With eye makeup, some women think about how to color their eyes with shadows. Some redo the eye makeup several times before finishing it with the perfect result. Such experiments take too much time. But in fact, eye makeup is very simple if you know only a few small nuances.
Brushes
All brushes for professional make-up should be natural (mink, columns, arctic fox, goat, etc.), with the exception of brushes for applying foundation or greasy proofreaders. The handles of the brushes should be comfortable, light and not very smooth, so as not to slip in the hands. The fur on the brush should not come out, dye, the hairs must clearly keep their shape. Natural fur in the hands should be resilient.
Basic brushes for eye makeup:
- A flat brush with a rounded shape, it can be of different lengths and elasticities. Commonly used to gently apply eye shadow.
- The keg brush, voluminous and fluffy, has a round shape, suitable for blending eye shadow.
- Brush for fine and graceful lines. It has the shape of a hair, used to draw arrows, clear decorative elements.
- Comb brush for combing eyelashes before and after applying mascara.
- A fan brush shakes off excess shadows. And also good when using light dusting, if the skin is very dry in structure, as well as when applying a glossy effect.
- The eyebrow brush should be flat and elastic, put the shadows under the hairs well. Such a brush has a beveled cut.
Color circle
Before you figure out how to color your eyes with shadows, you need to understand by what criteria to choose the colors of the shadows themselves. And this will help to understand the simple color wheel, which is used by all professional makeup artists, hairdressers and fashion designers.
Knowledge of combining and neutralizing colors is necessary with any makeup. Including with eye makeup, because the selection of colors plays one of the most important roles.
The color wheel contains colors: primary (primary), secondary (obtained by mixing primary) and tertiary (formed by mixing primary and secondary).
The neutralizing colors are opposite each other.
Cold shades are colors in which blue is present. Warm - those in which there is yellow. If eye makeup is planned in cold or warm shades, it is better to do all makeup in the same ones.
Types of appearance
What shadows fit the eyes? To understand what makeup is suitable for a certain type of appearance, you need to know their features. The colors of eye shadow will competently and harmoniously look, if you remember the natural color type.
- Winter woman. Cold shades prevail. Hair color is dark (silvery ash, dark blond, black, brown with a cool red tint). Skin color is contrasted with hair color, light. Eye color black, blue, green, brown. Colors can add to this appearance: silver, black, blue, violet, cyclamen, white, emerald, burgundy, and cherry. With this type of appearance, various contrasting colors are combined.
- Spring woman. When comparing this color type with the previous one, you can notice one main difference. This is the predominance of clear and gentle tones. Pastel-warm shades: blue, amber, golden, cream, pink, peach, will be perfectly combined with this type in harmony.
- Woman summer. This is a cold color type, and soft pastel colors and slightly muted shades are great for him. Cold pastel gamma is best suited. Such colors as pink, blue, shades of milk, lilac, and another, slightly muffled gamut of colors are combined. They can also be mixed with gray.
- Autumn woman. One of the most colorful color types. Appearance of this type, like the landscape of autumn, is bright. To emphasize the graceful beauty of such a saturated color type, the color scheme of harmonious warm tones can be: chocolate, gold, khaki, walnut, all shades of red and orange, mustard.
How to make up eyeshadow?
Below are a few options for applying makeup for different eyes. How to paint eyes with shadows, like professional makeup artists? Many girls need this knowledge in order to create masterpieces on their own eyes at home, because every woman wants to look unique. For beginners, step-by-step instructions on how to color your eyes with shadows are offered.
Brown eyes
Makeup options depend on the palette of the selected shades. For any type of appearance, you can choose the right makeup, whether it is evening, afternoon, natural or even fantasy. It all depends on the time of day, occasion and the whole image. Owners of brown eyes should not use red and orange colors, the look with such shades will simply be lost. Girls with fair skin and dark hair will suit eye shadow with cold shades.
How to apply eye shadow? Shadows are applied to the eyelids with a flat round brush with gentle patting movements, do not smear. This is done so that the friable shadows do not crumble under the eyes and that the coating is dense. Shade shaded with a thick barrel brush.
