Eyeshadow Tutorial For "HOODED EYES" !!!

If you have hooded eyes, then this video is exactly for you. Save it. Send it to a hooded eye friend who is also probably in need because in this video, I'm going to teach you just one specific look to do and to try for your hooded eyes. But first things first, you're going to need a couple of things. You're going to need an eyeshadow palette of choice. It could be either a neutral palette. It could be a colorful palette. It can be any colors you want. The thing I want you to focus on is the layering techniques that we're going to be applying in this video and also the way we apply depth and lightness to create a more open-eyed non-hood eye look. That could be in any color store you want. Grab your eyeshadow palette. Grab an eyeshadow primer. Grab a pressed powder or a loose setting powder. Grab your eyeshadow brushes, detailing brushes, small brushes, you name it. Grab all your brushes that you need for your eyes. Keep them on hand. Grab an eyeliner and let's get started because this is going to be in-depth. The tutorial aspect of this video is going to be uncut, so you'll be able to see all the blending, all the tweaking, all of the going back and forth that it takes to create a eyeshadow look on hooded eyes or just eyeshadow look in general. But this is going to be focused on doing a soft halo eye, which is the unsung hero for hooded eyes. If you have hooded eyes and you've never done either a dramatic halo eye, a soft wearable daytime halo eye, then you really are missing out because it's one of the best ways and one of the best ultimate hacks to create an open-eyed effect and a really beautiful flattering effect on your hooded eyes. So without further ado, let's jump right in. Grab your eyeshadow primer like I mentioned. Now, normally I use concealers all the time to prep eyelids, but when we're talking specifically about hooded eyes, it's actually very, very important that you do use a really good, well-formulated eyeshadow primer. My favorite one, when I think back of all the ones I've used in my life, the one that I will always go back and buy is the MAC Pro Longwear Paint Pot. This is the shade Painterly. I'm going to be starting with Painterly. Let's say you really, really, for whatever reason, didn't want to do an eyeshadow primer and you want to stick to a concealer. If that is the route that you are wanting to take specifically and you don't want to use an eyeshadow primer, then I would say stick to, I'd say you have to stick to a long-wearing, more matte finish concealer. The only one that comes to mind that I think would be suitable as a replacement for an eyeshadow primer would be the Estee Lauder Double Wear Concealer. This budge-proof will not go anywhere, but now you're going to grab your first eyeshadow brush. Now, for the first step, I'm going to grab my N16 brush. This is a concealer brush, but this is also multi-purpose and I love to use this for priming my eyelids, specifically with a cream or liquid eyeshadow primer. I'm going to dip right into Painterly and we're going to get this hooded eye party started. Also, let me just address something that in case you're new here, you may not be aware of this. I have, I was, I was lucky enough to just get one hooded eye and when I tell you, I wish I just had two hooded eyes because it would make my life so much easier because when I'm doing my eye makeup, I have a whole different set of rules for both these eyes. So it's like doing two different eye makeup looks, but on one person. It's really fun, takes me a long time. So after I'm done with like my non-hooded eye, which is this one right here, and there's like a little partial little like hint of a hood, which will probably get more pronounced as I get older and older, but this eye you can see is quite a bit hooded in comparison to this eye. It may not look that dramatic on camera when I don't have eye makeup on, but once you get eye makeup on, oh honey, let me tell you, this is like screaming at me that it's hooded when this eye is not hooded, but I digress. Grab your eyeshadow primer, get a hefty amount. Okay, this is where you're not going to be stingy and you're going to paint this all over your eyelids, starting at the base. I like to start at the base and work my way up. It doesn't need to be super thick as it gets towards like your brow bone, but it actually should, if you have the right color and the right depth of color, it should actually go up to your brow bone because it'll still add a soft, very natural highlight effect to your brow bone. And we'll get to that portion when we get to that portion. There's some definitely some tips about not over highlighting your brow bone because if you do so and you bring it too low, you're actually encroaching so much on your lid space. It's probably limited as it is and you're shortening that distance. So if your brow bone highlight goes anywhere past here, you're actually closing up your eye shape even more and you're doing your eyes, you're not doing them any justice. So, but we'll focus on that when we get to that area. But for now, bring that softly all the way up to your brow bone. This dries down very quick, so don't talk so much like I am and just kind of get it done. I'm going to also bring this in my tear duct area where it can be really dark because the idea of this is by applying this all over, you have this blueprint for the rest of your eyeshadow to go on top. And when you have hooded eyes, you need to maximize everything you can maximize. So