| Eye Makeup | | | | aspect of applying eyeshadow, and makeup in |
| Never use your fingers to apply makeup, it is totally | | | | general, is blending well. An eye shadow primer or |
| unsanitary even if you did wash your hands, I don't | | | | base can be applied to prevent the shadow from |
| think you are aware of the bacteria that harbors on | | | | fading or migrating to the crease. |
| your fingers. If you insist on using your fingers, be | | | | Follow with eyeliner Dark eye shadows work great |
| careful with how hard you are pressing and pulling on | | | | as eyeliners. Wet a slanted brush, then dip in a dark |
| the skin around the eyes. You are really yanking and | | | | eye shadow. Line eyes as close to the upper lashes |
| pulling on your client's skin. The skin around your eyes | | | | as possible from the inner corner to the outer corner. |
| is so delicate and can tear easily. The best finger to | | | | Follow with liner on bottom eyes, but only line from |
| use is your ring finger because it puts the least | | | | the middle of the eye out. |
| pressure on the skin than any of your other fingers. | | | | Applying eye mascara- Select a suitable color. If you |
| Prep your eyes with concealer Concealer can be | | | | have blond or red lashes then go for brown mascara. |
| used to cover up undereye circles or just the bluish | | | | Darker-lashed women can consider brown for a |
| discoloration just under your inner eye. To cover dark | | | | casual look, and black or brown-black for more |
| undereye circles, apply three dots of concealer under | | | | pronounced or dramatic lashes. Before applying |
| each eye. Start at the inner corner where skin tends | | | | mascara curl the lashes to widen the eyes. Prior to |
| to be darkest, then under the pupil and the third on | | | | your mascara, Curl your lashes with an eyelash curler |
| the outer edge. Pat, never rub with your ring finger | | | | and apply all other eye makeup. Before you add |
| (this finger tends to have the softest pad) until it | | | | mascara, add loose powder to the tips of the lashes. |
| disappears. | | | | Doing this will allow the mascara to cling to it when |
| Eye Shadow-Women with small eyes should go easy | | | | applied for fuller, thicker and blacker lashes with lots |
| on the eye shadow, as too much will make the eyes | | | | of va-voom appeal! |
| appear even smaller. To make the eyes appear | | | | Have nice eyebrows-If you have decided to tweeze, |
| larger, keep the color on the eyelid itself light but put | | | | make sure you know what you are doing. Get a |
| a darker shade on the crease of the eyelid. Then, | | | | tweezers and carefully pinch the hair (close to the |
| highlight under the brow. A woman with large eyes | | | | skin) you are trying to take out. Pull the hair up, or |
| would want to wear dark colors on the eyelid, | | | | straight out. Never pull the hair down. You will just |
| including the crease. The highlight should be a flat | | | | break the hair. Try not to tweeze on top of your |
| color under the brow. Eye shadow can be applied in a | | | | eyebrow. Use an old toothbrush or an eyebrow |
| variety of ways depending upon the desired look and | | | | brush together with a fixing fluid such as hair gel, |
| formulation. Typically application is done using | | | | Vaseline (great for shine) or aloe Vera, to comb the |
| sponges, fingers, and/or brushes. The most important | | | | brows into shape. |