When making eye makeup, some women think about how to paint their eyes with shadows. Some people redo their eye makeup several times before finishing it with a perfect result. Such experiments take too much time. But in fact, eye makeup is very simple if you know just a few small nuances.
Brushes
All brushes for professional make-up must be natural (mink, kolinsky, arctic fox, goat, etc.), except for brushes for applying foundation or bold correctors. 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, be painted, the hairs must clearly keep their shape. Natural fur in the hands should be elastic.
Basic eye makeup brushes:
- A flat, rounded brush that comes in different lengths and firmness. Typically used to gently apply eye shadow.
- Barrel brush, voluminous and fluffy, hasround shape, suitable for blending eye shadow.
- Brush for thin and graceful lines. Has the shape of a hair, used to draw arrows, clear decorative elements.
- Comb-brush for combing eyelashes before and after applying mascara.
- Fan brush shakes off excess eyeshadow. And also good when using light powder, if the skin texture is very dry, as well as when applying a glossy effect.
- The eyebrow brush should be flat and elastic, it is good to put shadow under the hairs. This brush has a beveled cut.
Color Wheel
Before you figure out how to paint your eyes with shadows, you need to understand what criteria to choose the colors of the shadows themselves. And this will help to understand a simple color wheel, which is used by all professional makeup artists, hairdressers and fashion designers.
Knowing matching and neutralizing colors is essential for 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 with secondary).
Neutralizing colors are opposite each other.
Cool 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 the entire makeup in the same.
Appearance types
What shadows suit the eyes? Toto understand what makeup is suitable for a certain type of appearance, you need to know their features. The colors of the eye shadows will look competently and harmoniously, if you remember the natural color type.
- Winter Woman. Cold shades prevail. Hair color is dark (silver-ash, dark blond, black, brown with a red cold tint). Skin color contrasts with hair color, light. Eye color black, blue, green, brown. This appearance can complement the colors: silver, black, blue, purple, cyclamen, white, emerald, burgundy, cherry. Various contrasting colors are combined with this type of appearance.
- Spring Woman. When comparing this color type with the previous one, one main difference can be noticed. This is the predominance of clear and gentle tones. Pastel-warm shades will be perfectly combined with this type in harmony: blue, amber, golden, cream, pink, peach.
- Woman-summer. This is a cool color type, and soft pastel colors and slightly muted shades are perfect for him. Cold pastel colors work best. Colors such as pink, blue, shades of milk, lilac, and another, slightly muted range of colors are combined. They can also be mixed with grey.
- Autumn woman. One of the most colorful color types. The appearance of this type, like an autumn landscape, is bright. The graceful beauty of such a rich color type can be emphasized by the color scheme of harmonious warm tones: chocolate, gold, khaki, walnut, all shades of red and orange, mustard.
How to make up eyes with shadows?
Below are several 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 in front of their own eyes at home, because every woman wants to look unique. For beginners, step-by-step instructions on how to make up eyes with shadows are offered.
Brown eyes
Makeup options depend on the palette of selected shades. For any type of appearance, you can choose the right makeup, whether it is evening, daytime, natural or even fantasy. It all depends on the time of day, the occasion and the whole image. It is better for owners of brown eyes not to use red and orange colors, the look with such shades will simply be lost. For girls with fair skin and dark hair, eyeshadows in cold shades are suitable.
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 crumbly shadows do not crumble under the eyes and so that the coating is dense. The shadows are shaded with a thick barrel brush.
In order to make a cat's eye elongated, you need:
- First, apply light pearlescent eye shadow under the eyebrow and in the inner corner of the eye.
- Several shades of shadows for brown eyes are applied to the moving upper eyelid with a gradient (from light to dark). So, the outer corner of the eye should have a darker color, and the inner one - on the contrary.
- Color transition bordersare shaded.
- You can bring your eyes over the shadows with a pencil or eyeliner.
- Shadows of a contrasting color can be applied between the moving or fixed eyelid.
- From the outer corner of the eye to the center of the lower eyelid, blend the shadows (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. The upper eyelashes can be painted with mascara in several layers, and then, if necessary, also curled.
For green eyes
The green of the iris of the eyes is emphasized by the shadows of juicy warm tones. Shadows for green eyes are better to choose a peach, golden, purple, burgundy, sand shade.
Shadows of dense, bold textures with sparkles are applied to the same dense base. As close as possible to the ciliary edge, put shadows for green eyes of a dark shade, 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, the eye makeup is finished by highlighting the eyelids 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. Contrast eyeshadow for blue eyes, namely brown, will highlight and draw attention to them.
Evening smoky or smoky makeup for bluethe eye is made in gray, black, brown, pink colors. It is possible to add golden or any warm shades. Blondes can use a smokey design with bluish hues, while brunettes can use deep blue as an additional color. Yellow eye shadow for blue eyes will emphasize the natural color and highlight the iris.
How to apply eye shadow? Smokey is usually marked with an eyeliner in intermittent movements. And the shadows themselves are already applied on top.
First, light ones are used, and, if necessary, then with a transition and highlighting the boundaries of the moving and fixed eyelids. To make it easier to apply shadow between the creases of the eyelids, the skin can be slightly stretched.
Soften the transitions between the pencil and shadows with a shading brush. To the shadows for blue eyes, you can add mother-of-pearl 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 for gray eyes to choose colors that are brighter and more juicy so that the makeup is not boring. The main thing is a good combination.
In calm gentle tones, eye makeup will not seem boring if it is done correctly. For example, in the amber style, you can use cream, peach, pink and many other pastel colors.shades.
Shadows of natural shades are applied to the middle of the eyelid, some light and shiny shadows can be applied to the inner corner of the eye. Silver eyes are perfect for gray eyes.
Brown shadows are applied over light ones, copper or dark gray can also be applied.
In order to give the eyes an almond shape, you can apply shadows of a contrasting shade in the crease between the mobile and fixed eyelids. And again, gently blend the borders.
The lash line is underlined with a pencil.
For black eyes
Eyes of this color are common among the peoples of Asia. And for Asians today, one of the most popular types of eye makeup is with arrows.
The classic shape of the arrows can be done with a pencil, as well as 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 continue the lower eyelid. The thickness of the arrow ends approximately at the level of the outer corner of the iris. The angle of the arrow itself is directed towards the upper eyelid and ends at approximately the same distance as the crease 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.
Arrow triangle must be completely filled in.
Eye shadows can complement the arrows. Black or brown arrows look good with daytime makeup withshades of nude, pink and beige shades. How to apply shadows on the eyes, how, and with what brushes to shade them, is described in more detail in makeup for brown eyes.