January 2011 Series: 9th
An easy & fairly neutral look. I had no idea what colour combination to use, so I started off by picking what I wanted to wear - a burgundy top. I didn't want to match my clothes too much, so I decided to do an orange & brown look. Even though I used orange in this look, the way I applied the orange didn't make it look too bright & the shades blended together gave me a fairly neutral look on my skin tone.
I started off by using a neutral base. Next I patted an orange eyeshadow to the lid, but since the colour was a bit bright, I decided to spread it out a bit to achieve a lighter shade of orange instead of patting the eyeshadow all over the lid, which intensifies the colour. After I built it up to the shade of orange that I wanted, I used a matte dark brown in the crease to blend out the orange & blended the brown upward till the browbone. I also applied this shade to the lower lashline, even though it looks like I applied the orange eyeshadow. It appears this way because I didn't pat on the brown colour, but lightly brushed it across the lower lashline. A shimmery gold was applied as the highlight (my camera doesn't seem to pick up my highlight colours properly, so it appears as if I only applied the highlight halfway!) & this shimmery gold was applied in the tearduct area as well. Black eyeliner was used to tightline, applied on the waterline, & line the upper lashline. Black mascara was used too.
Note: This post was posted late because I got back home a few minutes after midnight, but I haven't gone to sleep yet, so my 9th night hasn't ended yet!
120 palette (1st edition) reference charts
For more information on the January 2011 Series, click here.
I started off by using a neutral base. Next I patted an orange eyeshadow to the lid, but since the colour was a bit bright, I decided to spread it out a bit to achieve a lighter shade of orange instead of patting the eyeshadow all over the lid, which intensifies the colour. After I built it up to the shade of orange that I wanted, I used a matte dark brown in the crease to blend out the orange & blended the brown upward till the browbone. I also applied this shade to the lower lashline, even though it looks like I applied the orange eyeshadow. It appears this way because I didn't pat on the brown colour, but lightly brushed it across the lower lashline. A shimmery gold was applied as the highlight (my camera doesn't seem to pick up my highlight colours properly, so it appears as if I only applied the highlight halfway!) & this shimmery gold was applied in the tearduct area as well. Black eyeliner was used to tightline, applied on the waterline, & line the upper lashline. Black mascara was used too.
Note: This post was posted late because I got back home a few minutes after midnight, but I haven't gone to sleep yet, so my 9th night hasn't ended yet!
Products Used:
- Urban Decay Primer Potion (base)
- 120 palette (1st edition): orange-H6, shimmery gold-K6 (see reference charts below)
- MAC eyeshadow in Saddle
- Almay Blendable eye pencil in Black
- MAC Penultimate eyeliner in Rapidblack
- Maybelline Volume Express Turbo Boost mascara in Very Black
120 palette (1st edition) reference charts
For more information on the January 2011 Series, click here.
5 comments:
very pretty and wearable look :) love it ^ ^
January 10, 2011 at 2:29 AMWowww such a lovely and natural look!!!
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This is very pretty! Matte's are tough to do, but you pulled it off well.
January 10, 2011 at 2:41 AMi loovee this look, saim.
January 10, 2011 at 5:22 AMso corally and pretty!
PS im not ignoring email just havent got down to properly replying. soon tho :D x
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love it
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