Beauty Basics: How to Apply Eyeshadow
Sometimes in Beauty, we get all caught up in buying the next expensive product and trying the next complex hair do and facial mask that we forget about the basics. In the beauty market, the basics are simple, but complex to perfect just like any other beauty regime: you must have the perfect foundation that blends with your skin and fits your needs, with the 
specific coloring and moisturizing properties to fit your skin tone and type directly.
You must also have the basic lip moisturizer and coloring for your daily go-to coloring (which is fun to play around with, but you should always have a soft pink color with a little gloss to be the standard beauty style). A complicated basic that many of us forget and often leave to the last minute: eyeshadow. How do you blend the perfect eyeshadow? Check it out below:
1. Blending is next to Godliness. (tip: you want a lighter color for your brow bone, a medium color for your crease and the darkest color for your lid. But make sure the difference isn’t too stark! You want the colors to blend seamlessly. This is not the tip for when you are wearing colored shadows, only for skin tones meant to enhance the drama).
2. Choose a Shadow that makes your eyes POP! You can go bright and colorful, but keep the application light and sweeping just along the lid, not the entire eye. You don’t want to be a clown.
3. Don’t apply colored shadow on the brow bone, ever. Unless it’s part of a Halloween costume.
4. Don’t take your dark shadow from the inner crease to the outer crease of your eye. Overwhelming your lid will only make your eyes look beady; soften the color as you reach beyond your eyelid, don’t make the color differentiation look like it was outlined on your face. Blend!
5. Keep smokey to just the lid. You don’t need to go beyond the crease and just a slight lining under the lid – beyond the crease is too much drama.
What tips do you have to share? I know this is only the start, but it gives us some important lessons: first, there are always ways to sharpen your makeup styling, and two, drama and sophistication is more about toning down the eyelid than turning up the volume.
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