eye shadow

Beware the iron oxide – as you can see from this container, it will get all over the place and make your hands messy! Blue iron oxide isn’t all about the blues – if you are considering the undertones of your eye shadows, then you’ll want to consider making purples or other dark colours with...

This is the blue iron oxide on paper. Behold its mighty power to colour everything it sees, including your hands! So be sparing with it in your eye shadows! As you saw in the last post on MMU, you can use base and micas to get a nice, translucent, shiny blue. But perhaps you’re not...

I am going to be honest…I’m not a fan of blue. When someone mentions blue, I think of the girls in my high school who wore tons of blue eye shadow right up to their eye brows, and it makes me cringe. I think there are far too many matte blues out there and too...

This week, we’re going to learn the joys of using manganese violet to make purples. If you compare it to the ultramarine purple, you’ll notice it is a much deeper colour than the purple. Which means you’re going to use much less than you would for the lighter colours. You can make an awesome base...

Purples are lovely colours, and you make pretty much any variation you want by using the right iron oxides (well, ultramarines and manganeses) and micas. This week we’re going to focus on purples made with ultramarine purple. (Next week we’ll use manganese violet and the week after that, variations using iron oxide blue, ultramarine pink,...