Thank you! Usually I just go by mood, lately it's been thin eyeliner to my lower waterline and a little purple or red under my lower lashes to give a lovely death's door illness look. Usually I put my darkest color toward the back of the eye, like at 10 and 2 if you think of the eyeball as a clock. And blend that in, and then do a lighter color over the rest of the lid and the very lightest color or a glitter shimmer bit in the center which gives your eye a nice contour. Blending is important (so they say). It can be fun to use a lighter color along the browbone, if you try to blend dark colors up into your eyebrows it looks either super drag queen, super dramatic, or super raccoon-y which isn't always good. I like to smear the colors all the way over to the bridge of my nose, sometimes I'll let it trail to my temple or down to my cheekbone. It all depends on what kind of look I'm attempting and my mood and what colors I have on hand (and how clean my brushes are, trying to put on a light shadow with a brush that's absolutely sodden with heavy dark pigment is an exercise in muddy futility).
There's not really a *right* way to do anything, I do what works for me through a metric fucktonne of trial and error. Such trials. And good christ, such errors. STILL. Just keep a light hand. You can always add more, but it's a total bitch to take it off and try to regain lost ground without messing up your foundation. :\
View more
