Saint Patrick's Day Look Using MAC Eye Shadows

Green is my favorite color and one of my favorite eyeshadow colors, so here is a green springy look just in time for St. Patrick's Day.



I used my favorite MAC green and olive eyeshadows in Humid, Flourishing, and Greensmoke. Humid is one of my favorite MAC shadows of all time. It really makes green eye looks richer and gives depth to the whole look.



I also used the wonderful Grand Entrance dark hunter green eyeshadow from the MAC Holiday 2008 palette. I love this green, a deeper green but different in shade from Humid.



I used Manila Paper to highlight. It's from the Colour 4 quad of the Spring Colour Forecast collection. This shadow is quickly becoming one of my favorite highlighters.



I used MAC Fab-racadabra Bronze Face Kit from the Magic Mirth and Mischief Holiday 2009 collection. I can't get over how wonderful these three products work in tandem with each other. Sunbasque is a beautiful blush as it is, but combined with Golden bronzing powder and Buffed and Polished iridescent shimmer, it's perfection on my skintone.



I used MAC Brave New Bronze lipstick.



I used MAC dazzleglass in Sublime Shine over the lipstick.



I did use a pretty green mineral eyeshadow from Earthen Glow Minerals called Kauai Kiwi, a nice lime (or, okay, kiwi) color that is vibrant and contrasts beautifully with the dark MAC shadows.

Here's a step by step. All eye products MAC unless otherwise stated.


Apply Urban Decay Sin primer potion all over lid and lower lashline. Using a fluffy shader brush, apply Mossscape paint pot on lid.


Using a slightly damp stiff shader brush like the 239 (use Charged Water to dampen the brush), apply Earthen Glow mineral eyeshadow in Kauai Kiwi eyeshadow on the lid.


Using Sonia Kashuk blender brush, apply Greensmoke on the crease.

Neutrals and Bronzes Using MAC Spring Colour Forecast Colour 4 Quad

Here's a simple neutral eye look with a dash of copper and bronze using MAC Colour 4 eyeshadow quad from the MAC Spring Colour Forecast 4 collection. I did this look three weeks ago but it's only now that I was able to remember this! It's very easy, simple and perfect for work or everyday use.



I also used the very pretty Straw Harvest eye shadow from MAC Spring Colour Forecast 2 for this look.

Here's a really quick step-by-step.  All eye products MAC unless otherwise stated.


Apply Urban Decay primer potion all over lid, browbone and lower lashline. Using a fluffy shader brush, apply Perky paint pot on lid.



Using a stiff shader brush like the 239, apply Straw Harvest on lid using patting motions.

MAC Spring Colour Forecast Product Photos and Review Part 2

NOTE: Check out TSOU's Spring Colour Forecast swatches and reviews:

MAC Spring Colour Forecast 1 (Pink Cluster) Swatches and Review

MAC Spring Colour Forecast 2 (Coral Cluster) Swatches and Review

MAC Spring Colour Forecast 3 (Purple Cluster) Swatches and Review

MAC Spring Colour Forecast 4 (Beige/Bronze Cluster) Swatches and Review

Since I already did a review on these, I am just going to post product photos and maybe a one or two-liner describing the color. The Spring Colour Forecast collection is out today!

Spring Colour 1:


Rosey Outlook is a frosted baby pink. It's satin in formula so it doesn't have shimmer. It's pretty though but you need to pack it on and I suggest a creamy colored base like MAC paint pots.


Azalea Blossom blush ombre is a light cool pink. Like other blush ombres, it has a gradient palette of colors and has fine jet-milled shimmer. When I swatched it, it hardly showed up on my skin. I will try it again to see if maybe it is really supposed to be a light, barely-there color to lend an ethereal finish to the skin.


Galore Pink is a pretty mid-tone blue pink cream. I am hoping the blue will complement my skintone as I kinda like cool nail lacquer shades on my nails.


I am honestly not a fan of Phlox because it hardly showed up on my skin. It's a sheer light pink in the glaze formula. I like Laugh A Lot better, a mauve pink in the lustre formula (you know I'm a sucker for mauves).


Cultureclash is a beautiful frosty clear baby pink with multi-dimensional pearl. It's your basic baby pink gloss with shimmer. Not very unique but since this is your quintessential gloss, you can find lots of use for it.














As I'd mentioned in the part 1 of the review, I love purples and pinks so this had to be mine. I love the coordinating colors and I've already used tthis is in an eye look. Watch out for it!

Spring Colour 2:







Perky is a light salmon pink in the satin formula. Straw Harvest is a frosty light yellow orange with a lovely texture because it's veluxe pearl. Hot Hot Hot is a mid-tone coral satin which I really super duper love, very unique in my MAC eyeshadow collection. I did a coral look using these colors, including Nanogold.




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Ripe Peach is probably the prettiest among the blush ombres in my opinion. It really does look like a ripe peach! The gradient shades are fantastic. I can't wait to use this.

MAC Spring Colour Forecast 4 (Beige and Bronze Cluster) Swatches and Review

NOTE: Check out other Spring Colour Forecast swatches and reviews:

MAC Spring Colour Forecast 1 (Pink Cluster)

MAC Spring Colour Forecast 2 (Coral Cluster)

MAC Spring Colour Forecast 3 (Purple Cluster)







Eye Shadow x4 - Colour 4 Quad



I honestly thought this last sub-collection would be the group I would like the least, but I was wrong. I didn't even glance at the eyeshadow quad twice, but when I tried the colors, wow, I was amazed. Pigmentation was amazing. The MA applied the colors on my skin using a brush, so you can imagine that these were not swatched heavily, and yet the colors shone through. They are very nicely pigmented, and the colors are something you can wear everyday.

Manila Paper is a frosted white gold. It is very shimmery as it is frost in formula. This one reminds me a lot of Nylon.

Flip is a bronze gold that is a frost. This would make a nice lid color.

Aztec Brick is one of my favorite colors in this quad along with Creole Beauty. AB is a beautiful frosted true copper in the veluxe pearl formula. Amazingly pigmented and rich, this would be a good outer lid or crease color.

Creole Beauty is a frosted golden brown. I like that it is not a flat brown but has shimmer in it. This would make a very nice outer lid color.



Lipsticks:



I want to get the lipsticks too! They look amazing in person, the swatches don't do justice to these.

Beigeland is a frosted light pink beige, while Bronzilla is a frosted mid-tone yellow brown. I honestly can't decide which one is better, though, because both of them are very attractive. This would make for nice neutral lips with shimmer.

Lipglass:

I am partial to Almondine, a pale gold with pearl. I love lighter lipglasses to wear over darker lipsticks to tone down the color and to lend a luscious sheen to the puckers. Bronzilla is a frosted mid-tone yellow brown that might be similar to an old lipglass that I have named Poetique. Love both of these colors.

Blush Ombre:



Springshine is a neutral suntan that would work great as a bronzer or a contour powder. It has very subtle shimmer so it would work great for both jobs. I have way too many contour and bronzer products so I am skipping this.

Nail lacquer:

Abalone Shell is a light creamy warm beige that looks way too wrong on my skintone. No swatch of this but I will skip this.

All in all, I recommend the Colour 4 quad and the Beigeland and Bronzilla lipsticks for this sub-collection. I love the bronzes and how they complement my warm complexion.

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