Fall Look: Gilded Lids with Kitten Lips (Coastal Scents Antique Gold Mica with MAC Kinda Sexy Matte Lipstick)
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Fall doesn’t need to be a time of monochromatic shades. As you start to deepen up the colors, look out for stronger textures like metallics, that can give a lush and gilded finish to very jewel-toned and neutral shades.—-
Step 1: Apply MAC Blooz pencil or any soft metallic navy pencil along the upper lash line and the outer half of the lower lashes. It should be thicker on the outer halves of the upper lids, as it would be if you were applying winged liner.
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Step 2: With a short bristled smudger brush, pack a dark navy blue shadow over the navy pencil. Don’t smoke out the color too much. I’m using Poison by Stage Makeup, but you can use MAC Deep Truth as well. Just avoid anything too black or you won’t get the beautiful deep blue sheen.
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Step 3: Pack a deep tarnished antique-bronze over the entire lids, above the blue. You can over lap the blue JUST a little, but not too much or you will muddy the colors. Blend towards the outer corners, following the downward curve of your socket line towards the navy flick. Run along the inner half of lower lashes as well. I used Coastal Scents Antique Gold mica here.
If you find pigments hard to control and messy to use, try MAC Sumptuous Olive.
Step 4: To keep the lash line blue, apply navy mascara. I don’t own colored mascara so I applied black mascara and then picked up navy blue shadow with a fluffy brush and wiggled it gently over my top and bottom lashes to coat them with a little blue.
Finished Looks with flash; Coastal Scents Antique Gold mica pigment with MAC Blooz pencil and Stage Makeup Poison eyeshadow
To finish off, I wanted muted cheeks and lips but not to erase the color altogether, so I used MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Dark as a subtle bronzer on the cheeks, and MAC Kinda Sexy Matte Lipstick for a kittenish lip.
