Surprise, surprise! Hailey Bieber has dropped another instantly viral beauty look right in time for the silly season. And unlike the typical festive makeup trends, we love how universal this one can be. No matter which hemisphere you sit in, this ‘Sugar Plum Fairy’ look (as Bieber has called it) will suit your holiday season.
A sweeter iteration of TikTok’s ‘Cold Girl’ makeup, this look, according to her caption, is Bieber’s elevated take on the costume she wore when portraying the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker when she was 16. Glossy, blushed and packed with shimmer, the Sugar Plum Fairy Girl is a fun but neutral accompaniment to any festive fit, no matter your style.
But that’s not even the best part. No, the primary appeal of this look is just how easy it is to replicate.
As Bieber kindly demonstrates on her TikTok, the low-touch process involves products you likely already have in your beauty arsenal.
Starting with a ‘your-skin-but-better’ base, Bieber dabs on a minimal amount of concealer—she’s noted being a big fan of the Kosas Revealer Concealer—under her eyes and blends it in with Saie’s ‘The Double’ brush. Though it’s not shown on camera whether she reaches for another base product, she does look to blend in more coverage around her cheeks.
Bieber then goes in with a light bronzer for a natural contour before tapping on some cream blush with her fingers, bringing it up to the outer corners of her eyes. And because blush is a focal point of this look, the Rhode Beauty founder layers on powder blush over the top, using this as a base of her eyeshadow as well with the Hourglass Veil Powder Brush.
The eyes are where the fun is at. Naturally, for a Sugar Plum Fairy vibe, Bieber taps on some light powder shimmer to begin with and blends some bronzer into her crease for depth. From there, she goes in with a balmy gloss on the lids to provide a dewy base for, you guessed it, more shimmer. For a natural, fluffed-up effect, she skips the pencils and powder to simply brush up her brows with the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Gel.
The model returns to her base to indulge in some highlighter, which she taps onto the high points of her cheeks and the tip of her nose. She achieves a no-makeup effect with some faux freckles that she creates with the Beaubble & Rubi Berry Freckled Pen.
On her trademark pout, she slightly overdraws a lipline with MAC’s Lip Liner in ‘Cork’ before adding the pièce de résistance of this look: the new Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment in ‘Jelly Bean’, a sparkly baby pink gloss that she released as a birthday special on November 22nd. Though it’s not available in Australia yet, we have plenty of dupe options.
She polishes it all off with a healthy dose of MAC’s Extended Play Mascara to open the eyes before showing off the final look.
While we’re still partial to her ‘glazed’ and ‘strawberry’ beauty looks, Sugar Plum Fairy may just be our favourite TikTok trend of the season.
Watch Hailey Bieber’s step-by-step tutorial on Sugar Plum Fairy makeup below.
@haileybieber when I was 16 I was the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker.. this is my 2023 version of that makeup. My go to vibe for the holiday season! 🍬✨
