Lesson Number One: Never Match you eyeshadow directly to your outfit!
This may seem weird but you have to think of color schemes more openly. If you're wearing a lavender shirt, it's just gonna me straight up tacky to have lavender eyeshadow. The way I think of it, is by wearing neutral clothing with color makeup, and color clothing with neutral makeup. If I'm wearing blue one day, 99% of the time i'd do a shimmery brown eyeshadow look. If i was wearing pink, I may do a matte grey smokey eye. It depends on your mood, etc. but you really just have to go with how you feel. The only exception I ever make for matching is if I'm wearing black, often i'll do a smokey eye. Think it over, it makes sense!!*this is only my personal opinion, everyone may view this differently
Lesson Number Two: The Order of Makeup:
Recently I've noticed the way people put on makeup and how difficult they make it for themselves! Order is key, if you get the right way to do it, it will look 10 times better.
Always start with your face!
Moisturizer, primer (optional), foundation, concealer, powder, bronzer contouring, blush, highlight, eyebrows.
If you do this order your face will look flawless, and heres why. If you always moisturize your skin you wont have so many dry areas that will get accentuated by face makeup. Then if you apply a good foundation it will even out your skin town and problem areas so that you won't need so much concealer and powder caked on. THEN you do your concealer. So many people conceal first but if you do that and then put a foundation on your only moving the concealer around and it will not cover the areas you need. Finally you do a powder to set the liquid products to take away any shininess and keep the liquid from melting or gravitating off your face. Blush, contour, and highlight is always optional. And then very last you should do your eyebrows by setting it will brow gel, filling them in with pencil or just brushing them out. Do it last because you'll get foundation in your brows and you should always wipe them before going out.
For your eyes:
Primer, Eyeshadow, Eyeliner, Mascara
*this is only my personal opinion, everyone may view this differently
Lesson Number Three: The Smokey Eye
Okay so I know a lot of girls who don't know much about makeup get intimidated by trying to do a smokey eye. But actually, it's super easy, and if you really wanted to be ridiculously simple, you could get away with two, yes, two colors. First of all though, I'd invest in some brushes. If you're not obsessed with makeup like I am, don't worry about getting MAC brushes. Honestly, half my brushes are from "Essence of Beauty" from CVS. If anything though, you at least need a flat brush and if you can afford one more, a domed crease brush will do.
The absolute basics of a smokey eye is to know how to work the gradient effect. The lightest color will always be in your inner tear duct area and the darkest will be in the outer corner or "outer v" of your eye. It can get more intricate from there, but for the simplest smokey eye, this is what you need to know. For a nice, not over done eye, this is what I would recommend:
Start off with a shimmery or matte white eyeshadow in your inner corner, bringing it slightly onto your lid. next cover your lid in a matte to shimmery light grey eyeshadow, not covering up the white you just put down. Lastly, take a black eyeshadow (I wouldn't recommend a darker grey because we already have grey and sometimes 2 shades of the same color blend too much and make it look bad), and pack the color on the outer corner. Wipe the brush off until it's clean and smudge it out with the dome brush, until all colors are blended. Vua laaa.
*this is only my personal opinion, everyone may view this differently
