10 ways to beautifully paint your eyes with eye shadow, eyeliner and mascara

Make up your eyes with shadows, eyeliner and mascara – this is the most effective way to highlight your beauty, accentuate the upper area of ​​the face. However, not all girls know how to use these cosmetics correctly. Therefore, the journalists of the online publication, after consulting with makeup artists, have compiled for you step-by-step lessons on how to make eye makeup using the most popular cosmetic preparations.

What you need for makeup

To make up your eyes beautifully and at the same time to avoid annoying mistakes, prepare all the accessories, fixtures and objects that you may need in the process of making the make-up. Our consultants have compiled for you an approximate list of what might come in handy besides eye shadow, eyeliner and mascara:

The mirror is the most important accessory that helps you make up your eyes beautifully and without mistakes. The mirror must meet several requirements:

1. Be large enough to reflect the entire face, and preferably neck, décolleté. So you can not only determine whether your eyes are beautifully painted, but also understand whether the makeup of this area of ​​the face is combined with the overall image.

2. Stand alone on a table or on the floor. Most liner and eyeshadow techniques require both hands to be free. Therefore, a mirror that you need to hold in your hand is not quite suitable for making a make-up. But it can be used outside the home, when you need to adjust your makeup during the day.

3. If the mirror has an additional sash with a reflective surface that magnifies the image, this is very good, since it allows you to accurately perform small make-up details.

4. Stand near a window – where the natural light source is the brightest. If you paint your eyes under the artificial light of a bathroom or bedroom, you may not notice the minor errors made or not understand that the chosen color of shadows, eyeliners, mascara does not quite suit you.

A headband or headscarf – hair should be removed from the face so that it does not cover the eyes and does not interfere with the view.

A variety of applicators, eyeshadow and liquid liner brushes. It is advisable that you have at least three brushes and several applicators in your arsenal, as an option – with replaceable foam heads. You will definitely need a thick, bulky brush with an oval tip, a flat, beveled small brush, and a thin brush with a sharp tip. Different applicators are needed in order to simultaneously apply shadows of different colors and shades.

Cotton pads or just pieces of cotton wool, as well as ear-cleaning sticks – these accessories are never superfluous, as they allow you to easily apply and wash off cosmetics.

Liquid for eye make-up remover. If you are using conventional cosmetics, that is, non-waterproof tint eyeshadow or non-permanent mascara, you can buy any makeup remover, preferably with a natural composition. If persistent cosmetics are used, the 'remover' must be appropriate, that is, it must remove the make-up efficiently and effectively without unnecessary friction.

You need to apply makeup on your eyes while sitting at a table, not standing, so you need a table and a chair. This is important because the elbow of the working hand should rest on a hard surface 35-45 centimeters from the fingertips that hold the brush or applicator. Since it will be easier to learn how to make a make-up at the initial stage. Once you have experience, you will be able to apply eyeshadow, liner and mascara while standing in front of a mirror, but it is better to start while sitting.

How to beautifully paint your eyes with eyeliner

Liquid eyeliner is usually very difficult for beginners to use. One careless movement leads to the fact that the eye makeup is irrevocably damaged, and you need to wash off the makeup, and then start painting again. Therefore, experts recommend that you first practice making a make-up with an eyeliner several times. Its lead should not be too greasy, soft (you should not use kayal), but it should not be too hard so that you do not scratch delicate skin. Before you buy a pencil, test it on the inside of your wrist. If it doesn't hurt them to draw, the skin does not redden, and at the same time, the line is clear the first time, then this cosmetic product is right for you.

A pencil (and after training and a liner) is used in eye makeup in order to draw the space between the eyelashes. And in order to draw arrows on the upper or upper and lower eyelids.

Simply applying pigments to the roots of the cilia can create a 'no makeup' effect, but at the same time make the appearance more attractive. It is ideal for daily nude makeup. How to beautifully paint your eyes with eyeliner to accentuate the lash line:

1. Remove dirt and perspiration from the skin. It is important to use a liquid that does not contain oil, other fats, otherwise the eyeliner will quickly 'flow' from such a base, the makeup will be ruined.

