Almost Everyone Makes That Eyeshadow Mistake: You too?

We have all sat angrily in front of our make-up mirror because the eyeshadow just didn’t work the way we did. The reason for this is a certain mistake – and no, it is not about blending.

Your eyeshadow just doesn’t want to look like in all the tutorials and somehow the result will never be what you want it to be anyway? You are definitely not alone in this. A lot of people think they are not good at blending eye shadow – but that’s not the main point. Because there is a much bigger mistake that many of us make without realizing it.

Placement is key

On his YouTube channel, American make-up guru Wayne Goss reveals that the biggest mistake of all is not blinding, but the wrong placement of eye shadow. “If you get the placement wrong, the whole eye shadow look is weird.” It’s also not about blending the whole eye with eye shadow, but rather to accentuate your own eye shape correctly. And that’s how you do it:

Do not simply place the eye shadow at the end of the outer corner of the eye. Even if that seems logical at first. The point where you apply eye shadow is best placed in line with the end of the eyebrow. Imagine you apply a pencil from the end of the outer angle to the end of the brow. At this diagonal your eye shadow must “end”. This means: you tend to place it a little further out of the eyelid, which creates a slight cat-eye effect.

First place, then blend

From this point you now start to place the eye shadow along your eyelid crease towards the inner corner of the eye. Take a small pencil brush and apply the eye shadow only with light pressure. You can also fill the movable eyelid with the same colour. Now take a blending brush (without product!) and blend the edges gently.

Finally, use the colour also on the lower lash line to make the eye shadow look more consistent. Absolutely combine the colour here with the colour at the upper, outer corner of the eye. Otherwise the eye gets a strange shape. Of course you can use more than one colour, but everything still starts with the correct placement of the first colour. This alone is the key to the perfect eye shadow. Okay, blending also plays a role – but I’m sure you already know that…