MAC Blackground Paint Pot and Intense Eye Look

If you check out my eye looks here in my blog, you'd notice that I'm not really into smokey eyes. I feel that my eyes become too harsh when I pile on too dark eyeshadow or liner. I finally got over my fear of crossing over to the "dark side" when I saw my Blackground paint pot languishing forlornly in my drawer, and I'd hate to see it go to waste. I used it as my base today and picked up a generous amount of MAC Forest Green pigment and placed on my lid. I then used my Shu Uemura ME Blue 638 eyeshadow and applied it on my inner to a little past the mid lid. I took the time blending as I wasn't used to blending really dark pigments. I then used Indelible gel liner in Magnetism with a thick eyeliner brush to make a not-so-fine line, then used MAC Delphic fluidline on the bottom lashline with MAC Teal pigment over it, then black mascara. I used Beige-ing shadestick above the crease to the browbone as a base and used MAC Lustreleaf eyeshadow to highlight.













Face:
Camellia Rose Skin Smoothing primer
Meow Purrfect Puss mineral foundation Naughty Angora mixed with Naughty Chartreux (50-50 mix)
Mary Kay undereye concealer in Ivory topped with
Bare Escentuals Well Rested
Bare Escentuals mineral veil
Laura Mercier illuminating powder quad in Rose Pink as blush
MAC Refined Golden bronzer to contour
MAC Pearl Blossom beauty powder over blush

Lips:
Rimmel 1000 Kisses stay-on lipliner in Wild Clover
Valerie Beauty mineral lipstick in Bonbon
MAC Backlit 3D glass

5 comments

Anonymous said...

Hey! I just stumbled on to your page on Specktra, and I'm currently readin past post and I love it! Keep it up :)

I love this look, the blues look very good on you

The Shades Of U said...

Aww thanks kyarorain! I'm still learning (as I said I'm not a professional MA), but thank you for the kind words! :)

Anonymous said...

Since you seem to be the know it all when it comes to mineral foundation, I'd like to ask for some shade advice.

I see that you in Meow Cosmetics use the colors Naughty & Frisky MAnz, which is what I think I'd wear.

I'm NC30 in MAC, and Medium Beige in BE, so my question is, what shade do you think I'd be in everyday minerals? I mean since we seem to have around the same coloring (I'm half asian)

The Shades Of U said...

I would suggest try the Light Winged Butter of Everyday Minerals; I've heard a lot of girls my coloring wear that shade in EM. Goodluck!

Jody said...

Pretty!