You are very wise, little Grasshopper.

Over at Madd Style Cosmetix the color of the week for the past seven days was none other than Ecto Cooler. I won't lie - this is a color I haven't had a chance to experiment with much, but whoa... lemme tell you, it's in the favorites drawer.

This look really reminds me of summer grasshoppers down here in the swamp.  They're multi-colored and beautiful.

 Products: MSC: Awesome Sauce, Acid Bath, Ecto Cooler, Witch's Brew, Silver Haze, Misfits and Moonbeams; UDPP; NYX Shadow base in White; WnW Plumping Mascara, Black kohl liner, Taupe kohl brow pencil.

Stiff concealer brush, floofy medium peaked shadow brush, large floofy domed blending brush, medium width liner brush, brow/lash tool.

Start out with a relatively opaque application of the NYX Shadow Base.

Apply Acid Bath from your inner corner to mid-lid.  Also bring it down to the first 1/3 of your lower lash line.

Now apply your Ecto Cooler to the outer half of your lid.  This color is EXTREMELY saturated, so a little dab'll do ya.

Bring your Witch's Brew across your crease, but blend in and down to avoid a cut look.

Apply Silver Haze from crease to orbital bone, very lightly.  Another one where a little dab'll do ya.

Apply your liner.  Once again, Jalackie/Accidentally Mommy has attempted winged liner.  Outline with pencil...

And fill with Misfits and Moonbeams, both in your wing and tightlined on the bottom.

I currently have a hand-held mirror, so my results with winged liner are mixed.  Today wasn't awesome, but it wasn't awful either.  

Add glasses, and voila! Liner looks awesome behind them! ;)

Stay Madd, darlings!

Happy Thanksgiving: an eye tutorial for Cranberry Sass!

Start, as always, with a clean face and your products gathered and orderly.  I'm THANKFUL for all of my luck in finding such awesome makeup.  Pictured: WnW MegaPLUMP mascara in black, Madd Style Cosmetix loose pigments in Unicorns and Glitter, Kick Ass, Young Blood, Dirty Beats, Mudd Slinger, and Pawn Shop.  Also shown is NYX shadow base in flesh.  Not shown: MSC Awesome Sauce, Urban Decay Primer Potion in Original.

Gather your tools! I'm THANKFUL for my Fash set - it really is awesome.

Start out with your NYX shadow base.  I needed this look to be a little more conservative, so I went with the flesh tone, but it would be KILLER if you used a white base to really make the colors pop.

See? blends right in.

Now, MSC's Young Blood OR Kick Ass could be used alone, but I really wanted a deep cranberry, the color of home-made crock pot cranberry and port wine sauce, so I mixed equal parts of both to achieve the desired color.  Play around with it and find what you prefer most, though.

Ta Daaa! Bring that color out to the middle of your lids and slightly above your crease.

Next take your MSC Dirty Beats, and working from the outside in, meet the cranberry color in the middle.

Blend lightly with a fluffy brush using a windshield wiper motion in the middle of the eye, and a flicking motion in the crease, bringing the dirty beats into the cranberry color.

Once you have those colors blended, go ahead and use MSC Unicorns and Glitter in the duct and on the orbital bone, and make a very light sweep along your top lash line with MSC Pawn Shop, using a pencil brush.

Now you're going to take a drop of Awesome Sauce and mix up some liner with Dirty Beats, and line both lower and upper lash lines.

Try to make sure your hand is steadier than mine. (Due to a medication I take, I have a chronic tremble, which is why my eyeliner is always shite, no matter how much I may practice with it.)

Peekaboo!

From the side.  You can really see the Unicorns and Glitter and the Pawn Shop from this angle.

Ignore the breakout and the lack of makeup please.  4 AM tutorial.

Cheese!

Don't be intimidated by the red, and don't be intimidated by sassing it up even more than I did.  You're only as green as your courage is.  Boldly go, and stay Madd!