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8 Day-to-Night Holiday Makeup Looks That Take 5 Minutes or Less

Give your daytime makeup a festive upgrade with these easy-to-copy holiday looks

by Allie Flinn | COMMENT

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It's a (no-so) scientific fact that -- from cookie exchanges to work parties to New Year's Eve toasts -- social engagements increase 1,000 percent around the holidays. It's also a fact (of life) that work can put a serious damper on getting ready for said engagements. After all, the sparkly holiday eye makeup we're donning for our friend's holiday party probably isn't going to fly at the office.

So we called upon Urban Decay Lead Artist Amanda Rodriguez to show us how to take our normal, everyday office makeup and transform it into something worthy of wearing under the mistletoe. The catch: She could only use products that we'd reasonably carry in our purse, and it had to be something we could pull of reasonably quickly at our desk.

For the challenge, our editors showed up to work wearing their usual daytime makeup. Rodriguez then built up each look with a festive holiday flair. Here, nine gorgeous, desk-to-dusk holiday makeup looks -- plus, how to recreate them.

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