Eye Makeup Techniques

Eye makeup has long become a real art. With the help of decorative paints, you can remove traces of fatigue, make small eyes big, narrow eyes wide, close-set to far-set ones, and much more. You can transform beyond recognition without resorting to plastic surgery. There are many eye makeup techniques that you can use, but it is worth highlighting the most important ones. This makeup is easy to do at home, without the help of makeup artists.

It doesn't really matter what schemes you use when it comes to the time of day. It is considered bad manners to wear too bright makeup in the morning and afternoon. A similar situation happens if you go to a social event with natural daytime makeup. You just get lost in the general background.

In the evening hours, you can afford much more. Arrows, smoky eyes, dark lipstick colors, lots of glitter and shimmer. The main thing is to know the measure, but in general only your sense of style and the format of the event or evening can limit you.

It is important to distinguish between makeup according to the seasons. For our country, this is especially true, because their change is more than clearly visible. It's simple - leave bright and berry shades for the summer. Save the cozy reds and chocolates for fall. A more restrained make-up will go to winter - at this time of the year it is generally better to think about care, and not about beauty. Well, for the joy of spring, use all the most delicate colors in your palettes.

• No matter how trite it may sound, but the first is to consider the classic way. There is nothing complicated about it - most likely, you already own it, you just did not know that it had a name. It is based on only three colors. If you like to buy shadows not by the piece, but by palettes, most likely, just such a basic set will already be formed for you: light tone, medium and darkest.

The sequence of applying colors should be as follows: the palest shade is superimposed as a base on the entire upper eyelid. You can shade it right up to the eyebrow. Next, the center is decorated with a medium tone. With it, you shade the eye and give extra volume. The darkest look is applied last and only affects the outer corner of the eye.

So you get a soft color transition from the center to the periphery.

• The next technique is vertical. It is suitable for ladies who are worried about too narrow eyes. With the right shading vector, you can visually open your eyes.

When determining the order of application, the zones into which the eye is divided should be numbered:

1. First part - this is the area in the very corner, closer to the nose.
2. The second part - a segment whose length is equal to the beginning of the eyebrow and the near edge of the iris when you look straight.
3. Third section - the entire gap that fits into the size of your iris from edge to edge.
4. The fourth begins from the second edge of the iris and ends at the corner of the eye.
5. Fifth begins from the extreme corner of the eye and ends with the eyebrow.

Memorize these five parts and arrange the colors in the correct order.

The most pale shade will need to be applied to zone number 1. It is not at all necessary to do this with the help of shadows, you can use a white pencil, highlighter or concealer. Next, apply light colors to the second zone. The third section will be transitional - its shade should be darker than on the second, but at the same time lighter than on the fourth. The fifth zone is the most saturated and bright color.

Similarly, you can apply shadow on the lower eyelid, just allow yourself to skip a couple of areas, otherwise it is quite possible that the makeup will not look very beautiful.

• The next technique is horizontal. It suits the owners of round eyes, which you really want to lengthen. The order of the zones in it changes.

1. Only the first zone remains in place, which can also be lightened with a highlighter or matte light shadows.
2. Second zone grabs your lash line. It is carefully drawn with a dark pencil (black, brown, purple or marsh).
3. Third zone occupies the entire moving eyelid, and in this segment the shadows should be of a transitional medium shade.
4. Crease of the upper eyelid forms the fourth zone, and it needs to be covered with the darkest color that you planned to use.
5. Into free space between the eyelid and the eyebrow, which belongs to the fifth zone, it will be necessary to apply light shades.You can use the same highlighter or find an analogue in the palette, but a slightly darker shade.

• Another eye makeup technique is diagonal. From the name it becomes clear that the diagonal is the basis. We should remember the division of the eye into zones that were used for the vertical technique. In this case, all colors will be applied with a bias to the right - on the right eye, to the left - on the left.

Leave the first zone under the highlighter again. On the second, apply a light tone of the shadows, on the third - a transitional tone, on the fourth - the darkest, and again paint the fifth with a medium transitional color.

This technique is used when you need to visually lift the outer corners of the eyes. The main thing is to shade the transitions well so that clear boundaries are not visible, only then you will achieve the desired effect.

These are far from all eye makeup techniques, although geometric names are already running out.

• Next technique - as if taking your eyes into the ring, it is called "Banana". Makeup can be done with a pencil or shadows. If you are trying to do this for the first time, it is better to take a pencil in your hands for a clearer line.

You should start by applying the base to the entire area around the eye, including the moving eyelid. From above, the “design” will need to be powdered with matte shadows that are close in color to your natural skin tone (or a little lighter). You can also use regular powder.

Next, you should bring the lower eyelid with a pencil. Start drawing from the middle of the eye. The closer you get to the end, the stronger the shading should be. After that, where you have a deep crease between the moving part of the eyelid and the space above the eyebrow, make a stroke with the same pencil in the shape of the eye.Smoothly connect the two pencil lines and gently blend them towards the temples.

Next, draw a small loop arrow and add colors along the outer edge of the outline. You choose the color of your choice.

Such a beautiful shadow game looks very unusual and interesting.

• The last technique, which you will learn about in the article, the owner of the playful name "Bird". She excels when it comes to slightly rounded and close-set eyes. "Bird" acts by visually increasing the distance between them.

Apply the palest color to zone number one, and also paint over the entire part of the moving eyelid with it. In the middle, add a slightly noticeable stroke with a color a couple of tones darker. After that, draw a tick exactly in the shape of your beautiful eye with the help of dark shadows, then gently and carefully blend, moving from the eye to the temples. You should end up with a Roman numeral V. But this is not the end. In the space above the eyebrow and the upper edge of the check mark, apply a dark (but not maximum) shade of shadows to achieve a beautiful transition.

There are many more types of makeup that you can also read about - such as smoky eyes, cat eyes, baking, Greek makeup and so on. A plus can be a change in the shape of the eyebrow. Many girls want to visually lift their eyelids, open their eyes or make their eyes wider by adjusting their eyebrows. You can tame vegetation with tweezers or a special razor. Look for everything you need on the websites of stores, in the sections of beauty products. Fora, AliExpress and many other sites will be happy to offer you different options.

Now that the application technique is step by step and visually painted for you in completely different variations, you can easily create the perfect makeup.Come up with new looks every day. Experiment with colors, shapes, lines and shadows. You will be surprised how multifaceted and different you can be with a little makeup tricks.

Vertical makeup technique - in the next video.