One of the biggest secrets in the fashion industry is applying makeup to create a fresh and natural look. Neutral colors and the right techniques will accent and highlight everything just right. The result is a natural, beautiful look that’s perfect day or night, in photographs or face to face.

After you’ve done some tweezing and classic eyebrow shaping or worked in a few eyebrow shaping tricks to get them just right it’s time to look at putting on some eye shadow and eye liner. It’s all about choosing the right colors and applying them in the right places to give your eyes nice contours and a healthy glow.

Choosing Your Makeup Colors

Foundation: A lot of women just throw on some lipstick and a little eyecolor as part of their daily routine. Perfectly fine, especially if you’ve got healthy, radiant skin. If you feel like going the extra mile and applying a foundation, then test out a few and find one that matches your skin color exactly. Keep the application light. Nothing looks worse than caked on foundation.

Eye shadow: You want three different colors; a light color, a dark color, and a medium color. They should have the same tone and stick to the more natural looking neutral colors. You can experimant with more vibrant colors once you’ve mastered the fresh and natural look. Warmer colors look great anytime and photograph the best. Cooler colors are best reserved for a special night out on the town when you want a more vivacious look.

Eyeliner: Two colors; a medium color and a light color. Stay away from dark colors when you’re going for “fresh and natural”. Most people only use one eyeliner color and two colors of eyeshadow. The extra color for each is what is going to give your style that extra little bit of giddyup. The pros don’t use pencils or liquid. They use eyeliners that are solid little cakes that you mix with water to make into liquid. It’s not as quick but it gives you a lot of control when you mix it yourself.

Applying Eyeliner

Start with eyeliner because you don’t want to try and apply it after you’ve dusted on your eye shadow. You can always touch it up after applying your eye shadow.

Use your medium colored eyeliner and apply it around the outside two thirds of your eyes, top and bottom.

Use your light eyeliner and apply it around the inner one third of your eyes. Blend it in gently where it meets the medium eyeliner. The light liner’s job is too brighten up your eyes after the medium color has defined and outlined them.

Applying Eye Shadow

Once your eyeliner is set, it’s time to pull out the eyeshadow brush. Really good brushs are so soft they feel like air on your skin. Good quality makeup brushes make blending in your colors naturally a lot easier than trying to work with hard brushes.

Apply a gentle wash of your lightest color from your eyelashes to your eyebrows. Brush up and away from the center of your face and blend the color out really well on either side.

Next, apply your darkest color to the crease at the top of your eyelid. This is the trickiest part of eye makeup. Blend the eye shadow really well and keep it narrower on the inside.

Finally, apply your medium accent color from your eyelashes to the crease. Concentrate this color on the outside half of the eye and blend it in well with your light base towards the inside corners of your eyes.

Touch Ups

If you’ve washed out your eye liner after applying your shadowing then touch it up a bit. Be really careful with any kind of touch-ups or reworking because it can quickly turn into a mess or get to the point where your makeup is too thick to look natural. Then the best thing to do is just wash it all off and start over.

Add a little bit of eyebrow color and some mascara for a bolder look if you want. Just remember, sometimes less is more.

That’s it! Classic. Fresh. Natural. Beautiful.

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