How to Apply Eyeshadow to the Eye Crease

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to be defining her crease. We're going to be using a bulleted brush like this. This brush enables you to get into the crease very easily. The natural crease of the eye is the fold you see right here under the brow bone. So when you put a slightly darker shade in there, it contours the eye. And it also will bring the eyelid out more. So we're going to be using a copper shade to define our crease. So we'll be taking our bulleted brush, and we're almost going to be working in windshield wiper motion to define the crease. We're just going to blend it up to the brow bone. So we're going to blend in windshield wiper motion in the crease, and just blend it up and out on the outer corner up to the brow bone. Having a brush like this enables you to get into that crease really easily and it enables you to blend really easily. It shouldn't look like you have a real dark streak going through the crease of the eye. It should all blend together and look like it's a slightly darker shadow that's contouring the eye and bringing out the lid. You want to think in terms whenever you're doing make up, a darker color will minimize any imperfection and it also receives. A lighter color enhances. That's a really great way that you can do corrective make up on yourself if you have more of a saggy or crepey lid. You can put a darker color wherever the crepe begins and that helps minimize the appearance of that. You can see that this contoured the eye and brought her lid out a little bit more, and added a little bit of a soft swoopy look."