DUPE: MAC - Shadowy Lady

L'Oreal HiP Duo "Wicked" ($6.99):

MAC's Shadowy Lady ($14.50):

MAC's Shadowy Lady is a bit darker than the HiP duo. They still are a close match though. I'll keep looking around for a better one, but for now, I think this will due! Enjoy!

DUPE: MAC - Shale

Milani's Icy Plum ($6):

 

 

 

MAC's Shale ($14.50):

DUPE: MAC - Naked Lunch

Wet n Wild Fine Wink ($1 - $3):

MAC's Naked Lunch ($14.50):

How can you go wrong with this?! Wet n Wild's eye shadows are getting such better quality! I was so shocked to see big makeup gurus buying Wet n Wild palettes, so I decided to try them for myself. Oh wow they are sooo much better than we all remember them as. Of course, as with all eye shadow brands, there are a few duds. However, they're so cheap you aren't losing hardly any money by giving it a shot!

DUPE: MAC - Vanilla

With this dupe it is an amazing price to get Covergirl's single pan eye shadows for around two to three dollars instead of MAC's shadows for around fifteen dollars! This color, once again, isn't completely perfect but very very similar! Having a nice simple off white color is a staple in anyone's makeup collection and helps make your eyes brighten up and look more awake.

MAC's Vanilla: $14.50

Covergirl's French Vanilla: (approx) $2-3

DUPE: MAC - Woodwinked

MAC's Woodwinked: $14.50
L'Oreal HiP Duo "Wicked": $6.99

This color isn't an exact dupe, but it's fairly close!

Woodwinked is a beautiful antique gold color that leans more on the warm side. If you have a darker skin tone and it can really brighten up the eye with it's shimmer reflects in it. For lighter skin tones I find you have to have a warm based skin tone for it to not look off on your eyes. For warm skin tones it is thee perfect gold color! On me, for instance, it makes my eyes look kind of sickly and yellow. I have very cool toned skin.

MAC's Woodwinked:

In this duo the color is a bit darker than Woodwinked but has the same general color to it. The brown/gold color in the Wicked duo is a bit more chocolaty brown with gold in it. I have found the HiP Duos to have a very similar and comparable texture to MAC shadows. 

L'Oreal HiP Duo "Wicked":

DUPE: MAC - Wedge

Another dupe! Here we go!


MAC's Wedge:

L'Oreal HiP Dup in Shady (Left side):

MAC's Wedge: $14.50
L'Oreal HiP Duo "Shady": $6.99

These HiP Duos are absolutely astonishing! They are so smooth and easy to blend. They also are very pigmented. (Which is what HiP stands for - high intensity pigments.)

HELPFUL HINT: Eye Shapes

Everyone has different eyes. Therefore one makeup look can look beautiful on one person, and then on another it accentuates all the wrong parts of your eye. It's very important you understand your eye shape and how to accentuate all of the right parts.

What eye shape are you? You can use this chart to help you out.




Next we have another chart with tips on doing your eyeshadow the correct way for your eye shape!

 

I'm sure many of you have seen these circulating through the beauty community, but I found them very informative and helpful so I thought I'd share! 

Good luck on finding new beauty techniques to individualize your eyes!

DUPE: MAC - Satin Taupe, Tempting, Brule, Night Manoeuvres

I know, I know. Four dupes in one post?! CRAZINESS! Maybelline has some amazing quads. One of them being the Stylish Smokes in Natural Smokes. This quad is absolutely beautiful!

Maybelline Stylish Smokes (Natural Smokes) quad:

Now time for the fun part, the dupes! Match the numbers to the numbers in the picture for the MAC dupe in this quad

1: MAC - Satin Taupe
2: MAC - Tempting
3: MAC - Brule
4: MAC - Night Manoeuvres

The only major difference I see in these is that Tempting is a bit more bronze than the color in the quad. Also, MAC's Satin Taupe is a bit more pigmented... but that is to be expected considering it is high quality compared to drugstore. Everything else is almost spot on!

DUPE: MAC - All That Glitters

Here I am with another DUPE guys! I'm on a roll lately finding some really good drugstore eye shadows! Everyone knows and loves MAC's All That Glitters. It's a beautiful champagne pinky shimmer that looks absolutely gorgeous.

MAC - All That Glitters:

The dupe I found is in a Cover Girl quad called Country Woods. The dupe is in the pan that's second from the left. This color is a little darker than All That Glitters, but it's not hardly anything. They are crazy close!

Cover Girl - Country Woods (quad):

REVIEW: ELF Studio Endless Eyes Pro Eyeshadow Palette

This product was featured in December 2010's "The O List: Holiday Edition" of O' The Oprah Magazine. I bought this product around that time without knowing about that. I hadn't heard anything about it but it was only $10! Of course I had to try it.



So what are my feelings about it? It's just kinda... eh. Some of the colors are really pigmented, others are just a flop. There are no mattes in this at all, just some with very subtle shimmer. Others are super shimmery and sparkly. This is a large variety of colors which is awesome and it would be great to expand your collection and to try out new colors. However, if you already have a lot of eye shadows and are very knowledgeable about good pigmentation and are expecting an amazing outcome, I wouldn't waste your money. Instead I would go to Coastal Scents and get the 88 palettes. They have fewer colors and cost about $18 but are a thousand times better in quality.



Anyways, this isn't a bad buy, it's great if you are just starting out as I said or if you want to try some new bright colors. It's just not the best cheap palette out there.




Would I buy this again? Probably not.