Orange Smokey Eye with Coastal Scents Smokey Palette Pt.1

This was my look for the day using the Smokey Palette I purchased a couple of weeks ago from www.coastalscents.com.

Overall, I like the palette.  It has really pretty colors with pretty good pay off and pigmentation.  Unfortunately, the orange didn't work well on me.  I had to work really hard to get it to show.  I used M.A.C. Rubenesque paint pot as as base for my shadow hoping it would help bring out the orange since it's a pretty golden-coral color.  This was not the case.  In it's defense, because of my "in-between" skin color, I've never been able to easily pull off oranges, yellows, golds, and most browns.  :-(

Products used:

Foundation               -------------------------Black Opal Stick Foundation Truly Topaz
Concealer/Highlight -------------------------Black Opal Stick Foundation Heavenly Honey
Powder                     -------------------------M.A.C. Mineralize Skin Finish Natural Medium Deep
Blush                        -------------------------M.A.C Comfort MSF/Superduper Natural Mineralize Blush and (limited edition)
Brows                       -------------------------M.A.C. Brow Pencil Spiked
Eyes                          -------------------------Coastal Scents Smokey Palette warm/orange colors
Face Contour            -------------------------Clinique Stay Matte Sheer Pressed Powder Stay Nutmeg
Lipstick                     -------------------------Cover Girl Lipslicks Cutie
Lipgloss                    -------------------------M.A.C Viva Glam Gaga 2