Makeup Tip | Choosing Eyeshadows
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
One of the simplest ways to add definition and contour to the eye area is to apply eyeshadows in a combination of 3 colours.
Of the three colours that you choose:
- The lightest colour would be the highligher
- The medium colour would be the mid-tone
- The darkest colour would be considered the accent tone.
In a eyeshadow quad (four colours as shown) any mixture of colours can be used, but a safe rule of thumb is to use the three lighter colours for fair to medium skin tones and the three darker colours for medium to dark skin tones.
Of course, choosing colours that are varying shades of your natural skin colour, with the mid-tone closely matching your natural eyelid colour, will look most natural and have the longest staying power.
Alternatively you can choose the high and mid-tone as natural colours, and use the accent colour as the pop colour – a beautiful eggplant, a navy, or a grey for example. These colours look most natural.
For a naturally ‘flawless’ look on medium to dark skin tones, with yellow undertones:
- a metallic, goldish tone as the highlighter,
- a bronzy, caramely or coppery mid-tone works well for the mid-tone and
- a dark chocolate or smokey black for accent tone works well.
The key is to Blend.
Blend, Blend, Blend.
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