MAC Magenta Blush: Review/Swatch

Looks bright and scary in the pan? – Yep!
A difficult color to wear? – Check!
Unique color? – Oh hell yea!
That kind of sums up my criteria for buying a blush nowadays and MAC Magenta prfectly fits the bill! I think now that I have enough pink, coral, orange, peach blushers (and also a few which I call “safe” to wear anytime anyday!) its time to get into the experiment mode!

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Simple Brown Smokey Eye makeup tutorial

By Upasana (Entry 5)
 
Hi all 🙂
 
Today I will be doing another smokey eyemakeup tutorial, but this time it is Simple brown smokey. I must admit that I haven’t been a person sporting a brown smokey, perhaps the reason for the same is that I feel brown shadow kind of make me look ill and dirty. So for me a brown smokey eye makeup was a big no, I always used brown to blend in other shadows or to add depth. But in this tutorial, I have just used brown shadows 🙂
 
Step 1 :- Prime lids & apply base
Since I wanted a strong base for this look, actually smokey eye makeup is all about strong firm base no matter what colors you use 😉 . I first applied and blended a shadow base only on the lid. Then with a flat shadow brush, I patted very little amount of a black gel liner (you can use a pencil, or a black shadow base, whichever you have) and applied it close to lashes, and gently patting + pulling it across the lid in order to feather it out. But with this, I didn’t make any specific shape, I just followed the shape of my eye.

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