Nyx glitter glue

Try patting with your finger rather than swiping the glitter ahadow

I do have a little primer on my finger, then on the glitter, and on my eye 👁️

Yes nyx glitter glue

NYX glitter glue is the best. Apply it on top of your normal eyeshadow primer, then glitter on top. If you want a really bold glitter, use a flat packing brush (this is my favorite). Swipe it firmly in your pan and then you can brush or pat it into your eyelid (before the glitter glue can dry) till you get the desired intensity.

I started using a concealer brush to apply my eyeshadow primer instead of my fingers. Then when I’m ready for shimmer/glitter, I take the primer brush and dab on some more primer where I want the shimmer. This makes it a bit tacky so the shimmer sticks. Then I take a clean concealer brush, a nice small one, to apply the shimmer. Works great for me.

try dampening your brush with water/fixing spray mist to improve payoff, or using a glitter glue or eye primer!

alternatively, use a sponge tip applicator to apply!

most kbeauty brands like clio usually intend their shimmers to be sheer toppers, so you can't always expect a lot of coverage/intensity from them... but they're usually very sparkly and ethereal tapped on sheerly~

I have a silicone packing brush that’s good for a similar application to a finger but more precision. I can’t remember exactly where I got mine (Revolution maybe?) but it’s similar to the Morphe M760

Those plastic handle sponge tip things that used to come with eyeshadow? Are amazing. We threw them all out when the Youtube makeup revolution started and we all became artistes with our brushes lol. Basically any shadow that says to apply with a finger, I use these instead.

Anyone who’s been frustrated by weird formulas like the Selena Gomez eyeshadows - these spongey things are PERFECT for those.

Pat it on instead of brushing it. No strokes, just pat it with some soft pats. Works much better for glitter eyeshadows.

I do it first before my face. I use a tissue held under my eye especially if I’m working with a very dark shadow or something really sparkly it helps with the fall out.

Honestly nothing has worked better for me that just doing it first even though it looks crazy until I do the rest of me face. That and tapping off the excess is actually a big lifesaver too

Recently I started baking my face while I do my eyes. The loose powder "catches" the fallout and most of it gets swept away with the powder when I'm done. I still prefer to do my eyes first so that I can sharpen the outer corners with a makeup wipe, but when I do my face first that works pretty well.

I'll try your method next!

Never thought to use a post-it note! Thanks for the tip ��

I just hold a tissue under my eyes while I apply the shadow. The glitter falls onto the tissue and I toss it after.

I just wanted to say that I love seeing your updates and seeing what look you did that day and what colors you chose! It really makes me happy to see everyday and I really look forward to seeing your posts :)

Do you use an eye shadow primer before you put on your makeup? I got a little mini urban decay primer for my eyes and it lasted for AGES and made blending a lot easier

Those colors look really good together! I think darkening your brows would help pull it together more. All I do is swipe some brown shadow over mine. It makes them look thicker. Remember practice makes perfect, and your doing a great job!

I’ve always struggled with blending until I bought my first proper few brushes. They weren’t the most expensive versions, because I’m still very much a novice, but they were a little nicer than the cheapest ones I could find. I’d suggest buying one brush for application and another fluffier one for blending.

Every time I see you post a new look I see improvement, and I’m glad you’re enjoying trying new colors and styles.

xx

The colors you've picked are very pretty together!

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I've added and touched up the glitter on multiple dolls of mine using folkart's dragonfly glaze acrylic paint. The decoart enchanted shimmer acrylic paint is also good but it is more metallic than glittery.

Most people I've seen do it say they use glitter nail polish. I'd add a bit of varnish first as base layer to protect the vinyl from the nail polish just in case it could react badly. You could probably also use varnish with nail art glitter though!

I added gold glitter to my Daphne with gold glitter nail polish! I hope someone else can approve, or shoot me, for that suggestion 😂 That was months ago, and it literally looks the exact same as the factory glitter, it even chips the same.

I have always added glitter by mixing it with a gloss varnish. Not always my favorite addition but I've found Deco Art's Duraclear Gloss Varnish mixed with like a drop of water will keep the glitter sparkly without adding too much sheen difference to the rest of the face. Also works with pigments for shimmery eyeshadows.

