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Gradient Eyeliner : Step By Step Tutorial with Photos

by Adi

Hi girlies!
Well what do you know, I am here with my first ever tutorial for you girls! If you’re an eye makeup gal, this tutorial is definitely for you 🙂 In this post, I will be trying to teach you how to jazz up your eyeliner by creating a gradient effect! I am a bit bored of colored eyeliners and I have so many that I always look for new ways to use them.

This is a great way to put all your coloured eyeliners to good use and it is quite simple. So let’s get into the tutorial 🙂

You will need:

Any two coloured pencil eyeliners of different colours
A blending brush or any brush or smudger to blend in the eyeliners

For the purpose of this tutorial I will be using the Avon Glimmersticks Diamonds eyeliners in Twilight Sparkle and Emerald Glow. These are great picks for this tutorial because though they are smudge proof, they take a minute to ‘set’ so I can work with them. You girls can also use smudge-proof eyeliners but be sure to pick those which take a minute or two to set so that you can smudge them before that because as you will see, smudging the eyeliners is crucial for this tutorial.

To blend in the two colors I will be using an ordinary blending brush from some random brush set my mom picked up 😛

Step 1: Take one eyeliner pencil and draw a smooth, even line across your eyelid about two thirds of the way.

Step 2: Using a blending brush, soften the inner end of the line – smudge it to make it less opaque. The idea is to avoid harsh lines. The colors should look like they disappear into one another.

Step 3: Starting from the opposite corner, using the other eyeliner pencil, draw a line till it meets the first line, make the two lines overlap to create a gradient effect.

Step 4: Touch up the two lines wherever required, and that’s it! You’re good to go 🙂

Here are a few useful tips for this tutorial:

1. Blending is the key. Harsh lines or noticeable lines where one colour ends and the other begins, will totally ruin this look so you must blend well! For this tutorial I didn’t have to blend too much because the colours were close, you will need more work if the colours are contrasting.

2. For subtle looks choose colours close together like deep blue and deep green that I chose for this post. For bold looks go for absolutely contrasting colours like blue and orange!

3. It is okay if you don’t have a blending brush. You don’t necessarily have to use a brush. If you are more comfortable using a Q-tip to smudge the colours, by all means go ahead with that.

I really hope you girls liked this post 🙂 stay beautiful and stay trendy 😀

My Independence Day Inspired Eye Makeup Look

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by Dharu

Yesterday I got an urgent message from Lancy asking me whether I could do a makeup look inspired by our national flag for today. Yes of course I could. I was honoured to contribute something on this special day of the birth of free India. So here it is for Lancy and Swathika who were the one who asked for this. Enjoy girls and thanks again for asking me this!

This makeup is quite dramatic and unless you want to look like a painted flag, don’t try this for normal occasions. It’s strictly for extreme Halloween type fests. I also included a lip colour which I usually wear to give my contribution to our flag.

Products used:

Lakme perfecting foundation
Lakme radiance compact
Vov eye pencil in green
Ads pencils for white and green
Eye shadows from random palettes
Dazzler mascara
A spoon! You will see why..

Steps:

1. Prime and prepare your eyes. Fill your brows with a brown pencil. Both green and blue in this actually accentuates brown eyes. Make sure you use concealer on the sides of your nose since I use a shimmery white here and this will make your dark circles and nose look darker.

2. Apply a white shimmery eye shadow on 1/4th of inner eye lid. Blend with a nude base colour.
Apply saffron orange in the remaining part of the lid. I made a definite line here not blending much to give that proper flag effect.

3. Now add the ink blue in the outer part making a small wing. Apply for good intense pigmentation.
On lower lash line apply a light green in the inner half and dark green in the outer half. Extend this green and make a v on the upper lid part. Blend more and mix with the blue.

4. Fill the light green near the tear duct area. Highlight your brow bone with powder since if you use a shadow it will definitely look OTT.

5. Curl your lashes and apply your favourite mascara 2 coats. I skipped liner and kajal here. If you want you can add of course.

Tada…you are done. Hope you like this one girls!

I used spoon here for curling my lashes a bit. I don’t like curlers much so. It makes a nice flowery curl instead if the dramatic straight curl you get with a curler.

The lipstick is dazzler lipstick in shade No 612. It is a bang on match of saffron orange with brown tones. Makes me look glowy! 🙂

I hope you really liked this Swathika. Everyone have a great day.

Happy Independence Day girls! Mera bharat Mahan.

Editor’s Note: This post is one day late due to power cut in my area. Sowwiee! 🙁

Eye Makeup to Wear With Blue Outfit ~ Photo Tutorial

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Hello everyone!
Blue is one beautiful color for an outfit to wear anytime of the year. Isn’t it? A bright blue dress with some amazing makeup on your face will perk up your appearance. Agree? So today, I am going to share with you all the eye makeup I done to match my blue outfit. Be it navy blue, a royal blue or light blue.. this eye makeup will suit any kind of your blue dress beautifully!

Tips for Wearing Eye Makeup with Blue Dress:

Before starting the tutorial, I would like to share some tips while doing eye makeup to pair with your blue dress/costume.

1. Never go for ‘all blue’. It will make you look very tacky. If you wear a blue colored dress, use can use a blue eyeliner and a bit of blue shade. But don’t use only the blue ‘eyeshadow’. Make your eye makeup look a bit more warm using neutral and brown shades.

2. From my experience, black eyeliners stay for a long time than colored ones. I doesn’t mean you shouldn’t add colors to your makeup! But it just means, give a black lining before putting on the colored liner on top of it. This way, the shade shows up really well and moreover, it stays longer. Keep in mind, wearing a black eyeliner with sheer or light toned eyeliners will do no good. If you wear blue, wear black first. It shows up really well and this tutorial is a proof.

3. Unless you are going to play a show in circus, don’t use bright neon or orange eyeshadows with blue color dress! It might make you look all made up. If your blue saree or lehenga has orange in it, no wrong you can add some orange in your look (in a subtle way though) but if in case you are wearing casuals, avoid hard-to-carry shades with blue.

Products Used:

MUA Eye shadow Palette Poptastic
MUA Waterproof Black Eyeliner
L’Oreal Color Riche Quad
MUA Black Mascara
L’Oreal Color Riche Le Khol Portofino Blue

How to Wear Eye Makeup for Blue Dress?:

1. Cleanse and prime your eyelids. Apply an eye concealer and set it with some loose powder. Give a wash of your favorite neutral shade. If it is going to be a festive look, golden eyeshadow will work too. Neutrals work best with any outfit and that is the reason why I love neutral eyeshadow very much.

2. Using an angular brush, apply some chocolate brown eyeshadow on your crease line. Listen, only a bit you should apply- not to the level that you do for a brown smokey eye look. Blend it well.

3. Now apply some blue eyeshadow (either dark or light) from the outer corner of your eye to the middle of your crease line. Blend it well with an eyeshadow brush.

4. Put on your black eyeliner now. Make sure the line is neither too thin nor too thick. Allow the black eyeliner to dry.

5. Wear kajal on your waterline evenly.

6. Make sure you have blended all the shades properly. In this eye makeup look, neutral and blue dominates. You can just find a hint of brown.

7. Coat your eyelashes with mascara after curling it.

8. Use a soft cotton bud to remove the excess shades from sides. Wear a highlighter on your brow bone area if preferred.

That’s it! You are done with your blue eye makeup! Have a closer look of the makeup below.

This is one more eye makeup to pair up with blue outfits! I made it wear simple with a wash of pink eyeshadow and liquid blue eyeliner. Need a tutorial?