Dark Smokey Sparkly Green Eyes using MAC

Hello glamies!!

Well, this look certainly can't get any smokier. I seriously went insane and made it so smokey and dramatic. What I love about it is that it isn't your typical smokey eye, it's a dark green smokey eye that just looks stunning. I know I did a similar look on my mom, but I changed up mine completely and it looks awesome. I've only recently discovered MAC's Mineralize Eyeshadow line but I am hooked. I love love love the sparkle payoff and the fact that it actually sticks to the skin when used with a proper base. I find a lot of sparkle shadows just end up falling down and no sparkles actually stick to the eyelid. No such problems with Mineralize Eyeshadows!! Just make sure you use MAC's Paint Pots beforehand, they really make a big difference in creating a sticky base that your eyeshadow and sparkles will adhere to. Since I started using Paint Pots in the last month, I've noticed a dramatic increase. I can wear my makeup longer without it creasing!! And the color stays vibrant and as sparkly as it did upon application. I used to use Too Faced's Shadow Insurance, but I find that for anything with sparkles, you need a stronger, stickier base for it to adhere to. I also tried using Shadow Insurance before applying my Paint Pot, but I found that it made it worse! I'm guessing because it ends up slipping all over the eye?? But since I started using Paint Pots as my sole primer, I've seen a huge difference. I tend to have watery eyes and my makeup always comes off in my inner corner and going up along into the crease. Today, after 12 hours of wear, the tiniest bit of makeup in my inner corner came off. Not bad considering my lids. I'll stop rambling and get onto the look, but seriously, I love those 2 products.

Now, the trick to this look is blending. You can never blend too much.

As a sidenote, my mom went and bought some makeup for herself which I ended up stealing. She got the MAC Illustrated Face Kit by Rebecca Moses in Plum. So jeals! If I had to pick between the plum and the brown I would definitely take the plum. I found the colors were much better and also more suited to me. In this kit you get 4 eyeshadows, 1 blush, 2 lipsticks, and a double-ended brush. I'll post pics of it in an upcoming tutorial. I can't wait to use it!! She also got a couple lipsticks, I know one of them is Pervette which is her favorite lipstick ever. She got me an eyeshadow, Plumage, which is such a beautiful green. She also got Ricepaper and Sketch because she wanted to try out a look to bring out the green in her hazel eyes. She'd be using those 2 and Fig.1 which I already have. They're being housed in my palette of course. She also got me another 217 brush!! I knew mine was mangled but holy crap when I put the two together, mine was clearly shorter and fatter.Oh well, I'm still keeping it because I wanted to have two to use at the same time. She also went to Illamasqua and bought the lipgloss I was dying to buy. For herself. She kills me sometimes. It's an Intense Lipgloss in Divine. It's a bright almost neon pink and it looks bad ass. And anyways, onto the makeup look!


Dark Smokey Sparkly Green Eyes using MAC

Start by applying a dark base, I like MAC Paint Pot in Blackground because it's sticky enough for the sparkles and color from the Mineralize Eyeshadow in Smutty Green to stick on and stay the whole day. Apply this base to the lid and crease using a large shadow brush (Sephora PRO Large Shadow Brush) and make sure you get the inner corner. Take a blending brush (Sephora PRO Crease Brush) and blend out your crease. Keep blending until there are no harsh lines. If you have to, go back in and put more Blackground on your lid if it faded during blending. Again, if you get a harsh line, blend it out gently. Now take Mineralize Eyeshadow in Smutty Green and pat it onto your lid using a medium shadow brush (Sephora PRO Medium Shadow Brush). Take a blending or crease brush (MAC 217) and apply MAC Eyeshadow in Greensmoke to your crease and bring it into your inner corner. Next take MAC Eyeshadow in Vex, and using a small shadow brush (Sephora Collection All Over Shadow Brush), apply this under your brow and bring it into the corner of your eye and also use it so blend out Greensmoke. I like to go back in and blend Greensmoke again and also apply another coat of Smutty Green on my lid to make it more sparkly. For the bottom lid, I lined it with MAC Pearlglide Intense Eye Liner in Undercurrent and then I went over that with MAC Mineralize Eyeshadow in Smutty Green. I lined both top and bottom waterlines with Too Faced Perfect Eyes in Perfect Black for an extra black waterline. Finish your eyes off with a couple coats of MAC Zoom Fast Black Lash in Black. For your brows, use Benefit Brow Zings and Benefit Instant Brow Pencil to fill in your brows and create a dramatic arch so people are drawn into your captivating eyes.

