I love this color! It is a nice MATTE grey color that is so hard to find these days. It does have a bit of brown to it though. I wear it with Blanc Type from lashline to eyebrow with Copperplate blended up from the crease. I use a smoke grey eyeliner on upper and lower lid and I get a subtle daytime look. I love that it is not too dark of a color and blends well. I find that it wears much better and is a tad darker with a lid primer first.

I love copperplate. i would describe it as a medium gray. I don't see the taupe as I have read in other reviews. It's a go-to daytime crease color for me. Even tho my coloring is more warm-toned, I like cool tones on my eyes. This e/s blends like a dream. I also use this for my eyebrows. I have gray hair now but my eyebrows are still dark brown and I find this helps to change the color of my eyebrows ever so slightly to better match my hair. Just recently started a MAC collection and Makeup Alley has really helped me with my selections. Thanks everyone!

NC 20/black hair
Perfect for my brows and great as a crease color. Blends smoothly and just looks softening. Love it.

I bought this eyeshadow over a year ago to use in my crease. I used it a few times and was quite underwhelmed. It is nice but i have lots of other shades that i much prefer and I just didn't find myself reaching for Copperplate very often. For that reason it sat at the bottom of my eyeshadow collection for quite a while.
Recently I came across it and decided to use it on my brows, and I love it. I have very dark brown hair and have tried all sorts of different shades of eyeshadow and eyeliner pencil to fill in my brows but i have never been completely happy until now. This fills in the gaps in my brows nicely and is completely undetectable. I am left with beautifully shaped, natural looking brows. For people of similar colouring to me (MAC NC20, dark brown hair) i cannot recommend this highly enough as a brow product.

Buy this! It is the prettiest grey you will ever own. It is soft yet dark enough to do very nice crease and outer "v" work. It is a grey, but with lovely hints, just touches, of brown and maybe mauve. I use it with my pinks, lavenders, anything either nuetral or cool based on the lid. It is much darker on the skin then in the pot, but the Mac website shows it as it appears on your skin. I don't know why it looks so light in the pan. This and brown script are my go to crease colors, one warm, one cool with a bit of warm. Mac hits it on the nose with these Matte2's. The only ones I will buy, with there were more.

I asked for this for Christmas and I wasn't disappointed. I find this works best if you use a primer. I use MAC Painterly paint pot as the primer for this and I find the end results are much better. It's much easier to appyly if you have a primer.
The colour is a cool muted grey/taupe and I love it. It is great for everyday wear and you can easily sass it up for a night out.
For reference, I'm MAC NC15.

What can I say it's a muted cool tone grey. It's amazing. I use it for my brows. I have dark brown hair and my skin tone is quite fair. I love the fact that it's completely matte.its perfect for eyebrows if you have black and brown hair. Usually my eyebrow shadows either have a slight reddish tint which is not flattering when you have dark hair. Love it!

i wanted to like it but its a bit blah color. i love the fact that is matte, the pigmentation is good but you cant really blend it... so you have to be really careful applying it otherwise it will be really difficult to fix any mistakes. i guess this is a common problem for matte mac browns greys etc.. i wont buy it again..

For reference I'm neutral to warm, NC25/NW25ish
Copperplate definitely does not have copper tones to it. I would best describe it as a deeper grey with some taupe undertones, matte.. Leaning towards a cool tone.
At first I wasn't sure if I would like this color since I'm use to warm brown tones for crease colors. I finally decided I needed something more neutral or cool and came across this color. I often wear either Grain or Vex with Copperplate in the crease.
I would repurchase.

Stupid name, I must say, because this shadow has nothing to do with copper, but the colour is beautiful! :D This is a gorgeous cool-toned grey, leaning slightly towards lilac on my eyes. I have never been a fan of grey colours (I mostly like earthy ones) and have never found neither a grey or a purple shadow that suits my skin tone and eyes (they're kinda dark yellow), but this does! It's soooo pretty! It looks so *right* on me :D I don't have a good enough camera to show you, but on me the colour is pretty much like on The Makeup Blogette (first photo):
http://retailtherapy.onsugar.com/LOTD-MAC-Copperplate-Eyeshadow-Plus-new-necklace-hairdo-11383499
It was also she who inspired me to get this colour :) My skin tone is very close to hers, but I have reddish dark brown hair, and I like to use Embark (MAC) as eye liner with this shadow - it doesn't look burgundy when applied as eyeliner, but just like a very dark brown would look.
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This has very good texture and the same with pigmentation - yey for matte^2 shadows! I like to wear this quite light, and a couple of sweeps across it is enough for sometimes both eye to create a base colour. Then I go in and darken the bottom of my upper lid, and then darken even further in the outer v. Even though I usually thought greys were for the evening, I think this can be used whenever in the day, just by regulating the amount one use.
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I think this colour would look absolutely gorgeous on people with light neutral skin :)