that means going up and out and in because you're maximizing the space that you have, which again could be limited if you have truly hooded eyes. So once that's on, I'm just gonna make sure I have enough because my eyelids are extremely oily. And if I didn't do this step or if I didn't do an eyeshadow primer in general, to some degree, my eyeshadow would just, my eyelids would eat up my eyeshadow. And that's essentially what happens to, if you don't prime your eyelids, if you have hooded eyes, the fold over. So let me explain this really quick. Hooded eyes means you don't really have a visible crease. So right here, I have somewhat of a visible crease. You can see that depth happening right here, right? This is the crease of your eye. This is the brow bone. This is your mobile lid. Your mobile lid is what covers your actual eyeball. Okay. So when you have hooded eyes like this side, even though again, keep in mind, it's gonna be, it's not as intense on me, but I have somewhat of a hooded eye. This eyelid skin flaps over. Okay. So if you lift it up, there's some wiggle room in here. There's more, my crease is somewhere deep in this area, but the actual eyelid skin is flopping over. So when that happens, this skin right here, this excess skin, which is what a hooded eye is, it's an excess amount of skin that overlaps over the mobile lid, which is this. So stay with me. That skin eats all this up. So if you don't prime your eyelids in your entire eye area, that excess skin is just going to eat it up like it's lunch. So we want to avoid that for extra assurance, extra, extra assurance or insurance, reassurance, all the insurance. We're gonna grab all the insurance for this look. Okay. You're gonna take the same brush, but I'm gonna flip from the dirty side to the clean side. I'm gonna dip into a pressed powder, just easy. And this is one of my favorite ways to smooth eyelids, especially when I'm working with people and I'm This is a pressed powder from Charlotte Tilbury. You could also use a loose powder or whatever powder you have on hand, as long as it's not like overly pigmented because you don't want to darken it. So depending on if your powder is like, you know, matching the rest of your face, the rest of your face a little bit deeper, you still want to have, you want to still maintain some level of brightness onto your eyelid. So make sure it's maybe a touch lighter than your actual complexion. For me, that's the shade one fair from Charlotte Tilbury. So I'm just pressing this on. I'm not swiping it. I'm just making sure I'm locking down that eye base. So no oil and no eyelid can eat up the work that we're about to put in. All right. Now, once that's on, one thing that I like to do is take a soft color that is going to be on the rest of my face and throw it all across the crease. Now, not on a heavy amount, but a soft, like subtle whisper. Think of this as like the backbone for your eye shadow. And it just gives it like a soft bit of dimension. So it doesn't end up looking like hollow and like something's missing. So it's something that I want you to do. Um, it could be a mid-tone light, neutral Brown. It could be your bronzer, whatever is easy for you. I'm just going to grab this, say bronzer in the shade of and I'm going to switch to a much larger diffusing brush. This is my N20S. Sweep in, and this is like the fundamentals. Like you need to start with this before you move on to any other techniques, because this is what's going to set you up for success. And you're just going to lightly sweep this all across where your crease should be. Okay. So like this would be my crease. And if I put it on this eye, it's actually going to dip in, right? It's going to get sunken into my actual crease. There's not really a crease here. So we're going to fake it. So you want to look straight into your mirror. And this is also an incredibly crucial step. If I have not made that abundantly clear, it is absolutely crucial that throughout this entire tutorial that you're following, hopefully step-by-step that you are looking straight into your mirror. So if that means maybe you have to stand in your bathroom and stand looking straight into your bathroom vanity, or you have to hold up a handheld mirror, what you want to do is make sure you fix your posture. I know that's, that's hard for me. I am permanently hunched over. So for me, if I'm like this, right. And I'm just like, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. It's fine, but you need to get the full picture and you need to see exactly where these shadows are landing as they're landing. That way you're not left with those surprises as a hooded eye person. Have you ever put on a full on eye shadow look, and then you open your eyes and it's like, oh, my hooded eye just ate all that up. It's completely under that flop of skin. And I just wasted 20 minutes of my life creating this intricate eye makeup look that I don't even see. This, if that's ever been you, this is your tutorial. Okay. So softly adding a bit more. And I want you to also don't leave out the importance of going from all the way across, because remember what I said in the beginning, we're maximizing, we're maximizing this eye space. So all the way across and it should hit the top of the bridge of your nose. This is also another reason why I love to start an eye shadow look with the bronzer of choice, because when we do the rest of the makeup and we add the bronzer, and then we add maybe a little bronzer on our nose, the whole thing ties together. And