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5 Faves: Summertime Coppers
Copper is a great color for summer and fall (though surely you can wear it any time of the year!), but it has a brightness and often comes in a more shimmery finish so it gives off that summer vibe while the reddish tones read autumnal as well. Here are a few summer favorites:
- Sephora Sly as a Fox — a matte copper eyeliner
- MAC Coppering — a shimmery, copper eyeshadow
- Becca Songbird — a luminous coppery blush
- NYX Wrath — a metallic copper lipstick
- Make Up For Ever D708 Pinky Copper — a lighter copper eyeshadow
I absolutely love coppery shades on eyes and lips – I remember the first cosmetic product I remember showing an interest in was this coppery reddish lipgloss.
Particularly love the look of that MUFE shadow – looks kinda similar to the light copper Guerlain Les Fauves which is my absolute favourite eyeshadow because the warm orange tones act like a colour corrector and brightener on my very darkly pigmented eye area (the orange and the dark pigmentation sort of cancel each other out?) and the end result is a “natural” (for a shimmery shade at least), easy to wear but very flattering shade.
Sounds very pretty! Les Fauves is such a nice fall-ish palette.
Becca Songbird is pretty, probably a copper I can wear!
It has a lovely sheen!
I love Nyx Wrath! Its perfect for fall and I wore a similar color as a teen in the 90’s. I think all I wore where frosted lipsticks back then. Revlon made a frosted red lipstick, it was so pretty.
My favorite coppers: Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector pressed in Rose gold. Estee Lauder pure color blush in Brazen Bronze. Nars lipgloss in Golddigger, more gold than copper but really shimmery
I need to check out Brazen Bronze now!
Copper’s not a colour I wear often – it’s in that whole orange/red family I tend to avoid BUT I am trying to move a bit out of that rigid approach. I got L’Oreal Amber Rush some time ago and I do wear it from time to time and just last week (this is a biggie for me), I used Sonic and Alchemy (from UD Vice3) – how’s THAT for being daring – and no lives were lost and no one ran away in horror and, applied, they were both less “aggressive” than they looked in the pans.
Sonic AND Alchemy! Very nice. Both great shades, and I bet you were lovely in them 🙂
Oooh, I came *so* close to getting Sly As A Fox the other day! I love that eyeliner! And I love that Becca Songbird blush, too! What is weird is that with my large stash of MAC e/s, I haven’t gotten Coppering yet. And I also haven’t put MUFE Pinky Copper on my MUFE “wishlist”, YET. Gonna change that!
It’s soooo unique!! I was impressed that it’s a legit eyeliner and not a lip-liner-marketed-as-an-eyeliner, lol!
*looks happily with green eyes* I appreciate these 5 faves you do, especially when it’s a color I like to wear.
Thank you 😀
Gorgeous picks. The only one I have is Nyx Wrath, but it is a fantastic copper lipstick. I love copper eye shadows. I think they work really well with bluish-gray and green tones in my eyes.
What are your copper eyeshadow must-haves?
I love shimmery and metallic coppers best. ColourPop Game Face, On the Rocks and La La. LORAC Unleashed (form Unzipped Gold) and Amber (from Pro Metal). Urban Decay Trick and Half-Baked. The Balm’s Betty Lou-Manizer. Bare Minerals Sex Kitten. Too Faced Salted Caramel (Chocolate Bar and Peanut Butter (Semi-sweet). Wet N Wild – the lid shade from the I’m Getting Sunburned trio.
Betty Lou is a good one 😀
I bought Betty Lou on accident, and of course it was much too dark for me to highlight or bronze with. But I LOVE it as an eyeshadow. That compact will last me forever. LOL
Oddly enough for someone who loves red products (eyeshadows especially), I don’t have a ton of copper! I actually only have 5 exactly.
MAC Coppering (it really is beautiful, and great for an autumn smoky eye when paired w/ dark browns)
MAC Sunbaque blush (I’d consider this in the copper family!)
ColourPop Sequin
ColourPop KathleenLights
Sephora Marsala liquid eyeliner
I was going to include the Sephora Collection Marsala cheek stick blush, but I think I might have thrown it away. It’s totally beautiful and feels great on the skin, but I just never ever reach for it!
Sunbasque is a pretty shade! 😀 I like the finish on it.
OMG..NYX Wrath is so BadA$$. I have never seen that before! I am dying to try those Sephora matte liners and Becca Songbird is big on my wishlist now. How pretty is that for a fall blush?! And a new addition for my wshlist of MUFE artist shadows. I can always count on Temptalia to keep my beauty wish list going!:D
Wrath’s such a cool shade 😀
Love and adore that NYX lipstick Wraith. Hopefully (fingers crossed) they will have it at my local Target store. A divine colour. Thank you for doing this Christine.
I hope they release it!
Gorgeous shade. Completely unwearable on my skin tone, lol.
Awww!
Coppering! <3
I love it, I haven't used it in a long time, must incooperate it in a look soon.
I must get Sly as a Fox, it sounds delicious!
All in all a very nice, goodlooking selection. Thanks for remainding me how lovely copper is as a colour!
My pleasure 😀
Coppering will be mine soon!
Yayyy!
Oooh, thanks for posting. I haven’t worn NYX Wrath since I got it last fall…I might have to pull it out to wear in the last weeks of summer!
Yesss! You need to!