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How to apply eye makeup for brown eyes update#
How to apply eye makeup for brown eyes skin#

(I know, eww.) And it brightens my lids nicely so they stand out.

How to apply eye makeup for brown eyes skin#

It’s a pretty thick concealer so it covers the veins, freckles, mottled skin of my lids. I need to cover a lifetime of sun exposure sins on my eyelids so I pat on Tarte Shape Tape Concealer in 12S Fair. Oh, did you think “easy one eyeshadow look” meant we weren’t going to need eyeshadow primer? How wrong you are! This look needs primer or concealer even more than a regular eye makeup look because the primer creates a smooth, consistent color on your eyelids and brightens your lids so they stand out more against the droopy hood of your brow. Turn on your JavaScript to view content Cover the Eye Area with Eyeshadow Primer or Concealer Here’s an in-depth YouTube video covering my easy one eyeshadow eye makeup for older hooded eyes routine. Easy One Eyeshadow Eye Makeup for Older Hooded Eyes Or be like me, try them all and switch thing up according to your mood. I don’t love the cream eyeshadows like the Stila shadows and the Armani Beauty Eye Tint Liquid Eyeshadow for this look because they are almost “too” blendable and I tend to smear them everywhere but I love these shadows as lid colors paired with regular powder shadows.Īs always, pick the one that you like best. I use them for this look a good bit, but I just didn’t want to put myself under added pressure to be really fast while filming a video. The Laura Mercier Caviar Stick shadows (and the CoverGirl TruNaked Queenship Shadow Sticks which are a great drugstore equivalent to the Caviar Sticks) work well too and have a better color selection than the Revlon shadows but you have to work faster before they start to dry and become hard to blend. I’m using Revlon’s ColorStay Creme Eyeshadow in Espresso for this tutorial because it blends easily, gives me a good bit of time to work with, and is a fairly dark brown.

In my opinion, glittery, shimmery or metallic colors don’t work well with this look but you might disagree and if you do, put up a photo on your favorite social media platform and tag me because I bet you look amazing and I’d love to see your look.

It’s fairly dark because you’re going to use it as a dark color in the outer corner of your eye and then blend it out to almost a transparent color in the inner corner so you need a color that’s dark enough to be noticable when blended out.

It doesn’t dry right away but gives you a bit of time to blend it out (otherwise you’ve got a blob of eyeshadow in one spot on your eye and cream eyeshadow is there until you remove it once it dries.).

It blends easily without causing you to tug at your eye (not good for your eye!).

Revlon ColorStay Crème EyeshadowĪny of these types of cream eyeshadows can work just fine for this look as long as the shadow meets these conditions: Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye ShadowĪnd they can come in a pot that you apply with a brush or your finger.

They can look like a crayon that you just draw the shadow on with. They can come in a tube that looks like lip gloss with a doe foot applicator. What Cream Eyeshadow Should You Use?Ĭream eyeshadows come in a variety of formats. It’s the perfect quick and easy, beginner-friendly eye shadow look and it disguises and enhances older, droopy hooded eyes as effectively as more complicated looks. And it uses a cream eyeshadow so you don’t have to be precise at all when you put it on because you’re going to smudge it out later. Well, maybe this will make everybody happy! I know it’s become my go-to look for the days I want to get up and out the door.

How to apply eye makeup for brown eyes update#

Here are step-by-step instructions and videos for ways to update your eyeshadow technique and enhance your aging eyes. As we get older, our eyes can start to look downturned and our brows can appear heavier (or hooded) and droop over our eyelids.