Face as Canvas: 6 Fun Makeup Looks To Explore This Pride Month
Thinking of ways to freely express yourself? These looks, which range in color, sparkle and mood, show you can paint it on your face.
Loud and flamboyant at best, too much at worst, these are just some words often said about the LGBT community. But here’s the thing: many people fail to scratch beneath the surface to understand the depth of who we really are. The truth is, queerness is diverse. It has no single look or personality. The community is a spectrum of identities and expressions that continue to redefine what it means to exist.
In beauty, this shows up as freedom. Queer joy is the freedom to love all things, whether soft or bold, subtle or maximalist without contradiction. As beauty takes shape in various forms, colors, and sizes, we must make space for all of these expressions to exist.
This Pride Month, Allure Philippines honors the rich, vibrant culture of this worldwide crusade. We believe every face can be a canvas for color, truth, and even become a powerful medium for self expression with zero apologies. Here are six makeup looks that can inspire you to show up and go out as your most authentic self.
Think pink
Feminine, soft, yet effortlessly versatile, pink is a color you can put anywhere on your face. Take it from Trans Filipina beauty queen Fuschia Anne Ravena, who made it to the Top 18 of Miss Grand International All Stars 2026, she shows that the color of a rose suits not just her name but her look as well. You can recreate makeup artist Scarlet Tumalon’s coronation night–ready look for Ravena with precisely shaped brows, a warm cut-crease eye look, and soft, cool pink blush swept across the apples of the cheeks, paired with mauve pink glossy lips.
Purple reign
For those leaning into something cool and unexpected, go purple. Makeup artist Miz Raffy created a dramatic makeup look for content creator Rosie Gaerlan through glittery metallic purple eyeshadow, made more dramatic with a smokey eye finish. If you want more sparkle, add rhinestones on the crease of the eyes. To make the eye look the star of the show, make the blush and lips closer to your natural skin tone, you can simply add dimension with shadow-lined lips as seen on Gaerlan.
Masquerading in technicolor
Can’t choose between the cute colors of your makeup palette? Get inspired by content creator Dom.skii, who used all the colors of the rainbow. He used the Painted.co Artistry Canvas Palette for the gradient hues on his eyes that extend beyond the lids, spilling onto the high points of the cheeks and down from the inner corner of the eyes. Dom.skii pared the look down with a pout that leans more into shine than color.
Too cool for summer
With hot weather still prominent this June in the Philippines, cool things down with a makeup look that’s blue and frosty. Trans Filipina model Justine Llarena painted her eyes in matte baby blue eyeshadow with the Cheeryep Natural Star Eyeshadow Palette. To make the look a contrast not just of colors, but also moods, imitate Llarena’s warm blush seemingly placed in a W-blush style. Add more depth to the lip look with glossy lips paired with a darker liner.
Viva magenta!
Make your presence felt with a makeup look that reads fabulous even at a distance. Take a look at model Stef’s iridescent glam made by makeup artist Raffy So. Whichever way you turn, people will stare at this eye-catching luminous magenta blush placement and intense highlight. Bring the same bright shade to the color of your lashes and your lips. If that’s not enough, you can add subtle shades of blue and green on the lids just like Stef.
Long live punk
Torn between playing it cute in colors or going rebellious in punk? Canadian makeup artist Maddy shows you don’t have to pick one. She used the Makeup A Murder pastel liquid shadows, Poison highlighter, and the Mehron Makeup paints palette to create an eye look that melts in all the hues of the rainbow, but with added whimsy from painted stars that line the eyes and temples. Turn things around with black-lined lips for a look that is equal parts sweet and daring.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Pride Month makeup looks from Filipino queer creators and MUAs range from a soft pink cut-crease with mauve lips to metallic purple smokey eyes with rhinestones, a full rainbow gradient eye extending onto the cheeks, baby blue eyeshadow with warm blush, iridescent magenta blush with highlighted lashes, and a pastel rainbow-goth hybrid with black-lined lips.
To achieve a rainbow gradient eye look, use a multi-pan artistry palette with adjacent color placement across the lids, extending the gradient beyond the crease onto the high points of the cheeks and downward from the inner eye corner. Keep the lips minimal — a sheer gloss over your natural lip color balances the intensity of the eye placement.
For deeper and morena skin tones, iridescent and metallic finishes — particularly in magenta, purple, and warm pink — show up with strong color payoff. Products referenced in Filipino queer creator looks include the Painted.co Artistry Canvas Palette, Cheeryep Natural Star Eyeshadow Palette, Makeup A Murder pastel liquid shadows, and Mehron Makeup paints palette for vibrant, buildable color.
Anchor bold eye looks by keeping the rest of the face close to your natural skin tone. For an intense metallic or glitter eye, use a blush and lip shade that reads as a skin-tone-adjacent neutral. Shadow-lined lips — where lip liner slightly darkens the outer edge — add dimension without competing with the eye look.
Start with a monochromatic pink look: shaped brows, a warm cut-crease in a single eyeshadow shade, soft cool-toned blush on the apples of the cheeks, and a glossy mauve lip. This approach requires minimal products, blends forgivingly, and can be adapted across a wide range of skin tones by adjusting the pink’s warmth or coolness.
