Video: Tips for Using Purple Eye Shadow

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Denise Christensen

Denise Christensen has been a makeup artist/hairstylist/wardrobe stylist for 7 years. Her formal training was in LA at Makeup Designory and California Design College studying makeup artistry, hair artistry, wardrobe styling and fashion merchandising. She worked for MAC cosmetics for 5 years,(specializing in Face Chart Specialist and Product Knowledge Specialist), Sundance Film Festival, Getty Images, Milk Studios, Fuse TV, X Insurance Commercial, Student Films, Tru Talent Management, MPI Talent.

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Hi, this is Denise Christensen, professional makeup artist. Today, I'm going to give you some tips how to apply purple eye shadow. The first product you will need is purple eye shadow, a packing brush, and blending brush. Now, I've already applied a daytime eye makeup look to my eyes. I've used neutral colors in the crease, and then just a soft white highlight under my eyebrow, and on my eyelid. So, first step for applying purple eye shadow is take your packing brush, and dip it into a softer, more lavender color. And then, we're going to apply that to the eyelid of your eyes. So, just pack that right on top of your eyelid. So, we have a little bit of lavender color to our natural daytime look. We'll do that to the other eyelid. Now, this is one way to apply purple eye shadow. It's a little bit more natural in a softer daytime look. But, I'm also going to show you how to make it a little bit brighter, a little bit more intense. So, we're going to go back to our purple eye shadow palette, and your blending brush. But, this time let's dip it into a darker purple. So, I'm going to dip it into this nice, little darker fig-ish type color. And, we're going to apply this to the crease of your eye. And, let's just blend that through your crease. Now, I like to do my eye shadow in layers. So, I'm just going to blend it through the outer part here, and take a look and see if I want to add some more. Yeah, let's add a little more. So, we'll just do on the outer part first, and then blend it into the inner eye. So, there's the difference: Natural, a little bit more dramatic. So, start on the outer eye, blend in, take a look, then blend it to the inner eye. Last minute tip: I first like to start with more of a neutral daytime makeup, and then add my purple eye shadow afterwards. That's going to give it more of a natural, more blended look. This is Denise Christensen, and thanks for watching.