2. Get an eyeliner or pencil that matches the color of your lashes. If you plan to use mascara, then you need to choose the color of the pencil, starting from the shade of the mascara.

3. With the index or middle finger of your left hand, slightly pull the upper eyelid to the side. Holding the eyeliner with your right hand, draw a thin line just outside the lash line.

4. Take a cotton swab and shade the drawn line so that the pigments cover the skin at the roots of the eyelash hairs.

5. Do all the manipulations on the lower eyelid, as well as on the second eye.

The eyeliner lines on the eyes can be different. There are over ten ways to apply eyeliner:

1. Classic arrow.

2. Thin arrow.

3. Arrow with a lowered corner.

4. Haze on the lower eyelid.

5. Soft haze.

6. Panda.

7. Cat's eye.

8. Double arrow.

9. Arab arrow.

10. Arrow in retro style.

11. Creative arrow.

Our expert consultants have compiled step-by-step instructions for you on how to draw three of the most popular types of arrows – classic, soft haze and difficult to follow retro arrows. Having mastered these techniques, you can easily apply others, bringing to life the most daring ideas for eye makeup.

How to apply eyeliner to eyes – draw a beautiful classic arrow

A beautiful classic arrow, most appropriate in daytime eye makeup, is the easiest to draw. You need to act this way:

1. Prepare the skin so that cosmetics hold better. Apply primer if possible. If you don't have a special eye makeup product, you can use a face primer.

2. Take the eyeliner, attach its tip to the inner corner of the eye. Start drawing an arrow line towards the outer corner of the eye, without lifting your hand from your eyelid. The line should be as continuous as possible. It can end where the growth of the ciliary row ends or a couple of millimeters further.

3. If the line is very thin and you want to give the arrow more volume, draw a second overlap above the first line, starting from the middle of the eyelid and not reaching 1-2 millimeters to the tip of the arrow, which should remain sharp and graceful.

Such beautiful eyeliner arrows allow you to make a soft accent on the eyes, and at the same time not get a drama effect or a vulgarity effect.

How to make up eyes with eyeliner – draw arrows using the soft haze technique

The soft haze around the outer corners of the eyes is a cross between the classic arrow and smokey ice makeup. This make-up looks very impressive, it is universal. It is expressive enough for a romantic evening or for attending a celebration. But at the same time, it does not look too defiant, it can be used as a basic technique for daily 'wear'.

How to beautifully paint your eyes with eyeliner using the soft haze technique:

1. Draw an arrow on the upper eyelid. It should start at the inner corner of the eye and protrude 2-3 millimeters beyond the outer corner of the eye. Before the eyeliner is dry, especially if you are dealing with waterproof makeup, blend the pigments with an applicator or cotton swab. Only you need to start shading from about the middle, achieving the effect of a gradual expansion of the line towards the end. In this case, it is not necessary to keep the sharp tip.

2. Draw an arrow below the eyelash on the lower eyelid. You need to start not from the inner corner, but from the middle. The arrow should end in contact with the upper arrow. The bottom line also needs to be shaded. As a result, you should have a smoky corner enveloping the outer corner of the eye.

Soft haze around the eyes makes the look expressive, charming, mysterious and attractive. Especially if you use an eyeliner that emphasizes the color of the eyes, that is, not black, but blue, green, silver.

How to make up eyes with eyeliner – draw beautiful graphic arrows using the retro technique

Retro style arrows with black eyeliner will make you irresistibly charming. This eye makeup technique is appropriate both in everyday life and in an evening, solemn make-up. Such arrows look especially impressive in combination with graphic lip makeup, when not only lipstick or gloss is used, but also a contour pencil.

Step-by-step instructions for making up your eyes beautifully using the retro technique using eyeliner:

1. Attach the tip of the eyeliner to the outer corner of the eye, draw a straight or slightly curved line towards the tip of the eyebrow. The length of the line can be different, it all depends on how long you want your arrow to be. The optimal length is 2-4 millimeters.

2. Now, place the tip of the eyeliner towards the middle of your eyelid and draw a smoothly curved line, the tip of which will match the tip of the first stroke you made. You should have a shape that resembles a curved leaf of wood, not sketched inside.

