Today I had a play around with purple eyeshadow. As you can probably tell from my recent posts, I'm trying out some new things and trying to steer away from just wearing brown eyeshadow.
This isn't a difficult look, clearly, but it is in quite a lot of steps, so stick with me if you want to try something similar.
So, I used MUA eyeshadows, however, I'm not going to talk about specific shades from that particular brand. I'm just going to talk about colours so that you can recreate this look using whatever brand you have - just to make it more accessible.
To begin with, use a concealer all over your lid and up to the brow bone, as well as underneath your eye. This will even out the skintone and cover any dark circles (I get them really bad!).
Next you want to take a pale colour - a white or beige, mine was a beige with hues of gold in it - and apply this to the entire lid, up to the brown bone and into the inner corner of the eye as a highlight.
Then, take a fairly light pink/purple shadow and apply this to the entire lid.
Apply a bright purple to the outer corner of the lid and slightly into the crease.
Blend these two colours together using a clean blending brush.
Then, you want to take a medium brown and apply just above the purple that you applied to the crease, taking it all the way along the crease. Over this, you want to apply a dark brown. Repeat this entire step along the lower lash line, very softly.
Blend the brown with the purple using your clean brush.
Add a small amount of black shadow to the crease, but remember to blend this really well. Just use the black half way along the crease - leave the inner third of the crease. Blend, blend, blend!
Then, mixing a browny purple and the dark brown from before, apply this to the lid. This is the point where you can decide how much purply shading you want in your look. If you want it more purple, use more of the purple shadow and vice versa.
Finish off with a final blend, line your lashes with a gel eye liner, line your tight and water lines with a kohl eyepencil and finish off with lashings of mascara on your top and bottom lashes.
Done!
Hope you liked this look!
IOTD - Diane Kruger. I watched Inglourios Basterds last night and although I actually didn't like the film (I thought it was a bit slow. DON'T watch it if you don't like gore! There's lots of blood!), I think she is beautiful! I'm hoping to do a hair tutorial based on hers during the film fairly soon - so keep your eyes peeled for that!
SOTD - Rebel, Rebel by David Bowie
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