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Best Bet: Alice + Olivia for MAC Pigment Pots

Achieving a proper smoky eye takes quality products — it’s easy to mistakenly end up looking more bruised than smoldering. MAC’s new collaboration with Stacey Bendet of Alice + Olivia launched yesterday, bringing three new loose-powder pigment pots to your after-work palette. The black Later shade has a deep-violet sheen (setting it apart from MAC’s gold-flecked Dark Soul shade), while the pinky-pearl If It Sparkles shadow is ideal for blending. Both concentrated colors brush on smoothly for perfecting that alluring, straight-from-the-runway look.

$19.50 each at MAC Cosmetics.

Best Bet: Alice + Olivia for MAC Pigment Pots