Eye Makeup Basics

It took me a long time to figure out eye makeup. I felt like I was always using colors that were too dark or somehow just off.

The powder from the eyeshadow would fall all over my cheeks, after I finished my foundation, giving me the effect of having two black eyes. Or I’d start out trying to do cat-eye eyeliner and end up with Cleopatra eyes.

Years later, after keeping one eye open do watch makeup artists do my other eye (SO creepy of me, right?) I finally got the pointers I needed. So lovely & glamorous, Ladies, here you go!

STEP 1

Primer Put the tiniest dot on your ring finger, and dot as if you were applying eye cream.  Blend quickly across your lid, up to your eyebrow, and below your eye.

STEP 2

Brow Shade Start working it into the upper, inner corner of your eye and swept it up right under your brow.  Just a tiny line under your brow.

STEP 3

Lid Shade Sweep this color, again, starting at the upper, inner corner of your eye, but this time take that color across your whole lid and up to the line of where your brow color starts.

STEP 4

Crease Shade In the crease of your eye, in the center of your crease, run this color back and forth, until it’s really blended in.

STEP 5

Liner Start with your inner eyes first and do a light line on the inside of you eye, as close to your lower lashes as you can.

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