How to Create an Ethereal Beauty Makeup Look

Hydrated, Luminous Skin

To ensure that signature ethereal glow, start with a hydrating skincare routine. After cleansing and toning, apply a hydrating serum or essence – we recommend Advanced Génifique Face Serum for its silky, light-weight texture that quickly absorbs into the skin like a drink of water. Follow with your favorite brightening serum to give skin that otherworldly radiance. Clarifique Pro-Solution Serum includes 10% PHA (polyhydroxy acid) combined with niacinamide for visibly bright, even skin. Complete your skincare routine with our 3-in-1 primer, moisturizer, and sunscreen, UV Expert Defense SPF 50+ Primer & Moisturizer for a protected and perfected makeup base.

A Smooth and Dewy Complexion

To achieve a smooth and dewy complexion, reach for a makeup base with hydration benefits, like a natural glowy foundation or a luminous skin tint, to help bring out your most radiant complexion. Apply and blend with the warmth of your fingers to melt the formula into your skin for a natural ‘skin-like’ finish.

MUA TIP: If you prefer an ultra-smooth blurred look, apply your favorite face primer, like our Priming Serum before face makeup to blur and minimize the look of pores, plus help improve makeup staying time. You can also wear this makeup primer alone for a soft, blurred look.

Ethereal Eye Makeup with Matte & Shimmery Eyeshadow

For ethereal beauty makeup, your eyes are the shining star. Play with your eye shape, colors, and finishes to create your look. To do this, use a versatile makeup product, like our Idôle Tint Liquid Eyeshadow & Eyeliner which comes equipped with a 2-sided applicator to apply smudge-resistant, buildable colors as eyeshadow and as eyeliner. Try a round shape, like doe eyes, or more angular, like a snatched fox eye. You can also lean into the natural eye space you have and try a graphic eye makeup look with eyeliner. Put dark shades aside and opt for softly pigmented rosy, peach, lilacs, and neutral colors to create a romantic feel. Shimmery eyeshadow or a wet glossy finish adds ethereal enchantment, while a matte finish plays up the pillowy softness of a look.

Lifted, Feathery Lashes

Wispy, fanned-out lashes add an airy and romantic effect to the eyes. Use your favorite lifting or lengthening mascaras, like Lash Idôle Mascara or Lash Idôle Flutter Extension Mascara, to achieve this.

Lash Idôle Mascara has a lightweight gel formula that doesn't weigh on lashes, leaving them feathery soft and defying gravity without flaking or smudging. Apply to top and bottom lashes, then layer a few coats of Lash Idôle Flutter Extension Mascara to add up to 75% visible length to your lashes. You can also apply Flutter Extension Mascara alone for long, separated, multiplied lashes.

Rosy Cheeks Using Soft-Toned Blush

Blush is applied to give a natural flush to the cheeks and the bridge of the nose, playing up the softness – and cuteness! – of the look. Pinks, nudes, and mauves are recommended to create rosy cheeks and enhance the overall ethereal aesthetic. Grab a blush, or to scale back on products used, grab a multi-use lipstick, we recommend L'Absolu Rouge Intimatte Soft Matte Lipstick blushing nude lip colors and apply as blush. The lightweight pigments and added ceramides make this formula ideal for comfortable lip and cheek application.

MUA Tip: After creating your ethereal eye look, use the same shade of Idôle Tint Liquid Eyeshadow & Eyeliner on the cheeks to create a monochromatic makeup look. First, warm the formula on the back of your hand and apply it with a brush, or apply a few dots directly onto cheeks and blend with your finger or brush.

All-Over Shimmery Highlights

With ethereal beauty makeup, it’s all about the delicate details. Shimmery highlights are encouraged on the eyes and the face, just enough for a whimsical effect. When applying highlights to the face, use intentional and precise placements to avoid an unnatural or metallic look to the skin.

Take our multi-use, shimmery liquid eyeshadow, Idôle Tint in shade 01 Sunburst, or one of our five powder highlighter shades from Teint Idole Ultra Wear, and apply product to the high points of cheeks, tip of the nose, and rub any excess onto the cupid’s bow for otherworldly radiance.

Softly Pigmented, Neutral Lip Colors

Lips are often kept in soft neutral shades for the ethereal beauty look. You can use the same shade of Intimatte Soft-Matte Lipstick used as blush earlier for an ethereal beauty lip look. Keep lips soft and powdery or top lips with a shiny balm or gloss to add a touch of luminosity. Glide on your favorite balm or gloss, like Lancôme's Lip Idôle Squalane-12 Butterglow™ Hydrating Lip Balm for non-sticky shine, or our classic Juicy Tubes Lip Gloss for a high-shine, cushiony finish.

Recreate Emma Chamberlain’s Ethereal Makeup Look

SKIN
Advanced Génifique Face Serum
UV Expert Defense SPF 50+ Primer & Moisturizer

EYES
Idôle Tint in shade 06 Canyon Clay
Idôle Tint in shade 01 Sunburst
Booster XL Enhancing Lash & Mascara Primer
Lash Idôle Mascara

FACE
Teint Idole Ultra Wear Care & Glow Serum Foundation
Teint Idole Ultra Wear Care & Glow Serum Concealer
Idôle Tint in shade 07 Earth Red worn on the cheeks
Idôle Tint in shade 01 Sunburst worn as a highlighter

LIPS
Juicy Tubes Lip Gloss in clear shade 01 Pure