Yesterday, I encouraged everyone to guess
the eyeshadows I’m going to review today and despite me giving a HUGE hit . . .
not that many people guessed any of the shades right.
Club is the most intriguing eyeshadow of the bunch as it’s a bit like a
multi-dimensional chameleon. The purple, grey and green mixture of this shade
gives it a flexibility that you really don’t expect so it works great as a lid
colour for a smokey eye.
Pink Venus was a bit of an impulse buy. I
will admit this right now as I’m not sure what was going through my head at the
time when I bought this. Not normally a fan on Barbie pink or colours with a
white-silver undertone but this shade was just tooo pretty.
I’m not entirely sure how I will use it as
I find that when swatched it fails to show up very strongly on my dark skin. I
think it would have to be relegated to a tear duct colour until I find a good
use for it.
Embark
is a warm, dark brown that I would highly recommend
anyone with dark skin like mine stocking in their MAC neutral palettes. 2
shades darker than my natural skintone, this shade works wonderfully as a
crease and contour eyeshadow shade and I have sometimes even used this as a
cheek contour as it is warm enough not to give my skin a dirty, ashy-brown
effect.
This is the only shade that is a repurchase
and this is actually my 3rd time buying this eyeshadow colour, so
just know that when I recommend it, I’m doing so because I believe in it
As I’m always expanding my purple and blue
MAC eyeshadow palettes, Fig.1 was
recommended to me by one of my favourite local MAC artist, who thankfully seems
to be keeping tabs on what shades I buy.
I was looking for a dark purple but similar
to Vibrant grape which I already had but was not quite right for the makeup look
I was going for (had to create a specific look models face – will put up link
later) and she recommended Fig.1 and omg can I just say it was perfect!!!
Last but not least. Twinks – a beautiful
dark bronze perfect for a black girl eyelid. This shade is so much better than
MAC’s eyeshadow in Bronze (which I normally swear by) as it is one shade darker
than bronze so looks more like my eyelid shade but with a little bit of a
shimmer to it. I can’t wait to recreate a daytime smokey eye look with this
because this just screams out for me to play with it.
