A touch of blue

 

Sometimes you just have to play around with colors. 

I've learned that you have to just buy stuff to see if it works for you. Sometimes it's a big fail. I've bought some shadows that I wish I hadn't wasted my money on. I end up giving them away to some young teenager that could care less about the color payoff. 

I, on the other hand, can't afford not to look "right" when I go to work. I don't want to put on makeup and have it looking crazy midday without a way to fix it. It has happened to me so many times that I've began to eliminate some brands that just don't work for me.

Then you have to experiment with the colors before you actually wear them out of the house. I test out colors together before I actually wear them. You know those days you are in the house with nothing to "really" do. Those are great days to test out the colors. 

One good idea I've learned is to look in your closet for inspiration. Whatever colors work in the closet will work on the eyes.  I found these colors in a shirt in my closet.  I tested it out and this is what I came up with.

Magenta day

Magenta is one of my go-to colors. I own two magenta colored, collar shirts. Of course, I have lots of shadows that are close but not magenta. So for this post I had to do some explaining.
When you don't own the right color you have to mix two colors together to come up with the color you are going for. For example, there are many shades between lilac and purple. Lilac is more of a light, bluish colored purple which means you can start off with a white-blue shadow and brush purple on top of it.
Okay? So, long story short, I had to mix a couple of colors to create this magenta. I took the hot pink from my Sugarpill sweetheart palette and mixed it with the purple in the burning heart palette. I creates a great deep magenta for my outer-v and crease areas.
I had on pants with all the colors in my shadow (the pants don't show in the pictures). I used the white (Tako) in my sweetheart palette for my year duct area and base for other colors. I then used my Wet n Wild holiday palette to get the purple tinted blue blended after the white.
I had fun with this look and learned a lot about colors. I also learned that a bad shadow will ruin a look. Just because you have some void shadows within a palette doesn't mean they all work the same. *SIGHS* I guess I will continue looking for better shadows. (I need a job just to pay for these shadows.)