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Match Your Mascara To Your Eyeshadow

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Sabine Glud (Silent) photographed by Tom Newton. Makeup by Ingeborg. Hair by Kayo Fujita. Styled by Kerri Scales.

Colored mascara is like a winged eyeliner’s talented, glamorous, but never gossiped about older sister. It’s been around forever, but never quite made the jump into the mainstream. It floated under the radar instead; attending fashion shows, beauty shoots, and backstage events without ever taking the spotlight. Your favorite neutral mascara probably comes in a variety of colors you never even knew about. Colored mascara is Saint Laurent, Tom Ford, and Chanel. Colored mascara is blue, gold, silver, green, pink, purple, and more.

One very important item to note is that mascara is easy to use no matter your skill level. You don’t need surplus tools or an aesthetics degree. On top of that, it photographs well but also looks amazing in real life, and can be worn either very boldly or very subtly. It’s low lift, high impact. What’s not to like about that? With the help of makeup artist Ingeborg, we took this idea—that everybody should be wearing colored mascara all the time—and paired it with matching washes of eyeshadow. The result is definitely high impact, and (with the right products) as low lift as you want it to be. See for yourself.

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Gold

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Gold on gold: such a nice surprise. This Tom Ford is like a coppery-gold mascara that almost just looks blonde on its own, and, when paired with the gold Viseart shadow, contrasts with Sabine's blue eyes really nicely.

Sabine wears a gold shadow from the Viseart Grande Pro palette Volume 2, Tom Ford Lash And Brow Tint in Copper, and Viseart orange blush. Leonor Greyl oil was applied all over the face. On lips she wears Face Stockholm lip liner in Ingrid S. and Chanel Rouge Coco Gloss In 748 Nectar.

Blue

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Blue is a classic. This one leans into the sea-foam-blue-green-turquoise category. Perfect for spring break—even if that just means a Saturday night at home.

Sabine wears blue turquoise eyeshadow from the Kevyn Aucoin Electropop palette, Marc Jacobs Beauty Highliner Gel Eyeliner in Whirl(pool) 51, and Tom Ford Lash And Brow Tint in Turquoise. On her lips she wears Laura Mercier lipliner in Natural Lips and a Laura Mercier Lip Glacé in Bare Blush (the perfect cool nude).

Violet

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Nicely timed for a February theme, there are even subtler ways to do this violet eye. If the red and purple are too much for you, try another complementary pairing: silver shadow and navy mascara.

Sabine wears an eyeshadow from the Laura Mercier Hidden Gems Eye Shadow palette, Tom Ford Lash And Brow Tint in Magenta, and a Marc Jacobs Beauty Highliner in (Grape)vine 63. On her lips is Chanel Rouge Coco Gloss in 812 Flaming Lips. And on her cheeks she wears & Other Stories Harlequin Hills Luminising Palette.