Tips to Using Every Shade in Your Makeup Palette
The first look at an eyeshadow palettemight look tyrannical, how do you figure out what goes where? What you do is, break it down into simple groups to prevent overwhelm and use your shades effectively. Here are some basic groups that can be broken into:
- Highlighters: These are the brightestcolors and should be applied under your brows, the inner nooks of your eyes, or the core of your lids.
- Accents: These are the richer, extra pigmented hues. Apply them from your lash line to the crease.
- Transition Crease: These are neutral, moderate hues. Apply them into the crease and outward to blend and transition from one spot to the other.
- Contour Colors: These are the shadiest hues, best blended with an angled brush for eyeliner.
Shades That Are Used On Rare Occasions
White
At First peek, white eyeshadow might be intense and dull you might not want to use it as your only shade. The white shadow could create a great highlighting feature for your eyes. It is also good as a first step, like a primer of sorts causing the other colors to appear brighter.
Black
This is another color that also seems intense at first glance, black is perfect when used as an eyeliner. Just use a thin angled brush to put on, it doesn’t matter if it’s wet or dry.
Pink
This is the Barbie color, that is what everyone says but it’s not just for Barbie alone, pink is very nice color and also a very nice shade.
Blue
Blue like the other colors that have been mentioned above is also a beautiful color and shade.
An image of an eyeshadow palette
For instance, you want to wear three different eyeshadow colors together but you don’t know the exact combination to use. This can sometimes turn out to become a very difficult situation. This is what we are here for, you have to get shades that are in the same color family. An instance now would be lavender, violet, and plum or you could see beige, soft brown, and deep brown. For these combinations, the key is having a light, medium, and dark shade. These color combinations will compliment each other while still giving out enough uniqueness to make you stand out. This doesn’t have to always go as we have mentioned above, you could use colors that aren’t in the same color family and still get a good result from it. Here are some events for different combination tricks.
For a romantic approach; A Good combination for this would be using rose color in the base, light dusting of bronze on the layer, and a bit of violet.
For a spicedup look; Try using the sunset eye using layering shades of bright orange, yellow, and pink.
A bold look; Try out the metallic colors, rose gold shadow on half your lid, and dark gold applied on the other half,and then put on a metallic champagne shade to top it all up.
An example of the combination look shown in the image below:
