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00:00 Hi, welcome to Curious Co. Kat.
00:01 I'm Courtney.
00:02 So I'm continuing on with my trial of Almay products.
00:05 So Almay is a hypoallergenic makeup company,
00:08 and you can find their products at the drugstore.
00:10 And they're made for people with sensitive skin, which I definitely
00:13 have, particularly around my eyes.
00:15 But they've also been coming out with eyeshadow palettes for years
00:17 that have colors designed for particular eye colors.
00:20 So last time I tried out the Hazel Eyes Bold Nudes Palette in an eyeliner,
00:24 because my eyes technically are hazel.
00:26 But sometimes my eyes can look very green.
00:28 So I also got a green eyes palette and some eyeliners for green eyes.
00:32 And I'm curious to see if these colors will enhance my eye color better
00:36 than the hazel ones.
00:37 So let's find out.
00:38 OK, so to start things off, I already primed and moisturized my skin.
00:41 And I applied my Makeup Forever HD Foundation just using my hands.
00:45 So I'm still going to use my MAC Paint Pot and Paint Relay to prime my eyes,
00:48 because I just really like having a primer.
00:49 But with the exception of this and my eyelash primer,
00:52 all my other eye products will be Almay.
00:57 All right, here we go.
00:58 So this is the Smokey Eye Palette for green eyes.
01:04 Last time I did the Bold Nudes for hazel.
01:07 But it looks like I've got kind of an iridescent burgundy color,
01:09 kind of a taupe-y color, and then a pinky color.
01:12 So we'll see how they look.
01:13 And once again, I'm not going to use the little sponges.
01:16 So just like in the last palette, they obviously
01:18 give you a little picture on where to put the colors.
01:20 And then obviously you can follow the way it looks right here.
01:23 So I'm going to go ahead and do that.
01:24 I'm going to take that first kind of burgundy color on a MAC 217
01:27 and wash that all over my lid.
01:29 OK, that's nice.
01:37 It's definitely just kind of a reddish burgundy color.
01:40 And it's not overly shimmery, which I like.
01:42 So now on a MAC 275 brush, I'm going to take the middle color, which
01:45 is kind of a taupe-looking color, and run that through my crease.
01:51 I'm just going to start blending that out with a MAC 224.
01:58 So now I'm going to take a Real Techniques Dome Shadow Brush
02:00 and the lightest pinkish shade and run that through my brow bone.
02:03 OK, now I'm going to conceal.
02:09 And then I'll go back to the eyes.
02:11 I'm using MAC Moisture Cover Concealer.
02:12 Now I'm going to take a MAC 239 and both of that lid color and the crease color
02:21 and run that along my lower lashes.
02:22 I started off with just the crease color
02:26 to see what it looked like by itself.
02:28 And it's a pretty color.
02:30 It's just not very strong.
02:31 So I don't know.
02:33 So now I'm going to go in with the other color.
02:37 OK, so now I'm going to play with the eyeliners.
02:39 I got two for the green eyes because they looked interesting.
02:41 I'm going to go ahead and start with this one.
02:43 It's a sparkling one in the color Mocha.
02:46 I'm going to run that along my upper lash line.
02:48 [BLENDING]
02:52 Now I'm going to take the little smudger that it comes with
02:57 and smudge it out a bit.
02:58 So I'm going to run a little bit of this along my lower lash line.
03:04 I feel like my eyes are like a disco ball right now.
03:11 It's a lot of glitter.
03:14 Geesh.
03:16 All right, let's try the other eyeliner.
03:18 [LAUGHS]
03:20 So I got this one because it says "raising quart,"
03:22 so I thought that was intriguing.
03:24 And I'm going to put this in my waterline.
03:25 Curl lashes.
03:29 Before I do my mascara, I do want to go and take a pencil brush
03:37 and that light pink color and put that in my inner corners.
03:40 Now I'm going to prime my lashes with my Smashbox lash primer.
03:47 [BRUSHING]
03:49 Now I'm going to take my Almay One Coat Thickening Mascara.
03:51 OK, I'm going to go ahead and finish up the face.
04:00 I'm just going to use my Real Techniques Contour Brush and MAC Harmony Blush
04:03 through my cheekbones.
04:04 Now for blush, I'm going to take a MAC Large Angled Contour Brush
04:10 and MAC Rosy Outlook.
04:12 [BRUSHING]
04:15 OK, now a little highlighter.
04:18 I'm going to take Laura Mercier Highlight 01 and a MAC 100 brush.
04:22 Now for the lip, I'm just going to take Dior Addict Lipstick in Basic.
04:28 And then a little bit of Dior Addict Gloss in Venus.
04:39 All right, so that is my completed Almay Smoky Green Eyes
04:42 palette and eyeliners.
04:43 I hope you enjoyed that.
04:44 That was very fun to play around with.
04:46 So I did like working with these eyeshadows.
04:48 Just like last time, they're nice and blendable
04:50 and there's not a lot of fall down, which is great.
04:52 I guess because it's the Smoky Eye palette,
04:53 that's why the darkest color is the lid color.
04:56 And it's a nice kind of burgundy brown color,
04:58 which is really nice for green eyes because it's
05:00 on the opposite side of the color wheel.
05:03 This kind of taupey color, I think, gets a little bit lost
05:06 with the darkness of the burgundy color,
05:08 but it is a really beautiful color.
05:10 So I definitely think these are a really nice array
05:12 of eyeshadows to have in your collection,
05:14 whether or not you use them all together or separately.
05:16 They're really nice colors.
05:18 The eyeliners-- so this eyeliner, the Chocolate Mocha
05:21 one, has definitely got a lot of glitter payoff.
05:23 So if you like glitter eyeliners,
05:25 this is a good one to do.
05:26 If you do not, then I don't recommend checking this out
05:29 because it's got--
05:30 I was very surprised with how much glitter
05:32 came off this pencil.
05:33 And then this one is kind of, like it says,
05:36 a raisiny kind of brownish color.
05:38 And it got a little bit of color payoff in my waterline,
05:40 but not too, too much.
05:41 Perhaps it's better if you just apply it directly
05:43 to your lash line.
05:45 So yeah, I'm not sure.
05:46 I think my eyes look a little bit more on the green side
05:48 than on the hazel side.
05:49 So yeah, I definitely think they're
05:51 nice colors for green eyes, for sure, any eye color, really.
05:55 So please check out my blog at CuriousCoquette.com,
05:57 and I'll do a swatch of all of these colors on my hand
06:00 so you can see what they look like by themselves.
06:02 I'll link that below as well.
06:04 And please also check out my channel for the video
06:06 I did using the Hazel Eyes Bold Nudes Palette,
06:08 and you can also see that on my blog.
06:10 All right, so thank you so much for watching.
06:12 Please make sure to subscribe for more makeup and nail design
06:14 videos, and I'll see you next time.
06:16 Bye.
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