we already have this like little bit of drop shadow that we'll connect to later. And it will all make sense at the very end. So that's about the depth that you need to do. It's a soft wash of color, it's nothing fancy, it's nothing wild. It's just quick and easy. Now I want you to grab a smaller blending brush. This is my N13. Any smaller blending brush like this will do. And a technique that I want you to focus on that maybe you're not used to focusing on with your hooded eyes is a stamping motion. And this may seem like a big brush to use a stamping motion with, but it's going to get the job done really quick. So you're not left agonizing over your eyes and your eye shadow look for hours and hours. So for this makeup look, I'm going to be using the Makeup by Mario Master Match the Neutral, but I will, don't hate me, but I will dip into a shimmer from the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Original. I'll dip it to a shimmer when we get to that portion, but you don't need to have two palettes. Just grab whatever eyeshadow palette you're working with and use a shimmer that's in, that's lighter, that's in that palette. Okay? So stay with me. And I would love to know in the comments what eyeshadow palette you end up choosing and how it works and like what kind of soft halo eye you created with this video. All right, for this first application, you don't need to start overly dramatic and overly dark. If you're not used to this kind of technique, you could start in the mid-tones. The mid-tones are going to land somewhere around here, depending on your skin tone and your skin depth. Okay? And 13, I'm going to dip into this guy right here just to start things off. And you'll notice I'm not dipping directly in and creating a mess. I'm actually tapping in, brushing this in along the side. You're almost laying it flat onto your blending brush like that. Now you're going to lay it flat on your hooded eye. But instead of going and closing your eye and going like this, you're going to redirect your focus straight ahead. I'm going to try my best to use my monitor, honestly, to be my mirror so I can really show you. And you're just going to press, press and stamp. And you're going to go a lot higher than you probably think you should. Okay? But we're going to blend this out in just a bit. So it's going to look real funky. But it's all about depositing this color going straight down like that. So once you do this technique, if you tilt your head back, you're going to see some holes and some pockets need to be filled. Dip back into that shadow and then you can fill that in. So there's no, I don't know, I want to say skid marks, but that sounds terrible. But there's no lines of separation where there's no shadow in those folds. Okay? So once the folds are properly filled in, same brush, I'm going to dip into the same color. Now this is optional on how dark you want to go for this inner corner, but I do think you should add some depth, but add the amount of depth that you're most comfortable with and play with it. You can take these exact techniques and then customize it. So it's just about using this as a guideline and creating and use this guideline to create, you know, a really dramatic version of it or a more toned down version for let's say you're going into the office. Let's say you're going into work, but you want to use these techniques. You can still use these techniques, but you're going to lighten the amount of depth, whether it's in the colors that you choose or the amount of product that you actually place on your eyelid. Okay? So there's two different ways you can line the depth. So same technique, I'm going to look straight into my mirror, which is right here, and I'm going to press this and tap this into this inner hollow of my eye. Don't get too close to your nose because that's when it starts to look really dramatic, but just try to tuck it. Now, if you have truly hooded eyes, you're not really going to be doing much tucking. It's just going to feel the same way it feels on this side. But either way, what you want to do is create this blank space right in the center. So build it up and then start to lightly blend it. But this is what you essentially should be looking like before you blend out the rest of the colors. So right now, I'm just going to take the same brush, start to work it a little bit inward, not going all the way across because we already have that soft drop shadow. So we don't want to blend this deeper color all the way across because if you blend this all the way across, you're adding heaviness to an already heavy portion of your eyelid, and that's going to actually emphasize a hooded eye. So if you add a dark shadow going across, which is what we by nature, it's like our automatic response is to blend everything across. But with hooded eyes, for a soft halo effect, you don't want to go all the way across because you're going to just take away that whole halo look, which is the whole point of this video. So instead, you're going to lightly blend just a little bit to soften the edge. So lightly, lightly blending. I'm using tight blending techniques. I'm not going broad because again, we don't want to bring the heaviness across. We want to keep it in this area. So light pressure, being mindful not to go too far in, but we're bringing this further up slowly and gradually. You want to work to do this until you don't see a huge visible line. Now I have another hack too, which is going to be a lifesaver. So if you can't get this technique