3. Apply the tip of the eyeliner to the very corner of the eye, which is closer to the bridge of the nose. Draw an arrow along the lash line. It should smoothly fit into the beginning of the second line drawn earlier.

4. Sketch the outline of the 'leaf' at the outer corner of the eye with eyeliner – your perfectly beautiful retro arrow is ready.

If you want these arrows to look organic on your face, be sure to paint your eyelashes with mascara. The use of other decorative cosmetics is also encouraged – blush, lipstick, eyebrow shadows. But using shadows is not always appropriate, as in this case the makeup can look overloaded.

How beautiful to paint your eyes with mascara

The effect that mascara can produce depends on the shape of the brush, so this aspect needs to be considered in more detail:

1. A classic straight brush that allows the girl to control the degree of hair coloring, their volume and length.

2. Oval brush – suitable for women whose eyelashes are not thick enough. Allows you to create a large volume, to make the look 'puppet'.

3. The curved brush will allow you to twist well even the most disobedient hairs that seem to 'look' at the floor.

4. A cone-shaped brush with fibers of different lengths – this accessory will allow you to evenly and efficiently paint over everything, even very short eyelash hairs.

5. A brush shaped like a figure eight. Such a tool helps to quickly and efficiently paint over the cilia in the corners of the eyes. Suitable for makeup techniques such as smokey ice and cat look, but can be used for other purposes as well.

6. The round brush is universal, it helps to lengthen the hairs of the eyelashes, curl them, and also paint over the most inaccessible places.

To paint your eyes beautifully with mascara, you need to choose the right one. Experts recommend that girls immediately acquire two types of this cosmetic product – for everyday use and for festive, special occasions.

Cosmetics for everyday life should be as natural as possible, odorless and washed off with a regular makeup remover. You cannot store it for a long time, but if you plan to use the product every day, it will have time to finish before the expiration date, and you will not have to throw out the mascara that is used only partially or half. It is also worth paying attention to the brush with which the tube of mascara is equipped. It should be small and neat. In this case, the brush will allow you to paint over the eyelashes well, emphasize their beauty, but will not make them the main detail of the image. The exterior will look beautiful, but restrained, as it should be when you need to go to work or school.

Cosmetics for special occasions can be waterproof. As a rule, such mascaras contain wax or silicones, so they last longer than conventional cosmetics. Which is an advantage, considering that the product will not be used as often. You just need to make sure that the cap of the mascara is always tightly screwed during storage, otherwise it may simply dry out. When choosing a persistent mascara, we also pay attention to the brush. It should be big and fluffy. In this case, the villi of the brush will envelop the hairs of the eyelashes, painting them from all sides and along the entire length, giving volume, expressive bend and additional length.

Basic rules for using mascara

To apply mascara to your eyelashes and get a beautiful, lasting result, you need to follow the recommendations of makeup experts:

1. Use a special primer before applying makeup. For example, Big & Loud Lash Primer from NYX Professional Makeup is very popular among women. The primer serves several functions. It protects the hairs of the eyelashes from the negative effects of substances that are present in the composition of the mascara, provides increased makeup durability and retains the bend that you give the eyelashes for a long time. Eyelash primer may not always be available over the counter. But it can be replaced with another remedy. Eyelashes can be powdered or used instead of a primer transparent gel to fix the eyebrow hairs.

2. You can use a specialized eyelash curler before applying mascara to your eyes. Professionals call this accessory 'curler'. A mechanical or electrical device will allow you to get a more pronounced bend, which will last longer than if you curl your eyelashes with just a mascara brush.

3. Before applying the upper lashes, treat the lower ones. This reduces the likelihood that mascara applied to the upper eyelashes will leave an imprint on the upper eyelid.

4. If the painted eyelashes still leave marks on the skin of the eyelids, wash them off with gentle, precise movements using a cotton swab dipped in eye make-up remover. Since almost all girls periodically make such mistakes, you need to apply mascara to your eyes before using foundation, shadows and other decorative means.

