Top Eye Make Up Techniques That Everyone Should Know

Due to the confusing nature eye eye makeup techniques many women tend to just ignore its important to their makeup scheme. Its true that there are a varied amount of tools and and less array of colors available, but it should be a daunting thing to learn. It can be fun and exciting as you learn how to turn your face from beautiful to WOW!

Think about it, when you are conversing with someone what is the first thing that you eyes focus in on and you pay attention to, their eyes. Imagine if the person you were speaking with had eye make up that wasn't even mildly attractive or just looked flat out horrible, would you be offended that someone had such horrible eye make up techniques or make up your mind to help them if at all possible.

Think of it as painting on a living canvas instead of piece of blank paper. The eye make up technique that we are going to delve into is powder. It can be either dry or wet and it is really easy to control, but make sure if wet you go for the one that is at least moist and not completely dry or completely wet. Pencils are pretty easy to use as well but you must always remember as well to smear the line as they call it. For if you don't you will have lines all over your face and that is not attractive!

Creams have a tendency to be uncontrollable; some people use them with good results. They can be beautiful and stay that way if you have good quality eye foundation, or eye primer. One of the most useful eye make up techniques to learn is the concept of matte or neutral eye. If you are going to apply this technique properly it will draw people gaze "into" your eye and not just "at" it. All eye make up techniques are there to increase the shape and color of your eye and make it seem as if it is a picture perfect expressive eyes.

In order to make the maximum impact with your eye makeup you are going to need four color shades that work well together and complement each other. You will want to start with a neutral base tone and then add the main color. You need to use the lighter shade in the set to highlight and the darkest shade to empathize You must also have a good quality magnifying mirror and a set of good makeup brushes as well.

Many women problems with eye makeup are not centered on the techniques that they use. Most women have a very basic understanding of makeup technique and their skills are very well tuned to get the best effect. The problem they face is the choice of colors that will work best in their makeup scheme. Here is a number one tip to get the best result, DO NOT MATCH COLORS TO YOUR EYES! This was a technique that our moms were taught years ago when they colors for eye makeup were very soft, and tended to be either extremely smoky or very light and silky. Doing this will not bring out your eyes it will make them dull. This is the same idea with neutrals, they provide a natural appearance but do nothing to bring out the soul of the eyes, instead try using the following colors that tend to work well with women of any skin coloring gray, olive, blue, vanilla, gold, brown, pale purple, mauve, and beige.

Nikki VanDusen learned she had artistic talent at an early age, and combined with her love of Makeup, gives out tips and advice. To view her website, go to http://www.famousmakeuptips.com.