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Look for January 10, 2022 with photos

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It’s taken me a little bit of time to get going with my yearly eye challenge! This isn’t my first look, but it’s the first one that I remembered to photograph! (The other one was fairly simple, and that wasn’t until the 7th of January.) This look uses five colors from the Optimum palette: Prime (medium-light brown matte), Fighter (medium-light teal matte), Own (medium-deep burgundy matte), Mineral (light pearl shimmer), and Peak (light gold shimmer). They’re applied fairly softly, even the blue and the deeper red, so it’s possibly a good look to recreate if you want to use deeper or bolder colors but aren’t all that sure that you’ll like the finished result. You could also swap out Prime for any lighter neutral. (I kind of wanted to use a paler cream, but this palette doesn’t have many pale shades, and the ones that are lighter are all shimmers.)

Look for January 10, 2022

I primed my lids using NYX Pigment Primer, then patted Prime into place all over the lid with the blade of elf’s Eyeshadow Brush (longer bristles, broad brush head, fluffy end). I used the end of elf’s Eyeshadow Brush to sweep a small amount of Fighter from the middle outer edge down to my lash line, then swept Own in an angled line from my inner lash line up to just past where my crease would be, if I actually had one. (Yay hooded lids messing things all up.) I used elf’s Smudge Brush to sweep Mineral under my brows, then used the end of the smudge brush to press Peak into my inner vee. The mascara is Maybelline’s Total Temptation waterproof in black. I chose not to use an eyeliner with this look, since I was going for a subtler effect; but a grey or softer brown liner would work with this set of colors, as would a denim-teal or deeper maroon.

If anyone knows how to get good photos of eyeshadow looks without creased eyelids, I’d love to learn that. It would be nice to provide photos that better showed the placement and shape of the shadows when I’m wearing them.

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