Now it's time to do the rest of your face. Prime your face using Too Faced Primed and Poreless. Cover up your under eye circles with MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20 using a concealer brush (Sephora PRO Concealer Brush) and apply a foundation such as MUFE HD Foundation with a stippling brush (Sephora PRO Stippling Brush) or your method of choice. Go over any imperfections with MAC Studio Finish Concealer. Once you're happy, apply MUFE HD Powder all over your face using a kabuki brush (MUFE HD Kabuki). To contour, I used Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless with a folded powder brush (Sephora Collection Powder Brush). Suck in your cheeks as a guideline and go from the top of the ear towards the upper mouth. Also contour the perimeter of the face, the temples, the sides of the nose, etc. Apply Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph and a blush brush (Too Faced Powder Pouf) to the apples of your cheek and blend outwards as well as down into the contour. Apply a highlight, like Benefit High Beam, to the tops of your cheekbones, top of your brow bones, cupid's bow, etc. The finishing touch is to apply Illamasqua Lipstick in Plunge.

Eyes:

MAC Paint Pot in Blackground
MAC Mineralize Eyeshadow in Smutty Green
MAC Eyeshadow in Greensmoke
MAC Eyeshadow in Vex
Too Faced Perfect Eyes in Perfect Black
MAC Pearlglide Intense Eye Liner in Undercurrent
MAC Zoom Fast Black Lash in Black

Brows

Benefit Brow Zings in Light
Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium

Face:

Too Faced Primed and Poreless
MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20
MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20
MUFE HD Foundation in 110
MUFE HD Powder
Benefit High Beam
Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Lips:

Illamasqua Lipstick in Plunge

Products Used:

MAC Paint Pot in Blackground

MAC Paint Pot in Blackground - 22$CAD

MAC Mineralize Eyeshadow in Smutty Green

MAC Mineralize Eyeshadow in Smutty Green - 25$CAD

MAC Eyeshadows (14.50$CAD each for palette refill) in:
Vex
Greensmoke

MAC Pearlglide Intense Eye Liner in Undercurrent - 19$CAD

Too Faced Perfect Eyes in Perfect Black - 25$CAD

MAC Zoom Fast Black Lash in Black - 19$CAD

Benefit Brow Zings in Light

Benefit Brow Zings in Light - 36$CAD

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium - 25$CAD

Benefit High Beam - 32$CAD

Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph

Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph - 26$CAD

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless - 38$CAD

Illamasqua Lipstick in Plunge - 24$CAD

From left to right:
MAC Paint Pot in Blackground
MAC Mineralize Eyeshadow in Smutty Green
MAC Eyeshadow in Greensmoke
MAC Eyeshadow in Vex
MAC Pearlglide Intense Eye Liner in Undercurrent
Too Faced Perfect Eyes in Perfect Black
Benefit High Beam
Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
Illamasqua Lipstick in Plunge

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the look! This was my own personal take on the look I had done for my mom. I just wish she would have let me post a pic of the whole look, it looked great! And I also love how mine turned out. I'm really a big fan of Mineralize Eyeshadows, I love the sparkle in them! I can't wait to try out the purple one I got, Young Punk. The green liner was also super beautiful. You really have to swatch Undercurrent to be able to see how beautiful it is. It's a color I've always overlooked until I decided to actually swatch all the green liners. I love it.

You can expect to see new posts coming soon where I'll be using a ton of the new stuff I got! Time to mix and match the new with the old! I'm still on my quest to to build the ultimate palette collection, so I want to know: What is your top 15 MAC eyeshadows? Basically, if you could build your own palette with your favorite shadows, what would they be? I'll be doing a post soon on my favorite picks, as I think it's interesting to see what different people consider their staple products.

So anywayz, hope you loved the look, as always you can comment and say what you loved or didn't love about it. I also want to hear which paint pot is your favorite and why.

Steph xo.