Playing with color - critique please?

Apr 7, 2015

Alexis C.

I think you need to bring the colors up higher, use a transition/crease color, and bring the colors onto the lower lash line. It just looks like you placed down the lid colors and nothing else. Pretty colors, though (:

Apr 7, 2015

Leila R.

@Alexis C. Thank you! I'll have to work on that. I have to ask though- what's a transition color?

Apr 7, 2015

Alexis C.

A transition color is a shade that goes through your crease that helps the colors you've placed on your lid smoothly transition into the crease and to the brow bone. I like to use a shadow slightly darker than my skin tone for this, like a taupe or light brown shade, and apply that through the crease first and then apply my lid colors and blend where the lid color and the transition color meet (:

Apr 7, 2015

Sadie G.

I agree with Alexis, but you should also use a base when using bright colors to make them seem brighter! Try using a white jumbo eye pencil, or a paint pot, or any cream eye shadow! It'll make them appear much brighter and vibrant, but your blending it very good!!

Apr 8, 2015

Molly S.

What tarte palette did you use?

Apr 8, 2015

Sarah N.

I agree with the girls. MAC paint pots are amazing bases, or for something cheaper the nyx jumbo pencil in milk works too. Apply a transition color & apply more of the lid color up a little higher and blend.