How to Apply Eye Shadow to Almond-Shaped Eyes
When applying eye shadow you're going to want to keep a few things in mind. Apply eye shadow to almond eyes with help from a celebrity makeup artist in this free video clip.
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- Hi my name is Taylor Babaian. I'm a celebrity makeup artist, and today I'm going to show you how to apply eye shadow to almond shaped eyes. So when you're applying eye shadows to almond shaped eyes it's a little bit different only because with round eyes you're trying to elongate them. With almond shaped eyes they're already elongated so what we want to do is actually add height. So the way that you actually apply eye shadows to almond shaped eyes is actually in layers with the lightest color at the base and the darkest color close to the lashes. So to create my layered eye shadow look I'm going to use L'Oreal Paris Studio Secrets Eye Shadow Quads. So to get started what we're going to do is apply our lightest color to the base of the lids using our largest brush and we're using a little bit of a shimmery shade and I love that just to add a little brightness. We're using warm tones to go with her skin and we're just kind of tapping that on. We're getting it slightly above the crease but not too close to the brow bone. We want to avoid the brow bone area so it just looks a little more natural. So what that does again we're trying to lift the eyes up as opposed to out. Now we're going to use our medium warm shade and we're going to go just slightly under our first shade using a smaller brush so that it fits into that area well. So with our second shade we're not going as far up as we did to our first, just slightly under it. What that does is it creates kind of like a soft smoke, that way there's no hard lines. It just blends up softly. Again make sure that you use a smaller brush and tap it on so that it really blends and melts almost into the eye, just again slightly above your crease. The reason I say slightly above the crease, because if you actually trap this darker shadow into the crease it will actually make your upper lid look a little bit more hooded which tends to happen with almond shaped eyes. So you definitely want to make that darker shape go slightly above the crease. Now we're going to add our third shade which is basically our darkest shade and this look is great for almond shaped eyes but also works really well for mono lids for those of you that don't have a crease, also for eyes that might be different shapes like one might be a little bit larger than the other. It really helps to give the illusion of symmetrical eyes. You can always cheat better doing this layering technique than as opposed to like your normal outside crease technique. So this time we're just going kind of into that crease. Again your darkest shade is going to be closest to the lash line almost like a rainbow. You can actually start to see the little half moons starting to take shape. We're really concentrating the color on the center as opposed to bringing it out, bringing it out will make it more almond. We actually want to add more height which is why we're concentrating all of our dark color towards the center of the lid. Wherever you apply dark is where the eye is going to be drawn to so that's where your point of focus is going to be on and then we're going to finish off with some liner and you always want to make sure that each shade is darker than the next. So your lightest shade will be your first, darker the second, darkest the third. The reason that you want your darkest to be at the base is it's going to really help to define the shape of your eye. When you're working with liner you want to just do short little strokes. I'm choosing black because I want that height and I want it to be a little bit more obvious. Okay, as you can see, we finished both eyes and with Megan's eyes we've definitely added the focus to the top of the lid creating layers and that really does make the eyes look a lot bigger. It also just adds the focus vertically as opposed to horizontally which would actually make them a little bit more almond shaped and that's not what we wanted. We actually wanted to create balance and add height. So there you go, that's how you apply eye shadow to almond shaped eyes. I'm Taylor Babaian. Thanks for watching.
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