How To Apply Eyeshadow - Hacks, Tips & Tricks for Beginners!

Hey guys, welcome back today. I'm going to kick it old school, go back to basics and go over all my

tips

and

tricks

on how to

apply

eyeshadow

. Subscribe if you haven't already. Let's start off right so we zoom in really nice and deep so you can really see what's going on in the Honorable so the first thing I get asked all the time is how to do less eye shadow or how to get the colors. To look so vibrant and best as a base for

eyeshadow

s, my favorite is Mac's painterly paint pot. It's amazing, it covers any discoloration on the eyes.

I can also use it almost as a prep for my concealer. A primer is extremely important because it will make your eyeshadow look its best and it will make your eyeshadow crease-free. I also think it's very important not to

apply

too much, but you also don't want to apply too little. I don't really have any

tips

or

tricks

on how to figure out how much it is. I think it's something you have to play with and see personally what works best for you and your eyes, but yeah, don't do it. Don't apply too much but don't apply too little either, so what you should do is take any type of powder that matches your skin tone.

For me, I'm just going to use the banana power from the Anastacio contour kit and you can use any type of fluffy brush you want, this doesn't matter, but check that primer, put it in place and just pack it like this, you don't want to do anything like swiping, but simply pushing the product on top. of that foundation and the reason you want to do this is so that when you use other products it doesn't leave what's underneath if I didn't set it with a powder and used it with a very dark color. Honestly, I started blending it over my eye.

It was very pigmented where I first placed the eyeshadow and then not so pigmented where I blended it. Apply a powder first and then it will make the other eyeshadow glide well. on it evenly but I still have that longevity of the foundation underneath. I'm going to use my favorite eyeshadows from this palette. These are individual eyeshadows that I put in an empty eyeshadow palette. At first we'll just go for a basic look. and we'll gradually build it up if you want to do something basic and no, then you don't have to follow the dramatic steps, but if you want something dramatic you still have to follow the basic steps to get there, the first thing I do. after applying my eye primer is to use my transition shade, a transition shade usually goes in the middle crease part of the eye, not always, but basically that transition shade will only help you blend out your other eyeshadows, the The reason I love to do this first is because it creates a base and whenever you create dimension in the eyes or face, if you use that transition color first, it helps make it look more even, more blended and more natural if you do it. doing the transition tone after doing the other colors you end up ruining the other colors too and it becomes very difficult and complicated.

You can do it that way if you want, but if you've never tried it this way, I highly recommend it because it's the easiest in my opinion, my favorite color for this is Anasazi like Birkin. This is such a beautiful brown and is the perfect transition shade for my complexion. If you have a deeper skin tone, use something a little deeper and if you are lighter. you can use something a little lighter. I'm going to pick this up with a Smith 232 brush. I'm going to do this to remove the excess. We want to do that so you don't apply too much product. at once and then if you apply too much product it will end up falling all over your face and then sticking to your foundation.

What I like to do is take this mirror here and I'll put it here almost at chin level, you know. then I'm going to look down when you do that, you're going to see all these sets of spaces available here, you can access them a lot easier when you look in that direction, if I have this here, I'm going to squint and it's going to be hard to access my eyes. because I'm getting close to my eyeballs with a brush and your instinct is to blink to squint and then it doesn't end up turning out how you want it to look because you don't You just go around squinting all the time unless you're in the sun, like that that I leave this here almost at chin level, a little bit lower and then I look down and then it's more natural for me to go in and access that. area so I'm going to pull back my brush.

I'm not going to hold it here because if I hold it right here it's going to get super rough and pigmented, it's going to be hard to blend because it goes to skip and be more pigmented in some areas and not others, so I hold down like in the middle, sometimes more near the end, it totally depends on how comfortable you are, but I usually like right here, right there, I look down and then Start in the crease and I'm blending this very lightly into the crease. You can do circular motions like I'm doing or you can do it when you clean the shield.

It's totally up to you and I'm just going to follow the natural contour of my eye. and that makes sense so you can feel where the brow bone is, you want to go right under the brow bone and I'm very, very lightly blending the skin. I have not applied any more product and then once most of the product has been removed. from your brush you can tell because it's not adding more color, you can go up a little bit more and blend that product out a little bit more, okay, I'm picking up a little bit more product.

I kept applying it and then removing the excess. The other thing I find really helpful is to pretend you're zooming in on your eye from above. I want to come from the north and bring your brush down if you bring your brush from the south and smudge it. you're going to get a very hard line right here it's going to end up being very messy and it can be very difficult to blend it out you can already see it's a little bit harder so if you bring your arm up and wrap it around it and bring this in from the top and look down it's going to be a lot easier to blend it.

