Eye Make-Up Tips: Revealing Your True Colors
Eye make-up is one of the most widely used beauty products in the world other than skin care products; most everyone wears eye make-up and needs eye make-up tips at one time or another. Eye make-up tips can help make you look dramatic, natural or somewhere in-between the two. Eye make-up is one of the best ways to let your personality shine through by the colors you wear, and how you choose to wear the color.
Eye make-up tips can also help make a fashion statement, which breaks all the rules of how you would normally apply eye make-up. Eye make-up can be used for more than just everyday wear; it can be used to create optical illusions which. Below you will find some eye make-up tips to help you define, and accentuate yourself.
Eye Enhancers – Bring the Color Out
To begin, start with a thin layer of foundation on your eyelids to help correct imperfections, and create the perfect canvas for the application eye shadow. Set lids with powder if you'll be using powder eye shadow (skip the powder if you'll be using crème or pencils, which will glide more easily over foundation alone).
Then choose a color. To identify colors that compliment you, use your hair as a guide line, not the color of your eyes. Blondes look good in creams and taupe’s, while mochas and chocolate browns flatter brunettes. If you are auburn or redhead, go with coppers, peaches, and reddish browns, bronzing powder, or cool tones like pink and lavenders. Gray hair is beautiful with grays, soft purples, and blues. Then choose a technique:
- One solid shadow all over: For simplicity, on these eye make-up tips dust the entire eyelid with one solid color. Cream eye shadows are great for this look -- light to medium tones work best.
- Emphasizing the crease line for depth: Begin with the lightest color first. Dust a light tone over the entire eyelid. Hold your brush very lightly and go from the lashline to slightly beyond the crease (where the eyelid meets the browbone). Slide up to the browbone and the brush will naturally lift off your face -- just where you want to color to end.
Next, dust a medium shade in the creaseline (a shadow which has a bit more color than the base color). Lengthen shadow slightly beyond the crease, up toward the browbone. This gives depth to your eyes by going somewhat beyond the crease; you can create a contour that's visible even when your eyes are wide open.
You can stop here and look great, but if you want more drama, place a medium to deep tone on the upper lashline, using an angled eye shadow or eyeliner brush. And keep this line soft and smudged. Still not enough drama? Brush more of this color under the lower lashline -- apply with the smudge brush in mini downward strokes (don't brush across -- that creates too robust of a line). |