In order to make the cat's eye outstretched, you must:
- First, apply light pearlescent shadows under the eyebrow and in the inner corner of the eye.
- On the moving upper eyelid, several shades of shades for brown eyes are applied with a gradient (from light to dark). So, the outer corner of the eye should have a darker color, and the inner corner - vice versa.
- The borders of the transition of colors are shaded.
- You can bring your eyes over shadows with a pencil or eyeliner.
- Between a moving or motionless eyelid, shades of contrasting color can be applied.
- Shade the shadows from the outer corner of the eye to the center of the lower eyelid (they can be of any color, but it is advisable to use dark shades in this place).
Any eye makeup is completed either by applying mascara, after which the cilia are combed, or by gluing false eyelashes. You can paint the upper eyelashes with mascara in several layers, and then, if necessary, also curl.
For green eyes
The green of the iris is emphasized by the shadows of rich warm tones. Shades for green eyes are better to choose a peach, golden, purple, burgundy, sand shade.
Shadows of dense, greasy texture with sparkles are applied to the same dense base. Put shadows for green eyes of a dark shade as close as possible to the ciliary edge, and make a smooth transition due to shading. To make the look more open, dark shadows can also be shaded towards the tip of the eyebrow.
After applying and blending the shadows, eye makeup ends with underlining the eyelid with a black or brown pencil and applying mascara to the eyelashes.
Blue eye color
Shadows for blue eyes should contrast with the color of the iris. Such eyes will appear clearer, more expressive, and brighter. The contrast of shadows for blue eyes, namely brown color, will highlight and attract attention to them.
Evening smokey or smoky makeup for blue eyes is done in gray, black, brown, pink colors. Perhaps the addition of golden or any warm shades. For blondes, a smokey design with bluish tones is suitable, and for brunettes, saturated blue can be used as an additional color. Yellow shades for blue eyes emphasize the natural color and highlight the iris.
How to apply eye shadow? Smokey is usually marked with eyeliner with intermittent movements. And the shadows themselves are applied on top.
First, they use bright ones, and, if necessary, with the transition and highlighting the boundaries of the movable and fixed eyelids. To make it easier to apply shadows between the folds of the eyelids, the skin can be slightly stretched.
Use a blending brush to soften the transitions between the pencil and the shadows. To the shadows for blue eyes, you can add pearlescent or shiny shades that are applied to the moving eyelid. But not too much, because in this case the colors can merge with each other, and the shape of the makeup will be blurry due to the reflection of light.
For gray eyes
There are a lot of shades and patterns of the iris of gray eyes, and each is unique in its own way. Therefore, the approach to the design of gray eyes should be individual. Many advise gray eyes to choose colors that are brighter and more vibrant so that makeup is not boring. The main thing is a successful combination.
In calm gentle tones, eye makeup will not seem boring if properly designed. For example, in the style of amber, you can use cream, peach, pink and many other colors in pastel shades.
Shades of natural shades are applied to the middle of the century, any light and shiny shadows can be applied to the inner corner of the eye. Silver eyes are ideal for gray eyes.
Brown shades are applied on top of light, copper or dark gray can also be applied.
In order to give the eyes an almond-shaped shape, you can apply shadows of a contrasting shade to the crease between the movable and fixed eyelids. And again, carefully blend the borders.
The ciliary edge is underlined with a pencil.
For black eyes
Eyes of this color are common among the peoples of Asia. And Asian women today have one of the most popular types of eye makeup - this is with arrows.
The classic shape of the arrows can be done as a pencil, and eye shadow and eyeliner. Arrows can also visually change the shape of the eyes.
To create an arrow, you need to draw a line to extend the lower eyelid. The thickness of the arrow ends approximately at the level of the external angle of the iris. The angle of the arrow itself is directed towards the upper eyelid and ends at about the same distance as the fold of the upper eyelid.
The more curved the arrow, the thinner the line should be. It can be brought to the beginning of the inner corner of the eye, or a couple of millimeters before it begins.
The arrow triangle should be completely filled.
Eye shadow can complement arrows. Black or brown arrows look good during daytime makeup with shades of nude, pink and beige shades. How to apply eye shadow, how, and with which brushes to shade them is described in more detail in makeup for brown eyes.