Tips for Picking Eye Shadow Colors

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Hi! I'm Leah from Refuel Spa and on behalf of Expert Village. Next, we will be talking about eyeshadow application. After we've done our consultation with our client, from here, we can kind of get an idea of what kind of eyeshadow they are thinking. One other tip when choosing eyeshadow color is actually to look at the color of their eyes. Our client here has beautiful green eyes. If you actually look at that color wheel, on the opposite end of that color wheel is purples. That means that that color is going to bring out the green. Using an opposite end on the color wheel, we really bring out that color. I'm going to use little specs of purple in our application today. The first step with applying eyeshadow is to really choose a base. I'm going to go for a little bit more dramatic eye on our client today just for fun. It's also going to be mellow enough that she can use it everyday. I'm going to start with our eyeshadow applicator, and I'm going to choose moonstone foundation as the foundation on her lid. We're going to take that and dip it right into that color there. We're going to apply all the way up to the brow. Just very light movements here. If I wanted to create more vibrancy to this pigment, I could almost just tap into the skin and that would give us a very bright effect. But because this is a base shade, we want it to really just bring out the natural luminosity in our skin. So once we have that base all set, I'm going to go ahead and move on to our crease color. Now the crease color I've chosen today is called cashmere. This is a base of a gray with hints of purple and also flex of gold. In her eye she's actually got little bits of gold, so that gold will also bring out that accent in her eye. You can also see on the shape of the eye; you can see a very definded crease. They're almost a little bit hidden. We really want to bring out that crease and go above the crease and that will elongate the eyes and also open them up. What I'm going to do...Let me show you a little technique i just call the C. I'm going to have my client close her eyes. I'm going to right up to this crease and I'm actually going to do light upward strokes. I'm doing a little bit of a tapping movement so I can get a little more vibrancy to that color, then I'm going to go down. Almost like a backwards C or a V or a little pack man, whatever you want to do to think of it. If I was going to take this pigment all the way over, I could actually close the eyes or have a smaller effect on the eye and of course nobody wants that. Okay. Have your client go ahead and open. Perfect. You can see how that brought definition, opened up the eyes and elongated them just with that little bit of shadow. Watch our next segment on applying eyeliner.

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