EOTD: Heroes Wear Primary Colours

I got my much sought-after MAC Mutiny pigment and Electric Eel eyeshadow, only to be bitterly disappointed. Mutiny was much greyer than I'd anticipated, but I think I'll be able to use it nicely with the right look. Electric Eel, though, is really just a bad dupe for my beloved blue Stargazer loose powder. It's less pigmented and vibrant than I'd anticipated.

Nevertheless, I used it in the following EOTD because, well, I paid for the darned thing, damnit. It's entirely superfluous in the look, really, I could have easily just used all Stargazer instead, but it is in there.

If you're wondering about the EOTD name (some are more ambiguous than others, aren't they?) this look reminded me of Superman, or super heroes, so I named it after the reason why.

Heroes Wear Primary Colours - Step-by-Step


In reality it looked closer to this royalish blue. Sorry this is so small/fuzzy,
I was using a new setting on my camera and didn't realise it was using very low resolution.




Looks a bit greener here, for some reason.

Eyes

• No primer or base used, just applied my much-used Stargazer 35 Eye Dust all over the lid wet, using my homemade mixing medium and MAC 239 brush.
• Pat the same powder, dry (wipe the brush) over the top, to get an even, pigmented finish.
• Apply MAC Electric Eel using a crease brush (MAC 217) into the crease, blending upwards over the crease toward the brow-bone.
• Use a matte black eyeshadow (I used the one from Sleek's Safari palette) on a crease brush (I used MAC 217 again, although I thought 224/226 would have been preferable) to darken the outer-V and crease all the way along.
• Using the shimmery white from the Safari palette, highlight over the brow-bone and blend out the blue at the top. Re-apply the Electric Eel with the crease brush as necessary.
• Using a thin brush (used my favourite skinny one from the UD Box of Shadows, but MAC 209 or anything thin will do) run MAC Going Bananas under the lower lashline, or use a yellowy gold liner. Blend this into the inner-corner to highlight.
  
• Apply black eyeliner to the upper lashline and waterline, and apply mascara.

Lips

• Apply MAC Snob lipstick.
• Apply MAC Delicate Crush lipglass over the top.

I quite like it, but like I said, Electric Eel deserves no credit. My mascara looks a bit rubbish here, my favourite mascara combo has been failing me lately, so one of the components obviously needs replacing with a fresh tube. Trick is working out which.