Video: How to Apply Bridal Eye Makeup for Dark Skin

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Tracois Edwards

Tracois Edwards has 16 years' experience as a professional beauty and lifestyle expert. She has been credited as a supervisor and key makeup artist for beauty, fashion, television and film as a makeup designer, skin care specialist, creative director, and beauty editor. She is an executive trainer specializing in luxury sales support, branding and customer service for beauty. Edwards has had the pleasure of working with some of the world's most amazing photographers, producers, directors, actors, musicians, and models. Her work is published both nationally and internationally.

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Hi, this is Tracois Edwards of Tracois Edwards Beauty and Life Style, and today I'm going to show you how to apply bridal eye make up for darker skins. The items that you will need to achieve this look are your eye shadow brush, your highlighting brush, your defining brush and your contour blending brush. The first item that you'll need is your eye shadow brush. And since this is for brides, we're going to go very soft on the eye. So, we're going to dip in to a really pretty preachy tone and that is going to go right on the lid. Okay. We have to dip again and you want to pat that right on the eye. Almost as if you're giving a massage to the eye which feels really good. Okay. So, let's do the other eye. You just want to pat the shadow on and flip your brush and sort of soften around the edges. Okay. So now you have your base color. Your second tool is your contouring blending brush. Okay so I'm going to dip in to a nice warm brown. And again, just soften around like get in to the crease and soften around your base color that you've applied to your lid. Okay, now you're going in to the crease. And pull in; I like to go from the outer corner to the inside a little bit. Okay. Let's try the other side. And you're going around like what you feel as you know where your eye ball is. You're just kind of hugging it. Okay. So now we have that part completed. Okay, so I'm taking the highlighter brush that I used before only this time I'm going to flip it and I'm going to use this part of the brush to line the top of my lash. And just line the top of the lash. Now another great, this is a great way, you're not going to put a pencil or anything on the bottom because changes are you may have a little tear and you don't want your make up running down your face while you're saying "I Do". So lets just get this eye lined to match the opposite. Another really great tip is to take a waterproof mascara and you can even dip your brush in that and line your eyes with it. There you go. So the top line has a nice defining line. Okay. And finally is the defining brush. This is the brush I'm going to use to define my eyebrows. Now you can use pencil but you know what, this is just as easy. And it's actually a lot softer. And it really brings definition to the brow. So let's just take care of the other side now. Now you just want to make certain that your strokes are nice and soft and feathery. Okay. There you go. And you will also need our mascara. Now you're going to take your mascara. Don't forget to twist. Never pump because pumping actually places air inside of your tube and you don't want that. Okay so we're going to take our mascara and again, you're only doing the top lash. Okay. So just fan it out. Just go back in and you want to get the top part of the lash. Coat it really well. Now let's get the other side. Again, fan it out. Then go back in. Twist, twist, twist. And then we're going to do the top. A really great way if you get a little mascara, that's okay, you can clean it up. You want to tilt your mirror up so when you're doing the bottom lashes, you can get the underside. Okay. So there you are. So that is how you apply bridal eye makeup for darker skins. And the essential tools that you'll need to achieve this look are your very essential brushes; your shadow brush, your defining brushes, your highlighting brush and your contouring blending brush. Then your also going to need your mascara. And then you're going to need to say, "I Do"! Thanks so much for watching.