today I'm going to show you the five big
mistakes women make when applying makeup
to mature eyes hi I'm Schellea and this is
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relate to you I'm going to show you the
five big makeup mistakes that we can all
make on this site and then I'm going to
show you how to apply your eye makeup
with some technique so that you look
younger fresher and more vibrant okay
let's get started
the first big mistake women make when
applying makeup to mature eyes is not to
prime the reason we prime our eyelids is
because our eyelids are very oily and
particularly as we're getting older they
become more oily so if you apply
eyeshadow to your eyelid without a
primer by the end of the day or even
after a couple of hours you're going to
get creasing in your eyeshadow and you
don't want that because it looks really
cakey so to use a primer is the best
thing that you can do so I'm going to
start applying my eye makeup to show you
what not to do on this side and what to
do on this side I love the Too Faced
insurance eye primer you only need a
really tiny bit and you tap it into your
eye just really gently and you don't
need too much of this because you want
it to be a smooth film rather than a
thick coating and this is just a really
small thing to do but it makes your
eyeshadow last so much longer so what it
does is it make sure I shadow pop more
the color becomes more intense and it
stops the creasing so prime is the first
thing and I think everybody over the age
of 50 should be using a primer for that
eye shadow
okay the second big mistake we make with
our mature
is to go against basic color theories so
what I mean by that is we applied dark
in the wrong places and light in the
wrong places so I'm going to show you
what the mistakes are and I'm going to
show you how to fix them basic color
theory tells us that dark colors recede
and light colors make bigger so we wear
black and dark colors where we want to
look skinny and we would paint a room
white if we want to make it look more
spacious and this rule applies to makeup
it applies to fashion it applies to
interior design it's one rule fits all
so we've got to use it when we're
applying our makeup so I'm going to
start by showing you the wrong way to
apply dark color and then I'll show you
how to apply it on the other eye then
I'm going to show you the wrong way to
apply a light color and I'll show you on
the other eye how to do it correctly I'm
using my eye shadows here they're just
in a little palette that I make myself
so when I buy an eyeshadow I take it out
of the container and I put it in here
and these are the ones that I use every
day so it's really easy everything's
here in one place the part of our eye
that we want to make skinny and recede
is this part here it's the hood it's the
part that's loose skin and as we're
getting older this skin becomes looser
and falls down a little bit so it makes
our eyes look quite heavy and droopy so
we're going to receive this with a dark
color and the part we want to make look
bigger is this part here because as far
as eyes go that's our most important
real estate because if this part of our
I can appear bigger we look more
youthful okay so I'm going to show you
the wrong way first and I'm going to
apply a dark color to the part that we
want to make bigger but actually we're
going to make it smaller and I'm not
going to use a primer
it feels so wrong putting this on
without a primer it doesn't glide very
nicely okay so I'm going to do that and
another thing I'm going to do with my
dark color is I'm gonna follow nature
and sort of go down where my natural eye
goes so I'm just following the natural
folds in my eye now the right way to
apply dark to a mature eye is where we
want to recede it so we would put it up
here now let me show you what I'm going
to do there
I would normally do this part after I've
done my eyelid but I'm just showing you
so you can get an idea of right and
mistake now that needs to be blended but
you can get the idea so this has made
this part of my eye look smaller and
what I wanted really is for this part my
hood to look smaller now I'm going to
show you how to use light colors in the
wrong way so I'm going to apply a light
shadow onto the hood which is what we
really want to recede but this light
color is going to bring it forward just
like painting a white room it's going to
make it look bigger
okay so can you see that another thing
that's done is it's made all these lines
way more noticeable because it's
bringing attention this is where I've
got wrinkles here at this part of my eye
by adding the light to them it's making
those wrinkles appear a lot bigger than
they are
actually I think they were already big
but I'm making them look bigger okay now
I'm going to show you how to apply light
the correct way so we take the same eye
shadow I'll leave all these colors the
ones that I use in the description below
to show you but we're going to add a
light color to our eyelid now
now I've got to blend out but just to
show you what that looks like what I've
done is I've made this part here the
important part bigger and you can tell
the difference I'm just going to go
ahead and blend those colors together
now so make sure that you always blend
your dark colors very very well because
you don't want harsh lines and harsh
colors so you just add a little bit more
and you blend back and forth back and
forth until you've got the consistency
in the color that you love while we're
talking about light colors I'm going to
show you another two things that I do to
add light to my eyes so I take a nude
eyeliner pencil and I line the bottom
waterline of my eye so I'll do that on
the right side and I won't do it on the
mistake side so you just gently will put
that in the water line and this NARS one
it doesn't wear off all day again you
can see that's opened my eye everything
on this side is opening and everything
on this side is drawing down making look
heavy and making look older and I'm
going to add a little bit of light up
here to just pop that out a little bit
and a little bit of light here
so I'm bringing this forward and I'm
bringing that part forward and just tap
that in and when you've added a little
bit of light here
you can just go over that with the tiny
bit of eyeshadow the third really big
mistake we make when we're applying
makeup to mature eyes is when we follow
nature with our eye liner so that's the
one thing that makes us look a lot older
because naturally our eye comes down
here and if you follow this line with an
eye liner again you're bringing it down
it's just so heavy so to fix that
problem we slightly give it a kick up at
the end of our eye and this'll lift so
I'll show you how to do it the wrong way
and then I'll show you how to do it the
right way
ah I just feel like I wanna clean all
that up but I want to show you what it
does I've done two things wrong here I'm
