(duped from my post in OliveMUA)
Calling all my pasty zombie-like fair/pale olive friends who can never find the right “natural” everyday looking eyeshadow palette. This might be one for you!
CLIO Mute Library is marketed as a summer cool palette, but I would say it’s more a palette of slightly muted neutral rose browns and dusty mauve-roses that can also work for Winters.
On me (fair neutral-cool olive, probably a Deep Winter), this has just enough rosey pink to add a bit of life to my skin but not enough to read as “colour” makeup, and the browns are just slightly desaturated enough to look like shading rather than a Brown Colour Eyeshadow. And i typically dislike “pink” eye makeup looks, but this magically combines with the yellow-green tones I have to become very natural.
The lighter shades can double up as a face filler blush (like when you want something to fill up your cheek space but you don’t really want a Blush Look), and i experimented with using the browns as eyebrow/contour. Great in an emergency!
Shades 4-6 on the Rose row can make a really nice vampire-ish, lightly gothy, Emmy-Rossum-in-Phantom-of-the-Opera smokey eye.
In the last image is a perfect example of when you choose the wrong “neutral” palette for your skin undertone. I did a quick comparison with the most natural matte mid- browns from my 3CE Plot Twist palette, which is also a “neutral” brown palette, but it’s a very warm and saturated brown palette. So on me, it looks very bright brassy brown, almost clownish, and not very “natural” at all.
CONS:
Not really the thing if you like mega bright, drag queen/theatre performer/youtube MUA style makeup. This is definitely a everyday, natural, “is she even wearing makeup? I can’t put my finger on it” type of palette.
If you have darker skin tones (say NC 35 or darker?) I’m not convinced you will get as much mileage from this, pans 1-4 might read quite ashy/skintoned.
This could’ve been a 8-10 pan palette, some of the shades are just a hair too close in colour so to the average person wouldn’t really notice the difference on the eyes from a socially acceptable distance. That or one or two shades could’ve been swapped out for a shimmery highlighter/topper colour and I would’ve declared this one palette perfection for a total eye look.
by butimartistic