Check out Nicole’s Holiday Beauty Looks in the exclusive editorial on Byrdie.com.

Nicole Richie’s as well known for her sense of humor—please tell us you’re watching her AOL Series, Candidly Nicole— as her style skills, but we put her to the beauty test when she showed up to Byrdie’s studio. Would she, with the help of makeup artist Lauren Andersen and hairstylist Andy Lecompte, turn some of our favorite runway looks party ready? With pleasure.

Richie, who’s dipped her toe in the beauty game with the eponymous fragrance she released last year, was up for anything. Sporting dramatic dresses from Wes Gordon and Anthony Vacarello, her own House of Harlow jewels, and everything from a purple stained lip to bronzed eyebrows she modeled winning party looks, above.

This wonderful photoshoot for Byrdie is by Justin Coit.