One thing I highly recommend is that when you are applying eyeshadow, use it a little at a time and slowly work your way up to get the deepest color you can. Look, this is already starting to look too deep, it's exactly the same thing. Shading, make sure each step is completely blended. Don't think, oh wow, I'll blend it out later because it will be harder if you wait to do it. Right now, make sure it's completely mixed and then you'll be fine. I'm ready to dive deeper into this. Now I'm going to go in with their color and this is from Makeup Geek.

To see you guys, I'll list each one. product down in the description box and where you can find it online this is a little bit darker than Birkin this is Birkin and this is brothei and now I'm going to be a little more precise with my brush so this is the brush we were using before this is the Smith 232 now I'm going to use the Smith 230 it's a little smaller still spongy not too precise but more precise than one from before, remove the excess now I'm just going to concentrate this on a more precise area so I do small circular movements here on the outer eyelid and the crease and then I blend it a little bit so that it fades out by making small circular movements and sometimes I will do rolling movements so I feel like there are three types of small movements and also there are more than three, but when you're working with a fluffy brush and Sarah, there's a couple different ways you can do it in the fold, you can make a windshield. windshield wiper that's like that all over the place it's like a windshield wiper you can do circular motions that are like that and make little circles or what I like to do is swing and those are the motions of the windshield wiper but there's a shorter area to do it so sometimes I do it. just move this here like it's bouncing, bouncing, bouncing back and forth, you just want to get in there, right in the crease and I usually do it here in the outside corner, now what I'm going to do is I'm going to get in with whatever. it stays on that bigger brush and blends right into the crease here.

I'm not going to add any extra product this just helps blend it if I add more product it might get too messy so I'm going to use whatever's left if you have it where you tend to bring up the eyeshadow too much and it ends up getting really dark here which What you can do is use a face powder or eye shadow that is exactly the same color as your skin and lower it over where the eye shadow went up. I'm not too high right now, but if I were to just lower this product, you can lower it almost to the crease and then apply your fluffy brush with whatever's left. and then buff it lightly and it will help you clean up that area so it's not too sharp and you don't have too high dark eye shadows, so now let's go into this even further.

So this is kind of the trend we're doing is working from light to dark to add dimension to the eye and make it look perfect without having to blend the eyeshadow crap until it's like a pain in the butt. So this is what we just used, which was frappe and now we're going to go in with can lines. This is also from Makeup Geek and you can see it's a little darker. This still goes down to 30 and puts it even deeper. that area and I'm going to soften this a little bit on the lid because to this day what I'm doing is darker on the outside corner and lighter on the inside corner just because I feel like that's the most common thing that people want.

To achieve this, you know, this focuses mainly on the lid part, not so much the crease, go back and blend it with the big fluffy shadow. I'm going to grab this eyeshadow from Mac, it's called nylon, it's a shimmery highlighter shade. I'm just going to take that with a flatter brush like this and bring it right to the brow bone, okay, now we're going to darken that outer corner a little bit and start to smoke this out a little bit that I was just using tan lines, but now we're going in with Makeup Geek cabin fever, a little bit darker, we're gradually building up to a deeper and deeper shade.

I'm going to be a little more precise with my brush. I'm going to use the Smith 2:47, which is a little more precise and a little less spongy and lifts it up right at the tip and makes little twisting movements here, so now when I go outside Out of the corner of my eye I'm still looking towards the mirror, but I'm tilting my head a little bit because that helps me access the area from my right hand and I'm just going to push it into the outside corner. Pushing it in and now I'm going to do light circular motions just in this area to diffuse the color.

I don't want to mix it in a wide area like I did with the other shades because this is a darker color, if you do that it will go everywhere and break up and show a little. I'm going to discard the brush again 2:30, you can use whatever's left on it or pick up a little bit of those tan lines or foam a shadow something like that and very lightly on the edge here and that will help blend this shadow. You don't want to use this deep shade to blend the shadow. You want to use any of the lighter shades. to blend it out because you don't want the color to go too high.

I'm still approaching this from above. You know, when we approach it from the top, the tip is where you want to mix and then the rest. This helps blend it up. If you go this way, it's going to turn up the roughness too much and blend it down, which is kind of the opposite of what we want and I know you can't see my arms in this, but it looks really fun. when I'm doing this because I'm holding this mirror here and this arm is crossed over my chest, so I'm honestly making this weird X shape, you know, so I look really funny on camera, you can't tell, so if I do you're doing, you say: why do I look so funny?

