How To Perfect Your Cut Crease! Tips/Techniques

YOU GUYS. THIS 👏 BRUSH 👏 IS 👏 IT 👏 You have no idea how long I’ve been trying to find a brush that fit my criteria: Tangibee’s Criteria: - Fits her eyeshape - Packs on color well - Blends well without overblending or creating patchiness - Not Poky - Semi Firm - Not your typical round blending brush - Tapered - Works with Well with buttery, powder textures Every brush I would encounter would maybe meet 75% of this criteria. I wanted a brush that could blend while laying it flat on my eye because round blending brushes have a tendency to take my eyeshadow up higher when I wanted a minimalist look(shown in first photo). I never really understood the artistic works of a natural hair eyeshadow brush and how it can impact the final results of eyeshadow. The Sonia G Worker Pro brush really helped me understand it! Here’s the breakdown: 1. Time Reduction The natural hairs on this brush picks up just the right amount of product and reduces fall out! The tapered end allows you to have precision and control over your color placement. Once you place on the color you can literally start using this brush for blending by turning it on it’s side or continue to use it flat! This has reduced my workflow on my eyes from blending for 30 minutes down to 10! You can see the hairs and the shape of the brush on photo 2 and 3. I found that my MORPHE - M505 Tapered Blender Brush can sometimes be too flimsy for the job. This can cause difficulty when you’re working with darker colors or hard-to-blend colors because they just tend to not move anywhere. 2. Shimmers/Metallics We all know that synthetics are great at applying shimmers. However the ones that I’ve tried from morphe, hourglass, and sigma seem to have too much “slip”. Therefore, they’re good for packing but blending can be a mess with sparkles everywhere or you might encounter some streaking during application. That nice shimmer that we all love just suddenly disappears. I was really surprised when I created the eyelook in photo 1 that every single sparkle in the shadow came through on my eyes!Not to mention that blending the top of the eyeshadow was a breeze! If your shimmers seem to look muddy or just “off” and don’t pull that same result as your finger swatches, try the Worker Pro out! In photo 4 you can see the results of me using this brush with the ANASTASIA Beverly Hills - Norvina Eyeshadow Palette 3. Eyeshape I found that this brush was a perfect for my eyeshape! I was able to get into those tiny nooks and crannies that would normally be difficult with other flat & dense brushes. I could easily read use this brush for my whole eye area without having to switch to another blending brush. The fact that it was SO SOFT but firm allowed me to create a perfect diffused tail(shown in photo 1 & 4). There was little to no clean up and I took a good 15 minutes just admiring how well my eyeshadow came out! Get this brush! It is LIIIIIFE! 😍❤️

HAAAAY EVERYBODY! Today I thought I share the tools that help create the PERFECT gradient of eyeshadow shown in in the first photo! The second photo will give you a visual. Take advantage of it!!! 😃 Here are some tips: 1. Stamping I mention stamping a lot in my posts but just for eyeshadow purposes, stamping helps build up pigment on the area desired without blending it out. This look required stamping first to provide that clean precision. The edges of the base color become more diffused after we added the darker shade, because there’s a lot more blending that has to be done with darker shades. If it bothers you too much you’re more than welcome to give the edges a light blend with the SIGMA - E54 Medium Sweeper Brush 2. Get a Smaller Blending Brush for Darker Shades THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT! Many of us make the mistake to go with a regular sized blending brush. The size of your blending brush makes all the difference in whether your eyeshadow becomes muddy or a beautiful soft gradient that transitions well. I use SONIA G - Sky Eye Set in it has a brush that is called the “Mini booster” and it applies the perfect amount of dark pigment. The natural hairs on the brush really help in blending it out and into the inner crease of my eyes. If you don’t have this brush get something similar in size. Here’s a more inexpensive optionMORPHE - M506 Tapered Mini Blender Brush 3. Micro-adjustments Micro-adjustments can make or break your look. We’ve all been there when it comes to eyeliner. (Wanting you add just a HAIR and we come out looking like a panda🤣) However, don’t let that scare you! Makeup is all about practice and seeing what works for you and your eyeshape. If you find that one spot needs a little help, it’s okay to fix it! The key is to take it easy and slow. You automatically go heavy handed and not check your work, you’ll have a lot more to fix than just that one little spot. 4. The More Dense the Brush, The More Pigment Now this is just a general rule of thumb, but it helps in understanding how much color you’ll be picking up/applying. The more flimsy and fluffy the brush, the softer your look is going to be. The firmer/denser the brush is the more high impact your look is going to be. Hope this has helped you in your application! There’s more to this but these are just the basics! Happy Learning! ❤️