How To Blend Shimmer Eyeshadow W/out The Fallout…literally And Figuratively Lolololol

uh guys so uh you wanted to see a blending tutorial on uh shimmers so that's what we're gonna do today um it's gonna be pretty quick because it's it is more simple than it seems um and i will go into more the depth in the colors video okay so the first thing is obviously eye primer like we talked about in my blending video um i did put a little bit of the dominique cosmetics eye primer on but it seems to kind of have like uh disappeared a little bit while i was doing my makeup so i'm gonna apply just um a little bit more okay so so we obviously want to talk about formulas because if you have a very um soft pressed shimmer for instance this dior highlighting palette uh this is a beautiful color that i've always meant to use as a as a eyeshadow and i never have how did that survive oh my god okay pressing that little guy back in there i'm just gonna hold this anyway um so you can kind of see hopefully that the bottom two are a little bit more like soft so the pearl in it is very soft it's small and you can see the top two are a little bit thicker can you see that it looks a little bit more like chunky so there's gonna be a lot more reflect a lot more glitter which also means that there's going to be like larger particles larger like uh pearl so when you're blending those are going to kind of go like go you know the smaller it is the more fine it is the more it'll like stick especially if you have a primer if you're using a super foiled shadow for instance this is the palette that gabby gave me this is the red dragon odin's eye palette their collaboration with judy if you're using something like this which is very foiled you know like incredibly foiled very very you know there's like a quite a bit of a moisture in there the pearl is quite large um so if you're picking it up especially on a brush it's going to be really hard to blend but i'm going to show you how to do it we're going to be using one of those shades probably uh so obviously i put down my eye primer now the point of an eye primer is to yes help you blend but also to hold that pigment if you're using a shimmer shadow it's going to be pretty heavy and to blend it the trick is to use a translucent powder so i'm going to use actually i'm going to use this new um a relatively new makeup forever powder hd powder which is just very sheer very finely milled i'm gonna use the um e45 max blender from sigma do the same thing every single time i pick up tap off pick up tap off so i want to place this powder in all of the areas that i either want to blend where i want there to be a soft blend or where i just don't want like the moisture of my skin to hold the pigment so i'm going to start out here and then kind of buff it around this area because i want the majority of the pigment to be on the lid and i want to be able to buff and blend into like this area i'm going to pretty much load up that powder in the inner part so right in here because i tend to get little like speckles in here and that can just like really ruin your time you know and then i already sat underneath my eyes but i want to make sure that there's a decent amount of powder around here so that i can blend into my skin and also so that it won't stick so you wanna put that wherever you're gonna blend or wherever you want you know it not to go a lot of people do this with baking you don't have to do that if you don't want to put like a ton of powder down you can just do this method all right i'm also going to place that powder around my face because that stuff moves i'm going to use my um wayne goss camera bro this is called perfecting brush or something something along those lines pick up that powder and i'm going to dust that in all of the areas where i tend to get fall out so rather than baking i'm just kind of like building up a loose amount of this powder around my face so especially around my nose my cheeks sometimes i get little particles that like fall down here and then just to be safe i'm gonna go up here just because you never know basically i just don't want any part of my face to be like moist because it will hold on to that stuff all right now there are a couple ways to do this you can start off with a blending brush and place it in the crease if you are going to be using multiple shades one of the ways that i really like to do it is to pack that color on the lid first so i'm going to grab this shade from the odin's eye palette this is over heat over here this color so this is very foiled so what i'm going to start off by doing is um i'm going to use my finger my ring finger i'm going to pick that up and i'm going to press that all over the lid to start so this is actually when i was um working with pat mcgrath this is the technique that i would use when i did um like a single shimmer shadow everywhere this isn't quite as pigmented as i was expecting i actually wanted something a little bit more pigmented than that so i'm gonna go into amber now and this is what i'm gonna start blending with if i was just going to use one shade basically what i would do is pack it on the lid and then i would pick up a blending brush and do the next step and just kind of buff it out so that's what we're going to do now but with this shade i like to use something that's going to be a little bit smaller this is um a really nice blending brush from refer this is the number 13 brush it's small it's like a little bit more dense than like some fluffy brushes but it's still super soft so it's good for blending so i'm gonna do is tap into amber coating it like back and forth and i'm gonna do my like tapping trick so i pick up a ton of pigment and then over a paper towel i did really tap it off because you're gonna have like little particles falling off and then i'm gonna tap back into it and this is how you get a really soft but also even application without going in with way too much so i'm really working it down into those bristles and then once again tapping it off you can also pat it onto a paper towel and what i do when i'm working with um a matte shadow i will keep my hand back like pretty far and do really light motions when i work with a shimmer i'm pushing a lot harder i'm really kind of like buffing it into the skin with really really really short circular motions and then once that pigment and those particles are down for the most part i can start using a slightly lighter hand and just really lightly buff that shimmer out so that i get just kind of like a nice spray of the pearl and then obviously it's best always with all eyeshadow to go in with a very very small amount and build it up slowly but especially when you're doing this kind of thing okay and then obviously like the more you build it up you're going to get more and more foil but i would suggest starting off with this and then you can kind of like build it up really slowly for the lower lash line it's going to be the exact same thing that you do with your upper lash line um a combo so i'm usin