Saturday, December 19, 2009

My top MAC eye shadow recommendations:

There eye shadows are hands down the best in the business. If you go to a free standing MAC store or online I highly recommend getting them in pallet form then and putting them in a quad saves you time, space and money.

These 4 are best basic MAC eye shadows regardless of eye colour:
• Vanilla (best brow bone highlight hands down)
• Soft Brown (great transition colour from between the lid and brow bone, also if you have blue eyes pop city with this looks amazing)
• Cork (great in the crease colour also can be used to fill in eye brows if you have medium to dark brown even auburns hair could get away with this for blondes omega is a perfect eye brow colour.
• Satin taupe (with this you can do a simple subtle Smokey eye)

Two other good to have colours but most find intimidating because they are so dark is espresso and carbon they are great to use to darken the outer v and crease also can be used to line the eyes.

Another amazing MAC product regardless of skin and eye colour is there pigment in vanilla looks amazing on the inner corner of eyes also a great cheek bone highlighter I could do a whole other blog on the many amazing uses for this one love it!

Now I know not everyone wants to drop the big dollars on MAC or high end but I am telling you it is worth it better colour pay off which means you use way less product so you are buying product less often.

However in any makeup line you can find the right product for your eye colour by just using basic colour theory:
• Green eyes on the colour wheel opposite green is read this is the complementary colour which will really bring out the green in your eyes. Now that may seem scary red on the eyes but apply it in the fashion of red undertones for example reddish browns or reddish–violet colours.
• Blue eyes pop with orange again to apply it you are looking for orangey browns, colours like ambers and coppers will really pull out that blue and so will peaches.
• Hazel and brown eyes pop with violet toned colours so anything in the berry type shades are going to really bring out brown eyes nicely.

Green eyed ladies I would recommend these:
• Expensive Pink
• Cranberry
• Embark
• Beauty Marked
• Sketch
• Vex

To make blue eyes pop:
• Amber lights
• Saddle
• All That Glitters
• Coppering
• Brown Script

To make brown and hazel eyes pop:
• Twinks
• Plum Dressing
• Hepcat
• Nocturnelle

Another product I highly recommend from MAC is Sculpt & Shape in Sculpt/Accentuate the only problem is the duo is a limited edition so you may have to do a hunt at the MAC counters to find it when you do buy at least two I promise you this product is amazingly versatile you can use it on your eyes and face.