I love using simmer eyeshadow as eyeliner using a wet brush. One thing I have learnt the hard way is to make sure you don’t overpack your eyeliner brush when doing this. Once, I finished my base before doing my eyeliner and I had my brush drop piles of black eyeshadow onto my cheeks. There was no fixing it beyond removing my entire look.

I do this everyday. Its my one “signature” step.I use my dark brown eyeshadow and eyeliners with a angled liner brush. It doesn’t really smudge on me or fade much. And I’ve been doing this for about 2-3 years at this point.

Great when you want to smudge it up for a grunge look.

I did this for years, back (edit for typo) when I regularly wore eyeliner. I used makeup setting spray to "mix" some shadow on the back of my hand, applied it with a small angle brush; it worked pretty well. My eyeliner look was very simple, though (no wings or anything like that).

I do it all the time. I wet my liner brush and drag it across my eyeshadow.

I'm pretty new to makeup too. I find my looks turn out best when I use the least amount of product possible and build it up as needed. I also blend after each application instead of just at the end.

When I first started out I tried following YouTube tutorials where the looks would involve about five mattes and three shimmers and I just wasn't at that level yet. I managed to make my eyeshadow look good when I would just use two mattes in the crease and one shimmer, using a small amount at a time and building it up. My first palette was actually the sweet peach palette (if that's the one you mean) so I would suggest priming, setting the primer with white peach, blending some of the mattes in the crease and then highlighting the inner corner, maybe with nectar. Really simple but you can always make it more complex as time goes on :)

I would say start small and work your way up. Trios or quads are best (or using only 3-4 colors). I prime then add a mid tone color to my crease (aka the transition color) to allow the other colors to blend in. Use a small amount of darker shadow on my outer crease area just to add some depth and I add a lighter brighter shimmer or metallic color to my inner 1/3-2/3 of my lid. Make sure the colors all work together and I top off my brow bone directly under the high point of my arch of my brow and dot some in my inner corner normally of a shimmer or highlight color 99% of the time the same I use on my cheeks :)

only place it where you need it and blend! also build the color up by shades, if you want a red eye shadow look, start with a light pink ane go down the line. sometimes its not the palettes qualities but the brushes! target has some good cheaper brands like real technique that have packs :) practice makes perfect

Use a primer and B L E N D. Make sure you have a clean brush on hand just for blending stuff out without spreading excess pigment where it doesn’t belong

As someone who is still fairly new to makeup, I got confused at first and thought you were supposed to smear red all over your eyelid...

With my deeply hooded eye lids and straight downward sloped brows, all you'd see is the first color anyway.

They make it look so easy :/

I have a question,

so is the first top shows in red where to put the shadow and the bottom image shows what it looks like? yes?

does that mean images 2,3,4 are steps to achieve one final look or are there four different independent looks?

I have no idea what this means.

>and even one color tends to make my eye look smaller

Don't put anything under your eye if you're having this issue. Also, some of us really can't wear eyeliner very well.

>whenever I wear eye makeup I always look worse.

It's possible that you're using the wrong pallette for your skin tone. Most eyeshadows out there are warm, because that's what the current style is. If you are cool toned, you're going to have a harder time finding the right shades.

In the future, post a picture of your face, and maybe some of us can spot what your problem is. It might be your eye shape. If you're bashful, crop a photo to just show the upper right quadrant of your face... like if you drew lines straight up and sideways from the tip of your nose.

>I watch youtube videos and I swear I feel like the person just magically applies it to the right place; when I try doing the EXACT same thing it turns out looking horrible.

Don't compare your work to someone who makes those videos as their job. Many have admitted that they'll sometimes spend a half hour or more getting the blend right on just one eye... but they're obviously not going to show that long ass struggle in the video.

Same here. �� I LOVE eyeshadow and have a collection of palettes but can't figure out how to apply it right. The tutorials never help me either. I have hooded eyes and that doesn't help me much.

I highly recommend The Makeup Chair on YouTube.

She has great tutorials for beginners and explains different eye shapes and positioning of eyeshadow.

The Makeup Chair

Do you have hooded eyelids?

edit: Asking because I’ve been in your exact place and it took me AGES to figure out that I was watching makeup artists that didn’t have the same type of eyes as myself!

With eyeshadow I think the right brush is key. Before I would blend and blend and blend but the shadow would still look like a block of colour, then I got a big fluffy brush and it’s completely changed everything!