Apply a perfect evening look

Setting the Stage

Brush out & fill in eyebrows
Make the outer corners darker, and the inner corners lighter. Remember to extend your brush outward while brushing.
Apply an eyeshadow base
Apply this base across the entire eyelid with a flat brush. This will create a base for your color and rich texture on the eyelid.
Blend base shadow
With a clean brush, blend the base shadow. Apply powder under the eyes to catch anything that falls in the process.
Highlight brow bone
Keep the browbone highlight sheer and not too shiny
Apply eye shadow color
Dab the color on your hand for a clean application. Apply the color right up to the crease of the eye.
Blend harsh lines
Use a clean brush and push the color out and up to create the cat effect.
Highlight center of the eyelid
Use a lighter color and highlight the center of the eyelid, blend with a clean brush.

Achieving Smoky Eyes

Line the eyelid
Outline the lid with a pencil liner and blend it. Go thicker towards the outside to achieve the cat eye effect. Blend liner on the top lid into the shadow.
Line the eyelid with liquid liner
Blend liquid into the your shadow.
Blend and extend corners of your shadow
Apply additional shadow to outer corners of the lid. Remember to gradually build when applying color.
Curl top lashes
This will open up the eyes.
Apply mascara and false lashes
Apply a layer of mascara close to the base of the lashes and move upward.

Place glue on the lashes and apply after 2 minutes, recoating the real and false lashes with mascara together.
Line inner rim of lashes and smudge
Apply eye liner along the lash line inside the eyelid with a dark shade. Smudge but beware of racoon eyes! Loose powder under the eyes will prevent that.
Apply shadow color under eye
Lighten your color on the inner corners of the eye, and darker on the outer corners. Sweep away excess powder under the eyes with a foundation brush.
Apply mascara to bottom lashes
Highlight the inner corner of the eye with a light dot of powder.

Contour and Highlights

Contour forehead along hairline
Use a darker bronze color along the edges of the face, and keep the center of the forehead bare.
Bronze hollows of the cheeks
Bring your lips together to accentuate the hollows of the cheeks and place bronzer in the hollows.
Contour jawline
Create definition on the jawline and thin out the chin area. Avoid muddiness with a gradual build of color.
Contour the nose
Apply bronzer along the sides of the nose.
Highlight the cheekbone and apply blush
Apply highlighter to cheekbone and blush to the apples of the cheeks. Be sure not to extend blush into the hallows of the cheeks.

Nude Lips and Finishing Touches

Apply concealer to lip corners
This will give the lips a nice point.
Apply loose powder to set concealer
This will prevent the lip color from bleeding.
Line the lips
Choose a color a a few shades darker than the actual lip, and blend to the center.
Apply lipstick
Choose a lipstick color similar to the lip liner.
Lighten lip color
Use a concealer or foundation over the lipstick.
Finish lips with nude gloss
Use a bright nude gloss to finish off the lip.

Siomara Cramer

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