Friday, November 16, 2012

Cranberry Eyeshadow

This season cranberry/oxblood/burgundy/whatever you wanna call it is really "in" & I had been freaking out over getting the perfect cranberry eyeshadow. So I spent a lot of my free time looking up dupe videos and blog reviews. Judge me all you want.

In an attempt to be thrifty I bought the NYX eyeshadow in "Rust" which is supposed to be a dupe for MAC's "Cranberry" and I was ultimately pretty happy with my purchase. NYX has great pigmentation in everything I've ever bought from them (blushes, eyeliners, lipsticks, eyeshadows) and this was no exception. But when I went to the MAC Glamour Daze event a few weeks ago I couldn't resist picking up "Cranberry" while I was there.

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As I drove home I was so mad at myself since having two eyeshadows that are exactly the same seems really ridiculous to me. But low and behold when I got home I realized that they really aren't that similar.

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Left: MAC "Cranberry" // Right: NYX "Rust"

In the pan they look nearly identical but once they hit skin they look pretty different. "Cranberry" is definitely less orange and rusty and more of a true cranberry/burgundy/oxblood color. But I will definitely still be using "Rust" regularly this fall. Both are great eyeshadows that I'm thrilled to be adding to my super small eyeshadow collection (I literally have five eyeshadows-- including these two).

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Here are a few ways to wear cranberry eyeshadow from around the web & a few of my own ideas:

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& here's a tutorial pixiwoo did of this look!

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The above are two different looks worn by Karen Gillan-- one using the cranberry dusted just under the eye and the other complimenting the copper tone blended along the outer corner of the eye

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This is the way I've most often used it. I normally use my normal liquid liner and then go back over it with the cranberry eyeshadow. It creates a subtle look that's pretty but not as intense as Kristen Stewart's look.

Hope you enjoyed this! Finding different cranberry eye looks was fun and more challenging than I thought it would be.

Have you jumped on the metaphorical oxblood/cranberry bandwagon?

love,
becca

1 comment:

  1. nice reviews, your blog is just lovely by the ways, keep up the good work, ill be visiting again very soon :)

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    Andrea Antoniou
    xxx

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