EOTD: Pink and Grey

This is one of those simple looks that can be worn for day or bumped up for night. The shape is very basic and can be used with a variety of colours for a variety of looks. Here's a pink/grey/purple version I've worn for day.

Worn here with MAC See Sheer lipstick.

It's soft, pretty and sophisticated and pretty simple. It's a pink lid with a grey-purple along the lashline and swept up and across the outer half of the lid. You could use pretty much any combination of colours as long as the colour across the whole lid is lighter than the colour on the outside half. Beige/brown, greens, blues, orange/blue, whatever you want to try, go for it!

Here's what I used on my eyes. 

MAC Pigment in Nude

I used Nude pigment as my browbone highlighter, as well as using a bit in the inner corners of my eyes for a pop.

MAC Paint Pot in Fresco Rose

I used a wide, flat bristled brush to apply Fresco Rose across my entire lid, blending up into the crease. MAC Paint Pots are long wearing cream shadows so it helps your eyeshadow to last all day. Work quickly with the Paint Pots as they dry fairly quickly. Also, a thinner layer will help keep your shadow from creasing.

I chose Fresco Rose more for the colour than the cream texture but it works well as Unflappable (below) has a creamier texture than most powder eyeshadows. The two work well together for a textured effect.

MAC Unflappable

For the contrasting shade, I used a wide, flat bristled brush with a rounded tip to apply Unflappable to the outer corner of my eye, concentrating the colour heavily along my lashline. Unflappable is a dark grey but it has a lot of purple in it and applying it over the Fresco Rose brings out the purple. 

I used an angle brush to smudge Unflappable along the lashline for definition. This helps to make the eyelashes look thicker and to define the eye.

Brushes used L to R:
Unflappable on the eyelid
MAC Fresco Rose
Unflappable along the lashline

I curled my lashes and applied L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara to my upper lashes.

L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara

On my cheeks I used Strada, by MAC. Rather than the apples of my cheeks, I applied it towards the top of my cheeks. It gives a more sophisticated look this way as it emphasizes my cheekbones. 

MAC Blush in Strada

Blush brush

I tried two different lip colours with this look. At the top of this post I used MAC lipstick in See Sheer and in the photo below I used Bare Minerals gloss in Birthday Cake.

Bare Minerals gloss in Birthday Cake

Wearing Bare Minerals gloss in Birthday Cake

I prefer a pinkier lip colour than the orangier one at the top of the post. What do you think?

Try this eye look with pink and grey shadows, as light and dark as you like. And try it with browns or purples or greens, as long as the colour you apply all over your lid is lighter, you'll get the same effect. You don't need to use a cream colour as your base - powders work just as well. But you could also use two cream colours, bearing in mind they'll blend more readily than two powders or a powder and a cream. 

Try it, you'll love it!

C. 

MAC Peacocky Eyeshadows: Dandizette, Peek-At-You and Unflappable Review and Swatches

This post is late, and I apologize for that! MAC's Peacocky collection (see B2's preview post here) was released weeks ago but many locations still have the Mega Metal Shadows still available - so if you like what you see, you may still be able to get them!

Jill went and bought ALL of the 15 Peacocky eyeshadows but I only splurged on three. I'm very, very, very (too) good at talking myself out of buying things sometimes. I only intended to get two, but I accidentally discovered I needed three. More on that later. Now, photos!

I bought Peek-At-You, Dandizette and Unflappable.

L-R: Peek-At-You, Dandizette and Unflappable

L-R: Unflappable, Dandizette and Peek-At-You

Peek-At-You

Peek-At-You is a frosted yellow-white, although it reads slightly peachier than yellow, in my opinion. It's a very soft, natural shade on my skintone (NC15-NC20) and its metallic creaminess helps make it a great highlight shade for the browbone, inner eye and top of cheekbone.

Dandizette

Dandizette is a navy with silver pearl. I think it looks quite denim-y. I'm a sucker for metallic blue shadows and really, the collection is called Peacocky - I can't NOT buy a blue or green shadow, right? My favourite way to wear this shade is on the outside half of my eyelids, messily applied up to the crease.

Unflappable

Unflappable is a frosted black with purple pearl and my favourite of the three. It's a great smudgable shadow for the lashline, and gives an instant smokiness to any eye look.

L-R: Peek-At-You, Dandizette and Unflappable swatched

The Mega Metal eyeshadows are all very creamy in texture and quite metallic. Dandizette and Unflappable aren't necessarily the best shadows to wear for a professional daytime look, but that doesn't stop me. Obviously their shine make them better suited to an evening look. Peek-At-You or one of the other lighter shades obviously work well as highlighters so they can be worn easily for day or night.

So the reason I opted to buy three, rather than just two Mega Metal shadows was because the MAC location I was at happened to be out of Q-tips (I know) so one of the MUAs handed me a brush to use to swatch the Peacocky shadows instead. This was not ideal as I couldn't clean the brush in between each swatch so only the first swatch would be true to its colour. I did the best I could with a tissue to clean off the brush but then I happened to swatch Unflappable and then Peek-At-You right after and I got the prettiest neutral metallic. I fell in love right there on the spot. See below. That's Unflappable topped with Peek-At-You. The sheen of Peek-At-You minimizes the intensity and darkness of Unflappable making it much more wearable and creating a whole new shade!

Peek-At-You on top of Unflappable

So there you have it! My three Peacocky Mega Metal eyeshadows. What do you think? Did you pick up any of the Mega Metal eyeshadows? Do you love metallic eyeshadows as much as B2 does? 

Tell us! 

C.