I'm wearing my The Very Hungry Caterpillar T-shirt, face mask, and tote bag today (I love a theme), and it struck me, while thinking about the VHC's iconic meals, how easy it would be to make a makeup palette of this book. As always, the outside of the eyeshadow palette would look like the picture book itself, with the front cover being the front cover (duh), and the inside could have Eric Carle's iconic tissue paper collage art as the interior. I'm thinking we'd put the image of the VHC as a butterfly in the bottom right corner of the mirror. The names of the food it eats would be the eyeshadow shade names, with the round eyeshadow pans being set into the foods illustrations the way the holes are punched through the illustrations in the book.
one apple - warm red
two pears - soft yellow-green
three plums - dark blue
four strawberries - cooler reddish pink
five oranges - orange
chocolate cake - matte dark brown
ice cream cone - light pink
pickle - bright green
Swiss cheese - matte yellow
salami - marbled reds and browns glitter
lollipop - swirled blue and yellow, with the swirled imprint
cherry pie - duochrome tan with reddish pink shimmer flip
sausage - matte hot pink
cupcake - matte light tan
watermelon - swirled pinky red and green
green leaf - satin darker emerald green
16 eyeshadows in a palette is not usual, so you could eliminate the green leaf shade to make it 15, but I don't really want to. Another option is to make the cherry pie a bronzer/blush duo in the palette.
Here is the mockup I made in Canva. I had to forgo the green leaf, as that would have required even more egregious image cropping. As it is I've spent way too much time on this.
Cute, right? Call me, Eric Carle's estate!
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