down, there's an easy, easy pro hack that I'm going to teach you that will blur any harsh lines. We'll get to that when we get to that. Remind me if I forget. Remind me. So blending, blending, blending, not going too far across. Now, remember what I said about maximizing our eye space? Here, put that brush down. I'm going to go back to the brush that we used for the bronzer a bit ago. And now you're going to blend this outward. So softly blend this out. Again, opening up your hooded eye shape, maximizing it, blowing it out towards your temple. Not applying it in the temple, but you're blowing it outward towards the temple. Going back, same Makeup By Mara color that we just used earlier. And we're going to work in layers. We're working in layers until we're happy with the amount of depth. And again, that's going to be customizable for the occasion where you're wearing this. If you're wearing this during the day, if you're wearing it for an evening, if you want to be more dramatic, then you would just keep adding more depth by layering more of the shadow and deeper shadows on top. So if you ever feel like you're your hooded eyes, like you just don't see enough of your eye shadow, that essentially means you're just not going high enough with high up enough with your eye shadow. So you need to bring it much, much higher than what your crease and maybe social media is telling you to bring it. So you need to go much higher than you think you need to go, because that is the trick to being able to see your eye shadow on your hooded eye. If you go too low and you just focus on your actual eyelid, let's say your eyes are closed. Like I said, when you open, it's all gone. So same thing, adding a bit more. We're working in layers because you can always add more, but it's really, really difficult to take away. So slow and steady. If you're learning this technique for the first time is going is what's going to win this race. So I'm bringing this up just a teeny bit more, still maintain that spotlight in the center, switching back over to the N20s. Now I'm going to just dip into a little bit of this lighter shade up top, just a little bit. And we're going to use this to blur the brow bone highlight essentially to the deeper shadow that we just used. So we're blurring those lines. This is going to be like our transition between those two worlds. So it's nice and soft and a fluffier brush that's not super dense. It's going to lay down this product and blend them out to diffuse these two together rather than taking away or over blending all that hard work you just put into this. Same thing, you're just going to casually, casually lift and stretch this a little further out, blowing this outward and at an upward angle. Going up is going to open up your hooded eyes and not decrease. All right, now we're going to switch to the N22. If you don't have this brush, a pencil brush will also be a great tool to use. You can also use a flat packer brush. I kind of alternate between these two, to be honest. There's no right or wrong tool. This one just has a tapered tip to it. So let's say you have maybe more small hooded eyes, like I have smaller eyes. So a brush like this that's this kind of size is going to be a really easy tool for me to use for my more small eyes. If you have bigger eyes, you would want to opt for like a slightly bigger brush because it's going to get the job done a lot quicker for your bigger eyes. Now we're going to start layering some different depths and some deeper tones. So we went from here, now we're going to end up here. Same technique, I'm not dipping directly in at a pointed angle. I'm laying it flat, picking up just enough, looking straight into my mirror. I'm going to start to add more depth, more dimension and the illusion of depth and dimension on our hooded eye. Small strokes. Now when you're doing this technique right here, I want you to think of a sideways V. It's a classic iconic way to think of your eyeshadow in terms of like shapes. Think sideways V going out. Adding more depth, starting to slowly blend this inward just a little bit, not encroaching on that light color right there. So very important, don't just go in there and start, you know, you have to really think about the placement. That placement is just crucial for hooded eyes. We have a lot less wiggle room for blending and a lot less wiggle room for mistakes. So now we just create some more depth. Same technique, same eyeshadow that we just used. I'm going to switch the angle. I'm going to go in like this. So the pointed tip of the brush is fitting in this tight inner corner of my eye, adding more depth right throughout here. Now we can go in, just softly blend with the tip of the brush. And I want you to look at like my eyelids. When I lift up, the skin gets tighter. So you almost want to just emphasize this line that creates, that happens naturally right here. If you don't have that eye, that line with the hooded eye, this is your way to create that look if you don't have it. So that's why a tapered tip like this does make a really big difference. But again, going back to the N24 or a flat packer brush, you would just use the tip of this brush rather than using it flat to create that same kind of depth. So same thing, adding a little more depth and we're creating that line that you would have if you didn't have hooded eyes. Optical illusion. Same brush, going back in. And with hooded eyes, again, I'm going to remind you throughout this whole tutorial of two things. Keep your eyes open