Totally normal now, as you can see, I feel like it's gone too high, so I'm going to grab that really fluffy brush that was the Smith. 2:32 and blend and then I could also take the brush that they did the brow highlighter with and bring that product down a little bit more like this and then go back in and blend it like that, it's not too dark or too high, yeah. we were just using Makeup Geek cabin fever and I'm going to use American for Makeup Geek. This is almost black, it is like a very rich chocolate brown, now we are going to use an even more precise brush which is the crown, see five to eight small brushes like a pencil, conical brush and for this you must place it right at the tip of the brush and swirl it in the product, shaking off the excess and now you want to make it as precise as you want.

I can, so I'm bringing this right on the outer corner and keeping it right on this, they call it the outer view, you know, so this is the V here from the lash line up and then pushing it in slightly and then what I like to do. is on that brush, I'm going to take a little bit of that form of cabin fever and use it to help blend the shadow, putting this here on the lid, I'm going to pick up more cabin fever, it won't be a benefit, but I'm going to move on. Over here with the cabin fever, which helps blend that naturally, so as you can see, it still looks a little harsh there, so what I'm doing.

What I'm going to do is take the 2:47, which was the most precise of my fluffy brushes and taking any of those mid tones that come from the top and getting right into that crease to help blend it out and you can see it veryslowly. of blending that and removing the harshness that maintains the depth at the same time, it's very important if when you're doing your eyeshadow it's like you're doing it in a really small mirror like this and you're like it's all in your eyes after each step, you want to step away and look in a bigger mirror or look further away and look from there so you can see what it will look like in real life because sometimes you are so excited close to something and it looks good up close but not from far away , maybe it looks too smoky or something, so you just want to walk away, look back in another mirror and see what it looks like.

I just wrote that. inner corner and this inner part of the eyelid now I'm just going to take that shade of nylon this one here this is what we have on the brow bone I'm just going to use that flat brush that was 239 that I'm going to choose the product above, I'm looking at my mirror and for this I'm just pushing it in on the lid for the lid, you can use whatever you want today. Sometimes I wanted to do this color. I just think it's mate like that and call. it's a day, but today I want to move a shimmer and bring it to the inner corner as well now on that first initial blending brush, this myth 232, it doesn't really matter what pressure is used for this, I'm picking up the first shade of Birkin the bottom of the brush, so this is the tip of the brush and this is the bottom of the brush, so I'm going to bring it right over the bottom and lay it flat and fix that bright shade with the deeper shades here, so this is the transition tone with everything, so this will also help bring the lighter color with the darker color because these are our mid tone colors, they just sound so they stay together, they blend here as well, okay, so now for On the bottom lash line, we're basically going to do what we did on the top, I'm taking that big fluffy brush, picking up just a little bit of Birkin and now the only difference is that instead of looking at yourself in the mirror because that It's going to be very difficult to get to that area it's almost impossible, you're going to place your mirror above you up here and you're going to look like this and then I'm going to apply it under the eye and now we're going to get out of here and that will really diffuse that color and give a nice base for what we are doing again.

Still, make sure you tap off the excess so it doesn't go everywhere, especially at the bottom of the eye, otherwise you'll remove the excess. that dust will get into your eye and it will be very, very uncomfortable for you now. I like to be a little more precise, so I'm going to use the Sigma flat defining brush, it's an e 15, it's a really flat shot. rectangular brush I'm going to pick up frappe which was the second shade that we used and I'm going to be very precise on the lash line, so I'm going to bring this right here, I'm putting most of the product on. here in the outer corner, so anywhere you want the most pigmentation or the darkest, apply it there first because that's where it's going to be the most pigmented, so now I'm going to take a little bit of that tan line and do the exact same side and push it in into the lash line, move it down a little bit and then smudge it in slightly and then we'll get into that cabin fever shade, keep it as close to the lash line as possible and then bring it in very lightly . down not too much so now I can go American style on that flat definer and I'm bringing it really close to the lashes right on that lash line and me right on the outside and with that color I'm not bringing it down. so now I'm going to blend it with a fluffy brush, but I'm not going to blend it, I'm just moving it close to where the American is to feel like the eyeshadow is complete.

I'm going to go ahead and finish. off the look with just a little bit of mascara and lash liner if you want full videos on them I'll link them below because they cover all those topics in detail so I'll link them below if you're curious how I do them. So I'm going to do that and I'll come right back, so this is the full shadow look. I really hope this video was helpful and then I covered everything I could. There's something I didn't go over. Everyone, please let me know your questions below in the comments section and I will be there talking to you or applying your feedback and answering any questions you may have, so if you have any questions about what products I use or forget or Whatever yeah, all of that will be linked below in the description box right below this video and that's it.

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