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AMP IT UP SERIES

TUTORIAL + PHOTOGRAPHY BY AMY NADINE, GRAPHIC DESIGN BY EUNICE CHUN

The holidays are coming, making it the perfect time to start kicking things up a little! So begins our Amp It Up Series, showing you different ways to take it the extra mile in the chic-est way possible. Today we’re taking a traditional shadow look and adding a “sunset” behind it for instant drama. Here’s how to create a copper halo:

TOOLS:

• A Metallic Brown Shadow — I used Dark Horse from the gorgeous Urban Decay Naked Palette, a staple in most makeup artists’ kits.
• A Metallic Copper Shadow — I used Ardency Inn’s Modster Manuka Honey Pigment in Copper. You can also use Half Baked from the Urban Decay Palette for a more subtle halo effect.
• A Black Kohl Pencil — You might have noticed by now that I’m obsessed with Charlotte Tilbury’s Rock n Kohl Pencil because it’s one of the blackest black pencils out there and doesn’t smear or run.
• A Volumizine Mascara — If you haven’t tried Eyeko’s Black Magic Mascara yet, you’re in for a treat! It’s incredibly black, making your lashes show up from across the room.

TRADITIONAL SHADOWED LID:

1. Apply the metallic brown shade all over the upper lid. Include the crease but not above it. I wet the brush slightly to intensify the pigment, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
2. Apply the same shade along the bottom lash line.
3. Rim the inner waterline with the black kohl pencil, letting it also fill in the spaces in between the lashes.
4. Line the upper lash line with the same black kohl pencil. I winged it up and out on Magali above, but that’s a personal call depending on your mood and lid shape.
5. Add a couple coats of mascara.

SUNSET EFFECT:

1. Sweep the copper shade along the crease, just above the mettalic brown lid and extend it out slightly as demonstrated above.
2. Trace the copper shade just below the metallic brown on the lower lash line.