Help: First time ever cut crease attempt.
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Jun 9, 2016
Paola B.
Every time I'm browsing the internet I see these beautiful cut crease looks, and since last night was one of those I-can't-sleep nights, I decided to give it a go. Please excuse my eyebrows and the rest of my face, it was 3am and I only got to play around with my eyes. Can I get some constructive criticism for y'all, I really want to learn how to do a nice cut crease!
Jun 9, 2016
Paola B.
Jun 9, 2016
Paola B.
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Paola B.
Jun 9, 2016
Alice R.
I like it but I'm not incredibly skilled at makeup so I wouldn't know any improvement points
Jun 9, 2016
Paola B.
Haha I appreciate it anyway miss Alice (:
Jun 9, 2016
Aurora S.
I feel like the crease color doesn't really fade out (at least not on my phone)
To me, I get this similar look when I'm trying to just focus on not getting the color on the lid and staying in the crease if that makes sense?
For me, I use about three colors in the crease so it's easier and you don't have to blend out so much with a dark color which can just end up extending too far.
For me, I personally use a light, medium and darker shade.
The lighter shade I like to be more warm toned.
Then the medium and dark shade can be the same tone as each other. I like using a medium shade that just looks like the dark shade blended out.
So if my darker shade is a dark wam brown then I'll use a medium warm brown as the medium shade.
I'll but the light shade in the crease. The medium shade I'll apply closer to the "cut" and blend into the lighter shade.
Then go in with the darkest shade on the "cut" and blend the edge a little upward.
There may be some color on the lid so I go in with a concealer or paint pot and really clean it up/sharpen it.
Jun 9, 2016
Jacqueline H.
In my opinion, your cut line is a bit too low and thick. When cutting a crease, you want to make a reasonably thin cut line ever so slightly above your natural crease. One you have laid down your cut line, soften the top edge of it just a bit. You want to soften the line, but not soften it to the point where it becomes clearly non existent because you need that line to be your guide.
I wouldn't bring the shadow so high up and close around your tear duct area. Ideally, you want the cut line and the shadow to be more tapered, not stop right next to where you put that pop of highlight on your upper lash line. Now this is just a personal preference type of thing, but I would have used a deeper brown shadow across the whole cut line and blended the edge of it in a more horizontal fashion so the shadow lays more on the edge of your liner a bit more. The lighter brown shade you used on top of the cut as sort of a transition is a nice shade to go with, I would suggest just blending it more upwards so it flows a bit better into your highlight.
I drew up a really quick example for you so you can see what I'm talking about. It's not perfect, but I think it gets the point across: See how the cut line is a bit more tapered towards the bridge of the nose, and how the darker brown lies slightly above your cut line and blends a bit and how I used a lighter camel sort for brown to soften that deeper brown a bit so it fades better into your highlight... :)
No one person does a cut crease or a closed banana the same way, so 'how' you get there is inconsequential in my opinion. I think for your first time out you did a nice job. ;)
Jun 9, 2016
Paola B.
Thank you Jacqueline!! I LOVE your advice!! Now that you explained with such detail I can already see what I did wrong. I made the line right into the crease instead of slightly above. I took that dark color waaay out. I see what you mean now about making the line tapered towards the tear duct and nose bridge. And oh my, thank you so much for that drawing Jacqueline! I'm going to use that as a reference and try it again! Thank you so so much Jacqueline!!
Jun 9, 2016
Paola B.
Thank you Aurora! I also used three colors, a light, medium, and dark, however maybe my blending out and color placement didn't really get me that faded out look. I never thought about going in with concealer to sharpen the cut, that's awesome advice! Thank you!!
Jun 9, 2016
Jacqueline H.
You're welcome Paola. Glad it helped. :)
Jun 10, 2016
Summer A.
I want to try a cut crease for once and this thread helped so much! Thanks everyone
Jun 10, 2016
Fearless G.
That's great for a first try!
Jun 10, 2016
Paola B.
I'm glad it helped somebody else other than me Summer :D
Thank you Fearless (: