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The eyes are claimed to be the gateway to the soul...heres how we make them look wonderful. For the first part of the eyes I am going to cover eye-shadow - the rest of the eyes will be covered in the next section. Eye makeup is nearly all pressed powder based. Most manufacturers provide their eye make-up in small compacts with a choice of colors. I don't use those because half the colors you will never use. Like most of my makeups I use Rimmel - a three shade kit (shown in the pic below) and some separate mono shades. The most useful is the very bright white (pearl) high lighter as it works with almost anything else. To really get eye-makeup to work you do need some brushes and long handled applicators - these are like a small foam pad on a stick. Most eye makeups come with them but they are small and often poor quality. |
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are a million ways to make-up your eyes - In this article I am going to keep it
simple and explain how I do my eyes for most of the
time. Take the darkest earth tone you can find and rub a foam applicator on it until the applicator is quite loaded. Now run the applicator over the crease in your eye where the top eyelid meets the socket. Its best to work from the outer edge of the eye towards the centre with a wider line at the outer edge thinning towards the inner edge (the part closest to your nose). Your eye makeup should not go over or under a line between the end of your eyebrow and the outer edge of your eye. Apply your dark color to both eyes and make sure both eye are equal. I find it best not to go right to the edge of the eyelid near the lashes and let a small bright patch of the concealer show which gives the eye a more wide open appearance. Now take the lighter shade (high-lighter or just a paler shade of the first color and apply it on the outer half of the eye and below the eyebrow and joining the first color at the edge. Finally take one of your eye brushes and very gradually blend the edges together. there should be no clear dividing line between the two. The dark color should just fade into the pale color. Getting the eyes right takes a lot of practice - I often buy just cheap cosmetics solely to practice with and to try out different looks. |
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