Certain shades of blue make my skin crawl. I find powder blue to be especially offensive, and teal blue is a close second. What can I say? Some reactions are visceral. (And my frightening, blue eye makeup-wearing third-grade teacher might have something to do with it.)
But then there's cobalt -- a color so beautiful, it's magnetic. Standing in front of a wall of paint chips at Home Depot, my eyes will gravitate towards this shade every time. Cerulean, azure, lazuline -- whatever you want to call it, I think it's perfection.
So when I spotted it on the fall 2012 runways -- first in the form of liquid liner at Anna Sui, then as bold blue lashes at Stella McCartney -- it made me giddy. Soon, makeup artists and aficionados everywhere were proclaiming it a trend, and shortly after that, cobalt blue eye makeup started popping up everywhere.
It may not be the easiest trend to pull off (repeat after me: a little goes a long way), but it's so pretty that it's worth a shot. Here are the products you need.
Last summer, Estée Lauder had a preview event for their fall makeup collection, and Creative Director Tom Pecheux presented a tray of eyeshadows to a room full of beauty editors. There was an audible gasp when he showed us this shade, called Fire Sapphire. It's a gorgeous metallic shadow that can be used dry (for a sheer wash of color) or wet (for more intense pigment).
If you want to wear the cobalt trend in a subtle way, this eyeliner pencil is ideal. It's incredibly silky and glides on like liquid liner -- no scribbling back and forth to get the color to show up. It looks cool and modern on the inner rim -- inside your upper lashes, lower, or both.
This pot of super-saturated pigment can be used for just about anything. Use an angled brush to apply it as liner, smudge it on with your finger and it will look like shadow, or use a fan brush to layer it over your mascara. It's seriously waterproof and never creases. Yes, we mean never.
Blue mascara can make the whites of your eyes look whiter -- something to remember when you're tired or dealing with allergies. But most of the time, blue mascara is so subtle you can barely see it. We love this one because it's intensely blue -- there's no mistaking it for black.
Certain shades of blue make my skin crawl. I find powder blue to be especially offensive, and teal blue is a close second. What can I say? Some reactions are visceral. (And my frightening, blue eye makeup-wearing third-grade teacher might have something to do with it.)
But then there's cobalt -- a color so beautiful, it's magnetic. Standing in front of a wall of paint chips at Home Depot, my eyes will gravitate towards this shade every time. Cerulean, azure, lazuline -- whatever you want to call it, I think it's perfection.
So when I spotted it on the fall 2012 runways -- first in the form of liquid liner at Anna Sui, then as bold blue lashes at Stella McCartney -- it made me giddy. Soon, makeup artists and aficionados everywhere were proclaiming it a trend, and shortly after that, cobalt blue eye makeup started popping up everywhere.
It may not be the easiest trend to pull off (repeat after me: a little goes a long way), but it's so pretty that it's worth a shot. Here are the products you need.
