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What are your go-to neutral eyeshadows?
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MAC Blanc Type, Wedge, and Handwritten.
oooo twilight fan?? great! have u ever tried to archieve bella swan look becuz robbin matthews used those eyeshadows for bella’s look in twilight
Arena, ricepaper, shroom,
The Urban Decay Naked Palette is great as the packaging is strong, durable and convenient for travelling and the shadows are great, too! x
I agree! It has become my favorite set of neutrals!
Urban Decay Naked Palette 🙂
MAC soft brown, texture, vanilla and carbon <3
mac all that glitters + handwritten
All MAC- Shroom, Prized, All That Glitters, and Omega.
Smashbox eye-shadow single in Flirt, a shimmery pink-beige with silver flecks.
MAC Naked pigment, MAC Kid and Soft Brown
MAC Saddle or MAC Texture. I also like Stila Brick, Henna and Illumani.
Mac Soft Brown, Arena, Cork, Swiss Chocolate.
MAC eyeshadows: Vex,Patina,Soft Brown, All That Glitters, Naked Lunch, Espresso, Mulch, Satin Taupe, Shroom, Dalliance, Tweet Me.
Urban Decay: Everything thats in the Naked Palette except Sidecar
TheBalm: Everything thats in the ShadyLady Balm Palette except Bossy Bobbi and Makeout Mary.
Stila: Cloud and Puppy
Right now I’m loving MAC’s Omega, Charcoal brown and Brun for a defined eye.
Maybelline’s Eyeshadow Trio in “Chocolate Mousse.”
MAC Modelette, Wedge, and Cork.
I love bobbi brown’s black cocoa with soft brown 🙂
i use my dashing lassie eyeshadow palette from the tartan tale collection a lot when i do a neutral eye!
MAC Naked Lunch on the lid and Satin Taupe or Sable in the crease 🙂 yum!
I only like neutral shadows in general! Do these count as neutrals? Favs are MAC satin taupe, naked lunch, phloof. NYX black. WnW silent treatment trio — the bottom color which is a shimmery mauvey taupe. Maybelline’s natural smokes quad. I would prob also say the UD Naked palette if I owned it… sigh someday:)
MAC Shroom, Vanilla, Satin Taupe, Handwritten, Wedge, Soft Brown
UD naked palette !
That’s all the neutral I have !
All that glitters, cork, femme-fi
Asp and Harmony from Pure Luxe & Atomic Afterglow and Snow Leopard from Fyrinnae.
Lightest and darkest shade from Clarins instant sunlight es pallet, and I also freaking love Patina from MAC.
MAC Texture, Soft Brown, and Kid!
UD Naked palette: virgin, naked, buck, smog, darkhorse
MAC: vanilla, grain, naked lunch, soft brown, sketch
The Urban Decay Naked Palette *Love it*
Mac Blanc Type, Arena, Skintone2(Burmese Beauty Quad LE)
Greetings from Germany 🙂
MAC Club is the prettiest of all the neutral shadows but the only time I’ll wear a neutral now is if it’s a very dark brown shimmery shadow so that I can still create smokey eyes. Shadows such as the mega metal shadow called Centre Stage are good for me.
NARS Kalahari Duo or NARS Star Sailor Duo.
mac – omega, Orb, and all that glitters
I also love chanel mystic eyes quad
maybelline natural smokes quad or the urban decay naked palette!
Some of the neutrals that i like to use are MAC Grand Entrance, Style Snob, Satin Taupe, Ricepaper and Soft Brown
NARS Bellissima duo
Cashmir Pink by Lancome.
MAC: shroom, soft brown, all that glitters, naked lunch, satin taupe, naked pigment-newly acquired love!!
Urban Decay: sin, virgin, darkhorse
Lorac Social and MAC cork
MAC — Bisque on lid, Wedge in crease, Blank Type on browbone
UD — Naked Palette
Chanel — Dunes quad
Best neutrals for me are Ivory Lace Double wear cream ( also a great primer for eyelids ) from Lauder and Bobbi Brown Brown Stone Metallic. I also LOVE the pink in the Chanel Enigma quad and wonder offhand if anyone knows a good dupe? 🙂
MAC Blanc Type, MAC Copperplate, Fyrinnae Nijiro, Venomous Pegasus, Too Faced Sexpresso and Urban Decay Lit.
I have two go to neutral mixes-the smashbox headshot trio, sadly there is more fallout with them than I’d like and my favorite is benfit’s where there’s smoke paired with tarina tarantino’s organza.
shady lady jamie, katie, lani, jane
UD sin, half baked
BE nude chic, tiara, rose pearl
Patina, Satin Taupe and Twinks make my signature look.
so easy, and i get soooo many compliments on it!
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From mac: all that glitters, cork, and brulee or
The urban decay naked palette sin, buck, and virgin which are almost dupes for the mac ones haha
MAC All That Glitters, Satin Taupe, Mulch, Tempting, Copperplate.
Also NYX I Dream of St. Marteen.
Naked Lunch, Cork, and Blanc Type
Texture, saddle, woodwinked, satin taupe, bamboo (LE)
Aside from my beloved TooFaced Natural Eye Palette, it has to be MAC All That Glitters, Soft Brown, Texture, and Saddle.
