Don’t ask me why this never occurred to me before, since you understand I like streamlining, however today I used the exact same shade of eyeshadow as a lid color as well as a liner color, as well as WHOOP-WHOOP! — my world is permanently changed.
Do you ever do this? since if you do, you’re officially a genius.
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There’s a dark matte teal in the new metropolitan Decay naked Wild West palette, as well as that’s what influenced me to try it.
I desired some contrast between the lid color as well as liner, so I started by applying the lid shadow with a flat eyeshadow brush. Next, I buffed out the edges with a clean domed shadow brush, then mixed a couple of warm matte browns into my crease to soften the edges.
After that, to amplify the intensity of the liner, I wet an angled clean with MAC Fix+, packed it with the teal shadow, as well as lined my upper upper as well as lower lash lines. I kept the upper lash line crisp as well as buffed out the lower lash line for just a whisper of color…
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I truly like the harmony between the lid as well as liner colors, as well as there’s likewise a slight gradient affect!
I’m going to try it once again in the near future, however not with this precise exact same shade of teal since it’s a bit patchy…
It’s been a minute since I’ve used vibrant smokey eyes, as well as I figured out one of the reasons for this while I was doing this makeup — the shape of my eyes has altered so much in the last year, as well as that’s made doing appears like this a bit more difficult to do.
Ya know…it’s just time doing its thang. Plus, the stress of the pandemic. *shrugs*
So what do we do? We adjust, right?
I feel like vibrant shadow generally looks much better on me when I keep the color lower on my lids as well as don’t go as well far out in the outer corners… Took me a while to figure this out, however eh, much better late than never!
Gosh, I desire makeup magazines talked about this more — exactly how the shape of your deal with modifications as you get older. It feels like I’m relearning whatever as well as starting from scratch. I mean, I understood this was coming, however I don’t feel like I was provided an adequate heads-up, LOL!
Makeup used in this look
BASE: metropolitan Decay stay naked Hydromaniac tinted moisturizer in 50 mixed with Lancome Skin feels great in Tan set with MAC Mineralize Skinfinish natural in medium Golden
EYES: metropolitan Decay naked Wild West shadows in Standoff (base), nude as well as Ghost town (crease), Whiskey (outer third), Tex (lids as well as lash lines)
CHEEKS: Chanel No. 22 cream blush
LIPS: Origins Coral Daisy sheer lipstick
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Your friendly community beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. TGIF!