EOTD: It's a Jungle Out There

I picked up the new Sleek Safari iDivine palette t'other day. It's very brown-and-yellow, and I hadn't expected to like it that much, or expected the yellowy gold shades to suit me, but, as ever with Sleek, was pleasantly surprised.

Sleek iDivine Safari Palette.

Swatches, dry, natural light.

In particular, the palest shade on the bottom row (2nd from the left) looks white, but is the most gorgeous shimmery pale shade, perfect as a more dramatic highlight colour. The four browns and neutrals on the right side of the palette I love, too, as the shimmer is really rich and metallic. This palette seems like a more dramatic, interesting incarnation of their previous Storm palette. Perfect for those of you who want a little colour but aren't huge bright fans.

Going out on a limb, for me, I did a yellowy-goldy leopard print look with this palette.

It's A Jungle Out There: Step-by-Step

I know it looks like I'm naked, but it was just a sleeveless top =S


Gratuitous artsy photo.

Close up! This is the eye hidden by my fringe, spots came out better.

This one came out over exposed or something, it was an annoying,

bad-cam day where every one came out blurry and grr.

Eyes

• Prime the lids with primer, a neutral paint pot, I used MAC Cream Colour base in Luna.
• Using a MAC 239 brush, pack on the yellowy gold shade from the Safari Sleek palette all over the lid, blending it out above the crease and out past the outer-V.
• Using the same brush, I applied BftE mineral eyeshadow in Beam over the lid as well, because it's a bit more metallicy and just made this pop more.
• Using a crease brush (217) darken the crease with the copper (top row, 2nd from right) and blend this out lightly over the crease and over the outer-V.
• Darken the crease more with the brown (bottom row, far right) and make it more defined by not blending it up toward the brow-bone.
• Using a black liquid liner (anything that dries quickly and won't run, I used a cheap Collection 2000 one, but the Sleek ones work really well too) line the top lid, then draw on leopard spots over the edge of the lid and outer-V. Be as conservative or wild as you like, leopard spots are deceptively easy to draw, and you can always look up a reference picture on google to help you, or practice on your hand first.
• Using a thin brush (MAC 209) fill in the spots with the copper (top row, 2nd from right). When this is done, brush the same copper under the lower lashline.
• Highlight using the pretty pale shimmery shade (bottom row, 2nd from the left).
  
• Line the waterline with a black pencil, and apply mascara.

Lips

• Apply Avon Ultra Colour Rich Mousse lipstick in Delicate Pink, apply MAC Blankety lipstick over the top and finish off with MAC lipglass in Underage.
  

All done! Hopefully I'll get better at this kind of thing, but it's certainly fun to try. I'd love this with wild false lashes, too!

Check out the other Sleek iDivine palettes below:

• Original
• Storm
• Chaos
• Acid

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