Tutorial: Soft Yet Dramatic with the Naked 2

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I recently landed a job at my local Sephora & I waned to have more of the makeup they carried, so I bought the Urban Decay Naked 2. Since this is a pretty popular palette I plan on doing a few tutorials with it soon.

Prime your lids! 

Apply Pistol (light grayish-brown shimmer) all over the lid. I use a Mac 242 for this step.

Apply your base shadow (matte, and close to your skintone). I am using MAC Blanc Type (matte, cream). Apply it from the crease to the brow. I use a Sigma E60 for this step.

Apply Tease (matte cream, pale cool-brown) from the crease to the brow bone and then blend it out. I use a Sigma E45 to apply and a MAC 217 to blend.

Apply Busted (deep cool-brown, shimmer) into the crease and upwards. I use a Sigma E45.

Blend it out! I use a MAC 217.

Apply Blackout (matte, black) to the outer V. I use a Sigma E30 for this.

Blend the edges only to keep the black deep and the elongated shape.

Add Verve to the inner corner and blend upwards. I use a Sigma E45 for this.

Run Pistol under the lash line. I use a Sigma E30.

Add some Blackout to the outer quarter to help elongate the eye even more. I use a Sigma E30 again.

Blend the two shades together.

Add Verve to the inner third of the lower lash line. I use, surprise surprise, a Sigma E30.

Optional: Add some winged liner. You can also just run a dark shadow or kohl liner and smudge it out along the lash line, that'd be just as lovely.

Curl your lashes and add some mascara! 

I also tight lined with a black liner and lined my waterline with a nude liner and added lashes.

I paired this look with a cool, soft pink lip and cheek.

Products: Face: Smashbox Primer - original Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer MUFE HD foundation - 118 Illamasqua Skin base - white Ben Nye Powder - Cameo RCMA -No Color Powder Nars creamy concealer - Chantilly Sephora concealer- fair ELF Mist & Set MAC - sculpt Makeup Forever - 126 Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder - Diffused Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder - Ethereal Tarte - Flushed Makeup Forever - 05 Eyes: Mac - Blanc Type Urban Decay - Naked 2 - Verve, Pistol, Busted, Tease, Blackout UD 24/7 liner - Perversion MAC Chromaline - NC20/NW15 L'Oreal Voluminous mascara- Carbon Black Lorac- Front of the Line PRO Liquid Eye Liner Maybelline Great Lash - clear Anastasia Beverly Hills Dip Brow - Blonde & Dark Brown Lips: MAC - Pink Nouveau

Lashes: House of Lashes - Tigress

Review: Mac Blushes

With Flash

Burnt Pepper, Desert Rose, Peaches, Devil, Salsa Rose, Azalea, Rhubarb 

Burnt Pepper, Desert Rose, Peaches, Devil, Salsa Rose, Azalea, Rhubarb 

With Flash

Burnt Pepper - A warm terracotta color with a matte finish.

 Desert Rose - Soft dusty pink burgundy with a matte finish.

 Peaches - Pure peach color with a sheer finish.

 Devil -Bright coral orange with a stain finish.

 Salsa Rose - Light iridescent coraly pink with a satin finish.

 Azalea - Bright Iridescent Cool Pink with a frost finish.

 Rhubarb - Bright magenta with a satin finish.

Price: 8/10 

 The Pro pan blushes are $21 for 6 grams. For the quality I think this is a fair price.  If you get the blushes in the packaging they are $25 a piece.  

Pigmentation: 10/10

Overall, these are very pigmented. I am very impressed with how strong they can apply. One of the reasons I have MAC blushes in kit is because of the oigmentation, since they can be applied very lightly which can flatter 

Texture: 10/10

The texture is lovely.  It's very velvety and easy to pick up on your brush. It's also very easy to blend.

Packaging: NA 

This isn't applicable since I only ordered the pans.

Overall Quality: 10/10 
The pigmentation is very great, you need very little product even for deep skin tones, so the pans will last a long time. The color selection are nice and they blend well together.

Repurchase: Yes

I would repurchase all of these colors.

Pros: Color, finish, texture, pigmentation

Cons: If I find one I'll let you know

Tutorial: Dramatic Eye with Lorac Pro

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I use my Lorac Pro palette a lot and I really like the shadows they have included. I finally made a tutorial, and I am planning on making another look or two also using this palette.

Here's the finished look!

Start out with priming your eyes. I am using the Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer.

 Apply Cream (matte, cool light cream) from the crease to the brow. I applied this with a Sigma E60.

 Using a MAC 242 apply Light Bronze to the lid.

Here's another look at that step.

 Using a Sigma E45, apply Taupe in the crease and half way to the brow coming to a point.

 Blend that out using small circles around the perimeter. I am using a MAC 217.

Using a Sigma E45, apply Espresso along the lash line and crease.

 Here's a look at the step with my eye open.

 Blend the edges. I am using a MAC 217.

 Here's a look at the previous step.

 Using a Sigma E30, apply Black to the outer V and extend the line following the lash line.

This is what that step looks like with your eye closed.

 Blend the shadow out carefully. I am using a clean Sigma E30 to blend.

 Clean up any fallout.

 I've corrected and concealed under my eye. Adding a little bit of Nude, in the inner part of the lid.

 Run some Taupe under the lash line. I use a Sigma E30.

 Run Espresso along three quarters of the lower lash line, using a Sigma E30.

 Then, take Black and run that just on the last quarter of your lash line, and wing it up.

Blend those together. I use a MAC 217.

Take an angled brush and make a line following your lower lash line with the Black.

 Blend that together, being mindful of the point.

 Use an angled brush and run Cream along the angle of the Black to clean up the line.

Add White to the inner corner and brow bone. I used a Sigma E45.

I am adding some liner here, which is optional, but I am going to be adding lashes so the liner will help conceal the band. I used Lorac Front of the Line liner.

I tight lined with black, added a nude liner in my water line, curled my lashes and added some black mascara to finish the look.

Products: Face: Smashbox Primer - original Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer MUFE HD foundation - 118 Illamasqua Skin base - white Ben Nye Powder - Cameo RCMA -No Color Powder Nars creamy concealer - Chantilly Sephora concealer- fair ELF Mist & Set MAC - sculpt MAC - Emphasize Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder - Diffused Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder - Ethereal MAC - Salsa Rose Eyes: Lroac Pro Palette: White, Cream, Nude, Light Bronze, Taupe, Sable, Espresso, Black UD 24/7 liner - Perversion MAC Chromaline - NC20/NW15 L'Oreal Voluminous mascara- Carbon Black

Lorac- Front of the Line PRO Liquid Eye Liner Maybelline Great Lash - clear MUFE aqua brow - 25 Lips: Urban Decay - Cat Fight