Paradise Colors: Summer-inspired Eye look
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It’s time to jazz things up with some brighter colors, inspired by the runways. I’m doing a tropical-paradise color scheme, with lush emerald green, rich brown, and a glowing turquoise.
You will also need a brown pencil for definition and an aqua/turquoise (optional) colored pencil to echo the blue on the waterline.
I used Coastal Scents Hot Pots on the lids and Bourjois pencils, but do use any alternatives you have. You can do a look with similar colors; they don’t need to be identical.
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Step 1: Instead of following the color-wheel (blue, green, brown), I wanted a little extra contrast by putting the brightest color in the center of the lid, where it will pop against the dark brown.
Apply along the inner 1/3 of the lower lash line as well.
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Step 2: Pick up the bright aqua or blue and pack it down the center of the lid. Don’t blend it out too much as you want the color to be quite intense.
Apply the same along the center portion of the lower lash line.
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Step 3: Pack the dark brown into the outer 1/3 of the lids, and then gently run it inwards along the socket line, until you reach about the center of the lids, above the bright aqua.
As before, run the dark brown along the outer 1/3 of your lower lash lines to finish.
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Step 4: Here’s the fun part. Run a brown pencil along the upper lash line for definition and some extra contrast against the aqua blue.
On the lower lash line, I actually used a bright turquoise blue pencil (Bourjois 54 Bleu Clinquant) to match and intensify it.
Then I finished with black mascara.
A pair of sexiness on my feet #shoes #shoegame #shoegasm #tattoo #fashion #wedges (Taken with Instagram)
Pistachio: Green, Amber and Brown Tutorial
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I’m featuring a slightly less dramatic and more wearable green in this look. Instead of blue-based greens, gold-toned greens and limes tend to be more subtle, so look out for shades with a bit of yellow, like NYX’s roll on eye shimmer in Olive. I used I Nuovi’s Moss, which might be a bit harder to locate for most of you outside of Asia.
You’ll also need a very warm amber-gold (almost like a light golden bronze; try NYX Golden shadow) and a richer chocolate brown like NYX’s Walnut.
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Step 1: First, pack the golden green to the inner 2/3 of the lids.
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Step 2: Just outside of the center, apply the amber gold, blending lightly into the green so there are no harsh lines. This is going to be the “Transition” shade between the green and the brown.
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Step 3: Finish with a richer brown right in the outer corners. The green should take up the majority of the lid, with the amber and brown sharing the outer half.
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Step 4: Finish by using a plum or dark brown pencil to line the outer half of the lash lines just for extra definition. I used Rimmel Exaggerate Eye Definer in 220 Perfect Plum.
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Step 5: Finish the look with black mascara and that’s it!
Coastal Scents Blue-Red Chrome Mica: MAC Cornflower Pigment Dupe?
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As you can see from the swatches, not really. BUT if you’ve ever wished that MAC’s Cornflower was a little stronger, finer-grained, and looked as duochrome on the lid as it does in the bottle, then this actually performs better for a whole lot less.
The only thing you need to watch out for is to wear a good base or primer on your lids, because pure micas don’t stick very well and can fade or dust off quickly. This shade is no different.
Here’s a close-up of the 2 swatches over a clear base. (Both pigments don’t stick all that well.) As you can see, MAC Cornflower goes on blue with just the faintest trace of violet overtone, but once it’s swatched next to Blue-Red Chrome, it looks flat-out periwinkle blue. Blue-Red Chrome on the other hand, shifts very beautifully between blue and a mauve-violet. Over a dark base, the reddened violet tones come out stronger. Over skin tones, the smoky blue is more apparent.
For about $1 a sample baggie, this is again something I would recommend you check out OVER a MAC pigment.
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Step 1: I applied a dark blue pencil (MAC Blooz Kohl) along the lash line and diagonally up across the upper lid almost like a wing, but not extending much past the outer corners. This will serve as a dark base, which is ALWAYS a great way to bring out duochrome colors.
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Step 2: Use your fingers to just lightly smudge and smoke the outer edges.
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Step 3: Using a flat shadow brush so I can minimize fallout, I packed the pigment over the entire lid, from inner to outer corners, up to the socket line. Then I ran the brush along the lower lash line as well.
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Step 4: Just curl lashes and apply mascara to finish!