and looking straight ahead. I'm open, but I'm looking towards my mirror on the side so you can see my full, like all the blending right here. But keep your eyes open and maximize the space. Don't just stop where your top and bottom lash line is. Like this would be like the stopping point for a lot of people. If you just stop your eyeshadow right here where your eye actually technically stops, you're not maximizing the space you have for hooded eyes. So I'm bringing this out further to maximize and to widen the shape, getting as much effect as humanly possible. So now I'm going to dip into an even deeper shade in this palette. So we went from here to here and now we're going to dip into this color right here. So it's a lot deeper, as you can see. Same brush. Right now, I want you to focus on adding even more depth right here. So same brush. We're going to gently press this right in that corner. So see how it's following the shape of my bottom lash line, but it's coming up a bit. That's going to be a nice flattering, like slightly lifted effect. It's not overly lifted, but it's lifting enough where your more hooded eyes are now getting a little, which is always nice. Always nice to have. If you don't want your eyes to look lifted while being hooded, you can go just straight out instead and use the same exact techniques, but going straight out instead of going a little lifted up. So it's up to you. And this is where I go back to. You can customize these fundamentals to your whatever suits your like specific, um, you know, we all have like our, our own aesthetic when it comes to makeup and what we prefer in our faces. So customize it to what you prefer the most. So same thing. I'm going to fill this in even more with that deepest shade, the deepest shade so far. Now I want you to lift up. Are there any holes or are there any pockets? If there's any pockets or holes where there's no pigment or shadow, go in, press on even more. So now with whatever's left over, I'm actually going to run this on a tissue, take off the excess, because now we're just going to use this to blend a bit inward. Emphasizing that sideways V even more. Now another thing I just want to make sure I am very, I want you to be very aware of this is, you know, a lot of people, again, they cheat their eyes and they're not maximizing the eye space that they have. They think that, you know, you need to go and start this V like from here to here because your eyelid actually, or your eye ends right where your lash line ends. Right. But it doesn't. That's why I'm extending it further out again to maximize my eyes, to make my eyes look much bigger than they actually are. My eyes are quite small. Blend and blend to bring back in. Now you'll notice I just have foundation on. I don't have concealer on or blush because I know that I'm going to be cleaning up certain aspects of this makeup. And then we're also going to have some fallout because, well, this palette does have some fallout, but also you're going to have fallout anyway if you're blending or using some deeper shades. So just something to maybe think about when you're doing this. Maybe do your base makeup and your blush and all that stuff, especially your concealer after this makeup is done because I do want to show you how to clean up certain areas as well. So I'm just going to go in a bit more and this is where you can get kind of loosey-goosey and it's okay if you start to blend a little further out because I'm going to show you a simple technique to clean this up. So I'm just dipping back into the third brown in the palette with that bigger N13, softening that line, going back one more time to N22, just like that. Add a little more here. And now we need to focus on lighter colors. Before we get to like the last deepest colors and eyeliner and mascara and all that fun stuff, we need to focus on some lighter tones. But before I do that, I just want to blend this part right here real quick. But already we have a very open-eyed look. This is going to get cleaned up and imagine that cleaned up. It's going to be perfect. You're going to be in love with this eye makeup tutorial. All right. So there's lighter colors in this palette, but there's no shimmers. For a halo eye, adding a touch of shimmer, which I'll show you, I'll start with matte and then I'll add a little shimmer on top. The little hint of shimmer just gives it this dimensional, this rich dimension that I think is really flattering, especially for a halo eye. So it's up to you. If you want to keep it fully matte, you totally can. But grab your N24 or your flat packer brush. We're going to dip into this lightest shade in the Makeup By Mara palette and a little bit of this more bone color right here. And if you're doing this with purples, you would do like a soft lilac-y purple in the center, deeper purples and eggplants in the outer corner. And, you know, with whatever color store you're doing, you would just work in different depths of that color to create this exact look. So if you like color, and I know a lot of you do, 100% switch out these neutral tones for a color. So right now I am just creating a spotlight in the center of the eyelid and I'm filling in the center where we didn't apply those darker colors. Now, since this eye is hooded, we're going further up and we're bringing this, just like the other colors, a lot further up what you think you would need to do to maximize the space. So it should look something like that. Tilt your head up. See those little crevices that don't have