Video: How to Do Bright 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 do bright makeup for redheads. We're going to do a look that requires some yellow and some blue green shadows so something along the lines of these up here and you'll need some brushes to apply them with. I like to use like a flat one and a fluffy one and also I'm going to use some eyeliner, just a black kind of liquid gel liner. So first, I'm going to apply this yellow color. I'm just going to take this flat brush and kind of load it up and I'm going to apply it directly on the lid. So, I'm just going to pat the color on. By patting it you get a little bit more color concentration and it's a little bit less messy and we're just going to apply it all over the lid and I"m just going to smooth it out a little bit on top. Now, I'm going to take my kind of fluffy brush and dip it in this sort of jade color here, swirl it around and I'm going to use this in the crease. So, I'm going to start in the outer corners, work my way in. This is a bright pretty jade color. You just go back and forth and kind of blend it out. I'm also going to use this kind of pointed brush and I'm going to dip it in this darker blue here and I'm going to use that as some liner. So I'm just going to do it in the corners here and line the eyes on the bottom too. And then I'm just going to take a brush with nothing on it really and I'm going to use it just to blend out that green a little bit and grab a little bit of a neutral color to put up at the brow. So I'm just going to blend this out so that it's soft, put a little neutral color there and it's nice to do that dark liner to kind of break up the brightness and there you go. That's how you can apply bright colors, bright makeup for redheads. You can really go wild with it. You can use any sort of bright color combination and you can make it you know, I've seen people do like masks where it goes all the way across. It depends on where you're going, if you're going to a wild party or you're just going out and you want to attract some attention but definitely have fun with it, check it out. Definitely the must have items are going to be those brushes that will make everything so much easier for you and then if you're applying a bright eye shadow I would definitely use a primer, any primer will do. They make tons of them, all the different brands but it's going to hold on to your shadow and make your brights look brighter. Thank you so much for watching. I'm Christine. Bye.