If you’ve seen my swatches of the Sephora + PANTONE Facets of Marsala Eye Palette, you know just how magnificent the shades and pigmentation are. I decided to put together a makeup look and tutorial for you, complete with a numbered guide using the palette. Whether you own the palette or plan on purchasing it, you can easily follow along with my tutorial and recreate this look.
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HOW TO GET THIS EYE MAKEUP:
- Apply Shade 1 over your entire eyelid after using an eye primer. This shade just barely shows up on my eyelids, but I like to use it because it helps me blend out all of the other shades. Sometimes after applying eye primer, you can get spotty eyeshadow application, especially in your crease, so I like to apply a neutral shade there first so everything on the eye blends well.
- Apply Shade 2 into the crease and extend it upward toward your brow-bone generously. This is our transition “peekaboo” shade that will pop out.
- Apply Shade 3 into the socket of your eye ONLY, just where your eye creases when you are looking straight into a mirror. Focus fire this shade several times into the crease, building it up to a gorgeous burgundy marsala shade with plenty of definition.
- Apply Shade 4 to the outer-third of your crease and onto the outer-third of your eyelid, making the entire eyelid look smokey. I went back about 3 times with this shade, slowly building it up and blending it well.
- Apply Shade 5 to your entire lower lash-line. Use Shade 4 on the outer-third of your lower lash-line and connect it to where you applied it on the outer-third of your eye in Step #4.
- Using a wet brush, pat Shade 6 over your entire eyelid, stopping before the crease. Make this shade even more intense in the inner corners of your eyes.
- Apply Shade 7 to your brow-bone to blend Shade 2 out well and highlight your brow area.
- Apply black eyeliner (I used Urban Decay’s Perversion) to your lower waterline and tight-line your upper lashes.
- Curl your lashes and apply mascara. Apply false lashes (I used MUA Glamorous Lashes).
This is going to look good on your eyes no matter what eye color you have. It brings out blue and green eyes because the shades are opposite on the color wheel. It brings out the gold tones in hazel and brown eyes because of the warmth in the eyeshadow. This is one of my favorite types of looks to wear on a regular basis (minus the falsies), because it’s extremely flattering.
I kept my face luminous using Revlon’s new Airbrush Foundation. I contoured my cheekbones and used bronzer on my face to add even more warmth. I kept the lips neutral and nude so that the eyes really stood out.
Notice how much this eye look warms up my skin tone, brings out my eyes and hair color, and overall just really looks like a warm, brazen sunset on the eyes. It’s one of my favorite eye looks ever.
The Sephora + PANTONE Facets of Marsala Eye Palette is available at Sephora stores nationwide as well as online. Each palette retails for $39.00USD. See my swatches and review here.
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Angie says
Love it! Love the tutorial and explanations. I have a few questions and this will probably be long.
1. How do you pick which transition shade you will use for your eyeshadow combos? I was told “soft brown or haux should be your transition colors” (both MAC). I have hazel eyes with yellow/gold and light green much like yours and I am nc 25 or nc 30. My hair is brunette with blonde peekaboo highlights. For the past year or so I’ve begun experimenting with my stash in general and have started (seeing the genius in) using transition shades. I was still stuck in the 90s before when there was only a lid color, crease color, outer v or 2nd crease color, major highlight. So now, I’ve got my collection and techniques updated (thanks to mavens like yourself), but I’m finding that soft brown or haux doesn’t work for every eyeshadow combo I’ve been picking lately. For example, I was working with the Brooke Shields Gravitas palette the other day. I used satin taupe on the lid, soft brown as my transition, plummed in the crease and pepper for the outer v. I used Pink Cult blush and Creme in Your Coffee lipstick and it looked great. Everything just looked really blended and smooth and complimentary.