I've been looking for good quality taupe eyeshadows for a while now, and I have a few, amongst which is sating taupe
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I made a palette at mac the other day with copperplate, blanc type, satin taupe and plumage. I really like to wear copperplate on the outer v and crease with blanc type as a general wash all over the lid, and plumage or black tied as liner. It works beautifully.
Like many others have said, the pigmentation is very good and can be sheered down with blending or built up for a more dramatic smokey eye. It's a great one to pop in your neutrals palette as it's great for everyday wear and if you need to amp it up to a smokey eye for night, this also works
Quality of the eyeshadow is good. Very, very easy to blend, doesn't look messy or muddy in any way and no fallout either. I usually wear mac painterly paint pot as a lid primer and copperplate works well and stays put for a whole (10-12hours) working day with no fading or creasing
Works well with lots of blush and lip colours too as it's so flattering - i've worn it with lady bug, angel and creme in your coffee and looked great each time.
So I will buy this one again, defo! When I hit pan (which, at the rate I've been wearing it this week, is likely to happen!) I will repurchase for my day-to-day look.

I went in to MAC for Quarry but left with Copperplate instead. Excellent colour payoff and texture (Matte2 never lets me down). I almost overlooked this while swatching because it looks pretty unremarkable in the pan. Swatched it's a nice cool taupe, it makes an excellent crease colour. I own a ton of neutral eyeshadows but most of mine tend to be very warm, while Copperplate's cool tones really make it stand out. It's definitely worth picking up.

I agree with many of the other reviewers; this colour is hard to describe. Its a brownish/purplish/greyish matte? In any case, I love it. I have a hard time finding good colours for my fair cool-toned skin and this works great. Its good for day or night and can be paired with many different colours.

This really is quite beautiful. I ignored it for years because it looked blah in the pan, but what all the other reviews say is true! And what I can add is that it makes the whites of my eyes look whiter. It instantly brightens me up. And it's so sophisticated. I just used this on the lid, with style snob in the crease, satin taupe for the outer v, and phloof as an inner corner and brow highlight - so polished and pretty! Looks very "pro".

I'd repurchase this MatteČ eyeshadow in a heart beat!
It is a sneaky eyeshadow -- underneath its seemingly "boring" grey appearance is a smooth texture that helps even the most novice blend shadows like a near pro. (I say "like a near pro" because I don't want to exaggerate.)

I use it as a base in my contour area and apply other colours on top. It helps with my blending, adds a subtle complexity to my looks, and can be used to tone down shimmery eyeshadows. Though this isn't my go-to brow product, Copperplate suits my black hair + NC20/25 complexion and could work well as a eyebrow shadow.

I love that COPPERPLATE puts grey eye designs back into circulation for me. I have pale, NW20 skin with lots of slavic blue/green undertones especially around the eyes, and grays just make me look sick - and not in a cool, goth way, either. COPPERPLATE has just enough brown to make it all work, though I have to say that I think it looks more like a gray on me. Its just a gray that looks 'right' instead very, very wrong. Consider it for yourself if smokier colors do the same for you. Now if only I could find the navy equivalent of COPPERPLATE, cause I can't wear those either...

Love, love, love this brown-grey hybrid eyeshadow! I don't even really know what to call it, brown or grey. If you hold it next to brown shades, it looks grey, and next to grey shades, it looks brown. My fave MAC MUA suggested this to me and said she loved to pair it with Naked Lunch as an everyday look. I ignored this so long after I got it... I just didn't care for it too much paired with Naked Lunch, I guess. Once I tried it with a matte or satin bone color on the lid, I was sold! This looks lovely with MAC Brule or Vanilla. I also always use Soft Brown to warm up my crease, but I do that no matter what color I use. I can do such a quick, polished look with Copperplate, and I look so grown-up and put together. It's just such a great no brainer color to have in anyone's stash. I will definitely repurchase, but Matte2's are so pigmented, it's going to take forever to finish this one pan!

Great natural-looking brow filler! I love using this ashy taupy grey shadow to fill in my thin, asian brows. It's warm enough to not look flat but it's not TOO warm, which can look fake. It's texture is soft and super pigmented. I've had this for over 6 months and have yet to make a dent in it. If you've got sparse, asian brows that need NATURAL definition, go get this!!
April 28/12 Edit:
I changed this to "no" for repurchasing just because after a year of using this, I feel like it's a little to light for my hair. I still think this is a great brow filler for lighter hair and overall shadow but I'd like to try something a little darker, maybe MAC Brun?

What a great and diverse eyeshadow this is. You can use this for a daytime look along with some other neutral colours or you can add darker colours for a night out. This eyeshadow goes both ways! I also use it to line my eyes when I'm doing a neutral day look, just so that my eyes look more defined. I have to warn you...a little goes a long way! Don't pack on too much on your brush because it's super pigmented!

Love this color! This reads grey with a slight brown on my skin. I use it in the crease to blend out whatever I am wearing on my lid. I also wear it alone with either Dark Diversion or Chanel Jade eyeliner and the green in my eyes really stands out.
I am also fortunate enough to have ash brown brows so this is also the perfect brow color for me. Got to love multi-tasking products!!