Monday 21 October 2013

The Perfect Quad



Eyeshadow was my first ever venture into Makeup. I remember when I first went to a MAC store over 5 years ago now.. I bought myself Goldmine. I cherished it considering it was the only makeup I would own for the next 2 years. Once I fully emerged myself into everything Makeup, obviously the MAC Palette was an obsession. I bought myself the palette with 15 inserts.. and it was all I could do - fill it up. I asked for shadows for my birthday - festivals - anything. It contained - highlight colours - lid colours - crease colours - everything one needed for a night out. Because, back then thats the only time I used makeup, when I went out. As I grew older; gone were the days where a smokey eye was all I thought about, I needed colours that would work for both day and night, on their own and paired with others.  
Now, my MAC palette consists of several MAC and Inglot shadows - colours  and my depotted Naked Palette - this way it covers my need for neutrals and colours. 
Recently, after much thought - I decided to place my 4 most used shadows into a quad. (more out of need because once the UD Naked made its way into my palette, I needed to move 4 shades out)

It consists of MAC's Woodwinked, Amber Lights, Club and Inglot's 421 Pearl (Dupe for MAC's Antiqued)
Creating this Quad is probably the most useful thing I've done with my makeup - I can use them alone - as they're four stand out shades, as well as with eachother. It gives me the best choice of everyday colours which can really be amped up for an evening out. It is the perfect quad. Bonus - oh so travel friendly.

What does your perfect quad consist of?

8 comments:

  1. Mine? Club, soba, rice paper...and maybe amber lights/woodwinked? Yours is making me want antiqued (or atleast the dupe) :-D

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    1. Hi Ki! :D
      The dupe, the dupe.. cheaper and still as good :D

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  2. 421 is a dupe of antiqued! wow..could you pls post swatches of 421? thank you!

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  3. somehow i never invested in mac singles...im happy with my other palettes but u have tempted me to try these!

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    1. Some of the MAC eyeshadows are reallyyy worth it, so unique.

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  4. Thinking of a quad is soo tough, as I need more than 4 with me. But it'll be Club, a dark brown, highlighter and a blue/green color.

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    1. It is! It took SO long to figure this one out :P

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