going to show you the first thing I did
wrong is that I made the line here very
thick and because this is our most
valuable real estate this area here if
we darken it again with a thick line
just here we're going to reduce it so
that is the first mistake the second
mistake you see how I've gone down here
and it's just drawn it down and that
looks terrible
so the basic rule of thumb for eye
makeup is not to follow nature we've got
to create a lift and I'm going to show
you on this eye how to create that lift
now what I've done here is on the last
eyelash I've kicked it up like this
and then you come down into a line and
form a triangle and that leaves a little
bit of the end free of eyeliner so you
haven't used up all of that space as
opposed to this side we've drawn a line
all the way down another thing to note
is if you've got a very small amount of
skin here showing the finer the line you
use with your eyeliner the better I have
more area to work with and I can use a
thicker line and that's what I like but
if you don't have much here go very fine
and do the kick and you'll love the look
and if we're going to follow nature with
our line underneath that will actually
bring attention to drawing our eye down
unless you've got a really straight line
underneath your eye already we have to
create that so let me show you the line
underneath
so this is following my natural life but
what I want to do is create a lift so
I'm going to do a very gentle and soft
line but I'm not going to follow down
here I'm going to keep this part where
it droops straight
okay so that's really subtle it's not
thick and then once I've done that line
I'm going to take a little bit of
eyeshadow a more neutral color and I'm
just going to go over that to blend it
out and to soften it up
okay the eyeshadow is really great at
softening up a dark heavy line and the
softness is much better on mature eyes
one more thing that lots of people still
do is to add a light color here on the
brow bone and I'll just show you what
happens when we do that because we're
bringing more attention to the wrinkles
and the droop so I've just gone up a
little bit higher just to show you that
okay the fourth big mistake we make is
to follow nature again and go with our
natural eyebrow as we're getting older
many of us lose our eyebrows or we've
over plucked them and they didn't grow
back and a good shaped eyebrow really
helps create the perfect look for our
face so I'm going to show you how to
measure out your eyebrows and what will
suit your face the best so you grab an
eyebrow pencil I use the benefit
precision brow number two and you take
your eyebrow pencil and you put it
between your nose and your corner of
your eye and then you leave a mark like
this so that dot there is where your
eyebrow starts and then on the other
side you take it from the corner of your
nose to the corner of your eye and you
go up like this and that dot there is
where your eyebrows should finish so
that's the symmetry of your face and
they're the perfect measurements so you
can see I've got a good distance between
here and here with no eyebrows and when
I show you on the other side of my face
it makes a big difference when there's
something there because it puts
everything more in proportion okay I'm
going to do this side so I'll do this
that's the dot there and on this side
with the eyebrows it's really important
to only feather strokes on this part of
your eyebrow and you can line the rest
here and fill it in but if you're going
to color this in and make it really
heavy it looks too much and it makes us
look too old so I'm going to show you
how to do it properly
so basically you're just adding some
strokes and then when you come
underneath you can fill in the gap
you can also create a little bit of a
lift here if you like it does bring your
eye up so on the top you just do a
little bit extra and then bring it down
okay and on the other end of the eye
pencil you'll have a brush and you brush
your eyebrows upwards and that's it and
I love to use an eyebrow setting gel on
top of that this is also benefit I'll
leave the links below but it's just like
hairspray and it keeps your eyebrows in
place and it kind of accentuates the
hairs that you do have and makes it all
look a bit fuller so you can see the
difference there these eyebrows have
really helped shape my face and this
side looks like it just needs something
and that's what it is it needs an
eyebrow and the fifth biggest mistake we
make with our mature eye makeup is not
to curl our lashes now a lot of people
say it's not worth the trouble but I'm
going to show you what it does for my
eyelashes and again we're creating a
lift so everything about this side is
lifted and everything about this side is
droopy so let me show you the difference
so an eyelash curler
if you haven't used one of these before
it is definitely worthwhile getting it
takes a little bit of practice if you're
brand new to it and if you've got
straight eyelashes like you're going to
notice such a difference this one's a
shoot memory and I've had it for years
and years and years and it still works
perfectly I like to heat it gently with
a blow dryer because the heat will set
your eyelashes and keep them curled up
so you can try that at home
but don't let the rubber get too hot
because it can burn your eyelids so be
safe with that and here's what you do
you clamp your eyelashes like this
plant them and then you gently turn it
towards your inner eye and hold for 10
seconds or you can pulse it lightly I'm
going to do the mistake side first and
we're going to not curl them and we're
going to apply the mascara in the wrong
way so this is a thrive mascara and is
this beautiful I'll leave the link below
and to do it the wrong way to get the
least benefit for our mature eyes is to
apply from the top and to apply your
pressure downwards
so we are doing it the wrong way okay
that's that I now I'm going to go to the
curled eye and I'm going to go from
underneath up and I'm going to zigzag it
a little bit towards close to the eye
and bring me mascara upwards
and then gently on the top of my eyelash
I'm just going to do it gently and kick
it up and then go back underneath and
set that again okay that's one coat of
mascara so let that dry a little bit and
you can add a second coat on top of that
if you like which is what I always do so
I'm going to go in on this eye again and
if you're just rushing and not doing
your mascara with purpose it does tend
just to look straight and then they just
don't look nice okay that's my second
coat to the mistake eye and now I'll do
my second coat to the good eye okay so
there's some results I have a mistake
one mistake after the other five in fact
and this side I've done it with a little
bit more finesse and I think I've got a
much better result let me know if you've
got some great eye makeup tips I'd love
to hear them
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