How to Apply Shadow to Deep-Set Eyes

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Lauren with makeup by Dodge and today we'll be discussing how to apply shadow to deep set eyes. I must say deep set eyes are probably the absolute easiest eye form that you can put makeup on or eye shadow on. It is just you can see very clearly where your crease is, you can see very clearly where your brow bone is, so when you are reading things and trying to learn how to put makeup on it is very defined for you already with your eyes. The only problem with deep set eyes is sometimes it will create more of a shadow, more of a sunken look so what you are going to try to do is enhance a lot of the beauty part of that sunken look but bring parts of it out so it doesn't look too too deep set. The first thing, we have already put some evening makeup on Gina. What we are going to do is pop it out a little bit and I'll show you exactly how this was achieved. First you have the crease which is just in here. You are going to apply your contour in the crease and blend up just a little bit to the brow bone and you are going to put it just on the very outside of her eye to give it a little shape. What is very important abut deep set eyes is the highlight that you apply and where you apply it. Choose a highlight that goes very well with your skin color. Sometimes white is too extreme. White will be very very defining but you can go to like a nice shimmer, a nice pink shimmer it depends on the color palate that you choose. For Gina we are going to use just a little white and maybe just also a little beige or taupe with it and you are going to apply your highlight just up here to the brow bone where your eyebrow and your brow bone kind of meet just right in there. Try not to put it on the eye brow or else it will look ashy. The other place that you want to consider putting highlight would be on the inside corner towards the shadow that you had created and even on the top where your eyebrow rests, right in the middle. Look up, and the third place that you want to put highlight would be just under her eye in the corner, don't bring it all the way out because you already have shadow there. Just the inside corner will bring this part of the eye out and this part of the eye back while keeping your eye very shaped. That's how you do deep set eyes."