Instead choose a bright complementary color to place across the lid, and blend a neutral color into your crease to create a more flattering look. Did I mention that you should blend? In order to avoid the clown makeup look, make sure to blend your bright eyeshadow to avoid any harsh lines.
Choose the fluffiest eyeshadow brush in your collection, and get blending. When it comes to wearing dramatic eye makeup, it's all about that base. Try toning down the rest of your makeup in order to make your vibrant shadows pop that much more.
This means applying a paler blush and a more neutral lip color. Not a fan of neon colors? Try sticking to bright purples and greens instead.
These two shades are great for those beginners. Add intensity to your vibrant shadows by wetting your eyeshadow brush. By using a damp brush, the bristles will pick up a heavier coating of the eyeshadow leaving you with a more pigmented look.
When mixing your shadow with water, you only need a drop or 2. Pour water into the cup from either a bottle or your faucet. Then, put the brush into the cup so only the tip of the bristles touch the water. The water binds with the powdered eyeshadow, and it looks much more concentrated and vibrant when you apply it.
If you get the entire brush wet, you may waste eyeshadow pigment. Also, your shadow may look much too dark. Put the tip of your brush into your pigment. After you wet the tip of your brush, dip the tip into your powdered eyeshadow. Swirl the brush around in a small circle to pick up the pigment. This will bend the hairs and could spread the powder throughout the brush. If there is excess powder on the brush, it could fall onto your face as you do your makeup. Brush on a light, even layer of powdered eyeshadow.
Lightly dust your eyeshadow over your eyelid after you get some on your brush. After you have some eyeshadow on your brush, gently sweep the pigment over where you applied cream eyeshadow. Adding a second layer of color adds intensity to your eyeshadow pigment. Use a similar color to your first layer, or use another contrasting color for a bright look. Since the brush is wet, the pigment sticks to the brush. However, once the pigment is applied to your eyelid, it will look thick and smooth compared to light and airy.
For example, if you used a pink shade of cream shadow for your first layer, use a bright purple powder eyeshadow for extra dimension. For an extra pop of color, apply the eyeshadow to the inner bridge of your nose as well.
You can use the same shade or another bright hue. Continue applying layers of pigment gradually to create your look. You can also do this if you want to add another color to your look. Dip your makeup brush into your powdered eyeshadow, and add another layer where desired. For example, for a daytime look, you might blend light pink and rose gold hues on your lid, then add brown shadow on the outside corner of your lid to create depth.
Similarly, you can create a nighttime look by blending pink and purple hues, then blend a green or blue to the outer corner of your eye for a dramatic look. If you want a softer finish, apply a layer of dry shadow over the wet shadow. This also blends your shadow.
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Not Helpful 2 Helpful 0. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 3. Not Helpful 3 Helpful 1. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 0. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Experiment with different eyeshadow looks until you find the best and brightest option for you. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. After you finish the rest of your makeup, spray a light dusting of makeup setting spray over all of your face. It's a very dense, full-coverage eye shadow base that rivals even your thickest concealer.
I couldn't get my hands on the base in time, so I just used the thickest concealer I have at my disposal: Tarte Shape Tape. I brushed it onto and all over my lid with a concealer brush and then pressed it in with a damp Beautyblender for even coverage.
A better artist than I might have used any ol' brushes, but to start, I wanted to use makeup brushes that I know are good for tougher blending jobs. I reached for the Sigma E37 and the slightly smaller version, the Sigma E They're perfect brushes to blend whatever you're working on, but ideal to blend denser cream products because the short, dome-shaped bristles can work thick products around without brushing through them, leaving holes, or blending the product away. Okay so, I started with what we can consider the hero color of this look, the color that every other shade will blend into.
I used a hot, hot pink. This one is Sandbar by ColourPop. To apply the shades onto a wet primer, I used packing motions to really press the color into the base. In back-and-forth motions from my outer to inner corners, I just pressed, pressed, pressed the color in, until I got it to a shape I could work with.
This shade is basically pure pigment, so it was an ideal base for this look and didn't take much work to place. I ended with an abstract idea of my crease. Now, because I have hooded lids , I had to make sure the pink was sitting just a bit over my crease, onto my orbital bone, creating the illusion of a crease but still visible when my eye was open, so you could see it blend into other colors when that time came.
Next, I took a lighter pink shade and buffed out the top edge of the pink for a softer blend. Because of the wet primer, it definitely took a little more than a soft "buff" to get the hot pink to diffuse.
In fact, when I started, I thought I was shit-outta-luck because getting anything to appear like it blends out on a wet primer takes some serious attention and elbow grease, not to mention a bright hot pink softened by a baby pink. But with the Sigma E37, some applied pressure, and some patience, I got it there.
Now for the fun part: deepening the inner part of the crease. I used a mid-tone purple which worked as a nice complement to the hot pink, while almost not being quite rich enough to give the right amount of depth when laid down on top of the pink. Using packing motions again, I focused the purple on the inner portion of the crease and eventually built it up to where it needed to be.
We'll go back to blend that hard edge out in a minute, don't worry. This look is all about blending and we're doing a lot of it. I also wanted to make sure that you could still see the depth that the purple added when my hooded eye was open. To deepen that purple up just a bit, I took a tiny bit of a matte black shadow on a pencil brush and placed it carefully on the inner-most part of the purple, and blended it up to make the purple read as more of a royal, eggplant purple instead of a berry purple.
Again: Blend, blend, blend. This is not easy, but it is doable, even with my hooded eyes and low-set brow.
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