Lashes and Leather MUA: Copper Twist on a Smokey Eye

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Copper Twist on a Smokey Eye

Hey ya'll! This is mainly just a picture post of an eye look I did a couple days ago. I've been kind of bored of my usual black and grey smokey eye so I decided to mix it up a bit. One of my favorite pigments I own is MAC's "Copper Sparkle", so I used that as my main focus on the upper lid. It is just a gorgeous shimmery, metallic warm copper color that looks so beautiful on brown and blue eyes. I also love that I don't even have to foil the pigment to get that strong, glistening look.

So I applied the Copper pigment all over the lid, put a touch of "Melon" pigment in the inner corner, added some warm matte browns in the crease to help blend out the shimmery black I used in the crease and outer corner. I had originally thought about using dark brown in place of the black, but I really thought the shimmery black would tie together much better with the bright silver I was going to add to the lower lashline.

So that takes me to the lower lashline which is the other star of this look. I very rarely mix super warm and super cool colors together, but I feel like these colors all flow very well together. I feel like your blending colors really play a big part in pulling looks like this together, because you have that warmth on the lid and then the cooler charcoal, black on the outer corner connecting to the silver on the lower lashline, so by using the warm brown as your transtion color it just really helps pull everything together and make it look much more put together. I also added a touch of a champage gold color right to the tear duct to brighten my eyes up a little more.