Your eye makeup to a large extent decides how your final look will be. It only takes a few simple techniques and bright colors to accentuate your eyes and make them look gorgeous. If you are looking forward to experiment with your eye makeup, then leopard eye makeup can be an excellent choice. It is the latest trend in the fashion industry and is quite easy to wear and carry off. The feline leopard look for your eyes brings out your feminine side. For this look you will need some very basic eye makeup tools.
Gone are the days of boring eyes shadows with flat colors. It is time you experiment with not just your clothes and accessories but your eye makeup as well. Read on to know the simple steps to make yourself the showstopper of the party.
Requirements:
The basic eye makeup tools that you will need are: eye shadow primer, a white cream eye pencil, a black liquid and pencil liner, some basic eye shadow colors and false eye lashes to accentuate your eyes. The false eyelashes are of course optional.
How to give a wild look to your eyes:
First of all use a thick brush to apply a coat of eye shadow primer on your eye creases. You can apply it right to your eyebrows to make it an easier process or leave it till the creases of your eyes. Remember to use a bright hue of color. To achieve a more dramatic look, you can apply the primer to the outer cover of your eyes making it look like a C shape. This helps to accentuate your eyes and details of the leopard print to the makeup.
If you have chosen to paint the primer till your eyebrows, then take a black pencil liner and draw some leopard prints over your eyes – especially on the sides. Do not worry about spoiling the shape as you can always rectify it during final touch up. If you are too nervous about the prints then it is best that you practice them on a paper first. Drawing some Cs and Os will solve your purpose. On the other hand if you have chosen to paint the eye shadow primer just on the crease of your eyes, the next thing you need is a lighter shade of primer that you painted. You should take care to choose colors that complement each other and not contrast. You need to apply the eye shadow with a normal eye brush on the rest of your eye lid. This process is similar to creating smoky eyes, only here you do not use black eye shadow. Next select a shimmering shade of the primer that you used and highlight the center of your eyes. This adds to the beauty of the eye makeup. You can use a dark matte finish eye shadow to define the creases of your eyes to give it a more defined look.
Next, you should apply black eye liner to the water line of your eyes to make it look fuller. If you have chosen to draw the leopard prints, the next thing that you need to do is fill those prints with contrasting colors so that they are clearly visible against the eye shadow primer. You do not need to worry if the color gets out of the prints that you have drawn. On the other hand you can also paint the leopard print instead of drawing them with a black eye pencil. You need to make abstract prints on the outer cornet of your eyes with a white eye pencil. Here you do not draw the prints but paint them with the help of brush. Take a thin eye brush and dab some shimmery eye shadow, after that rub it on the white eye pencil and make those abstract. The shimmer shade will enhance the prints and make them look attractive.
You need to draw the eye line for your upper lids. Since this is a leopard eye makeup, make sure that your draw the upper line of your eyes with a very fine black eye pencil or liner. Make sure to elongate the line on the extreme ends of your eyes to give to it a cat-eye look feel.
Use the eye liner to define the leopard prints that you have drawn or painted. This step is necessary in both the process of wearing leopard eye makeup. The application of the line defines the leopard prints. To add more of an animal touch to your look, you can draw small dots around the prints but do not clutter your eyes. This will only spoil the look of your eye.
Finish your dazzling leopard eye makeup by applying good mascara. You can also use false eye lashes to enhance the fashion quotient of your eye makeup. This simple and yet stylish eye makeup is a sure shot recipe to quench your fashion hunger.