Video: How to Apply Bridal Eye Makeup for Redheads

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Christine Wheaton

Christine Wheaton, a certified makeup and skin care expert, owns Femme Akoi. She brings her love for art and a passion for style to her makeup creation and application. Wheaton has worked in the cosmetics industry for more than 10 years for many of the major makeup companies, such as MAC cosmetics and Stila. She holds certifications in beauty and runway makeup. She also does makeup for print, film, fashion, special events, and weddings.

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Hi, I'm Christine. I'm a makeup artist, and I'm going to show you how to apply bridal makeup for redheads. This is something that I do all the time and generally all the brides want their eyes to pop. So, I'm going to show you a great way to do that. The things that you'll need are some neutral eye shadows varying from light to dark. You don't obviously need this many, but just a few and a gel eyeliner or a liquid liner, black or dark brown and a couple brushes to apply it with. For the eyeliner, I like to use an angled brush that's very thin and a couple eye shadow brushes, a flat one for the lid, a fluffy one for the crease and I like to use this kind of pencil shaped one to really get a nice dark shadow in the corners. So, the first step is going to be to apply kind of a base color to the eyes. I like to use something that's light and bright maybe with a little bit of shimmer. So, I'm going to go for this middle color right here. I'm going to use that flat brush and just get it nice and full of the shadow and the apply it right on the lid. So, I'm just going to tap the shadow on, getting the whole lid from the lashes to the crease and then I'm going to take a lighter color, one of these guys over here on the far side and I'm going to use this up at the brow and also a little bit on the inner corners too just to brighten everything up. So I'm going to use the same brush and just dip it in there and apply it to the brow bone first. So, I'm just going to lightly sweep it right underneath that brow, and a little bit on this inner corner here. Now, I'm going to take a darker color like this one over here and I'm going to use this in the crease with the fluffy brush and this is going to create a dark as a contrast to the lights that we just did. So we're just going to go in here, start on the outer corners and just work it into that crease, kind of back and forth. You can concentrate a little bit more on the corners, the outer corners and again depending on how much makeup you normally wear, you can do this really heavy or not but it's nice to look a little bit different than you would on your average day for your wedding and just blend it up top there so it's nice and smooth. Now, I'm going to grab that pencil brush and use a little bit of a darker color. I'm going to kind of go into a little bit of a maroonish color here and this is going to go on the outer corners and I'm going to use it as liner underneath as well. So just right in here to create a little more dimension and I just kind of work it backwards. I start where I want to go and kind of come in and I will use a little bit underneath. This will make the eyes look a little bigger and more defined and I'm going to take that same brush and dip it in a little bit of a lighter color and just smooth that out underneath there too. Now we're going to do the eyeliner and for me this is the most important part. This is what really makes the eyes pop. So, I'm going to take that gel liner and the brush and dip it in there, get a good amount on both sides and then we're going to apply it as liner on the top. So, I'm going to start on the inner and just do little strokes until about halfway and then I'm going to go out and in and then just kind of fill it in now that I have my guideline. I like to wing it out a little bit but you definitely don't have to. So with that wing, again I like to work backwards so I start out here and I come in. There you go. That's a really easy simple way to kind of make your eyes pop for a great bridal look for redheads. I used neutral colors that you could use even if you're not a redhead and I added a little bit of this plum, this dark plum which looks really wonderful with a red tinge of hair but the most have product for this particular look is going to be that nice gel eyeliner that looks like a liquid. You could definitely use a liquid as well but I would suggest to try that out if you haven't because it really kind of gives you a whole new look, makes your eyes pop, look very defined and a little bit more dramatic. Thank you so much for watching. I'm Christine. Bye.