Makeup How To
How To Create A Crease
1. Prep your eyelid with primer. Since you’re creating the illusion of a crease, you need something to anchor the colored shadow you’re about to put on and prevent the product from traveling. Primer, likeEyeshadow Primer Potion by Urban Decay, will help lock your look in place.
2. Sweep an eye shadow shade that matches your skin tone over your eyelid. This creates an even and flat base that will then create contrast and dimension when you apply the deeper shadow shades. Model and Cosmopolitan.com’s copy editor Heeseung used MAC Cosmetics Eye Shadow in “Blanc Type.”
3. Gently use the back end of a makeup brush (or your fingertip) to feel where the ball of the eye ends and the brow bone begins. Where those two points meet is where you’re going to create depth. You’ll also use the arch of your eyeball as your guide to make the perfect crease line.
4. Apply a light shimmery shadow from your lash line to where your crease will go. This creates the illusion of depth, so when you apply a darker shadow in the crease, the lower lid will appear like it’s more forward. Heeseung used MAC Cosmetics Pigments in “Vanilla.”
5. Use the pointy tip of an eye shadow brush to build the shape of the crease. Using a slanted shadow brush, sweep the tip over a darker-colored shadow of your choice, and then, looking straight ahead, apply it with one smooth, arc-like motion from the outer corner of your eye, stopping at the opposite side of your iris to avoid closing off your eye. Heeseung used a matte brown-bronze shadow, like Nars Cosmetics Single Eye Shadow in “Bali,” and Lancome Round Angled Shadow Brush #23.
6. Buff out the hard line. With a windshield-wiper motion and a fluffy eye shadow brush, like theBobbi Brown Eye Blender Brush, again start from the outer corner and blend back and forth to the opposite side of your iris to diffuse any harsh lines.
7. Line your upper and lower lash lines with the same powder shadow you used in step five. Using a slant tip liner brush, start at the outer corner at both the top and bottom lash lines to further enhance the shape of your eye.
8. Finish by applying mascara in a soft brown color to soften the look. Try Clinique Lash Power Mascara Long-Wearing Formula in “Dark Chocolate.”