Being a red-faced gal these silvery colours just didn’t do anything for me, except make me look even more rouge in the cheeks than I actually was and so it was this ZOEVA Cocoa Blend Palette that really became the tipping point for me deciding to give warm tones my full attention. Cool-toned taupes were the flavour of the month and only a brave few ventured into MAC Cranberry territory. Hot Spell is another good choice if you don’t feel like going full-on traffic cone on your lids just yet.īack in the day we were a community of Satin Taupe wearers. If you blend, blend and blend again you’ll be surprised by how subtle it can look. I’m actually quite amazed at how quick this is to throw on my lid and I find that it looks best when I go heavy on the lashes. It’s now finally available to buy – HOORAY! – and contains the most straight-up orange shadow that I own – Wild Thing. If I assess all these shades that I’m talking about that I have swatched on my arm for reference as I’m writing this (WHY DIDN’T I INCLUDE A PICTURE OF THIS?! FOOL!), the offerings in the Urban Decay Naked Petite Heat Palette, are by far the most orange. Plus, the formula is cracking pigmented but not powdery, with a buttery blend. It’s certainly still brown, which makes it a shade that I feel is easy to wear. It’s like if you turned one notch in the direction of orange on the colour wheel. If you feel like you’ve already conquered that mountain, they why not graduate to Anastasia Beverly Hills Eyeshadow in Caramel (very similar to MAC Saddle if you need an easy to find dupe)? I actually keep this colour in a duo with Soba so I can flit between the two depending on my mood, and sometimes mixing them if I feel like I want to hit the middle ground between them both.
There’s a warmth in there for sure, and a lot of these formulas become much more orange-y when I blend them onto my eye than they look when they’re swatched, but it’s by far the easiest to wear. Of all the shades that I’m going to dissect in today’s post, this is the most brown-like. Sometimes I Google it to find the link and stumble across an old blog post of me wearing it from six years ago where I look like a baby. MAC Soba, might just be my most used eyeshadow of ALL TIME. OK, let’s talk entry-level rusty lids before we get onto the real tangerine tones that I had to work up to a little. Anyway, I thought today I’d break down my favourite shades from my favourite palettes and give you the dish on my top edit… Although being a green-eyed gal, there’s something to be said for contrasting your peepers with an orange – colour theory and all that. Who would have guessed that, eh? I’m guessing it’s partly to do with the influx of warm neutral eyeshadow palettes that began hitting shelves on a monthly basis around two years ago. Whatever the case, I’ve graduated from the shimmery champagnes of the early 2010’s and into a warm matte lid that’s borderline orange.
Maybe it’s because it balances out the dark circles under my eye, or that it just makes me feel a little more polished. Perhaps it’s an appreciation that comes with age? Now, if I’m wearing makeup, I’m wearing eyeshadow. I bumbled around with sponge applicators attempting to create a smokey eye (who knew fluffy eyeshadow brushes existed!?) and always felt that the end result just didn’t suit me. Kirsten If you like those try Honesty.When I first got really into beauty – let’s say about eight years ago now (that’s when I began camping outside the MAC store on the launch date of their latest drop) – I could not get my head around eyeshadow.cate For any eyeshadow beginners like myself who are teens, I recommend Stila's Kitten.
I for one love color! Perhaps I'll write an article more geared towards colored shadows.
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