Soft purple eye makeup – tutorial

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This soft purple eye makeup tutorial is the perfect example of using colors in a more neutral way. Subtle purple tones suit surprisingly many eye colors. I tend to look best in warm colors, but I made these cool colors work for me by adding just a bit of warmth in the shape of gold eyeshadow.

So instead of the usual brown – go on and try purple. Just make sure to add warm or cool colors in there, whatever looks best on you.

light purple eye makeup tutorial

 

Soft purple eye makeup tutorial

Besides hiking and barbecue, I’ve been loving purple eyeshadow lately. There really isn’t enough purple eye makeup tutorials on my blog to prove just how much I love it (yet!). In this look I used more of a muted plum purple. Plum goes well with brown colors. That makes this look easier, because you can use brown colors to blend the purple better to your skin. (So yes, we’re using the good old brown – but just as a transition color.)

soft purple eye makeup tutorial

  1. Apply pink eyeshadow on half of your lid, leaving a bit of a gap in the outer corner.
  2. Next apply gold eyeshadow on the other half (inner corner).
  3. Fill in the outer corner gap and shade your eye with a purple eyeshadow.
  4. Blend well. You can also use a light brown to blend the purple to your skin better.
  5. Don’t forget your lower lid – add some purple there as well.
  6. And that’s about it!

Depending on your eye shape, bring the colors high enough so that some of it is visible when your eye is relaxed. On my deep set eye I bring the colors quite high.

soft purple makeup

soft purple makeup

Purple palettes to recreate this look:

*Huda Beauty Lilac Obessions Palette
*Natasha Denona Love Eyeshadow Palette
*Urban Decay Naked Ultraviolet Palette
*Norvina Pro Pigment Palette Vol 1

On my lips I wore:
*Jane Iredale Triple Luxe Lipstick in Rose
& on top of that
Zuii Organic Lux Lipstick in Bridget

 

light purple eye makeup

 

2 x rainbow colored makeup – tutorial

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You know it’s late spring, when each of my toe and finger nail is painted with a different color. Or when my freckles start to show up. Or when it’s finally warm enough to enjoy my morning coffee on our balcony.

Or when the date is suddenly 22.4. How are we already four months into this year?

And if not from that, you know it’s spring when I start to paint my face with rainbow colors. And on that note, here are two colorful makeup looks with tutorials!

Colorful makeup look

I have to say, this look didn’t turn out quite how I first envisioned it. In hindsight, it would have looked even better with a brighter lid color. I would have loved to use mint green, but I only had a muted light green, so I used that. Just white would have looked great too. Or another bright color, like yellow. So feel free to change up the colors! I also would have liked the liner to be bolder blue, but it didn’t show up as bright as I intended it.

Tutorial with step by step photos

colorful eye makeup tutorial

I wanted to left the orange and pink to kind of float on my lid (except in the inner part of my eye, where I pulled the pink to the lid a bit). First I applied orange in the outer part of my eye, going upwards. Then I added pink in the inner part of my eye and blended them together a bit. I left the lid bare.

Then I added the lid color, which was a muted green. I also added that on the lower lashline. I lined my eye using blue eyeshadow on a wet brush and finished off the look with inner corner highlight and mascara.

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By the way – that amazing glow comes from *Zuii Organic’s Melon blush. You know, the blush that is really similar to NARS Orgasm, only it’s actually better than it?

Read my post: NARS Orgasm VS. Zuii Organic Melon

For both looks I used mainly colorful palettes from NYX.

Eyeshadows:

NYX Off Tropic Hasta La Vista Palette
*NYX Ultimate Phoenix Palette
*NYX Perfect Filter Marine Layer Palette
Clarins Ombre 4 Couleurs, Jade gradation

Brows:
*Benefit 24hr Brow Setter Gel
GOSH Brow Pencil, Greybrown

Pink lips:
Lily Lolo Lip Liner, Pink
YSL Volupte Shine Lipstick, 41

Peach lips:
Lancome Cream Lipstick, Tresor

Nail polishes are from Essie (pink), essence (yellow), IsaDora (blue) and Rimmel (mint)

Necklace: 
*Rellery Zodiac necklace

Watercolor inspired makeup

I really love this look. I used a white eyeshadow as a base to make the colors a bit more light and bright. Tutorial can be found on my Instagram highlights!

rainbow eye makeup

rainbow makeup selfie

P.S. Thank you so much for your nice comments regarding my fatherless post. I’m overwhelmed and touched by your response. Writing that piece was important for me, but I didn’t realize how much the text could touch you as well. Whoever said social media can’t be real? I really appreciate you.

Are you into colors? 

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