Where I Place Eyeshadow and Whyyyyy | Eye Makeup Placement Tips

why am i holding this brush so in my eyeliner or the video where i talked about how you don't like don't feel like you have to wear fox liner or winged liner or anything like do your eyeliner the way that you want to i did talk about eye shadow placement i realize that this is something that can be really really difficult for people to understand like where tshould put it on their eye shape uh i'm all i'm just gonna get it out there i'm sorry to my hooded like lid people or people who don't have like a ton of real estate just to reiterate i don't do makeup on other people so the way that i the knowledge that i'm bringing is only from doing my makeup and like my background in art that's it i apologize so i'm gonna try to help you but i don't know if i can but what i can do is tell you where i place eyeshadow and why which is what we're going to do so i already primed my eyes with my anastasia ever beverly hills eye primer anastasia beverly hills eye primer so the palette i'm going to use today is supreme nudes by artist couture angel mac daddy it's his brand so this is the palette freaking pretty right all right the first thing i want to talk about is values values i don't know how else to describe them they're not really shades they're not colors they're values they're like the amount of dark that an eyeshadow is or a color is so you can have two blues right we got like a light blue and a dark blue wow those are different values okay that's what we're gonna be talking about so when choosing eyeshadow typically you want to start off with the lightest value first then you build up to the darkest that's going to be the best bet for blending the crease shade is usually the lightest shade that you start off with to kind of start mapping things out right your crease shade can be anything it could be any color whatever but typically just to be safe you kind of want to keep it maybe like a few shades darker than your skin tone two to three maybe if it's one i think it's like too chalky almost but it depends it depends on the color if we're looking at this palette we're using this as our beginner i kind of want to use that but i think it might be too light what i'm going to do is create my custom shade and i'm going to actually you know what [ __ ] it i'm going to go for a warmer so i'm going to i'm going to mix this guy which i think is nudist i'm reading it backwards and this guy which i think is transcend again i'm reading it backwards and the brush i'm going to use brush i'm going to be using is morphe m573 it's dirty but i'm going to wipe it off and everything will be fine yeah yeah yeah so i'm gonna back and forth between these two and this is way too hard to do so um i'm gonna take it down and do it over here so when we look at my eye again this is gonna be kind of like redundant if you watched uh my eyeliner video but if we look at my eye you can see that i have this saggy lid situation right so i have like a lot of room to work with but i don't have like a really really nice tight eye socket if that makes sense so if i look down like this or if i you know flatten that area out you can probably see that my eye socket is like here so if i press right in here or if i turn to the side you can see like this is where my brow bone is and then it goes in here and then my lid right but when i'm looking forward and my face is relaxed that gets creased over super fun so important to look down into a mirror and what i'm going to do is define that area so i'm pushing that area back in space by making it a little bit darker than my lid and we're going to start carving out the eye socket that's typically what you're doing basically what you're doing with eye shadow is contouring that's all it is so looking down you can see where my like natural shadow starts i'm going to start deepening up that area and placing a slightly darker shade there is going to push that area back in space it's going to bring the areas that are lighter forward in space it's going to help create more depth in the eye it's also going to just kind of like lie to the world that i have these deep eye sockets that i don't have again because i have so much room up here i really like to smoke this out so i'm focusing it above my lid onto the brow bone and then i'm going to slowly blend it up to my brow so that the majority of the pigment isn't up there but it nice and like it blends seamlessly see how much of a difference just that makes it pushes this area back and it gives my eye a little bit more shape looks less flat all right now before i move on to any other part of the eye i like to deepen that up even more going in with a slightly darker shade basically like building up from light to dark in one area is going to create not only a more seamless blend but it's also going to look much more three-dimensional it's like a drawing you know line drawing [ __ ] rendering [ __ ] you know what i mean if we look at this palette and you're having a hard time deciding like what shade to go in with next it's preference right but if you squint at it you can see the values of each shade a lot better so you can clearly see that this is the lightest shade then it goes to like this one and this one right and then it kind of goes to like here we already went there here uh i mean i'm not i'm leaving out the shimmery ones because right now we're working with maths we already used transcend we mixed it with a lighter shade which created like our own you know custom color but the next one in the progression would be what does that say i can't read that backwards oh silhouette uh and then obviously [ __ ] [ __ ] i can't read that mink i wanted to say wink mink is the darkest so now i'm going to pick up silhouette on a smaller brush this is the morphe m456 brush and i'm going to deepen up that eye socket even more so i'm going to be keeping this tighter in that area and this is where especially since this shade is a little bit more cool toned this is where we're really really really creating that shadow so i'm holding my brush like this which is going to make the line a little bit more prominent to begin with dude this eyeshadow palette is [ __ ] bomb anyway then i can turn it like this which is going to help me blend up into that so the way you hold your brush is really going to make a difference just keep that in mind all right now if i step back a little bit see how much this pushes this area back we're really really creating like obviously it's a little bit more dramatic because i like to wing that area out a little bit but we're really creating the illusion of a deep eye socket now again i spoke about this in my last video or my other video whatever video that was but my under eye situation thank you to everyone who's so nice about it i just don't like it that's all i it's not my i'm not wild about it so i do have lots of creases i got a lot of creasing under here just just natural creases my life it's the way i was born uh 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