How to Build an Eyeshadow Look: Step-by-Step Guide

game time decision dude i make it it made it look so much more sultry and dope uh guys wanted to talk about how to build an eyeshadow look i feel like i've touched on this a little bit occasionally but i know that it can be really difficult for people so that's what we're gonna do get up in here um all right the first thing i'm gonna do is prime my lids uh i'm gonna use the new dominique cosmetics everlasting eye base this guy i have a code with them if you're interested i don't know i can't even remember how much it gets you off maybe like 10 or something it's down it's down there somewhere it has a nice like yellow tint so it's going to help you know cancel out uh discoloration especially if it's like purpley on your lids which i have my um eyelids have also been peeling on the inner parts so let's just uh we're gonna pretend that's not happening uh okay so let's talk about an um an eye palette so i would say that a lot of eyeshadow palettes nowadays are sort of like set up so that you have like a natural progression as far as you know lights to darks matte to shimmer uh depending on like what kind of a look you're trying to create this is the new melt cosmetics gemini palette i don't even know if i can this is so big i don't even know if i can get it in here um so we have like a nice array of mattes from like i said light to dark we also have some poppin lid shades some shimmer that you may do what you will so if you squint at this that's a really great way to see how the colors compare uh so like if i squint this is pretty light this is pretty light this is probably like a step up and then we've got like this brown shade this green shade are probably like a step up and then we've got like this green this brown a step up from that and then the black is the darkest shade so that's an important thing to know when you are trying to blend and also sort of like build a look typically i'm assuming that you've heard of a transition shade which is usually a color it doesn't have to be neutral but it's usually something that is like a couple shades darker than your skin tone um maybe a shade or two something like along those lines and really all that does is create like a base for you to blend into and typically you place this in your crease wow so much peeling this is the worst day to film this oh let's get back in here oh wait actually let me show you a couple more palettes so this is the vanity makeup palette this is a really great neutral palette it's pretty expensive it's 95 dollars pretty dope though um beautiful shimmers on the left side and then once again this is a lot easier to see actually with this palette they're right in the line so you know light to dark obviously so if you just kind of like squint and decide which one might be like a couple shades darker than your skin tone uh you can start off with that one in the crease another option this is a new palette from dominique cosmetics that i have not played with yesterday and we might uh once again beautiful shimmers up here and then you have your nice mattes so light and then you've got these kind of like mid-tones and you have like a slightly more i would call this like a mid but it's like slightly darker mid tone brown um so that you have some versatility as far as building up that look another thing to keep in mind is that if you don't have a great transition shade there are so many palettes to be completely honest like pat mcgrath has this problem um a lot of the mattes are just like dark so if you're like white like me you might need something that's a little bit lighter if you're like you have medium toned skin or even deep toned skin then you have a lot more versatility there or it's just going to be a little bit easier you know because it's going to be a little bit closer to your skin tone or you'll have colors that are close you're just gonna have skin tone whatever uh if you're super duper fair you might want to consider using something like your bronzer or your contour depending on if you're trying to go for like cool toned versus warm toned want something that's going to be like kind of neutral so since the dominique i'm going to use this just because it's super dope i would say that these run a little bit more warm the mattes but i want to start off with something that's going to be a little bit more neutral in my crease to start creating a little bit of definition so i'm going to start off with my uh i've said start so many times wayne goss radiance boosting face palette this is the color that i used to contour today now when you're creating an eyeshadow look the first thing that you want to consider is what am i trying to achieve here it's going to be completely different if you're like i just want to play i just want to play with color maybe you just put one color maybe you just put bright teal all over the lid just to play okay i love that first of all maybe just put a pop of dude i don't know if you saw the grammys last night i didn't but i did see the photo of lil nas x rockin one of my favorite ways to rock a color pop of blue in the inner corner oh so dope anyway so when i look at my eyes when i'm trying to create a an eyeshadow look typically i like to start with the structure the base so when i look at my eyes i've slightly hooded lids meaning this part of my um eye god it's gotten so much worse as i've gotten older this part of my eye folds over my lid a little bit not that this is like a bad thing or anything but if i'm just looking straight ahead this part can look because it sort of like comes forward a little bit more and it hangs over my eyelid a little bit it's uh it it's larger and it's also hit with the light a little more so this part comes forward quite a bit which means it can drag my eyes down you know which i don't love to be completely honest so something that i like to do is create the illusion that my my like um crease goes in here like up here which is going to create a little bit more definition to my eye socket and it's going to push this area back and make it look a little less droopy so that's what i'm going to that's what i pretty much always start off doing so i'm going to use the refer number one brush i'm going to swirl into that contour shade tapping off and i'm going to take that color literally right above that fold okay because i have a lot of room to work with up here if you don't then you want to use a much smaller brush you might not have this problem so i'm going to start by building this area literally right in here if you look like in here i have pretty deep set eyes they're also a little bit close set so i tend to get darkness in here so i don't need to take that color all the way in there actually just placing this color like right out here kind of helps to put it on the same plane as this so i'm going to start blending this and then it's like what shape do i want to create do i just want something round do i want to connec