Eyes:
To blend or not
It really is not necessary to blend if you apply in a blending way to begin with, see below. OTOH, if your skin is less fair and you can blend because it doesn't hurt, do what works for you.
Because I am so fair skinned, it's hard to get eye colors that go on me easily. Once they blotch, if they do, they are impossible to fix -- as many MUAs have found out -- no amount of blending will fix it. I have to start from scratch, and I'm not willing to do that most days.
So I've learned how to get around needing to start over. Sometimes if they are blending and blending and blending and over-blending, it actually hurts my skin and I have to tell them to stop! Plus, when they are doing all that blending it is because it isn't blending. They have been known to start over.
What works
With the right brushes and the right techniques I generally can apply shadows nicely with very little blending -- or rather, perhaps I blend as I go when I layer in the colors.
Base
Use a cream shadow base, especially if your eyelids are oily, or if you are using mineral colors. You can use a color that matches what you will be applying, a neutral, or one that is darker if you want to intensify the shade you will be applying.
Use a mineral or powder base on your lids, approximately the depth of your skin tone. This can be a neutral, skin toned, or the color family you will be using, or both. I often use my own sparkly neutral mix here.
I can use Mary Kay older shadows, wet or dry for this step, no matter if I am applying dry shadow or minerals. I use MK mineral powders dry, though my rep uses hers wet and mixes shades to get new shades. Perhaps I'll try that tomorrow.
Apply shadows
Do your lids first, crease second or vice versa, it hardly matters, but layer one into the other at the edges.
If the crease color is very deep soften it at the upper edges with a lighter color, which could even be the lid color so long as you don't bring a color-color up to your brows. Light yellow, for example, could go to your brows; purple could not unless it is fairly light or the depth of your skin tone. Soften the crease color at the lower edge with the color(s) you use on your lids.
Dedicate brushes
Use specific brushes for crease/dark colors. Use other brushes (even if the same type) for lid/under brows. That way you don't muddy colors and you don't need to wash brushes daily, unless you are very oily.
Karin
Originally posted 2009-04-29 13:30:13.
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