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Summary: Looking for eye makeup tips? Learn how to apply a base eye shadow color in this free video clip from a professional makeup artist.
Jenny Karl has over eleven years experience working for cosmetics establishments in NY, NJ, PA, and CA. She's also worked as a freelance makeup artist and light, hair, and wardrobe...read more
"So for her eye shadow base I'm going to use kind of a golden champagne color. It has a bit of iridescence but it doesn't have a glitter. As you can see, I use this color for everything; it's got a huge hole in it. I use it all the time for a base. It's a great shade. Anything in the kind of champagne or kind of gold family is great as a base for warm color. You can't mess this up. You just want to pile it onto the eye, you really want to put it all over the eyelid. You want to really put it underneath the brow, as well, cause this is going to act like a highlight as well. You also want to put it underneath the eye. It's going to highlight the underneath the eye. It's also going to balance the eye. Whatever you do on the top, you just want to do a teeny tiny bit on the bottom just to keep everything balanced. Like I said, you can't mess this up. You really just want to pile it on. It's a really, really pretty color to use for everyday purposes. I mean look at the difference already we see between the one eye and the other eye without the base. It's just a great color to have, to use for anything."
eHow Article: Applying Base Eye Shadow