When evening calls for a glamorous look, you want to focus on making
your eyes amazing. Here are eight simple steps to making up your eyes
for evening.
1. Prep your eyes with concealer. Concealer can be used to cover
up under eye circles or just the bluish discoloration just under your
inner eye. To cover dark under eye circles, apply three dots of
concealer under each eye. Start at the inner corner where skin tends to
be darkest, then under the pupil and the third on the outer edge.
2. Apply eye base to your lid Eye base is the secret to keeping
your shadow in place for hours. Without properly priming your lid first,
your eye shadow will likely end up a greasy line in your crease.
3. Apply shadow. It's great to use a three-toned shadow and build
from lids to brow. Allowing them to merge into each other like a rainbow
is graceful. Start with a light color that almost matches your lid.
brush the color across the lid and up to your browbone. Follow with a
medium color across your lid only. Build on this with a darker color in
the crease. Blend the colors well.
4. Follow with eyeliner Dark eyeshadows work great as eyeliners.
Wet a slanted brush, and then dip in a dark eyeshadow. Line eyes as
close to the upper lashes as possible from the inner corner to the outer
corner. Follow with liner on bottom eyes, but only line from the middle
of the eye out. Smudge the bottom line with a Q-tip or your finger. You
don't want a prominent line. For a smokey eye, use a brush to pat in a
dark eyeshadow along the upper lid and below the lid. You don't want a
stark line, instead you want to blend it so it's 'smudge-y.'
5. Brighten your eyes with a highlighter. This step involves only
the inside part of the eye. With a gold or pink highlighter (white is
too bright), draw a v-shaped shape that follows the inner corner of your
eye from top to bottom. Blend with your fingers. This will help make
eyes 'pop.'
6. Highlight your brow Take the same highlighter and dab it on
your browbone, concentrating on your mid-brow outward. Blend with your
finger.
7. Curl lashes An eyelash curler will make even long lashes look
more gorgeous. For added effect, you can heat the curler under a
blowdryer for a couple seconds. Test curler before applying to lashes
because you could burn yourself.
8. Apply mascara Place the wand of your mascara brush at the
bottom of lashes and wiggle back and forth. Follow with another few
sweeps of the wand. Apply to bottom lashes as well.
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