The next day, I did a khaki green on my lid, soft brown as the transition, antiqued in the crease, and pepper/carbon for the outer v. It looked blah, not great, but I was experimenting so I wasn’t too bummed. I don’t know how to pick color combinations and I’ve been trying to do that on my own with tutorials and watching you tube videos. Anyway, as long as I kept my cheeks bare and my lips bare, this was just blah, just okay. But as soon as I added any other color on my face, it made my crease up to my eyebrow look orange. No longer a blended look, just orange and it made my eyes look small and dark. It wasn’t a good look to begin with but after a while all I saw was orange. This has happened a lot – I pick out my lid, crease, outer v shade and then I get stumped with picking out the transition shade. It’s hit or miss and sometimes I get it right, sometimes I don’t. Is there a formula to use? Like if you are using lavender lid color, use yellow for transition and brown for outer v and maroon for under eye lining? (just picking colors at random there)
2. How do you know what lipstick would match your eyeshadow look?
3. How do you know what blush to wear?
I really appreciate your tutorials and the explanations, the step by steps. I am trying to become more independent with my makeup and not needing to hit the MAC counter for a makeover every 6 months (or every time a collection comes out). I have almost exclusively bought MAC because I like to keep it simple and for me, 1 stop shopping. I have so many colors I don’t know how to use because I didn’t start cataloging looks until a few years ago. I’m trying to learn on my own.
Thank you for reading this and any answers you provide.
🙂
Angie
BeautyGala says
Hi Angie! No problem with the length…I’ll try to get to everything, hopefully I can answer your questions…
1. My transition shades really vary depending on the look I am going for. I typically think about what I want in the crease first and foremost and then go from there. Since the transition color is going to help blend the crease shade and “pop out” from the crease color, it’s all about what is going in that crease and will complement it. And, believe it or not, complementing it doesn’t always mean going for a similar shade, it can also mean going for something different. For example, if you’re going a purple (or dark purple) in the crease, I would say a good transition shade would be anything from a gold, to a neutral brown, to a pink. If you used a pink shade for the transition, you’d be creating a much more colorful and dramatic look than if you used a brown or gold. There’s no exact science to it, but I will say that I typically like to use the same finish as a transition and crease. Like “Soft Brown” and “Antiqued” are different finishes (one is matte and the other is shimmery, if I remember correctly?), so that may have given you some trouble. I usually work with all shimmers, all satin’s, or all matte’s in the crease and the transition if that makes sense. I think picking color combinations and experimenting is really what you have to do. Keep in mind that I’ve been playing with makeup for many years and I STILL do looks that I absolutely hate and just end up wiping off, so it’s not just a beginner’s thing.
2. Lipstick is definitely all about preference. For this look, I went with a nude lipstick because the eyes are really coppery and warm and in general, the shades steal the show. For green and blue eye makeup I really like anything peachy (blush and lips), they complement each other really well. You can go matchy-matchy with your lips and eyeshadow colors, say if you’re doing a purple look, go for a purple or berry toned lipstick, or you can just stick with neutral shades. It’s all your preference and where you’re wearing your makeup to. I tend to be a nude and neutral pink lipstick lover when my eyes are very dramatic and when I keep my eyes more simplistic, I tend to go with a bold lip.
3. Blush is also preference, but I think this one has more of a science to it…It definitely depends on what you’re wearing on your eyes. If you’re going with blue or green eyeshadow, stick with peachy or bronze tones. If you’re going brown or neutral toned on the eyes, you can pick whatever shades you love for the cheeks. If I’m wearing a smokey eye, I love baby pinks. As far as what works with your skin tone, if your skin tone is similar to mine (which I am also an NC25 and a 30 in the summer), you can really get away with wearing almost any blush color.
I think you’re doing a great job at experimenting with your makeup on your own and MAC is a wonderful brand that I love myself. Their products are some of the best you can get and the more you play, the more you’ll find out what you like and what you don’t like on yourself. I hope I could be of some help with all of this! XOXO
Angie says
This is just wonderful – thank you! It really helps to know which colors go with what and to keep the transition and crease finishes the same. Also, I never thought of it that way, about the transition color ‘popping out’ from the crease and that being a deciding factor in what kind of overall look you want to create. I might even make a little mini palette of just transition shades . . .hmmmm. At any rate I’m going to make myself a little spreadsheet and off I go to play some more. Thank you so much!
Nicole says
I love love love this look. Huge fan of metallics and especially gold tones. Maybe if I follow your how to I can make it look at wondeful. I am horrendous at applying eye shadow properly. Ugh. ♡♡
Natasha Rodriguez Mom 2 5321 says
I love this look! I am so into that golden brown-red!!