WEEK 8: Eyeshadow

Hola Dalimoos,

This week on the SO Project it is all about eyeshadow.  Eyeshadow is great to experiment with.  I am not one for completely following the rules and this whole thing about what colours you should wear with certain eye colour...nope don't follow, I love wearing bright bold colours and your more muted natural colours whenever the fancy takes me.  Wear what you feel comfortable with.  If you don't dare to wear what you want and you feel you should stick within the rules, then the general rule of thumb is:

Blue eyes: eye shadows with a brown, gold, orange or red undertones will make your blue eyes pop.

Brown eyes: eye shadows with a blue, purple, pink undertones will make your brown eyes pop.

Green eyes: eye shadows with a brown, purple, taupe or gold undertone will make your green eyes pop.

It is great to experiment and have fun it is only the real way of finding a look that suits you.

There are different types of eyeshadow.  There are powder, pigments, and cream products.

Top Left: Sleek Divine Original, Beauty UK in 1 and
Maybelline silk Glam in Purple Drama

You can use powder as just one wash of colour over your lid which i tend to do day to day, or you can use it to define and glam up a look.

You really only need to use 3 colours (if you do not include brow highlight) to achieve most looks.  Sometimes only 2 depending on how dramatic you are going for.

You need your lid colour which tends to be the lighter colour, then you use your crease colour which is normally a shade darker (you can leave it here if you wish) then you use a darker colour to add depth/definition to the outer eye and along the bottom lash.

Your fingers are a good tool than any other but when I am putting on powder I prefer to use brushes.  Above are a little snippet of the types of brushes I use.  I would use the oval shadow brush and Gosh flat brush to apply my lid colour.  I would use the Real Techniques shading brush and the angle crease brush to apply my crease colour.  I would use the round contour brush to apply my outer eye colour and then I would use my No. 7 brush to blend my eye colour through.

The other types of eye shadow is pigments and glitters.  These are like the purest of eyeshadow and you can apply them wet for a more foiled/metallic look or dry for a powdered/matte look.

MAC copper pigment Barry M glitter dust in No 2

Then you have the liquid, pencil and cream eye shadows.  You can use all of these as a wash of colour over your lid or as a base for your powder shadows to make the colour pop and help the staying power.  I personally think these go on really well with your fingers and do not feel the need to use any brushes when applying these.

collection work the colour eyeshadow pencil

Maybelline cool effect - 22 pretty cool

Maybelline color tattoo in on and on bronze

I have to say I absolutely love love love the maybelline color tattoos and I have a lovely little selection going at the moment.  The staying power is brilliant, I have not found any creasing and they stay all day without budging.

The important thing to remember is make up is supposed to be fun...go have fun...experiment, who knows you may like a combination you never thought you would.

Anyway my lovelies until next time

Ciao for now xx