Brown with a twist of blue and purple

I´m addicted to brown eyeshadows because it´s sofisticated, beautiful and goes with everything. However, sometimes plain brown can be a bit boring and since life is good I decided to leave my comfort zone and do it with a twist.



1. As always we start with a base. I like both Urban Decay Primer Potion and MAC paint pot and since the pain pot was already in my little everyday makeup bag I decided to go for that in the color Painterly. Make sure you get it underneath your eye as well since there will be eyeshadow there as well /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I also filled in my eyebrows at this point with aMAC 208 angled brush and MAC Coquette eyeshadow. ( I see I should´ve used a brow gel, but of corse I´ve misplaced it during travelling )



2. Dig through your makeup stash for the brightest blue you´ve got and place it like in the picture below. If your eyeshadow isn´t as vibrant as you wish you can try to put some MAC Fix+ or something similar on the brush before applying. I used a MAC 214 brush and MAC Freshwater eyeshadow.



3. Now you need to find a warm burgundy/purple eyeshadow to place around it. I used a MAC 239 to apply MAC Satellite Dreams and some of the MAC Nocturnelle. Make sure you blend it out and into the blue. I used (one of many) Sigma E-25 blending brush.



4. Now we can finally play with our dear brown eyeshadow. I chose MAC Mulch and applied it with a MAC 217 brush in the crease and blended it slightly outwards and into the purple.



5. Since this look was about mixing it up a little, I was so crazy that I even used some glitter! I used the Urban Decay Heavy Metal Glitter Eyeliner in Air Guitar which is a beautiful glitter in blue. I dabbed it lightly on top of the blue eyeshadow and dragged some into the purple as well. Sadly this doesn´t show up as much as I hoped on the picture.



6. Then I applied gel liner along the upper lashline and pointing it out in the outer corner. I used Bobbi Brown in Black Ink.



7. The undereye area needs some attention too, but I still think it should be kept rather simple since the focus is on the blue so I used the black eye liner Zero from Urban decay to draw a line halfway, and then smudged it out with some of the same brown eyeshadow I used earlier (MAC Mulch) to create a smokey effect. Make sure the line meets the other line on top of the eye.



8. Nearly finished now. I just popped on some falsies and slapped on a coat of mascara (and some more gel liner) to finish off. Voilá!

Stunning!!!

Thank you.

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This was not so diff to do and i like it, the choice of colours are great.  I will try this when i get the time.  Thank you very much.

so pretty! Love the colour combo

gorgeous!

Tusen takk. 

Awesome!

I've featured this on our homepage!

I really need to get the hang of lashes. This was awesome, and I love the presentation!

I'm going to try this tomorrow!!!!!

This is beautiful! It's not too crazy but has a pop of color that draws the eye. I love your step-by-step pictures - really quality stuff. I can't wait to try this. Thanks!

you are really amazing 

Love this! Definitely different, but super cute!

Beautiful effect! this is a great tutorial, I'll have to try it out if I can find those colors in my (overcrowded) makeup drawer.

OMG You have such gorgeous eyes!!

Looking great!

That is gorgeous!  I'm also a huge brown shadow fan - most of my shadows are varying shades and shimmers of brown.  This looks like it would be really fun to try!

I cannot wait to try this--thank you for such an easy to follow tutorial!!!! The colors are awesome!!!!