Category: Fall Makeup

Not Your Typical Fall Looks

9/3/2015

Yea I know it's not technically fall, but in my world Sept 1st means it's fall. So when you think of fall you think of plums, warm browns, berry lips, golden tones, etc etc. While I love ALL those colors, I wanted to give you some ideas for fall that are still very much fall but not so typical.

So here's some eye shadow colors that are fall wearable:

Olive Green: Basically as long as it's not an electric green, any green would due. Dark greens come off more black though instead of "jewel toned" so layering greens may be your best option. Olive green is easy to pull off though, it's golden sheen in it makes it pair easily with browns or whatever.
Cranberry: I think people see the red in this and freak out. I'm telling you, try it. You would be so surprised how wearable it is. It's flattering on most eye color and skin tone. It's beautiful with golds, browns, plums, oranges, you have a lot of options with this shade.
Navy: Another color that people are afraid of. Here's what I would do, I would do a relatively gold eye and use a matte navy shadow on the outer V to smoke it out like you would use a black. That is, if you're nervous about using this. If you're not then I would do a halo eye with a gold center or silver and really go for the smokey eye here. Navy and gold are very pretty though together.
Bright orange: whether it's deep or electric, orange is actually very wearable. If you want to get into this color but aren't sure how I suggest using a large fluffy brush and buffing orange in the crease lightly and build it up to the intensity that you want. If you go at it with a light hand then basically it just warms up your crease but you can get pretty bright with it and when you add other colors to the crease the orange just acts like a glow behind your other colors. I really love deep plums with this shade, vibrant purples, cranberrys, and dark browns if you want it to be more neutral.

Also, fall is a great time to use glitters. I recommend Violet Voss Rosalind or Copperella and Beauty Bar Baby Send Me an Angel glitter. Copper colored glitters are stunning. So is navy. Pigments like MAC Rose Gold and Heritage Rouge are very pretty on the eyes especially used with those colors like plums, or oranges.

As for lips everyone goes to burgundy so here are some shades that are also very fall appropriate:

Blackened Purples: Not bright purples but deep purples that are almost black. ABH Poison is good and Sad Girl are good. Also LA Splash on Vampire. (Which is actually a blackened red)
Muted burgundy: These are shades like Colour Pop Tulle or ABH Dusty Rose and Veronica. Shades that aren't necessarily deep and rich in color but more medium deep.
Browns: Colour Pop Limbo is a good one. ABH Sepia, and Kat Von D Lolita (technically not a brown I guess). These shades are a little harder to wear or more intimidating I guess but totally fall worthy.
Deep Red: like a classic red only a little deeper. Like Colour Pop Avenue and ABH Heathers and tons of others. There is literally a deep red in every line out there.

Some good companies to look into that are cost efficient are: Colour Pop, LA Girl Cosmetics, and NYX if you're wanting a matte liquid lipstick, also Sephora Collection has great liquid lipsticks. I love them. As far as real lipsticks go just about any line will work. Lip liners are a good option too. I love the Jordana and Colour Pop liners the best.

Erin

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