How To Use Shadow as Liner for Metallic Makeup

A lot of people are intimidated with make-up and just rely on someone else’s services to take care of heavy make up. Some also think that it is expensive to maintain make up sets but these two misconceptions are, well, misconceptions. Doing your own make up does not only save you money but also time since you do not have to set an appointment for a make up artist. If you have an evening occasion wherein you want to have that metallic, smoky eye effect, then this article is for you. After reading this article, you should have an idea how to line your eyes using your regular dark eye shadow when putting on metallic make up.

    * Materials that you will need:
          o some q-tips to help you cleanly erase mistakes
          o metallic eye shadow
          o dark colored eye shadow such as charcoal gray, navy blue and the like
          o blush brush to sweep away excess eye shadow under the eyes

    * Putting on the base color. When you have put foundation or base on your entire face including your eyelids, put some pressed powder on your eyelids, too. After which, choose a color that you want to be the base color of your eyes. Typically you should select a color that is midway between your darkest color and the highlight.
    * Selecting a liner color. Depending on the color scheme that you want, choose the darkest color you have in your palette to serve as your eye liner. If you have the type that can be moistened with water, then moisten the tip of your eye shadow brush and sweep that across your selected liner color. With one eye closed, line the bottom of your lids from the inner corner going to the outer corner. While doing this, one of your hands should be pulling your eyelid taught so that you won’t skip any area as you line your lids.
    * Checking for consistency. The beauty of using a powder eye liner, especially if you are using the moistened version, is that you can easily correct or adjust the thickness of your lining as compared to using a liquid liner. The accurate analogy is that powder eyeliners are like charcoal pencils that you can smudge up for a smoky effect while liquid eyeliners are like felt tipped markers that are more solid and permanent in effect. Check if you have the same width of lining throughout your eyes.
    * Using a stand out color as a liner. While most people use a darker shade close to black as a liner, others use a very bold color such as bright blue as a liner, to draw attention to your eyes.
    * Smudging the lining. If you prefer, rub the brush across the bottom of the lid to smudge the color a bit. You can also lightly draw a line on your bottom lid if you want your bottom lid to be the same color as your top lid. Finish the look by putting some highlighting color at the center of your lid and near the inside corners of your eyes. Top with two coats of mascara and you should have that metallic, sultry look perfect for night outs.

Once you are comfortable with playing with different colors and widths of the eye shadow, you can start experimenting with different color combinations, too. As a rule of thumb, the color blue always reduces the redness of the eyes.
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