3/14/2015

THE BASICS #3: APPLYING EYESHADOW


Fresh day, fresh installment of the Basics! In this series I will show you the easy peasy guide on how to create an everyday make up look, and how to become a pro at it. After having applied our base and we have contoured our face, it is time to get serious and start with the eyeshadow application!

Now of course, it is totally up to you if you want to wear eyeshadow or not. I don't like to wear it everyday as well since I like to switch up my make up look every now and then. But if you do wish to wear eyeshadow, here's the easy guide on how to apply it.

First, let's talk colors. Now the color you use if of course to your preference, but there are some useful tips and tricks to pick a color that will make your eye color pop. We all know the color wheel, and if you take your eye color on one side, you have a color right on the opposite site of that color. That's the color that will make your eyes pop. Now you can take the opposite color quite brought, and I wouldn't recommend going for the brightest version of that color. But a muted down hue always makes your eye color pop. Now I have greenish eyes, so for me copper and purple shades make my eye color pop. If you have blue eyes, red hues and bronze hues make your eye color pop, and for brown eyes, green and blueish hues makes your pupils stand out.

Not wanting to go for color most of the time, I will show you how to work with neutrals (these suit every eye color, and every skin color) and show you a basic eyeshadow application. Here it goes!

Depending how oily your eyelids are, your first step might be to apply some sort of an eye primer, again this step is to your own preference.

Now up for the lightest color you will use for your eye look. This is your base/highlight color. You can apply this all over the lid, all the way up to your brow bone.


Next step is to use your so called 'transitioning shade'. This is the shade used to make the transition between your darkest color and your lightest color look more natural and blended. For a transitioning shade, it is always nice to pick a color that is slightly more warmer toned, because this makes your eye look, look more natural. The transitioning color is always applied through the crease and blended out slightly upwards.

Next up is your darkest color. This is the color you want to add to create some more depth in your eye look. You apply this color in the outside corner of your eye and blend it inwards and through the crease ever so slightly. Again: adding more is easier than taking away. In other words, start of with a light hand and build it up to your preference.


To make your eyeshadow application even easier, it is always good to use an eyeshadow brush. With a brush your are able to apply eyeshadow more precisely plus blend it out and let every color fade into each other. If I could make one suggestion, it is the glorious MAC 217 brush. This brush is raved to death but not without reason. This brush is the multi-tasker among the eyeshadow brushes and is the only brush I use.

There you go, applying eyeshadow in a nutshell. Of course there are lots of variations on this, and you can do it in a trillion different ways to create different sorts of eye looks. This is just the basics, and with this, you can do a very neutral eye, or a very smokey eye!

Keep your eyes open ( I know, I know, how appropriate here..) for the next installment to take your eye make up, up a notch. It'll be all about eyeliner!






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