Bobbi Brown Nude Palette
MAC All That Glitters, Ricepaper, Dazzlelight, Samoa Silk, Down Brown and Woodwinked.
urban decay naked and smog, wet n wild brulee and the walking on eggshells trio 🙂
MAC’s Brule, Omega, Soft Brown, and Vanilla. Also, Urban Decay’s Naked Palette is amazing for neutrals. 🙂
MAC Era. I’m surprised nobody chose this one.
All MAC eye shadows- Woodwinked, Satin Taupe, Ricepaper, Naked Lunch
Mac all that glitters, texture, ricepaper.
Mary Kay plush pink and cameo shadows
Chanel spices quad
The Rimmel Smokey Browns quad is pretty good if you’re looking for a cheap neutral palette.
the naked palette
MAC Saddle, Rock & Republic Spy and all of the shadows in Naked.
For me:
– Urban Decay Naked Palette
– MAC Mystery
– MAC Malt
– MAC Wedge
– MAC Vanilla
– MAC Dazzlelight
Urban Decay Naked, Buck, Virgin
MAC Brule
It used to be MAC Soba-Bronze-Brule. Now I love MAC Satin Taupe-Soft Brown/Wedge-Centre Stage/Espresso-Shroom. It used to be just Espresso but ever since I got Centre Stage (mega-metal e/s), it’s the perfect dark brown-close-to-black crease color I need 🙂
MAC Vanilla, Swiss Chocolate and Saddle eyeshadows
I always reach for my UD Naked palette!
I love the CoverGirl Shimmering Sands Trio.
I normally use Urban Decay Smog all over the lid and blended into crease. Some days I’ll use Urban Decay Sin all over. <3 Urban Decay!
MAC honey lust and also MAC corduroy
Palettes filled with the permanent lineup of neutrals from MAC… It’s hard to narrow the list..
MAC Arena + Texture
MAC Era + Cork (or Soba)
MAC Wedge + Charcoal Brown
For adding shimmer: MAC Antiqued, Bronze, Romp, Satin Taupe, Smut
For highlighting: MAC Grain or Shroom
UD Naked Palette: Buck, Virgin / Bobbi Brown: Mink, Taupe / MAC: Era, Femme-Fi (LE)
All MAC: Blanc Type, Shroom, Kid, Naked Lunch, All That Glitters, Patina, Tempting, Woodwinked, Brun, Soft Brown, Folie, Prepped for Glamour.
MAC Patina and Handwritten or Mystery
I almost exclusively wear neutrals and can say Too Faced Fawn Over Me is fantastic–great formula, great bronzy-gold-brown shade.
Urban Decay Sin, Stila Kitten, and MAC Subtle pigment which they don’t make anymore but is the perfect daytime brown for the crease.
Urban Decay’s Scratch, Smog, and Toasted.
Neutrogena Iced Coffee duo, MAC Shroom, All that Glitters, Woodwinked.
MAC: Bronze, Buckwheat, Center stage, Constructivist paint pot, tempting, go
mac shroom, mac grain, mac naked lunch, urban decay sell out
I’m loving my Urban Decay Naked Palette, along with a personalized quad from MAC that contains Satin Taupe, Blanc Type, Mulch, and Era!
MAC Naked Lunch and Shroom; UD Naked Palette
I pretty much only own neutrals but here are my top 5:
Patina, Era, Copperplate, Vanilla, Retrospeck
I love champagne colours mostly.
MAC – All That Glitters, Shroom, Patina, Sable, Grand Entrance
NYX – Highlight, Salmon, Champagne
Flirt – Peach Champagne
Stila – Kitten, Wheat
Urban Decay – Si
Love MAC Wedge and Brulee and Eve Pearl Au Naturale Palette
mac woodwinked, mulch, brule. also the naked palette
MAC All That Glitters: for a great lid color that brightens and goes with evereything.
MAC Soft Brown: to blend out the crease and and definition to the crease. great for warming up the browbone area.
MAC Satin Taupe: my all time favorite!! I love this all over the lid for a smokey look or in the outer v. the color works so well with my green eyes and skintone. it’s appropriate for any occasion.
MAC Naked pigment: i like this for a subtle shimmery highlight or a very natural lid color. looks very poliahed but subtle.
I have 4 different shades I can wear everyday: MAC Vex, Shroom, Jest and Patina.
naked lunch shroom mac coconut grove nars (I love thisss)
Maybelline Natural Smokes (primarily the lid color)
From MAC: Naked Lunch (inner corner?? WOW), wedge, brule, vanilla eyeshadow
MAC’s All that Glitters and Sable!
this is such a hard question to answer because probably 80 to 95% of my eye shadows could qualify as “neutral”. But here goes: Too Faced’s Teddy Bear, MAC Omega, Naked Lunch (or All That Glitters), Mulch and Prepped for Glamour. Oh, and the UD Naked palette and Too Faced’s Natural Eye kit – palettes are a good way around this difficult question!
I haven’t been able to get my hands on a UD Naked Palette but i got the Too Faced natural eye two weeks ago and I can’t get enough of it, it is super versatile, I have been using it every single day since then and I just love it. 🙂
MAC naked lunch, all that glitters, brule, embark, satin taupe and dazzlelight. I pretty much switch up between those every day 🙂