Like, if I have a palette with shades that are slightly lighter than my skin tone - like pale taupes, tans or beiges, which wouldn’t normally show up well on my NC42 skin - I’ll start by buffing a thin layer of Soft Ochre on my lids with a MAC 217, then apply the shadows on top. I use it sometimes to sort of blank out the natural color of my lids (similar to how you might use concealer on your lips to blank them out). I think matte warm beige Soft Ochre looks really pretty under warm neutrals like Soft Brown, Saddle, Ricepaper and Swiss Chocolate. I like using them as eyeshadow bases, or sometimes just on their own.Ĭlockwise from the lower left, that’s MAC Pro Longwear Paint Pot in Soft Ochre, Select Color-Up in NC42 and Pro Longwear Paint Pot in Groundwork ASAP.Īnyway, Soft Ochre and Groundwork are both cream shadows, but they have a matte finish. Two of my ride or dies, Soft Ochre and Groundwork, were effectively deceased, and since I can’t function without them, I had to restock.
The night before the mission, I found an old stash of MAC Paint Pots at home that desperately needed to be tossed and replaced. My mission: to stop by the MAC counter and make some long-overdue replacements. It was part of Operation Get My Sh*t Together, otherwise known as The Great Office Purge of 2015. Oh! These cuties - oldies but goodies - came home with me last Sunday after a trip to the mall with El Hub.
Clockwise from the left, that’s MAC Select Color-Up in NC42, and the MAC Pro Longwear Paint Pots in Soft Ochre and Groundwork