Blah blah blah eyeshadow
Sep. 11th, 2017 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoI picked up a MUFE palette a while back, and it's only recently that I've been experimenting with it a bit.
I don't own a lot of cosmetics by Make Up Forever; mostly what I like them for is their (excellent) black lipstick. But, hey, this one was on sale, so....
It's palette #2, a set of 9, which Temptalia has reviewed over here. Nice variety of neutrals, and enough brights and darks to keep it interesting.
Now, the weird thing about this is - as the review above mentions - two of the shades are technically blush. Now, there's no way that stuff is going anywhere near my cheeks. Totally too bright for me. Honestly, I'm not sure I could even fit my blush brush in these pans, anyway. However, the blush shades do work really nice as eyeshadow. Christine wasn't impressed with the bright purple, but I find that it works really great in combination with the blackened purple, and it blends out to something that isn't overpowering.
Normally I'm a little hesitant to use very dark colours, because I find that they can be difficult to control. And some brands, well, they kick up a lot of powder, which is a pain in the ass at any time, but can make things pretty difficult if you're using something super dark. (Stila's old eyeshadow formula comes to mind... I have this one gorgeous espresso shade that is an utter pain in the ass to use because the shadow is so soft; not sure what their stuff is like these days though.) I find that the darks in this one don't kick up much, and that's great - it means they work excellent as powder liners when applied with a tiny brush, and that's exactly what I want. "Lining" with eyeshadow is the only way I can do liner at all - I just have no hand for proper eyeliners; possibly because my hands shake, possibly because I'm always so worried I'll poke my damn eye out. (A little of column A, a little of column B...)
I will say, I love the blue in this palette. It can be really damn hard to find a bright, long-wearing, pigmented blue, but this one is gorgeous. Bright as fuck and blends like a dream. Excellent. Looks great with the blackened peacock-y metallic shift, too.
It took me ages to actually use this damn palette, because I kept opening it, and wanting to use the brights, and then feeling like there wasn't an "occasion" to wear them. Which is ridiculous. That's part of the thing I mentioned in a previous entry - about how for quite a while I was too depressed to do anything with my eyes - well, it relates to that, somewhat. It's one thing to slap some sheer cream and bronze on my lids and go about my day, but it's something else to use colour, and I tend to do it when I'm feeling... better.
I really like that the darks pair well with the brights in this one, though. Makes it easy to put together something that's... hmm... eh, vocabulary is failing me. "Mature semi-goth, and bright but not overpowering". Something like that.
It feels good to be messing around with colour again. And darks. Just having fun with it. Autumn is a good time for that; now that it's getting a bit colder, it isn't uncomfortable to wear so much of this stuff. 'S nice.
I don't own a lot of cosmetics by Make Up Forever; mostly what I like them for is their (excellent) black lipstick. But, hey, this one was on sale, so....
It's palette #2, a set of 9, which Temptalia has reviewed over here. Nice variety of neutrals, and enough brights and darks to keep it interesting.
Now, the weird thing about this is - as the review above mentions - two of the shades are technically blush. Now, there's no way that stuff is going anywhere near my cheeks. Totally too bright for me. Honestly, I'm not sure I could even fit my blush brush in these pans, anyway. However, the blush shades do work really nice as eyeshadow. Christine wasn't impressed with the bright purple, but I find that it works really great in combination with the blackened purple, and it blends out to something that isn't overpowering.
Normally I'm a little hesitant to use very dark colours, because I find that they can be difficult to control. And some brands, well, they kick up a lot of powder, which is a pain in the ass at any time, but can make things pretty difficult if you're using something super dark. (Stila's old eyeshadow formula comes to mind... I have this one gorgeous espresso shade that is an utter pain in the ass to use because the shadow is so soft; not sure what their stuff is like these days though.) I find that the darks in this one don't kick up much, and that's great - it means they work excellent as powder liners when applied with a tiny brush, and that's exactly what I want. "Lining" with eyeshadow is the only way I can do liner at all - I just have no hand for proper eyeliners; possibly because my hands shake, possibly because I'm always so worried I'll poke my damn eye out. (A little of column A, a little of column B...)
I will say, I love the blue in this palette. It can be really damn hard to find a bright, long-wearing, pigmented blue, but this one is gorgeous. Bright as fuck and blends like a dream. Excellent. Looks great with the blackened peacock-y metallic shift, too.
It took me ages to actually use this damn palette, because I kept opening it, and wanting to use the brights, and then feeling like there wasn't an "occasion" to wear them. Which is ridiculous. That's part of the thing I mentioned in a previous entry - about how for quite a while I was too depressed to do anything with my eyes - well, it relates to that, somewhat. It's one thing to slap some sheer cream and bronze on my lids and go about my day, but it's something else to use colour, and I tend to do it when I'm feeling... better.
I really like that the darks pair well with the brights in this one, though. Makes it easy to put together something that's... hmm... eh, vocabulary is failing me. "Mature semi-goth, and bright but not overpowering". Something like that.
It feels good to be messing around with colour again. And darks. Just having fun with it. Autumn is a good time for that; now that it's getting a bit colder, it isn't uncomfortable to wear so much of this stuff. 'S nice.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.