How To Do Eye Makeup For Beginners

How To Do Eye Makeup For Beginners.Every morning, you make the same gestures with the same face and now you want to change… and start with your look. Don’t despair, we explain step by step how to apply eye makeup to help you achieve the perfect look, both day and night. Take note!

You probably have multiple eyeshadows lying around the house that you barely pay attention to. And basically you don’t because you don’t really know how to do eye makeup , do you? With so many brushes, mascara , eyeliner and colors, in the end you get saturated and end up always falling back on a very basic eye look.

How To Do Eye Makeup For Beginners

Index

1.  How to do eye makeup step by step?
2.  How to prepare the skin for eye makeup?
3.  What is the makeup you need to make up your eyes?
4.  How to highlight the eyes with makeup?
5.  How to make up your eyes with eye shadow?
6.  How to use eyeliner to make up your eyes?
7.  How to do eye makeup with mascara?
8.  How to apply eye makeup taking care of your eyebrows?

But don’t worry, the time has come to learn how to apply eye makeup . And we are going to explain it to you step by step, solving all the doubts.

How to do eye makeup step by step?

To make up your eyes , you must first take into account a few simple steps. This is the order to follow:

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• First prepare the eyelid with an eye primer . This way the shadow will be fixed better. Buy Prime on Amazon here.
• Apply the base color to the eyelid, preferably a light color.
• Make up the eye with the rest of the eyeshadowcolors .
• Line the eye with shadow or with a liquid or gel eyeliner .
• Apply mascara

How to prepare the skin for eye makeup?

Now we are going to delve a little deeper into how to do eye makeup by breaking down the steps. Before applying makeup, you have to prepare the skin. It is important that it is clean and well hydrated, so the makeup will last longer.

How to prepare your skin before applying eye makeup:

• Wash your face with water and a cleansing gel. You can also use micellar waterby applying it with a cotton pad. We recommend this Bioderma pack .
• Dry your face with the help of a towel. Do it by tapping, never dragging.
• Hydrate the face with your usual moisturizer. Wait for the skin to absorb it.
• Now apply an eye primeron the eyelids.

A trick : when applying the first , or eye primer, use the ring finger, as it is the one that exerts less force. Remember that the eyes are a delicate area of ​​the face, therefore, apply the product with soft touches.

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How to do eye makeup: learn how to choose your primer or primer:

The eye primer is the first step in eye makeup, so it is important to know which one to choose. It all depends on your skin type:

What is the makeup you need to make up your eyes?

You already know how to prepare your skin to apply eye makeup. But what other products are you going to need? aim!

For the eyelid:

• Eye shadows of different colors.
• A highlighter type shadow.
• Black shadow to outline.
• ​Brushes to apply the shadows: one to apply the shadows, another to blur and another beveled.

You can also get a palette that includes different shades, including matte finishes, nude tones, dark and illuminating shadow. We recommend this one from Maybelline New York .

For the tabs:

• A clear base coator mascara base ( like this one from Artdeco ).
• Eyelash curler: but try not to abuse it.

For the eyebrows:

• A brush or gupillonto comb them.
• Shadows to fill in the eyebrows.
• A brush to apply the shadow.

Get yourself a complete lash care kit like this one .

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How to highlight the eyes with makeup?

Before explaining how to apply eye shadows , it is important to know how to highlight them. There are some very simple tricks that we can use. Here’s a list:

• Keep your eyebrows symmetrical: Well-groomed and symmetrical eyebrows help frame your eyes.
• Highlight the brow bone– Apply a light shadow or highlighter under the brow to highlight the eyes.
• Apply white shadownear the tear duct to enlarge and highlight your eyes ( take a look at this one from La Rosa ).
• Apply a darker shadow(brown, for example) on the upper part of the eyelid, below the brow bone. Apply it with semicircular movements.
• Never forget about mascara: it will really enhance your eye makeup.

Another way to highlight the eyes with makeup is to choose the shadow according to your eye color . There are shades that can highlight your look more than others.

What shadow to choose according to your eye color:

• For blue or gray eyes: bronze, gold, beige, peach, orange, pink, black, purple or navy shades. This is the perfect eyeshadow palette for you .
• For green eyes: lilac, burgundy, plum, green, brown undertones or pastel shades. This is the perfect palette for your eyes .
• For brown eyes: blue, bronze, gold, coral, amber, pink or brown shadows. This is our go-to palette for brown eyes .

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How to make up your eyes with eye shadow?

Now we go with the step by step to apply the different eye shadows in order. Here are eight essential steps to learning how to do eyeshadow makeup:

• Choose at least three eyeshadow colors of similar shades. They try to go from light to dark.
• Example: brown, nude and beige.
• Apply the main color (the lightest) all over the mobile eyelid. From the inside out.
• Apply the darker color from the center of the lid outwards.
• Blend this color. Try to get it degraded from less to more intensity.
• Blend this shadow from the outside up just at the corner of the eye.
• Unify the two halves of the eyelid with the other shadow.
• Apply a bit of white shadow or highlighter to the inner corner and under the brow bone.

How to use eyeliner to make up your eyes?

We are going to give you an infallible trick so that your eyeliner lasts longer : before applying the liquid eyeliner , do it with a shadow of the same color.

Remember that the eyeliner is applied after having made up the eyes with shadow. Therefore, the step by step to make up your eyes with eyeliner would be:

• Using an angled brush, draw a line flush with the upper lashes.
• For this first step you can use eyeshadow or a pointed pencil.
• This first line will serve as a guide before applying the liquid eyeliner .
• Shake the liquid eyelinerwell and apply it on the line you had already made.
• When you get to the corner of your eye, put your finger near your temple. Pull the skin of the face back.
• Draw a thin ascending line.
• Join the line with the corner of the eye and fill it.

Buy liquid eyeliner from L’Oreal Paris Super Liner Perfect Slim , the easiest to apply.

To outline the lower part of the eye , use a pencil or shadows, never a liquid eyeliner.

A trick : if you have small eyes , apply the eyeliner to the level of the lower lashes, from the middle of the eye outwards. If you have big eyes , apply the pencil all the way to the bottom waterline, so it will look smaller.

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How to do eye makeup with mascara?

To show off beautiful eyelashes it is not necessary to apply 20 layers of mascara. One or two is enough. If you overuse mascara, with so many layers, your lashes will weigh more and fall down.

Here is the step by step to apply mascara correctly:

• Comb the lashes with a brush or gupillon.
• Curl them with the eyelash curler. Do it gently and always before applying mascara.
• Then apply the transparent mascara base.
• Wait a few seconds for it to dry.
• Then apply the mascara: do it by slightly lifting the eyelid.
• Apply mascara from the base of the lashes outwards. Do this by moving the brush from side to side to separate the lashes.
• To make up the lower lashes, apply just a light touch of mascara.

One trick : if you want them to look a bit longer, apply a second coat of mascara to the tips of your lashes only.
Use the L’Oreal Paris Paradise Extatic mascara for a result of long and voluminous lashes.

How to apply eye makeup taking care of your eyebrows?

The last step to complete your eye makeup is to do the eyebrows as well. Cover the small bald spots with shadow and try to make both eyebrows symmetrical. For it:

• Brush them first and give them the desired shape.
• Apply an eyeshadow of a similar color to your eyebrows. Use specific makeup for eyebrows for a much more natural result.
• Fill in the gaps with less hair.
• Comb the eyebrow again.

A trick : to fix your eyebrows you can finally apply a layer of transparent eyebrow fixer ( like this one from Maybellin New York ). If you don’t have any, you can also put a little hairspray on a small brush and pass it through your eyebrows.