Makeup Part 3

Now your face is completely set up for the fun part. Some people do choose to put this part first so the eye makeup doesn’t mess up their face. I personally choose to have it as the last step because I don’t want to worry about ruining the eye makeup once I got it down. It’s much easier to fix base makeup than it is to fix eye makeup.

The hard thing about eye makeup mainly is not knowing where to start, or maybe because you don’t wear eye shadow often and no matter how good it is, it may look weird. Typically it always looks weird until you put on eyeliner and/ or mascara.

The key points with makeup:

                -do not drag dark makeup all the way up to the eyebrow

                -start with neutral colors until you are comfortable doing makeup

                -look at YouTube videos to help you through the basic steps

I’m going to show you a couple of tricks that you can use while doing your makeup.

These are my notes from a class I took in beauty school that is amazingly easy to follow. I will be discussing two of these in depth, wide eyes and narrow eyes.

Follow this key

I will start with narrow eyes

You will want to put light colors on the outside to make them look larger, putting a somewhat darker color on the inside diminishes the look of the eyes being to close. Get an even darker color to put in the middle and blend in. Leave just a small amount open near the eye brow to put a very light color to blend in with the rest. Do not put on thick eyeliner; make sure to make the liner thinner as you get closer to the outside edge. The purpose is to make the outer edge look brighter and bigger which will make the eyes look less narrow.

Wide eyes

Now I messed up on my notes here so it’s best to follow my written directions. You basically want to do the exact opposite than the narrow eyes, put the light color on the inside, medium in the middle and dark color on the outside. Then blend the dark color in towards the inner eye. Keep a small spot just below the eyebrow to place a light color down and blend in with the rest of the colors. A nice winged eyeliner is perfect for wide eyes because you want it dark on the outside. Do not put any eyeliner on the inside of your eye, and there you have it!

Bonus tip: for a winged eyeliner you will want to grab a stick, whether that is another makeup brush or a popsicle stick, really anything straight. Put one end at the side of your nose and the other side at the edge of your eye and leave about an inch that is going past the eye…similar to the photo below. Then use the line to apply a perfect eyeliner wing.

I hope you found this helpful!