Cloudy Lavender Rose Eye - Palette Throwback (Urban Decay Alice Through The Looking Glass)
I’ve been challenging myself to work with a different palette every few days because I have such a collection that most of them are inevitably forgotten whenever more new and shiny stuff launch.
This is a combination of shades that looks totally boring swatched, but transforms into something a little more magical on the eyes because of the duochrome nature of the shade Duchess.
P.S. MAC Pink Bronze pigment is a similar type of shade but use a light hand cos it’s about 101x more intense. If you’re lighter skinned, I’d maybe mix it with a little Naked pigment.
Step by step:
- Apply Chessboard onto dry clean lids in the socket as transition shade first
- Apply primer potion onto the lid (inside the socket line) with a synthetic brush to prep for the lid shades*
- Apply Gone Mad in the outer corners to deepen the socket, blending slightly into Chessboard.
- Apply Duchess over the center of the lid blending into Gone Mad slightly
- Apply Mirror with a smaller brush into the inner corners and sweep slightly along the curve of the socket up to the center of the eye
- Touch up a little more Duchess with a clean finger right in the center of the lid for more vibrancy
- Apply deep purple matte liner and then go over with a little more Duchess to soften the line.
*Whatever goes on right on top of primer is usually the most intense and hardest to soften and diffuse; I don’t want that to be my transition shade.
The Alice Through The Looking Glass palette was always something I wasn’t all that interested in because I’m not the biggest fan of Alice In Wonderland (blasphemy!) and the combination of shades is a bit eclectic at best, impractical for daily life at worst.I never gave it much of a chance besides swatching it and doing a couple of cursory looks when I received it in a PR package when it launched.
Which I suddenly realize is a terrible waste because it has some gorgeous colors if you consider them one by one. I also don’t know why but I had this impression that a lot of the shades were sheer (Dream On) and didn’t blend on true (Hatter and Metamorphosa), but now it strikes me that they just need to be worked with differently.
Other makeup:
Colourpop Creme Gel Liner pencil in No Shade
Natasha Denona blush duo 08 Peach
Rollover Reaction Sueded! Lip and Cheek Cream in Sally