Applying Eyeliner for Stage Makeup

Video Transcript

"This is for one of the last eye shadows. This is a very nice bronzy color, very glowy and it's a loose eye shadow which I absolutely love. Depending on what colors you absolutely love, you do not want to go too dark with what I am about to do though. This is the same small bristle brush that I've been using, I just clean it each time I do a new application. Now what I'm going to do is put this eye shadow right there, just tap it just a little bit and where I put it is right where the center part of the pupil begins and I'm only putting it in about a small section as my pinky finger. So it's a very small section of the eye that I'm doing this in. I'm just tapping it in to give it a little bit more of that glow that we absolutely love as you can see now that her eyes are closed. Once I'm through, because I'm almost done with the eye shadow, I'm going to get a little bit larger brush than this and blend it out. Blending is so important. You want to get a nice bristle brush, blend out the eye shadow, but you do not want to take off the eye shadow. How you blend it is, you get a brush with bristles, blend it in by pushing, push it in. Do not stroke, push in. You see that? Now it's a lot more blended and it's great for stage. Blend it. How we blend the top part is, we clean it with my hand, and you can blend it now like this but only the top portion of the eye. Now I'm going to go ahead and apply the eyeliner, which I like to use, depending on what you like to use. There's liquid eyeliner that comes out of a tube, but this one is my favorite and this is used with the bristle brush. You can buy this at Mack, most department stores have these type of black eye liners that come in nice little cases like this that you can open and close. You would just have to get quite a little bit on the brush. What I do sometimes to blend it out is I put it on the back of my hand which I absolutely love using as my pallet. Go ahead and start on the inner corner of her eye by putting it in, close, where your lashes begin. You want a very, very thin line and you want to put it right there and you want it as thin and as close to the eye lash line as you can possibly get it. When you do this you do not want to go outside of the eye. So you basically want to finish right here where the eye ends. A lot of people like to extend their eyeliner to bring out their eye and that does not look good on stage. You want to make your eyes pop. By making your eyes pop you want to basically put a little bit more eye liner at the end of the eye right here in this area and as you can see, I'm getting it as close as I possibly can get it to that natural eye lash line as I can possibly get. There we go. Open, do you see it? We're going to do exactly the same to the opposite eye."