Eye makeup

I need some tips. I usually just stick to mascara because I'm terrible at it.

Last week there was a post your eyes thread and everyone looked so glamorous with their perfectly lined eyes and brows. My pic was no makeup and just waking up. It was kind of pathetic. I'm looking for eye makeup that's easy and doesn't look too made up. No feathered or permanent surprised eyebrows.

My eyes are blue and hair is dark blonde/light gold brown. Skin is fair with cool tones but I have a little bit of tan because it was sunny this week. My brows are light brown like my hair.

You could use neutral/natural eyeshadows like reds/browns and just sweep it all over your lids. There's youtube tutorials dedicated to showing how to apply different eyeshadow looks correctly.

I think if you're a beginner it's fun to play around with changing the shapes of your eyes like obviously we want to achieve bigger eyes but you can make your eyes look lifted like you had a facelift or make them look farther apart, or maybe your eyes are too far apart so you could make them look close set etc there's so many things you can do....

From what you are describing it seems that you like playing with colour. The best advice I can give with eye shadow is

- never buy shimmery eyeshadow, unless you're a makeup artist it looks cheap and turns muddy so it's best to stick with matte eyeshadow, but by all means if you're going to use shimmery to highlight "parts" of your eyes then def do that.

- prime your eyes, a good eye primer is a bit lighter than your skin tone and it goes over your eyes and makes your eyes feel a bit tacky so that when your shadows go on the colours are more true and vibrant and the shadow sticks to it better...

- always start with the lightest shade and blend it all over the lid for example a light brown then use a darker brown to deepen it and then use the darkest brown to intensify followed by black, using plenty of shades of the same colour and blending it out really sets the look apart from the others....

- practice and watch YouTube

Posted by SeraphCuteness
It's very difficult to post it here. You need to mess around your eyes are not like anyone's. Watch some youtube vidoes buy some products. And then just mess around in front of a mirror.

What colors do you recommend? Black seems too harsh for me.

Posted by Koniuchaa
I just do some black eyeliner and mascara, that's it. That is actually all the make up I wear. On the weekends it's generally nothing

That's me too except I wear brown mascara and lip gloss only. I don't even know how to start.