color? Go back in, tilt up, fill it in. Once that is fully opaque, now you're going to take your blending brush one more time and you're going to blend out the rough edges just lightly, just lightly, just enough so it's not visible where it starts and stops. Obviously it's visible, but you don't want to see like actual lines of where it starts and stops. Blend this out a little bit more. All right. Now, optional, you could just keep it like this, keep it all matte, but I do really want to show you the shimmer. So fingertip to shimmer, pick whatever shimmer you want for whatever color store you're creating. Shimmer on the fingertip. This is just going to grab it a little bit better and then what you're going to do from here is look straight ahead and press this on top of the lightest shade. Now, what I like to do too, is just kind of bring this a little further up, just as like an interesting dimensional look to your, you know, halo eye. You don't have to go as high up as I am. You can customize it, but I think it's a really pretty soft wash of iridescent shimmer that just gives like a really pretty dimensional effect to this eye makeup look. So that part's done, right? We're going to fine tune. In fact, I'm going to fine tune just really quick because I'm seeing some gaps right here where there's some excess skin that should be covered with some eyeshadow. So I'm going to dip back in one more time and fill this portion, maximizing again the space. Okay. Now we're at a good point where we're going to tightline. Tightlining is one of the most unsung heroes of hooded eyes. So if you're not tightlining and you have hooded eyes, if you're using a liquid eyeliner and you're going just straight across your upper lash line, like on the outside above your lashes, you're really, you're really taking away such crucial space to your hooded eye that you should not be taking away. Instead, you want to focus on tightlining the inside because again, that instead of closing up by applying eyeliner on the top, that actually closes up. And like I said, it takes away some of that space that's already limited. You're maximizing instead and you're getting the same kind of effects, but on the inside. So you're not taking any room from your hooded eye away from your hooded eye. For tightlining, I like to use a long lasting pencil because you're applying it essentially in an area that is going to get wet naturally. For that, I love the Makeup Forever Aqua Resist Pencils. This is the shade Cool Ebony. So Cool Ebony or whatever color you're using for your look is what you're going to opt for. So for tightlining, you've seen me tightline a bunch of times, but for reference, you want to try to get this into your lash line and wiggle it in between your lash line the best you can. So not outside, still inside, but if you get it right and you get it actually into your lash line, you'll be able to see it from straight ahead. It'll look like you have almost like a micro liner effect. And if you want a tutorial about micro liner, I have one on my channel. It's really in depth and micro liner is a killer technique for hooded eyes. So if you haven't seen it, definitely check that one out. It's very helpful. Just to show you more, I'm going to lift my eyelid so I can expose the skin. And you want to push this into the lash line. Go all the way across to maximize. And then another tip that I want you to do is take a little bit more and I want you to apply this where the top and bottom lash line meet, gradually pulling it out just a little bit towards where those deeper shadows are anyway. So it should float in to those darker shadows pretty effortlessly. A little bit on the bottom, but just in that last little outer quarter of your eye. All right, now to lock this in because hooded eyes need to lock in their eyeliner. We're not going to lock in the inside, that's a little too complicated, but we're going to lock in the outside. So for that, I'm going to grab the N12 brush. Any small smudger brush like this will do. So you're going to dip into the same deepest shade you used earlier, but I'm also going to add a touch of black for dimension. So this shade, tap in and a little bit of the black, tap in, look straight into your mirror. I want you to stamp this on top of that eyeliner. Stamping it, stamping it, looking straight ahead. Now we've locked in that gel eyeliner. Same thing, going back to those two shades. Now I want to add just a little more of a wing and it's going to be very subtle, okay, but just a little more wing. So take this, I'm going to angle it upward just a bit and bring it out a touch. Now this is all going to get cleaned up and you're going to look like a master at blending once you clean this up. Same thing, I'm going to lift up so I can see any areas that need more filling. Dipping back in, working in layers, building gradually until we're happy with the effect. Now I don't want you to take this all across the eyelid because you would take away so much beautiful open-eyed effect that we just created with those light shadows and with those dark shadows anchoring them on each side. You would take away all that hard work and you would diminish a lot of the effects of this soft halo eye. So instead just do a little, a little blending just to soften that edge. Okay, I need a little more right here where it's starting to skip. So really the only time you need to close your eyes for this kind of tutorial is when you're filling in the gaps. That's it. Otherwise you should be open for the