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5 Deep Brown Eyeshadows

I love a rich, deep brown–they can look so luxurious!

1. Make Up For Ever #162 — deep red-toned brown with a matte finish
2. Bare Escentuals Foreshadow — deep, dark chocolate brown
3. Tarina Tarantino Dreamy — deep, dark black-brown with gold shimmer
4. MAC Embark — matte red-toned dark brown
5. MAC Legendary Black — dark gray-tinted brown

What’s your favorite deep brown eyeshadow?

Video: 5 True Blue Eyeshadows

Live version of the original post 5 True Blue Eyeshadows Complete with swatches!  And I am totally working on getting better with the timing of these.

5 Beautiful Coral-Orange Blushes

This post is a follow-up to last week’s on coral-pink blushes.  These are all warmer, with more orange/peach than pink.

1. Tarte Blissful — vibrant coral-orange
2. Tom Ford Lovelust — shimmering peachy coral
3. Le Metier de Beaute Echo – rich coral-orange with a golden shimmer-sheen and a hint of underlying pink
4. Chanel Tweed Brun Rose — medium-dark coral-orange
5. Make Up For Ever #153 — coral-orange with golden shimmer/sheen

What’s your favorite coral-orange blush?

5 Fantastic Coral-Pink Blushes

If you’re not enamored of corals as much as I am, you may lump them all together as “coral,” but there is a definite distiction between a coral-pink and a coral-orange (and to an extent, coral-red!). There are corals that pull pinker, so they appear less warm, peach, and orange on the skin tone, while there are corals that pull warmer, so they appear redder, more orange, and peachier.

1. Tarina Tarantino Parasol — shimmering coral-pink with a champagne shimmer-sheen
2. NARS Orgasm — classic pink base with golden sheen that translates to a pink-coral
3. theBalm Frat Boy — coral pink with just a faint sheen
4. MAC Posey — pink-coral cream blush
5. Tarte Glisten — medium-dark pink base color with a golden sheen

What’s your favorite coral-pink blush?

5 Perfectly Cool-Toned Pink Eyeshadows

Cool-toned pinks tend to be blue-based, and when they’re on the lighter end of the spectrum, you’ll find they’re described as cotton candy or bubblegum pink, while when they’re on the darker end of the spectrum, they are often fuchsia or magenta.

1. MAC Seedy Pearl — cool-toned iridescent pink
2. Inglot #319 — cotton candy pink with blue undertones
3. Urban Decay Woodstock — medium-dark fuchsia pink
4. Inglot #362 — light-medium blue-based pink
5. Urban Decay Hot Pants — bubblegum pink

What’s your favorite cool-toned pink eyeshadow?

5 Beautiful Cool-Toned Brown Eyeshadows

Cool-toned browns tend to lean just a little gray, but not gray enough to become taupe.

• Tarina Tarantino Delightful — it may be a palette, but it actually has two cool-toned browns in it
• MAC Legendary Black — blackened brown
• Inglot #329 — it has a smoky quality that keeps it from being a more traditionally warm-toned brown
• MAC Charcoal Brown — just a hint of gray
• Inglot #360 — a medium brown with a touch of gray

What’s your favorite cool-toned brown eyeshadow?