Use these eye shadow tips when you’re unsure about using the shades you choose to wear. Shadows can bring life to your face and brighten up your eyes, even if you don’t wear any other makeup. Use them for a natural look or to add drama and enhance your eyes.
Powder eyeshadow shades should always be applied with a makeup brush. Why? Because sponge applicators can get flimsy really fast and are often an unreliable way to apply shadows. They also attract bacteria. Brushes help blend your makeup and were made for powder makeup especially. Use slanted shadow brushes to create lines and blunt brushes to apply shadows over the lid and brow bones. Clean your brushes regularly though. They can also build up bacteria.
Use these eye shadow tips to improve the way you look! Have fun and experiment with different colors to play up your eyes. There are no right or wrong color combination's.
Eye Shadow Tips and Tricks
Use light color shades inside your eyes to make your eyes pop!
Make sure any shadows you buy are security sealed. If it’s not sealed well, it could be full of bacteria.
For general shadow tips, use a medium shade base shadow to cover the lid, use a dark color to line the crease and/or to line the upper lashes, and use a light color on the brow bone to highlight your eyes.
Play around with different colors that bring out the specs in your eyes. Add these colors to your shadow collections.
You can never have too many shadow colors!
Save money on shadows by using eyeshadow sets. Make sure they have good reviews before you invest in them though.
For day wear, a base shadow color and mascara are the only things you really need.
Lavender and purple eyeshadow is still very popular this year. There are many different shades available on the web, so take full advantage of the wide variety of purple colors that look best on you!
High quality powder eyeshadows can be used wet for heavier application by dampening your applicator a little.
Whatever you’ve been told in the past, you can coordinate your eyeshadow colors to your clothes, if the colors look good with your skin tone.
On the other hand, you don’t have to coordinate your eye makeup and your clothes. Use colors instead that blend well with your skin tone and compliment your clothes. (i.e. brown with most any other color works very well together!)
Lighter shadows help enlarge small eyes.
Use shadows to line the bottom of your eyes (using a slanted brush) under your lashes to draw attention.
Line the top lashes of your eyes (using a slanted shadow brush) with a different color shadow than your base shadow, instead of using liners.
Darker shadow shades create depth and close bigger eyes.
Blend two similar colors to create your own colors.
Layer your eyeshadow colors to help them stay in place longer and to build them up.
Extend your eyeshadow beyond the outside of your eyes to enlarge your eyes and offset other colors.
Use blends of eyeshadow color that either contrast or compliment each other.
Eyeshadows should be blended until they fade into your foundation and/or other shadow colors.
Remove mistakes with a dampened q-tip, rolled by fingertips into a point.
Neutral shades like, beige, taupe, and brown, look natural.
In most cases, cream shadows work well for dry skin while powder shadows work best for normal to oily skin.
Brighter shadow shades create drama and help bring out eye color.
On mature skin and puffy eyelids, avoid using iridescent, frosted, light colors and white eyeshadows and opt for soft matte colors instead.
To glamorize your eyes for night owls, add shimmer or glitter to highlight your eyes.
Don’t use glitter if you have lots of lines around your eyes. Glitter can get caught in the creases of fine lines and therefore doesn’t work well.
Use cream eyeshadows that don’t crease up or create voids after application. They should be applied using your fingertips.
Use an eyeshadow primers to help your makeup stay put. They are especially helpful as you age and your skin begins to sag. One of the least expensive yet very effective primers on the market is Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion. Check it out if you have a hard time keeping your shadows in place you have time!
If you get shadow in your eyes, rinse with cool water.
Get rid of eyeshadow dust that fall onto your face or under your eyes, by brushing them off with a large makeup brush or sponging them off.
The most important of eye shadow tips, is to not lend your shadows out to your friends. Don't share your makeup, even if your friends beg you. You can spread pink eye very easily by sharing makeup, so don't do it.
Keep your shadows closed up in their original containers for longer keeping.
If you drop your shadows and they break up into bits, don't try to save them. Its far safer and more hygienic to just buy them again.
More Eye Shadow Tips
To lift up tired eyes, extend shadow shades from the outer corner of the lid upwards to give them a feline shape. This is also called 'cat eyes'.
Use dark shades of shadows over liquid liners to give a smudged look. This method is also used for smokey eyes.
When you apply shadows to the crease of the eye, keep your eyes open and also tilt your head back slightly. This allows the shadow to better define the crease.
When you use two different colors on your lids, be sure to blend them together for a natural look. If you want to add drama though, don't blend them. Leave them separate to embellish your eyes.
When you play around enough with different eyeshadow colors, you learn which colors work well for you and which ones don't. Use these eye shadow tips to help build on what you already know.
. Make sure they have good reviews before you invest in them though. 
to help your makeup stay put. They are especially helpful as you age and your skin begins to sag. One of the least expensive yet very effective primers on the market is Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion
. Check it out if you have a hard time keeping your shadows in place you have time!