entirety of this eyeshadow look. And the more you do it too, that might sound really hard at first, but the more you do this, I promise you, like you'll, you'll be like, oh yeah, no problem. That's easy. I can do that. All right. So one thing I want to point out, I went a little too far up right here. So I'm gonna take this small N23 and lower that a bit. Okay. Now we're at a good spot where we can clean up, add mascara and do a little bit of detailing work on the bottom lash line. So grab either a pointy Q-tip with a little bit of micellar water, or you could grab a, depending on like how much fallout you have. I have quite a bit of fallout. So I'm gonna use a makeup wipe for this, but if you didn't have much fallout, you could also get away with using a flat brush like the N23 or the N24 and a little bit of cream concealer to clean that shape up. Okay. Very important that you get this right the first time, because there's no going back after this. So slow down, look straight ahead, check your posture one more time, and it's up to you how far out you want to go or how angled up you want to go. If you want more of a lift, angle it upward. If you want to just straight out, go straight out following your bottom lash line. I'm going to clean up here first because it's driving me crazy. And then I'm going to look into the small mirror because I really need to see what I'm doing here. Leaving this portion on the bottom right here, you want to leave that because leaving this lower part right here is again, maximizing the eye space and not taking away. If we cleaned up starting from where the bottom lash line technically is, which is up high, like right here, we would cut out so much shadow and make our eyes look smaller. And that's the opposite of what we're trying to do. We're trying to open them up, trying to flatter our hooded eyes and get the most out of them. So by leaving it a little bit lower, you're maximizing as much as possible. Clean this up a bit more, just like that. I'll go with concealer later on and I'll clean up that redness and all that stuff. But this is what we're looking like. Okay, there's one last thing I want to do just to fine tune this a bit more. I'm going to clean up that N22 one last time, remove the excess shadow. Sometimes your dirty tools are your best friend and like the best tools you could ever use. But if they have an excess amount of shadow on them, which this one did, then you're going to deposit more color and we don't need to deposit any more color. But what I want to do is focus on blending this tip out so it flows better, just like that. So now I'm just going to take a little bit more blending time, further enhance that V just a touch. Okay, we're in a good spot. Let's move on to mascara. But before we do mascara, let's curl our lashes. A great way to maximize and to open up our hooded eyes is to curl our lashes. So this is a BKB lash curler. I'm just going to do a couple squeezes and then hold. I usually say hold for 10 seconds if you really want a good open-eyed effect, but I don't want to keep you here an extra 10 seconds because we've already been here a long time. Now we're going to use a tubing lengthening mascara. This is from Personas, also volumizes really well. Tubing mascara for, let me rewind. If you have hooded eyes and you have a problem with your mascara transferring because that lid is encroaching over and it's touching your lashes. And if you don't want to opt for a waterproof mascara because they can be so difficult to remove at night and they could be a little bit more damaging if you're using them every single day for your lashes. So the best next option is a tubing mascara because generally speaking, they don't flake, they don't transfer, at least not as intense as a regular mascara. So they're going to be your best friend if you have hooded eyes. This one has a nice curved wand and we're going to just get to the root, wiggle, pull up. To maximize the open-eyed effect, what you could do is go straight up with your mascara. So rather than angling it and pulling it out, which would give you more of a cat eye effect, but we already have a little cat eyedness going on with this technique of the eyeshadow. So to maximize the open-eyed lift look, tilt your wand, move your lashes across and then move them up. Tilt across and then move straight up. Nice. I don't have a ton of lashes, so the more lashes you have, the more impactful this will be, but it's a nice still like little lift. But it's not like we're throwing on lashes where it's going to just cover up all that beautiful bright work we just did. It's enough to make our lashes pop but not overtake the eyeshadow look, which I think is also very important. I'm going to add a little more just like that. Let's talk bottom lash line. Bottom lash line, you don't want to ignore it. You don't want to neglect it. Definitely cater to it and definitely enhance it because it's going to end up opening your eyes and maximizing them even more if you have hooded eyes. So, you know, these techniques don't just stop at the eyelid where your eyes are hooded. They carry on to the bottom lash line. The bottom lash line is equally important, but you don't have to go wild with it. You don't have to go crazy with it. You have to go, you don't have to be overly dramatic. A couple little smoky smokes and blendy blends is all you need, but another little touch you could do to open up your eyes even more is take a light color eyeliner. This is Revue Beauty Dune and Dune is going to be an