Hey! my name is Jenna Rosenstein I am the Senior Beauty Editor for harpersbazaar.com
And I am a basic bitch... in that I love wearing my Juicy Couture track
suits and I order iced chai lattes on the regular because pumpkin spice is out
of season as you know.
And you know I'm also a basic bitch because I have the new
MAC Cosmetic's Basic Bitch Palette. When news of this palette hit the internet a
couple of months ago people freaked out and rightfully so because it's just so
funny and clever but on the inside it's actually really beautiful so I'm going
to show you what it looks like on the inside into a quick little everyday
makeup tutorial for what a basic bitch like myself would do with this palette
This is what it looks like. There is a highlighter this big guy right here and
then there are one two three four five six seven eight other shades of
eyeshadow, which are all pretty basic I would say, they're living up to the name
the shades I am drawn to are Hell in Heels which is this maroon shade right here
And I think Big White Lie which is like a great neutral base color I'll
start with that just through my crease create some definition.
Buff it out....
I mean honestly the secret I am not a makeup artist but the secret to eyeshadow is
just blending like you could put any color on the spectrum in the rainbow
put on your eyes as long as you blend it out, you won't look crazy.
So I'm going to
reach for Me Me Me next which is just white color right here and you could use it
as a highlighter and I'm going to actually put it in the center of my lid
as a little highlight.
I'm going to use, I think this color which is Hell in Heels. It's this red shade.
So red eye shadow is actually trending right now it's very popular all kinds of
reds: pink, pure classic red, maroon, plum... whatever they're trending.
They frighten me. but because I feel like I want to give it a try, I'm going to use it and as
long as you you know really blend it out and keep it just to the outer corners
and don't make it look like you have pink eye, so definitely don't bring it
down to your under lash line. I think you'll be fine.
We'll see!
I think I'm going to go for Sly Girl.
It's this very cool like slate metallic gray. It's pretty!
Something about putting shimmer in the center of your eyelid does something
about light and shadows. I'm not an art expert and I'm not a makeup artist but I
do know from watching all these tutorials that if you put a little
sparkle in center of your eyelid, I think it just makes your eyes pop.
Let's go with that.
I like it!
So now I'm going to put some color on my lower lash line and then
I'll finish with a cat eye, which I wear almost every single day.
(because I'm basic) And mascara.
So Big White Lie and Miss Personality will be my two colors that I'm going to reach for my bottom lash line.
Every single shadow that I've use kind of blended together and created
this really pretty like metallic purple situation that's happening.
*laughs*
Now eyeliner is tricky. It is one of the things that I've perfected over the years I wear
liquid eyeliner almost every single day but that's not to say that I'm
particularly great at it, it's hard. Even professional makeup artists struggle
with liquid eyeliner and making cat eyes but I'll show you sort of the trick that
I use every day to make it happen.
And I've never used this one before this
will be new for both of us. This is called Curvitude liner from
Maybelline New York and it's brand new and it has this cool, let's see when I twist it off...
Curved edge which supposedly will make making cat eyes a little bit easier
But we'll see.
So the trick with the cat eye that I've learned is always start with
the wings first. Don't start with the rest of your eye.
So create the wing...
Overall I'd say if you struggle with winged eyeliner, this is a really good
one to try. Because it couldn't be smoother or easier to draw on but if you're
looking for something darker and inkier I would probably go in another formula or even a gel.
So the last step of course is mascara and because we use the
MAC Basic Bitch Palette we're going to use the MAC Cosmetic's Bold Bad Black Lash
and they call it a top bottom lash mascara and why do they call it that?
well I will show you why. It's pretty cool but when you open it up check out the wand
you're like 'oh just looks like a regular mascara to me' well it's not this is
actually far from basic. You unscrew this part and you have a lash for a little
applicator for your bottom lashes and one for your top lashes.
It's really really cool.
So this is like it's like having a mascara inside of a mascara
it's mascara-ception.
I'm just finishing up my top lashes. I like my lashes thick and all you internet
commenters can write "Oh spider clumpy lashes"
But I don't care, I like them. They look good.
leave me alone
I love highlighter, I mean let it be known it is actually 1,000 degrees in
this room right now. It is as hot as I imagined hell is like but and I have a
nice natural glow going on thanks to my sweat glands but I always have a little
extra glow because I'm basic.
So I'm going to dip my brush-- this is not a
highlighter brush but we're just making it work.
So, we use the Mac Basic Bitch Palette to create this look.
As you can see-- I keep closing my eyelids awkwardly to
show you what I-- what we did together.
And overall I would say... I don't know if you'd say this
is a basic look. It's like, I mean is it groundbreaking? No, but it's you know plum
metallic shimmery. The colors inside the palette are really beautiful the
textures of the shadows are soft and very pigmented and you really can't mess
this up. Even if you are a makeup artist, a Pro makeup artists or like me who is
not a pro makeup artist and just writes about beauty all day long...
You can't mess it up.
It's so easy to use and overall I thought it was a great palette.
I highly recommend it.