Re: I wonder who wears those colorful eyeshadows t... - Page 4

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Lipstickdiva wrote:
@Shanus wrote:
If you reference more recent famous makeup artists like Trish McEvoy, Laura Mercier, Bobbi Brown, Wayne Goss, Lisa Eldridge, etc., more neutral shades allow your eye color to stand out. Personally, I'd rather see gorgeous blue, green or brown eyes than orange, turquoise or burgundy shadow.

Of course, many youtube makeup bloggers who use those shades, are rarely in the 60 and and over age group.
@Shanus and a lot of those YTers use these colors for the purpose of that video but IRL don't do their make-up this way.

I work in an office. I could never come into work with crazy colored eyeshadow. It's not a professional look.

@Lipstickdiva Keep in mind that the beauty bloggers may receive a lot of that makeup as PR in exchange for reviews...hopefully positive ones.

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

@Shanus wrote:
@Trinity11 One of Way Bandy's fortes was contouring...not just cheeks, but bringing out the structure/shape of the eyes with a deeper shade before applying color. He was a genius. His abilities using light and dark shades on the face enabled him to make women look like other models or actresses in his books...shading the sides or tip of a nose, narrowing a chin or forehead, etc.

@Shanus I sorta go the opposite. I use light colors first. I like a light color close to my eyeliner, and it's easier to add dark over light than to add light over dark. I don't do any fashion color on the actual lid, only in the crease, blending upwards and outwards from there.

I do also use bronzer on my nose becuase I have always felt like it is too long. And I also use some now along the jawline to try to hide the beginnings of jowls.

Group 5 minus 1 · ‎03-11-2010

And speaking of aging, those colored eye shadows (esp. blue) are REALLY aging.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Icegoddess wrote:
@Shanus wrote:
@Trinity11 One of Way Bandy's fortes was contouring...not just cheeks, but bringing out the structure/shape of the eyes with a deeper shade before applying color. He was a genius. His abilities using light and dark shades on the face enabled him to make women look like other models or actresses in his books...shading the sides or tip of a nose, narrowing a chin or forehead, etc.
@Shanus I sorta go the opposite. I use light colors first. I like a light color close to my eyeliner, and it's easier to add dark over light than to add light over dark. I don't do any fashion color on the actual lid, only in the crease, blending upwards and outwards from there.

I do also use bronzer on my nose becuase I have always felt like it is too long. And I also use some now along the jawline to try to hide the beginnings of jowls.

@Icegoddess I do my eyes much the same as you. The group lesson I took with Way was showing how to "carve out the features"....how to receed a hooded lid, push back a prominent chin. The class was geared more for print work type makeup or black and white photography where color can't accent features, only darks and lights.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:
And speaking of aging, those colored eye shadows (esp. blue) are REALLY aging.

@Group 5 minus 1 Bright blue or turquoise shades worn all over the lid, maybe. I love a navy liner or dark blue shadow used sparingly at the outer corners and blended well (not an every day look) or using navy in the waterline to whiten the eyes.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Icegoddess Difficult w/o seeing you, but re: contouring your nose. If you feel it's long, running the bronzer down the sides (not sure if that's what you do) will make it appear longer. To shorten the nose, contour should be placed in a U shape starting 1/2 down and the curve right above the nostrils, on the tip of the nose. The darker tip gives the illusion of a shorter nose because the darker tip receeds leaving the brighter area more visible. Don't mean to butt in or offend. Just a suggestion. ***For jawline, shade just a bit on the jawbone and some underneath to cause a realistic shadow as it would be in nature.

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

@Shanus wrote:
@Icegoddess Difficult w/o seeing you, but re: contouring your nose. If you feel it's long, running the bronzer down the sides (not sure if that's what you do) will make it appear longer. To shorten the nose, contour should be placed in a U shape starting 1/2 down and the curve right above the nostrils, on the tip of the nose. The darker tip gives the illusion of a shorter nose because the darker tip receeds leaving the brighter area more visible. Don't mean to butt in or offend. Just a suggestion.

@Shanus Sounds like what I do. You want the tip to recede. Of course, that doesn't help the profile.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Icegoddess Tip receeding doesn't help profile?

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

@Shanus wrote:
@Icegoddess Tip receeding doesn't help profile?

@Shanus I wouldn't expect it to. The nose will still stick out as far as it always did, so when looking at someone's profile I wouldn't expect bronzer to change that.

beach-mom · ‎03-09-2010

I wear full makeup at least twice a week - once to be filmed for an online thing.

Other than that I do what @SurferWife does, with the addition of one neutral shade and a colored liner.

@monicakm - I love that palette!

@mistriTsquirrel - I like your philosophy! Years ago I played a lot more, but I still do some!

I was very late to the bareMinerals craze, but now I really like the products. Actually I was impressed with Jessica's enthusiasm! They have two new eyeshadow palettes out for the holidays. I got DD the larger one for her birthday in November, and I got the smaller one for me for my December birthday! Usually if I do that I will wait until my birthday to use it, but this year all bets were off! I've been wearing it a lot!

I love palettes- just can't help myself!