5. If you are using not black mascara, but a colored product, be sure to paint over the eyelashes not only from their lower side, but also from the upper side. Otherwise, when the eyes are open, the eyelashes have one color, and when closed (for example, during blinking), the other.

6. When making a daily make-up, limit yourself to one layer of mascara. For festive makeup, you can afford to apply two or even three layers of cosmetic.

7. Mascara should be applied to the entire length of the cilia, starting from the very roots. If you paint only the ends of the hairs, you will be able to get the effect of 'makeup without makeup'. For a more pronounced result, apply the brush to the area where the hairs begin to grow and move it up in a zigzag motion.

8. If you want to make your eyes wider, apply mascara, making movements strictly from the bottom up. You can narrow your eyes a little and get the 'cat look' effect if you apply eyelash makeup, moving diagonally – from the middle of the eyelid to the side of the temple.

9. To complete your eye makeup with mascara, brush your eyelashes with a clean brush from previously used cosmetic.

How to get the effect of false eyelashes using special mascara

It is known that if you do eyelash extensions, it will be much easier to make up your eyes beautifully. But building is not a useful and not a cheap procedure, and the need for periodic correction makes many girls abandon this method of improving their appearance. Moreover, taking into account the fact that there is an alternative option – you can use a volumizer mascara. For example, Feg pro Advanced's Extreme Lash Volumizer synthetic fiber mascara. The advantages of using such a cosmetic product:

1. Easy to use at home without any special skills.

2. Mascara does not crumble and stays in place throughout the day.

3. Makeup is easily washed off the eyes with a regular makeup remover.

4. Stunning results with a build-up effect.

And the last advantage of the fiber mascara is that you can apply it in one, two or three coats, adjusting the volume and length of the lashes to your liking. If you make up your eyelashes in three layers, you can get lengthening and an increase in hair volume by 300%.

How to beautifully paint eyes with eyeshadow

Consider several techniques that will help you beautifully paint your eyes with shadows. Make-up masters recommended our readers to test the following techniques for applying cosmetic products:

1. 'A loop'.

2. 'Daily nude'.

3. 'Festive sparkle'.

4. 'Smoky make-up'.

5. 'Sparkling colors'.

How to beautifully paint eyes using the Loop technique:

1. Apply a primer to the surface of the eyelids, as well as any light shadows, for example, sky blue, shade on both sides and up to the area of ​​the fold.

2. Take dark shadows, for example dark blue or blue. Apply the paint with a thin brush, starting from the middle of the skin fold directly at the lash line. Blend with an applicator.

3. Take all the same dark shadows and paint over the fold over the movable eyelid, starting from the outer corner of the eye and up to half the length of the fold. Blend the pigments to form a 'loop' of dark paint.

4. Instead of blue and blue colors of cosmetics, you can use any other – beige and chocolate, for example.

How to beautifully accentuate the eye area using the Color Fill technique:

1. Cover the upper eyelid with a primer and light shades of a milky shade.

2. Draw some purple or lilac shadows on the brush, draw an arrow at the outer corner of the eye, shade, moving towards the middle of the eyelid.

3. Draw on the brush shadows of the color of the night sky, apply over the purple pigments, capturing the entire outer corner of the eye to the crease, blend up and to the sides.

4. Take a light blue shimmery shadow and apply to the middle of the skin fold, blend, slightly layering the pigments on the previously applied shadow.

5. Apply light yellow, canary shadows to the area near the inner corner of the eye, shade in the direction in the middle of the eye.

How to beautifully highlight the eye area using the 'Everyday Natural Nude' make-up technique:

1. Cover the upper and lower skin folds around the eyes with primer, and on top – with light milky matte gradients.

2. In the inner corner of the eye, apply a small amount of light pearlescent paints and shade carefully so that only a hint of shimmer remains.

3. Take dark bronze color gradients with a matte finish. Thoroughly blend the paint between the cilia on the upper skin fold and on the outer corner of the eye.

4. Dark pigments slightly emphasize the outer corner of the lower skin fold.

How to beautifully accentuate your eyes using the 'Festive Glitter' make-up technique:

1. First, as always, primer is applied, then any light matte gradients as 'underlay'.

2. Use light, shiny eyeshadows such as light pink, light gray, milk chocolate. Apply to the entire movable upper eyelid, to the inner corner of the eye near the bridge of the nose and slightly downward, touching the first third of the lower eyelid.