eye brightener. So don't bring it all the way across, but instead wiggle it and deposit it to mirror where the light color is. So you just open up your eyes even more and maximize them to the max. Go apply one more layer just like that. Now we're going to go back to some detailing brushes. I'm actually going to pick up the N24 and I'm going to use just the tip of this brush, which like that, the very tip, not like the length of it and the flat side of it, just the tip of it. I'm going to go back in and dip into that first shade or actually highlight. This is the shade that I use to kind of soften the crease and to blend out the colors. So take that, dip in and start slow, especially if you're not used to doing this kind of technique. You don't have to overwork your bottom lash line with too much product. Just do a little hint of the same mid-tone browns you started with or the mid-tone colors you are using and carry them to the bottom lash line. You don't have to do all the dark ones as well. That might be too dramatic, obviously. And again, customize this to what the occasion is that you're wearing it to. If it's work, go lighter. If it's an evening out, do this and you'll love it. So now I'm going to dip into that mid-tone brown, go along the bottom lash line and just go about halfway across this time and then just an itty bitty bit of this deeper brown right here, an itty bitty bit, not too much. Connect this to that wing so it flows really nice. And if you feel like something, if you still feel like you have a pocket that could use some shadow, go back to the N22 or whatever detailing pencil brush you have and just tuck this right here. Boom. I love this eye makeup. Now I want to go back to that little hack, that pro hack that I mentioned earlier. I don't really need to use it, but I'm still going to show you it just so you can get the idea and the gist of what this is. That same pressed powder that we used earlier. In fact, I'm going to use the shade two instead. But let's say you still have some jagged edges, some rough edges that still need some blending, but you're afraid to go in with your actual eyeshadow brushes that might have some products built up in them still. That's totally fine. Take a clean brush, a clean blending brush. For that reason, I'm going to take this clean N13. I'm going to dip into the Charlotte Tilbury airbrush powder or whatever powder you're using. Take a small amount of this and let's just say this is your problem, right? This is your area of unblendedness. Take that and blur the edge by using a face powder that's also blurring. It's going to blur the edges of any unblended eyeshadow parts that are bothering you. Once you've done that, you can kind of take a look in the mirror, reassess what's happening. Do you need to brighten this inner corner more? Do you need to deepen this more? Do you need to add more eyeliner? Whatever you still think you need to tweak, this is your time to go in and tweak it because this is really the makeup look. But I am going to go in just with a little more of a shimmer because I love me some shimmer. I'm going to grab the N23, this little guy right here. I'm going to dip back into the Makeup By Mario shimmers or whatever shimmer you're using. I just want to add a touch more jazzy jazz right here, just like that. Now, if you feel like you still need to do a little bit of brow bone highlight, wipe off the excess. Take that same small brush, dip back into the lightest color in the Makeup By Mario palette or whatever palette you're using. Now, make sure you just go in and very, very lightly highlight the brow bone because, again, you don't want to lower the eyelid space anymore. If you go too low, you're going to lose it. Blend back in, adding a little more eyeliner back to the Makeup Forever. I'm just going to get this little corner. I went too far in, so uncut. You'll see me kind of go over this again. There we go. Boom. Okay, that is a soft halo eye for hooded eyes. I want you to try this and test it out. I'm going to jump off camera really quick. I'm going to finish this eye, finish my makeup, and then we'll kind of just go over some talking points one more time. Be right back. All right, my friends, I'm back. My full face is on. My lip is touched up. My base makeup is on. Concealer, including my other eye, which is non-hooded, is now in place. You can see the entire full picture. So non-hooded eye, hooded eye, pretty identical. And that is a tough thing to do. But going back to hooded eye makeup look specifically, if you want to see more hooded eye tutorials that are going to be flattering and ultimately very easy to do, I promise you, comment below. Request them down below. If you want to see colorful versions of this, I could also do that as well. But either way, I really hope this helped you out. And make sure you remember when you're doing your hooded eye makeup, look straight into your mirror. Eyeshadow primer is going to be key. Tight lining is going to be key. And also treat the eyelid like it's one full space. Okay? Don't do any separation. Look at it like it's one blank canvas and apply directly into your mirror. If you do those things, you have those things in mind. I promise you, once you practice this makeup look and this technique, you'll nail it and you'll be able to change this out for whatever colors you want. But if you want to see colorful versions, drop those requests in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching. 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