Eyeshadow: Everything You Need To Know

guys welcome back to my channel of course there has to be some dude in that alley talking so like I don't know who he's talking to I don't hear anyone responding me I'm going to be doing I'm gonna be going in we're gonna be going in to detail regarding eyeshadow I'm going to tell you everything that you need to know we're talking about contouring the eye we're going to talk about why you use certain shades why you placed darks in certain areas and lights and other areas gonna get into it we're gonna talk about mattes we're gonna talk about brought some brushes we're gonna talk about highlights all that stuff unfortunately we only have my eyes to work on here so your eye shape might may be significantly different than mine hopefully these little tips and tricks can help you with your eye shape just make sure that you are keeping that in mind everybody's eyes are different you some things that I do might not work for you some things you might have to adjust a little bit but I am I'm gonna keep this pretty general alright so if you want to hear everything you need to know about eyeshadow keep watching alright so first thing is first before you go in with any eye shadow products you wanna make sure that you're priming your lids just like you would prime your face for a foundation just like you would prime ol wall before you paint you have to create like a base for the eyeshadows when I talk about creating a base I mean that your eyelids create natural oils just like your skin creates natural oils and you want to make sure that you are creating a barrier between the product and your actual skin it's going to prevent creasing and it's going to make the product last longer so I have two options that I like using you don't have to use these two things that are a bit more high-end the first one is Marc Jacobs undercover coconut eye primer I believe it's called and the next one is make up forevers step one skin equalizer I end lip primer 24-hour this is a new product it's fantastic I really like it they're similar they're a bit more sheer tfeel very velvety and tact as great base so thave a little bit of color so tcancel out like any darkness that you might have and veins stuff like that discoloration and you don't have to set it with a powder it kind of like mattifies and it creates a really velvety smooth base and it's great for blending so these are fantastic for years and years and years I just used concealer I would do the tiny amount of concealer just to cancel out any discoloration and then set it with a translucent powder that's perfectly fine doesn't matter what concealer you use I love shape tape transition powder doesn't matter honestly you can use whatever you're comfortable with so I'm going to take a small amount does this go away but I guess this comes out white that's like a little bit neutral I'm gonna take a small amount of the makeup forever primer I am trying to still I'm trying to decide which one I like a better I think I might like this one better I already have a little bit of concealer obviously from doing my foundation doing my brows have a little bit of concealer up here so I'm just kind of blending this into those areas so it's mattifying and it's creating a nice velvety smooth base I touch it it doesn't feel wet or anything like that you want to be careful that you're not going in with way too much particularly if you do use a concealer because that can often do the opposite effect and intensify creasing so we're going to start off by talking about how to contour the eye because that's really what I makeup is so if we look at the shape of the eye everyone has a natural crease here obviously all eye shapes are different some people have extremely hooded lids maybe tdon't have any crease maybe thave cut like a semi hooded crease like me maybe you have a beautiful crease like if you're Jacqueline Hill or if you're mute soup from Instagram and the most beautiful crease right here like their brow everything about their brow bone this the their eye sock is just like absolutely stunning so gorgeous so that is kind of the effect that you are trying to achieve when you contour the eye so when you look at the eye naturally you see that this area goes back in space if we're looking at this in terms of planes this is going to go back in space the brow bone is going to come forward in space and if I turn my face like this you can see this comes forward this goes back in space the center of the lid is going to come more forward in space and then you also have the opposite ends of the lid so you have the inner corner and then you have the outer corner and those are also because of the shape of your eye they're going to go back in space of it and then it's similar for the lower lashline but this is different for a lot of different people so we're going to get to that in a minute so basically what we're going to be doing with eyeshadow is intensifying that effect like we would with your cheekbone you highlight the top of the cheekbone and you contour or shade underneath the cheekbone to set that back so you're going to be bringing the cheekbone forward more so really what you're doing is you're going to be rounding this out when you apply one shade to your face if it's a foundation or if it's even if it's eye shadow what you're doing is you're taking a three-dimensional object really and flattening it and the reason that we contour is because to the human eye the most flattering thing to do is to round the object out I'm trying to speak as all my artists out there might know what I'm talking about now like I said everyone's eye shape is different I have I have slightly hooded lids but I also have a lot of room tour a lot of real estate okay so I have a lot of room to work with here so typically the brush that I like to start off with is this one this one is my markets the Y 19 brush it's a little bit larger if you have smaller eyes and you don't have as much room to work with as I do you might want to go for something a little bit smaller and this is what I use to create the to create a wash in the lid so when you're starting a painting you want to start off in the mid-tones that's really what you're going to be doing with eyeshadow so then that typically begins with your what's called your transition shade so you're starting off with your mid-tones you're not going in with your highlights yet you're not going in with any dark colors you're starting up with your mid-tones and you're going to slowly build it up this is going to ensure that your blending is seamless and it's gonna make building up those shadows a lot easier now I'm going to be using the who WD smoke obsessions palette as my example so there's this caramel a [ __ ] there's this caramel a shade right here which is my medium telling me it's actually for me I'm quite fair right now I think that it's better to use something that's maybe like a couple shades darker than