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Hello I'm Spencer Barnes, celebrity makeup artist. Today I'm going to show you how to apply eyeshadow for eye shape. A common goal of many of my clients is that they want me to help them make their eyes look more alive and enlarged, open, and defined. So today I'm going to give you a few tips and tricks on how to achieve that. So to show you a few of those tips and tricks I'm going to use the Expert Eyewear by Maybelline in the chocolate smoke. So here's an example lets say you want to make the eye look bigger by elongating it, drawing it up. Maybe you want to increase the angle of it and bring it this way. By looking at the eye with it closed you notice her eye begins here and ends here. We want to give the illusion that the lash continues on. So I would recommend making the lash line darker and bringing that dark color extending it out and upward. And you don't have to go so stylized but using that idea you can create the illusion of an extended elongated eye. Using shadow, liner, or a combination. Or even lashes can be added. So here's a very quick way to get a perfect elongated dark shadow shape. I'm going to take a tissue and place it under the eye. I'm going to have you look up first so I can come under the bottom lashes. Now close. And I'm going to hold the tissue in place. Using this dark shadow I'm going to apply the color right into the lash area and into the center of the eye, blending as I go, and create a beautiful elongated eye shape. Now if you need to come in and fill in or darken a little bit more afterward you can. But that's a great way to use a simple tissue as a guide to get you started. Now lets say you have either eyes that you feel are too small or maybe they are too deep set and you want them look wider and bigger, and more open. I'm going to show you using a very bright shimmery color right on the inner part of the eye how you can do that. How you can bring more light into that part of the eye. In this stylish smoke palette there's a very pale shimmery white shade. And I'm going to pack this right on the inside of the eye. Focusing on this inner third of the eye blending outward as I go. Now notice how this white shadow it forces a lot of light into this part of the eye which makes it look more open and bigger. And you'll notice compared to this other eye it's just really grabs the light. Now imagine if we had shaded the other part of the eye would even exaggerate more how big the eyes look. Alright now lets just say that maybe your eyes are a little too wide set and you want to bring them in. Or give the illusion maybe you have a flat bridge and you want to help create a little more drama here. The reverse of this would be true. Instead of bringing a light eye color here, we would bring in a dark color clear into that corner of the eye. To help pull in and give the illusion of a deeper set eye and a closer set eye. I'm going to start by using this black eyeliner, come right in from the corner of the eye right along the lash line. Focus from the lash line all the way from the inner corner and blend it towards the outer eye from the lash line. Now I'm going to use an eyeshadow from this charcoal palette to further intensify the dark in the inner corner of the eye. So you are layering this darker charcoal eyeshadow to intensify the lash line and to really build up from the inner corner going outward. And then I'm taking a neutral brown, a soft neutral brown. This mid tone just like a taupe brown is perfect. And I'm following up all the way to the brow line. Kind of pulling it from that corner to really exaggerate and bring in the corner of the eye. Do you see how much more close set and in her eye looks compared to the other without any shadowing? That's a great technique if you want to pull in the eye. Add a more strong dramatic inner eye area. Or to make it look closer set. Alright so I just finished an eye using these shadows. The technique to give her a smoldering top shape. Giving her a deeper set more dramatic eye. And it's important to remember that whenever you are doing this shadow is a magical tool. It's really used to create highlights, shadows, to manipulate and create illusions with the eye area. You can extend the eye outward. You can recede things, you can bring them closer or further apart. And it's all on how you use placement. So at home I encourage you to experiment more with eyeshadow. Highlights and shadows to create different shapes with your eyes. And you'll probably come up with some great new discoveries with your eyeshadow palettes. And that is how to apply eyeshadow for different eye shapes. I'm Spencer Barnes and thank you for watching.

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