About

Cost
$ $ $ $ $
Difficulty
• • • • •
Time
5 mins

a small tutorial on swatches for beginers

Posted by Abby from Rapid City, South Dakota, United States • Published See Abby's 10 projects »
PrintEmbed
  • How to make an eyeshadow. Tips On Taking Great Eyeshadow Swatches - Step 1
    Step 1

    Start with a clan arm, your eyeshadow, a primer, makeup remover and a good lamp or sunlight, a camera or phone(i use my HTC aria) sunlight works a lot better...

  • How to make an eyeshadow. Tips On Taking Great Eyeshadow Swatches - Step 2
    Step 2

    start by priming your arm, you dont have to do this, but i like to sincew i wear primer daily.

  • How to make an eyeshadow. Tips On Taking Great Eyeshadow Swatches - Step 3
    Step 3

    run your finger(s) across the eyeshadow, but dont push to hard. i like to use my middle 3 fingers, then run your fingers against your arm to create the swatch, remove the eyeshadow with MU remover between swatches.

  • How to make an eyeshadow. Tips On Taking Great Eyeshadow Swatches - Step 4
    Step 4

    lighting in pictures is important. i prefer to go outside in natural sunlight. taking pictures at angles, not just straight on can help catch every little shimmer in a shadow and a swatch. take as many pictures as you like, you can always delete bad ones later.

Made this project? Share your version »

Comments

KatieLikeMe
KatieLikeMe · Indianapolis, Indiana, US · 52 projects
I love that palette, it's my favorite to use.
Reply

More Projects