I have had so much fun with this palette, and I've experimented and come up with quite a few looks I'm very fond of. I love my neutrals, but there is something exciting about such bold beautiful colors. The quality of this palette is extraordinary; these pressed pigments are so ridiculously pigmented, and the colors are all so vibrant. I decided to post one of my looks from this palette rather than one of my more neutral looks, because, well, why not! I might as well begin with a bang!
These are the beautiful colors I used from this palette: Savage, Jilted, Urban, Gonzo, Chaos, and Revolt.
**I used a two other Urban Decay shades not from this palette; I used Naked (from my Naked 1 palette) as my neutral transition color, as well as Strange (from my Naked 3 palette) to highlight my brow bone. All other colors used on my eyes were the beautiful pressed pigments. (I will have a full product link list of what I used at the bottom of this tutorial)
LETS BEGIN!
1. Start with that fresh happy face! I always cleanse my face before I start any makeup look, it ensures that my makeup goes on as smooth as it possibly can, and it helps with the longevity of your makeup wear. Plus I always feel yucky if I don't. NOW apply your eyelid primer(s). This is extremely important. Eyelid priming ensures long lasting, non-creasing eye looks. It is especially important with this palette; because these are not technically eyeshadows, they are pressed pigments, they have a tendency to stain your eyelids if you put them directly onto the skin. I have no problem with this, because I always prime. The primer I use is the ELF eyelid primer. I have used a plethora of different eyeshadow primers, both high end and low end, and this is the absolute best I have ever used. Though I have normal skin, my eyelids are very oily. This primer ensures my eyelids not get oily, and my eye looks last and stay just as vibrant until I remove my makeup with my cleanser.
2. After your eyelids are primed, apply your neutral transition shade. This shade is important to tie the look together; it is important to make sure the vibrant colors you are about to use blend seamlessly into your natural skin color. The color I chose was Naked from my Naked 1 eyeshadow palette. Grab your transition color on a fluffy blending brush and blend it out all over your crease and slightly above until you have the desired depth of color, make sure you've blended out the harsh lines.
3. Bust out that tape! This is a simple trick many many people use, it ensures clean lines with minimal cleanup. I opted to use this because of how rich the colors are. You can totally skip this and smoke everything out, but I loved the crisp cat eye effect this technique gave me for this particular look, so I went for it!
4. Time for your first color! Grab Savage on the same fluffy blending brush you used for your transition shade, and apply this just as you did with your transition shade. Use a light hand, because this color, like them all, is extremely pigmented. Keep blending and adding more color until you have the desired vibrancy.
5. Grab Jilted on a blending brush (I used the same brush I had been using, it has a tapered end that allows me to rotate the brush for a more precise application, otherwise grab a smaller blending brush and proceed) and add this tightly to your crease, concentrating the majority of the color on the outer half of the crease. This color I feel is the love child of the first shade we used and the next shade we are about to use, and I love it to deepen up that crease and create that winged effect in preparation for the rest of the colors. Be patient, and blend blend blend.
6. Go ahead and pick up Urban on the same smaller blending brush we just used, and apply it slowly and tightly to your crease, again concentrating the majority of the pigmentation to the outer half of the crease. This color introduces the purple smokey effect to this look, and adds even more depth. Keep on blending until there are no harsh lines and all the colors have a nice gradient effect right into that Naked shade color we began with.
7.) The first half of this step it also totally optional, but I opted to do it because it helps brighten up the color we are about to use. I took NYX's jumbo eye pencil in Milk and applied that directly on my lid and inner corner, concentrating the majority of it on the inner half of my lid. (You can totally use a white eyeliner or cream shadow in place of the pencil) I then grabbed the color Gonzo on a flat shader brush and applied that generously all over my lid. I made sure this color was extremely vibrant because I adore it. I didn't worry about blending this into the other colors, because we will be adding another color next that will do that for us. No need to add a bunch of extra work! :)
8. Now for my personal favorite step! Grab the color Chaos (my favorite color in the entire palette) on any brush that you think would be best for application, and pop that into your 'outer v'. You can use the flat shader brush, you can grab the small blending brush you used earlier, you can use a pencil brush, it really doesn't matter as long as you concentrate the application in your outer v, then blend it out very very well. This color is bold. I grabbed this at first on my flat shader brush and tapped it in my outer v, then I grabbed my blending brush and blended like a man woman. Blending is the most important part of this (and every) step. Blend blend blend until there are no harsh lines and the colors are seamless! :)
THE HARD STUFF IS DONE!
9. This is the point where I applied my eyeliner, mascara, and filled in my eyebrows. I decided to do a simple winged line using a waterproof black gel Sephora brand liner and ELF angled eyeliner brush. I wanted the colors to be the main focus of this look. I also just used mascara, I've never really been a "fake hair, fake lashes, fake tan, fake teeth, fake blah blah blah" kind of girl. There is nothing wrong with it by any means, its just not me. I can only ever really see myself wearing false eyelashes for special occasions, specifically where pictures will be taken, like a wedding or something along those lines. Anywho, I applied a couple layers of mascara, making sure my eyelashes were long and voluminous, yet separated, I cant stand clumps.
I filled in my eyebrows with Anastasia Beverly Hills Dip Brow Pomade in Blonde. I then proceeded to the rest of my face. Foundation, concealer, contour, blush, highlight, the works. You can do your face however you feel you want to, I didn't go in depth with this tutorial because the main focus is the eyes.
10. After the rest of my face is finished, I move on to complete this look: the loser lash line and lashes. All I did was picked up Gonzo on a small blending brush and smoked that all along my bottom lashes. Don't be afraid to really smoke this out and drag it down. After I have that color how I prefer it, I pick up Chaos on the same brush, and blend that overtop Gonzo, concentrating it more tightly to the lash line, as well as to the outer third of the lower lash line. This adds depth to the lower lash line. You can decide to be done here, or you can take it a small step further, and pick up Urban on a small brush that will allow you to push that very tightly to your lash line (you can use a flat definer brush, an angled eyeliner brush, I chose the small end of the brush that came with this palette).
After those 2 or 3 colors are smoked out along your lash line, go ahead and add a black liner (I used the same waterproof Sephora gel liner and angled brush I used for my winged line) to your water line, and coat your bottom lashes with your favorite mascara, and you're all done!!
*I am not sure why the colors are so distorted in the top 2 photos, the shadows do NOT look that intense, and I assure they are extremely well blended.
PRODUCTS USED:
Urban Decay Electric Palette
Urban Decay 'Naked' (Naked 1 palette)
Urban Decay 'Strange' (Naked 3 palette)
ELF Eyelid Primer
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Anastasia Dip Brow Pomade
Sephora Waterproof Gel Liner
Almay One Coat Thickening Mascara
Loreal True Match Lumi Foudnation
Benefit 'Hula' Bronzer
NYX Powder Blush in Mauve
Mary-Lou_Manizer by theBalm
