Great eye make-up can look like two mini works of art on your face. Here are some essential eye shadow and liner tips.
- Always prep your eyelid before applying eye shadow — use some foundation or a light concealer, followed by a little powder.
The most important rule of applying eye shadow is to blend, blend, blend!
- Don't overload your brush with shadow — start with a little and build on the colour.
- Confused about eye shadow duos, trios and quads? The lightest colour is for your base — it goes all over the lid, the middle colour is for the inner half of the lid and the darker colour is for the outer half and contour line.
- Still not sure about the colour combos? Go for a simple wash of a very sheer or neutral shade across your lids.
- Never extend eye shadow too far past the inner and outer corners of your eye — this will make your eyes look heavy or overdone.
- For an intense or long-lasting colour, try applying powder shadow over the top of cream.
- Applied too much colour? Gently buff off with cotton wool or tone down with a skin-toned shade.
- Eye shadow can easily be used — wet or dry — as eyeliner. Just use a fine or flat brush to apply along your lash lines.
- Fake-alert: get bright eyes by lining your eyes inner corners (the "V") with a light-coloured, shimmery pencil.
- Lining eyes with a dark liner/shadow will make them appear smaller — be careful if you have small eyes.
- Lining the inner rims of your eyes with a white pencil can help them appear larger.
- Note: Eye make-up is most fun of all. Be bold, daring and experimental — you won't regret it!
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