Eye makeup help!!

May 23, 2013

Emily P.

What sort of liner are you applying? Like is it a gel, pencil, liquid?

May 23, 2013

Shauna S.

For eyeliner, just keep watching videos on youtube and keep practicing. It's really the only way you will get better. It's hard to describe to someone how to put on eyeliner. Try using a liquid eyeliner with a felt tip and apply it in small "ticks" across your eye so that way you won't mess it up. Start thing and then build it up to the thickness you want. As for eye shadow colours, try bronze or colours that have a hint of orange (Penny Lane from Urban Decay). Also try some purples and pinks.

May 23, 2013

Emily P.

I have a friend who has your eye shape and the curve made pencil liners a living hell for her.

What she found most useful was to use a bent liner brush, and a gel or liquid liner. Bent liner brushes are awesome because the angle allows you to apply the product while your hand is out of the way, that way you can still see everything nice and clear. They are awesome with gel liners, but a surprisingly cheap alternative is to buy a bottle of Makeup Forever Aqua Seal. My daily basics now are a bent liner brush, an eyeshadow in a shade I want for liner, a shimmery cream eyeshadow for inner eye highlight, and a drop or two of Aqua Seal. =]

It's a liquid that turns powders into waterproof liquids. You can basically turn any eyeshadow into the perfect eyeliner, which is awesome because you have so many more options. Instead of having to go out and buy a pencil or gel in that shade, you just need a shadow. It's also great to make your shadow sweat proof for summer.

It's $21.00 a bottle, and at first that seems like a lot, until you use it and see how little you need. So the bottle will last you a long while. I use mine with my Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette at the moment. The Naked Basics Palette is great, but feel like it's a bit less pigmented than I had hoped. But it's an amazing palette for someone who wants a natural look. You can go light, or if you want you can build up shading in the crease or outer eye witht eh brown or black for a natural shaded smokey eye. It would be a good palette for you shadow wise. All the shade except 2 are matte, and the two that aren't are a nice sort of shimmery pearl. So it's pretty but not flashy or sparkly like some Urban Decay shadows.

If you don't have the $27.00 for that pallette, you could always opt for Nyx, Covergirl, or Revlon. They are all great for shadows and have a wide range of colours, so you could find dupes of the shades in the Naked Basics.

Accenting wise: use a highlighting shade (a pale, sort of shimmery in a natural way type shade) in the inner eyes and lash line to open the eye up a bit. Apply it lightly because too much could make your eyes apear larger. Bronze is a great colour to accent blue. You could try linging the upper and lower lashing line with a beige cream eye shadow, smudge/bland with a smudge brush so it just has that pretty gleam, and then apply liner. I always love the way that looks. Maybelline Color Tattoo cream shadow in Bad To The Bronze would be great, or even Bold Gold if you want a more summery look.



Links to the particular products I mentioned:

http://www.sephora.com/eye-seal-P169812?skuId=969352

http://www.sephora.com/product/productDetail.jsp?keyword=naked%20basics&skuId=1458157&productId=P376213&_requestid=42858

http://www.sephora.com/product/productDetail.jsp?keyword=bent%20liner&skuId=1419639&productId=P313035&_requestid=43345

http://www.ulta.com/ulta/browse/productDetail.jsp?productId=xlsImpprod4070019#sku2239712

May 23, 2013

Merrie D.

Put white eyeliner on your water lines (upper and lower) for larger looking eyes and black liner right below the white (about the amount In the lower left picture) on the lower and upper lash lines to make your eyes more bold and beautiful :)