holiday sparkle: evergreen. everglam.

 You may or may not know that the Pantone Color of the Year 2013 was Emerald. While Sephora and Pantone collaborated to release several products featuring emerald green, many people are intimidated by the color. I thought that the color was perfect for this holiday season, reminiscent of the evergreen Christmas trees and incorporating the biggest color trend for 2013.

As always do try out this look with products already in your collection. Enjoy!

the eyes:

-First prime your eyes with your eye primer of choice. (Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer)

-Next sweep a transition color through your crease that is very close to you skin tone. This will help all the colors we apply after blend more easily. (Urban Decay #Habit)

-With a flat shader brush, pack a shimmery emerald green shadow all over your lid. Make sure to stop at the crease. You can also use a setting spray, water or mixing fluid on your brush to make the eyeshadow standout even more. (Urban Decay #Damaged) (NYX Matte Setting Spray)

-Using a fluffy blending brush, sweep a warm tone brown shadow or bronzer through your crease. (Physician's Formula Bronze Booster #Light/Medium)

-With a smaller blending brush blend a warm purple shade through your crease. Do not blend it out past the warm brown, it should be contained with-in the crease. (Urban Decay #VooDoo) (NYX Matte Setting Spray)

-Next highlight underneath the brow bone with a matte shadow a few shades lighter than your skin tone. (NYX Nude Matte Shadow #IHaveAHeadache)

-For the inner tear duct, apply a shimmery gold shadow with a pencil brush. (Urban Decay Strike)

-On the inner 1/3 of the water line, apply a nude liner to keep the gold highlight bright. (Rimmel Scandaleyes Eyeliner #Nude)

-On the outer 1/3 of the water line apply a black water proof gel or eyeliner pencil. (Maybelline Eyestudio Gel Liner #Black)

-In the middle 1/3 of the water line, finish off with a purple eyeliner pencil. (Rimmel Scandaleyes Eyeliner #Purple)

-Using a flat definer brush, place the purple shadow again along the lower lashline to set the waterline liners from bleeding. (Urban Decay #VooDoo)

-With a black liner, line the upper lash line very thin and close to the lash line. I chose to skip the wing, but of course if your prefer you may go ahead and wing it out. (Maybelline Eyestudio Gel Liner #Black)

-Next, add your favorite lashes. (Ardell Demi 120)

-Lastly, coat your bottom lashes and blend the top lashes with the falsies with your mascara. (Smashbox Photo Op Eye Brightening Mascara)

the lips:

- For the lips, I opted for a sheer berry wash of color with lots of shine. (Maybelline Color Elixir #Amethyst Potion)

other products used:

-Rimmel Fix & Perfect Pro Primer

-Lancome Teint Idole Ultra 24hr Makeup #Ivory

-L'oreal Truematch Concealer Crayon #N-1-2-3

-Revlon Colorstay Concealor #Fair

-NYX Set It & Don't Fret It Matte Finishing Powder #Light

-Revlon Nearly Naked Pressed Powder #Fair

-Prestige Brow Perfection Brow Pencil #Med/Deep

-Milani Brow Fix Kit #Light

-Prestige Brow Perfection Clear Brow Gel

-NYX Nude Matte Shadow #Tryst (as contour powder)

-Physician's Formula Bronze Booster #Light/Medium

-Benefit Box Powder Blush #Rockateur

-MAC Mineralized Skin Finish #Lightscapade

As always if you try this out for yourself please tweet me a pic or send me something on my other social media which is listed to the top right of the blog. Don't forget to hashtag #iamalizarin so I can see! Please leave any comments or requests in the comment section below or on social media.

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