- Don't match your shadow with your eyes or your clothes so
that attention remains with your eyes and not your makeup!
- Emphasizing the inner corner of the eyes to make them look
closer to each other. This can be done by applying a neutral
base color over the whole eye and then dust a medium color on
the inner half of the eyelid and blend it outward. You can then
use eyeliner to line the lid from the inner corner of the eye to
the middle and blend it outward.
- For day makeup, base color and mascara are the only things
you need to wear for eyes.
- High quality powder eyeshadows can be used wet for heavier
application by dampening your applicator a little.
- Lighter shadows help the bigger while darker shades make
them look smaller. For bigger eyes, sweep a light shade over lid
and darker shade on the outer corner of the lid and the crease.
Outline the eyes using the eyeliner on the outer side of upper
and lower lids while tapering a bit on the outside the eye to
elongate it. Dab a white or cream shadow in the middle of the
brow bone as a last step.
- Neutral shades like browns and beiges look natural while
brighter shades like blue and green look dramatic and
artificial.
- On mature skin and puffy eyelids, avoid using iridescent,
frosted, light colors and white eyeshadows and opt for soft
matte colors instead.
- Only use cream eyeshadows that do not cause creasing upon
application and should be coordinated with powder shadows that
are to be used on top of them. They should be applied using
fingertips.
- Sweep a light or medium-tone shade on the lid and slightly
darker shade above the eye crease to downplay the brow bone.
Eyeliner should be thick in the middle of the eye and tapering
at both ends. Add light highlighter to brow bone.
- To add definition to your eyelids, apply a medium-toned
shade across the lid and brow bone and dust the under brow area
with a light highlighter shade. Use a very fine pencil liner of
natural color to line the upper and lower lash lines.
- To glamorize eyes for night outs, add shimmer to highlight
your eyes.
- To lift up tired eyes extend the color from the outer corner
of the lid upwards to give them a feline shape. A light
highlighter on the brow bone without the eyeliner brightens up
the eyes. Concentrate mascara on the inner corner of the eye.
- To make them look wider apart, keep the inside corners of
the eyes lighter than the outer edges. Apply concealer one shade
lighter than your skin at the inner corner of the lids and the
sides of your nose and blend it well. Use a matte medium to dark
eyeshadow and stroke it outward and slightly upward from middle
of the lid to its outer half. Use the eyeliner a bit in from the
inner corner of the eye and make the line tapering up and out a
bit past the outer corner of the eyes.
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