Here’s A Ridiculously In-depth Blending Tutorial For All You Beginners Out There

i want to start going in with a little bit more definition which means i'm going to go in with a slightly darker shade which means i'm going to start using a smaller brush uh wanted to do an updated video about blending eyeshadow i'm going to be doing it with neutrals so if this is helpful let me know if you want to see a more advanced version with colors i can do that so the first thing that's very important is eye primer it always amazes me um because i'm just so used to doing makeup how many people who are beginners don't know about eyeshadow primer so if you are one of those people who picked up an eyeshadow palette and you're trying to get into it and you're putting it on your naked skin and it's just disappearing throughout the day or it won't blend or it's just going on streaky an eye primer is really important quick advanced tip if you are you should be wearing sunscreen during the day so if you're wearing your eye shadow you may have found that your sunscreen is breaking down your eyeshadow this is a problem that i had recently so something that i started doing is using a much more um mattified matte sunscreen on my eyelids so for my base today i used the oven i mean a van sunscreen solar whatever and then i used my elta md sunscreen on my eyelids lmd uv clear because it's much more matte obviously when you apply make makeup to the rest of your face you're going to get like a little bit of you know maybe concealer foundation in here so you oh my god this phone will not stop going off so you just want to make sure that that is all blended out before you go in with your eye primer now there are multiple eye primers that you can use sheer full coverage i'm going to link the ones that i like down below i've heard good things about p louise i believe that's very full coverage today i'm going to be using the dominique cosmetics eye base i like this because it has a yellowy tint and the discoloration on my eyelids is a little bit more like reddish purple so the yellow is really going to cancel that out um and i just i have like quite a bit of like you know imperfections and veins that i want to cover up if you're looking for something that's going to be sheer the urban decay urban decay what urban decay original priming potion is fantastic um so if you don't have a lot of discoloration you want something that's not going to be like a concealer essentially this is really good you can use a concealer okay but you want to use the smallest amount and you want to make sure that you're setting it with a translucent setting powder otherwise it's going to do kind of the same thing depending on like the formula of it it might eat your eyeshadow so i'm going to take a little bit of this i really don't need that much so starting on the lid and then just patting out with my finger also use a brush if you really want to and if you have a problem with eyeshadow staying on your lower lash line as well you can definitely use an eye base on your lower lash line you just want to use like a smaller amount make sure that it's blended so you can see the difference it really like neutralized the color and also just you know got rid of the veins on my other eye so the next thing is going to be a brush size it's very important to have multiple brush sizes but the first thing you want to do is assess your eye size your eye shape i have relatively large i mean i think i have like relatively large decent sized eyes and i also have a lot of you know room to work with here so i can use a brush that is this is my rougher 01 brush that's like kind of a standard you know blending brush size to go in with my transition shade which we'll get to in a second but this is obviously going to cover like quite a bit of ground so if you have smaller eyes than me and you're trying to cover some ground you might this is my rougher 14 brush you can see the difference in size it's a little bit thinner and you can get a little bit more precision this is the kind of brush that for my eye size i like to you know build up definition in the crease but if you have very small eyes or you know smaller lid space than me you might need something even smaller than this to create definition the palette that i'm going to be using uh is the elf mad for mattes palette i've been loving it this ever since i picked it up uh it's a really good beginner palette it has great shades and it's also very like not too pigmented which is really good for beginners so it's going to take you a minute to kind of like build up the pigment but that means that there's going to be less fallout and it's going to be a lot easier to blend so i'm going to start off with my transition shade which is going to just define my crease so i'm going to use this color right here if you find that you don't you have a palette say it's colorful or just even if it's a neutral palette and you don't have any shade that's like a shade or two darker than your skin tone it maybe it's way too light or maybe they're way too dark maybe the jump between them is just too drastic you can use your contour shade or your bronzer depending on like how warm you want your eye shadow look to be so that's always like a really good trick for blending and your transition shade is essentially just like the base that you begin with so i'm going to pick it up with my refer 01 brush this guy i want to focus this on the tip of the brush i'm kind of going like back and forth like this but focusing it on the tip now the next really important trick is tapping off your brush you want to make sure that you are not going in with a ton of product because if you just dip right into that eye shadow and immediately put it down you're just going to get like a splotch of eye shadow right on your eyelid you know so i'm tapping off my brush which is also going to create like a nice diffused application you want to make sure that everything is blended out and i'm going to start in the hall at like the crease of my eye which i think i've talked about i've probably so much like to the point where people are sick of it but if you just kind of like poke around your eye you can feel where the crease is where like the natural shadow should be so i have slightly hooded lids which means the skin comes down a little bit so to combat that i like to kind of place that eyeshadow a little bit higher so just above where my uh my it goes in around my eyeball so i'm placing it just like at the bottom of my uh brow bone what that's going to do is open up my eyes a little bit because i'm lifting that hollow using a very light hand i like circular motions i like windshield wiper motions the way that you hold your brush is going to be really important if you hold it down you're going to get more of a line at the tip of the brush and if you hold it like this you're going to get a sharper edge up here which is advice that i never follow myself i always forget to do that now this is what i started