Colorful Eyeshadow Do’s and Don’ts | Creative Makeup Advice

uh guys i'm gonna be showing you how to blend colorful eyeshadow i'm gonna be showing you what not to do and also what to do which would probably be the important part huh really quick before we get started my friend launched this dope nose piece with uh the brand called readymade i'm going to link them down below in case you want to check them out it's sick so the palette that i'm going to be using today is the culture palette from juvia's place juvia's place which is sick i was on ulta.com and i saw it and i was like i need it so i got it and this is what i'm going to be using um all right so i already primed my eyelids with my dominique cosmetics primer so if you're not familiar we're going to talk base if you're not familiar we're going to talk basics really quick so the color wheel is really going to be helpful here we have three primary colors those are yellow red and blue okay then we have three secondary colors those are green purple and orange you get green by mixing yellow and blue you get orange by mixing yellow and red you get purple by mixing blue and red okay so those are like the basic colors that you want to know about the cat is trying to get in it's very annoying the opposite colors on the on the color wheel are complementary colors uh which when put next to each other when placed next to each other are going to make each other pop so if you take blue and you put it next to orange they're opposite colors on the color wheel they're really going to bring each other out conversely if you mix those two colors twill neutralize each other so if you have a blue and you mix it with an orange it's going to end up turning into like essentially a brown it ends up being neutral same with yellow and purple some same with red and green so whatever the opposite on the color wheel is is going to neutralize which is one of the reasons that people use a green color corrector if thave redness on their face or if thave like blue tone under their eyes they'll use a peach color corrector now i'm going to use the example of yellow and purple which in my personal opinion are the worst complementary colors i just like do not like them at all and when mixed tcan look real gross all right so that's what we're going to be doing in the culture palette i'm going to be using this shade right here which i can't read because it's behind it's in front of me right now this matte purple and then i have uh this yellow up here naira naira land so i'm going to start off with my refer 01 brush i'm going to pick up that purple and i'm going to start packing this on the outer part of the lid and then slowly blend it on the lid working it into the crease so just building up that color focusing it on the outer corner and blending it around the eye now i'm grabbing my refer 15 brush a slightly larger fluffy brush and i'm going to dip into that yellow shade this is what you don't want to do now watch what happens when i start blending over that purple see how we got brown now i mean in my humble opinion this isn't the worst thing i think it's kind of edgy and cool but like it might not be what you're going for you know what i mean so i'm going to show you on the other side how to uh make it a little bit more attractive so when you're working with complementary colors you want to use the color wheel to your advantage right so if i'm trying to gradiate from a purple to a yellow i want to look at the colors that are between those shades so if i'm looking at the color wheel right now if we're moving towards yellow um going well i mean it depends on which side you're going but like maybe i want the progression to be a little bit warmer maybe i want to start moving towards the pinks and then the oranges to get to the yellow i could also move from the purple to the blues into the greens and then to the yellows okay today i'm going to be going with the reds and things so i'm going to go from that purple on the other side i'm going to do the exact same thing once again focusing on the outer part and then blending in and up to the crease all right so let's look at the color wheel so now if we're going in the like the reds direction we want to get to that purple next uh i could pick up red i could pick up pink i don't want to jump too quickly into like a yellow orange because you can kind of end up with the exact same problem so you want to make sure that you are progressing okay so what i'm going to do is pick up a clean fluffy brush this is the this is a pretty large one this is the refer 27 brush and i'm going to grab a pink color this color right here which is this nice kind of like medium toned pink um so you can see the purple now we're jumping to this pink as we work our way towards the yellow and now i'm going to go over that outer part of the purple so we're creating a gradient you want to create a gradient into those colors i'm gonna bring this onto the lid and buff into the crease all right using another brush now i'm going to uh move on in to start moving into the orange shade so i'm going to get a little bit closer uh and i'm going to pick up this is delta this shade right here which is a little bit more of a salmon so it's got a little bit of red a little you can kind of see like the difference between delta and um kobo kobo now another thing that you can do is kind of like mix so this is like a little bit more red toned i can tap actually you know i am going to do that i'm going to tap between uh this one delta and this one right here which is getting a little bit closer to that yellow so i'm going to mix those two shades and then i'm going to use that out here so not touching the purple at all blending around that pink taking it into the inner part up to the brow go back in with that pink because it started to disappear a little bit now finally i'm going to go in with that yellow and i'm going to use this on the very outer part blending all around that orange you obviously don't have to get like as smoked out as i'm being right now you just use smaller brushes but if we're doing color i want to do color you know what i mean all right guys so obviously you can see a pretty gigantic difference between the colors over here it looks very muddy um you know it it when it blends together it just ends up creating that like brown color so it's not going to be super flattering so when if you're having a hard time blending colors at all keep in mind the color wheel it's a lot easier to kind of like follow that progression to get to those colors uh now i personally think that this yellow probably would have blended really nicely with the pink so you don't necessarily have to use like so many steps but you don't want to jump too quickly from a purple into its complementary color which is yellow and same with blue and orange same with red and green all right guys so i finished off the look it got really smoky and i love it i really hope this was helpful i know this wa