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.

More Bright and Coloful Matte Makeup using MAC Pro

Hey glam babes!!

Wow so much going on!! Barely a month left before school starts and registration is next week. Hopefully I get the classes that I want. I have it all planned out. This is also the year that I'm doing university applications, so that's going to be mad stressful. I also have to make sure I've done all my graduation requirements so that I actually graduate this year. Since I'm in continuing education and I already have a previous DEC (Cegep Diploma), it kind of complicates things. Like what carries over from my previous DEC to this one, etc. I have to make sure I've got all my supplies. I actually quite like school supply shopping. I know, I'm weird. I'm like in love with all the different colors. I also have to bring my cat to the vet before school and work start. He needs to get all his booster shots and just a general check up. I'm scared that when we bring out the carrier he'll remember when we went on vacation for a week and left him at a place. We left him at a really good place, which calls themselves a pet hotel, but he freaked out. He has super intense separation anxiety. We haven't gone anywhere since. So hopefully he doesn't have a panic attack when we show him the carrier.

So yeah onto makeup, today's look is basically the same idea as yesterday's and using a lot of the same products as yesterday's. I wanted to play around with more of my new MAC Pro eyeshadows and I decided to do a look using Cobalt and Naval along with a non-pro shade, Seedy Pearl. It's more of a purple/blue look so I thought that my new Illamasqua lipstick and blush would go fantastic with this since they are both blue toned pinks. But not to be too repetitive, I used a MAC lipstick. Honestly, both lipsticks look fantastic with this look. So depending on what kind of finish you want, you can go with Illamasqua's Lipstick in Plunge for a matte lip, or MAC's Lipstick in St-Germain for a creamy finish. After I did this look, I found that it reminded me of the 80's. When girls used to wear neon colors and be super flashy. Well, these matte bright blue eyeshadows and bright pink lip definitely reminded me of those days. While this is something I would wear on a normal day, you can always wear this for an 80's theme party but make the cheeks more dramatic. You can even draw in a mole to look like Madonna. If you really want to be 80's, using a complimentary color like orange or yellow in addition to the blue eyeshadow. Make sure it's bright colors.

And if you haven't noticed, I got my hair cut a few days ago. I went for a totally different style than what I had before. I love it. I'm eventually going to do a post on my new hair and give some styling tips and I'll talk about a few styling products I love.

And I just found out that awesome colors are being discontinued by MAC  :(  Like Shimmermoss, Purple Haze, Bitter, Juxt, Digit, just to name a few. These were all colors I was interested in. Sucks balls. I only named eyeshadows but they have quite a bit of other stuff that's being discontinued and it's all listed on their site.


More Bright and Colorful Matte Makeup using MAC Pro

To start, prime your eyes using Too Faced Shadow Insurance. Using a medium eyeshadow brush (Sephora PRO Medium Shadow Brush), push MAC Pro Eyeshadow in Cobalt onto the eyelid, going slightly into the crease and leaving the outer lid blank. Then take a blending brush (MAC 217) and MAC Pro Eyeshadow in Naval and blend it into the crease. You want to go 2/3 towards your inner eye and blend it into Cobalt. Also apply Naval to the outer corner and smoke it up and outward. Take another blending brush (Sephora PRO Crease Brush) and MAC Eyeshadow in Seedy Pearl and blend out Cobalt and Naval. Also apply Seedy Pearl as a highlight color and bring it down to the inner corners of the eyes. After you finish blending Seedy Pearl, go back in and apply more Cobalt onto the lid by gently pressing it on. You want the color to pop. Also blend Naval so that the darkest color is in the crease and outer lid. I usually do my face routine before I do the bottom lid. Take an angled brush (Sephora PRO Angled Liner Brush) and Cobalt and apply it to the bottom lid. You want to take it from the inner corner all the way out, except the outermost lid. Put Naval in the outer part of the lid and blend it into the outer upper lid. Take MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved and line both top and bottom waterlines. Then take MAC Zoomlash in Zoomblack and apply 2 coats of mascara to your top lashes. Applying mascara to your bottom lashes is optional. Your eyes are done! Now, it's time to fill in your brows. Use Benefit Brow Zings and fill them in. Now it's time to move onto the rest of your face.