3. Take dark shimmery eyeshadows such as eggplant, graphite, dark chocolate, etc. They need to be applied along the line of growth of the cilia on the upper eyelid, on the outer corner of the eye, inserted into the fold above the movable eyelid. If dark pigments get on light ones, nothing terrible will happen, just blend well the layering areas.

How to beautifully highlight the upper face area using the Smoky Makeup technique:

1. Cover the upper eyelid with a primer and light beige shadows.

2. On the upper eyelid, draw an arrow with black shadows or a black kayal pencil, shade.

3. Apply dark emerald shadows to the entire movable eyelid, shade.

4. Over the green shadows, make a smear with dark chocolate pigments, shade to the sides and up, gradually reducing the saturation of the pigments, approaching the area under the eyebrow.

5. Dark green shadows highlight the lower eyelid.

6. On the inner corner of the upper and lower eyelids, apply olive shade over dark green pigments, shade.

As a rule, you can really make up your eyes beautifully only if you use a cosmetic preparation of two or three shades. These can be shadows of the same color palette, for example, light pink, regular pink and pink bubble gum shades. Or shadows of different colors, combined with each other, as well as contrasting ones. It is clear that there should be no clear boundaries of different shades of shadows. All colors should flow smoothly into one another. To do this, experts recommend using one of the shading techniques:

1. Horizontal feathering. This technique is suitable for owners of large eyes, too round, so to speak, 'roll out'. It is used because stretching the shades from the bridge of the nose to the outer corner allows you to optically narrow the incision and make the eyes visually smaller.

2. Shading in the vertical direction – the saturation of pigments gradually decreases from the growth line of the cilia to the fold above the mobile eyelid. This method is suitable for those girls whose eyes are too small or narrow.

3. Blending shades in a diagonal direction – from the inner corner of the eye towards the tip of the eyebrow. The technique allows you to make the eyes narrower and slightly slanted.

Also, when applying shadows and shading cosmetics, you need to take into account the properties of dark and light shades. Light – beige, white, pearlescent, add volume, visually increase and attract attention. Therefore, such shadows should be applied in the corners of the eyes, if they are closely set. On the contrary, dark tones remove volume, reduce, distract attention. Therefore, such shadows should be used in the inner corners, if the eyes are widely spaced, on the crease above the movable eyelid, if the eyes are deeply set, etc. The same goes for matte, shimmery eyeshadows. Matte diminishes visually, while glitter shadows add volume. Having studied the techniques of contouring, combining dark and light shades, you can visually correct any aesthetic flaw.

To paint your eyes beautifully using decorative shadows, choose the right cosmetics that are easy, pleasant and safe to work with. Not only the color of the cosmetic preparation is important, but also its texture, finish, composition. In the matter of choosing a shade of shadows, you need to focus on your taste, preferences, the purpose of the make-up and the general color type of appearance. But in addition, you need to take into account the following aspects that form the selection criteria for cosmetics:

1. Brand-manufacturer and its reputation in the cosmetic market. The eyeshadows, which are produced by reliable companies, do not harm sensitive skin, do not cause allergies, feel comfortable on the skin, do not smudge 1-2 hours after application. It is especially important to use high-quality cosmetic products if you intend to use complex makeup techniques that involve stepped transitions from one color to another.

2. Shadow texture. If you are just learning to paint your eyes, it is better to use dry cosmetics, it is easier to work with it. But the use of gel, cream and mousse preparations is not prohibited, it all depends on your preferences.

3. Finish character, which can be matte, velvety, satin, pearlescent, shiny. For daily use, it is better to use matte and satin eyeshadows. For romantic evenings and more special occasions, more daring options are suitable.

4. Composition of decorative cosmetics. If you are using dry eyeshadow, it is best to opt for products based on natural minerals. If you prefer liquid and semi-liquid textures, make sure that the eyeshadow has a short shelf life, which indicates a more or less natural composition with a minimum amount of harmful preservatives.

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