How to Apply Eye Shadow Colors to Eye Shapes
Eye shadow colors can be used to complement your eye shape and highlight your most prominent feature. To bring out the best in your eyes, use darker tones to create depth and lighter tones to highlight, advise the experts at L'Oreal Paris. Different eye shapes can be emphasized and maximized with a variety of color shading and application techniques. Does this Spark an idea?
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How to Apply Eye Shadow Colors to Eye Shapes
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Use pale, shimmery shades to enhance deep-set eyes, according to Cover Girl makeup artist Molly Stern. A lighter shade is best brushed across the lid from inner to outer corner. Clinique recommends a slightly darker shade just above the crease to highlight eyes that are set back with a more prominent brow.
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Use darker colors on the inner corners of wide-set eyes (more than one eye length apart), according to Clinique. Stern recommends a deep eye shadow from the inner corner to mid-eyelid to create closeness. A lighter shade is then applied from the mid-eyelid to the outer corner and blended together.
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Use a light shade from brow bone to lashline, followed by a medium shade on the outer half of the lid, for close-set eyes (less than one eye length apart). A darker eye shadow should then be applied to the outer half of the crease to create the illusion of distance, according to Clinique.
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Focus on light colors to brighten eyes and avoid dark colors for small eyes (those with a short distance between upper and lower lashes), Clinique says. A light shade should be applied from lashline to brow, then a darker shade swept across the outer half of the lid and crease. Shiseido recommends a lavender shade above the crease and a blended shade of brown on the eyelid.
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Create the illusion of depth with vanishing-lid eyes (when eyelids disappear when your eyes are open). Apply a medium shadow from lash to brow, then use a darker shade along the upper lashes and blend up toward the crease. Shiseido recommends a pale shade of brown all over the lid, with a darker shade of brown applied from the outer edge of the eye slightly inward toward the crease.
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Start with a light shade all over, a medium shade on the lid, and a darker shade along the crease and outer corner of the lid for balanced eyes (those with equal proportions above and below the crease and an eye's width apart), Clinique recommends.
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Tips & Warnings
Wear glasses? Cover Girl's Stern recommends less emphasis on eye shadow color and more on eyelashes and eyebrows to highlight eyes rather than frames.
