Dark Eye Contours : Eyeshadow Application Tips

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Yvette Parrish, thanks for joining me at expertvillage. Eyes are so much fun, and there are really not a lot of rules. I’m going to give you some tips to some basic outlines. This is a basic rule: start with your dark color first. You apply it in your contour; that’s what is going to give you the definition and the depth that you are looking for. I’m going to use a brown. I’m going to lift up her eye right here. I am going to move it like that and I’m going to lift it up. Now when I lift it up, you can see the concave her contour come through. I’m not saying lift it all the way; just be gentle and lift up, and this will allow you this area right here to apply your dark color. Then when you release and open, you can see the base. Now when you open your eye and you look in the mirror, I want you to be able to see this line. If you are not able to see it, you did not go high enough when you applied. Now if you notice, I haven’t blended. I have only done the contour. I kind of have a look at my model; make sure that I place it where I want to place it. I’ll do the same for this side. I lift it up slightly and I’m just applying the depth color. I’ve not blended, don’t blend yet. That’s kind of where I want the color. I make sure that is want, I lift it up, I take my same brush, and I’m going to clean it. What’s happening is, this brush is now going to be clean, and now I can blend it. If you don’t clean your brush and try to blend it, you are just going to kind of make a mess there. Now the brush is clean. What I want to do is I’m going to blend and I’m going to do the same thing. I’m going to gently lift up her eye, and I’m blending that contour line so it’s a very soft, pretty, smoky look. Now remember we’ve only applied the base lid eye shadow color and her dark contour color, and look how pretty that looks once it is blended. I am going to do the same with the other eye, and once you have a cream foundation eye shadow beneath it, it makes your blending much easier."