Prime your face using Too Faced Primed and Poreless. Cover up your under eye circles using MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer using a concealer brush (Sephora PRO Concealer Brush). Then apply a full coverage foundation, like MUFE HD Foundation with a stippling brush (Sephora PRO Stippling Brush) or your preferred method. If you have any acne or redness that you still see through the foundation, take a concealer like MAC Studio Finish and apply it with your fingers. When you're happy with it, apply a loose setting powder like MUFE HD Powder using a kabuki brush (MUFE HD Kabuki). Take a matte bronzer and contour your face using a contouring brush or a powder brush squished into a line (Sephora Collection Powder Brush). Contouring is done by sucking in your cheeks and using the line as a guideline. Go from the top of your ear in an angle down towards the corner of your mouth. Also apply bronzer to the temples, perimeter of the face, blend into the neck, and the sides of the nose. Next, apply a light blue-toned pink like Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph. Using a blush brush (Too Faced Powder Pouf), apply it to the apples of your cheeks and blend it outwards and also blend it down into your contour. Take a clean brush and blend the side close to your nose, so it looks natural. Then take Benefit High Beam and apply it to your cheekbones, chin, cupid's bow, brow arches, etc. Don't smudge it in, gently tap it in. Lastly, take a blue-toned lipstick and apply it. If you want a creamy lip, use MAC Lipstick in Raspberry Swirl (LE), or MAC Lipstick in St-Germain which is an exact dupe for this lipstick. I swear it's the exact same color. If you want a matte lip, go with Illamasqua Lipstick in Plunge. Now you're look is done and you're ready to go out and rock!

Eyes:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
MAC Pro Eyeshadow in Cobalt
MAC Pro Eyeshadow in Naval
MAC Eyeshadow in Seedy Pearl
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved
MAC Zoomlash in Zoomblack

Brows

Benefit Brow Zings in Light

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:

MAC Lipstick in Raspberry Swirl (LE)
Exact Dupe: MAC Lipstick in St-Germain
For a Matte Lip: Illamasqua Lipstick in Plunge

Products Used:

MAC Eyeshadows are 14.50$CAD each:
MAC Eyeshadow in Seedy Pearl
MAC Pro Eyeshadow in Cobalt
MAC Pro Eyeshadow in Naval

MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved - 19$CAD

MAC Zoomlash in Zoomblack - mini shown, fullsize is 19$CAD

Benefit Brow Zings in Light

Benefit Brow Zings in Light - 36$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

MAC Lipstick in Raspberry Swirl (LE) - 18$CAD

Illamasqua Lipstick in Plunge - 24$CAD

From left to right:
MAC Eyeshadow in Seedy Pearl
MAC Pro Eyeshadow in Cobalt
MAC Pro Eyeshadow in Naval
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved
Benefit High Beam
Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
MAC Lipstick in Raspberry Swirl (LE)
Illamasqua Lipstick in Plunge

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed today's post! I find that MAC's Pro Eyeshadow line has a lot of vibrant colors, and I just love it. It's a whole lot of fun doing these looks. While they might not be practical for everyday wear, they certainly are awesome if you're going somewhere or if you just want to have fun. I know I used similar products as the last post, but I did try to change it up a bit. And honestly, MAC Raspberry Swirl and MAC St-Germain lipsticks are exactly the same. I was going to buy St-Germain but then I thought of swatching them since I had Raspberry Swirl on me and it was the same exact thing! Even the MUA said that it was exactly the same. And when I swatched Raspberry Swirl against Illamasqua's Plunge, they were very very close. They have different finishes so it obviously won't be an exact match, but they do come darn close, which you can see in my swatches.

I don't know why but my camera was being weird so my side shots all ended up blurry :( Sorry! I'll fix this next time. 

So how did you find the look? Did you prefer this one or the last one I did with the green shadows (Kelly and Bottle Green)? What is your favorite MAC Pro Shadow? And what do you think of Illamasqua? Tell me what your favorite product is by them. And did you like the blush and lipstick I bought from them? I think they're beautiful! And one last thing, what do you think of my new hairstyle? Sexy or what??

Here's the other post: Bright and Colorful Matte Makeup using MAC Pro and Illamasqua

And if you want to see the rest of my MAC Pro Eyeshadow and Illamasqua Haul: Shopping Haul #4 - MAC PRO and Illamasqua

Steph xo.