to use thickly enough, truthful instrumentality shadiness breaks and bring a large chapeau for other protection, says Wedgeworth.

How to get the look: Who, What, Wear, external says deliberation astir accessories - scarfs, crochet beanie caps oregon eye-catching hairsbreadth clips, charms oregon cuffs.

InStyle, external suggests Mermaid waves oregon bladed Baby Braids if your hairsbreadth is agelong enough.

What to beryllium alert of: If you privation a colour alteration with a spray oregon dye, bash a spot trial archetypal to cheque you are not allergic.

Put a tiny magnitude down your receptor oregon connected your limb and hold 24 to 48 hours to cheque for a reaction, says Wedgeworth.

Skinner says you astir apt already ain products that tin springiness you a festival look.

"You conscionable person to deliberation creatively astir however to play with it."