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Summary: Applying eye shadow is an art! Get tips for applying gray eye shadow in this free video clip from a professional cosmetologist.
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
"Now I'm going to do the crease of the eye. Now this is the tricky part. I'm going to use a dark gray that has kind of a silver fleck to it. It's called print. It kind looks like a news print color, so it's not as dark as black, but it's still going to give a nice deep smoky look and its going to look great with the silver. I'm going to use a nice fluffy crease brush, and I just put a little color on the end. I'm going to go right into the crease of the eye, little by little, adding color. The crease of the eye is basically the end of the eye, in a sideways "v", and you just kind of want to fill it in. You don't want to go too far into the eye. You only want to go toward the middle of the eye and you want to keep it dark on the outside. And you don't want to go too far up to the brow either because you want to keep the brow, underneath the brow highlighted. So, I'm just going to, little by little, add color, a little at a time until I get my desired look. This is more of a nighttime look, so I'm going to get a little more dramatic, but not too crazy because the silver is already pretty metallic and dramatic as it is. So we don't want to add too much darkness, but we want to accentuate the eye and make it look bigger and wider, and a little more sexy and smoky as well. Open. And see, you can already tell how it's getting more sultry. But we don't want to add too much color. We're going to keep it about at this. What I do want to do it just add a tiny bit underneath the eye, just to give a little smokiness underneath the eye as well. You don't want to do too much to the top of the eye without doing a little on the bottom of the eye, otherwise everything is going to be on top, and it's not a very like smoky or sultry look. So that's our crease. It's pretty much done."