Soft Plum Smoke
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If you want to wear purple but keep the color soft and subtle, or if you happen to have MAC Circa Plum pigment and not know what you should do with it, here’s a simple way to use it.
I paired it with a chocolate brown liner and matte brown shadow.
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Step 1: I began by using a brown gel liner as an eye shadow base (Maybelline #02 gel liner). This gives intensity and also helps to keep your pigments on for longer. Just apply along the lash line and then smoke it up and out.
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Step 2: Using a flat brush, I picked up a dark cocoa brown matte shadow (88 warm palette or anywhere you can locate a matte dark brown). I applied this to the lower and upper lash line. This sets the liner around the lash line and darkens it for the next step.
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Step 3: Using a taupe-purple shadow or pigment like Circa Plum, I ran it over the entire upper lid, a little past the hollow of the sockets, winging out at the outsides slightly.
The pigment will grab onto all the areas where you did not apply matte brown shadow earlier, so you get soft, smoky definition.
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Step 4: Dampen your brush with a little water-based mixing medium, Fix+, etc, and dab into the plum pigment once again. Then apply to the inner half of the lids. This intensifies the sheen there and brings out the silvery glow of Circa Plum pigment, which otherwise just looks like a dirty cool-taupe.
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Step 5: Finish with black mascara!
