How to build an eyeshadow look

[@AlexandraAnele]

Hope this helps! I know it's long but trust me, it's everything 🥲 Also let me know if you want this to be a series and what looks you'd like explained ❤

[@katidoesnails]

keep going ! i love when I can relate to a video and honestly i can’t relate to all but I’ll still try to watch 🥺

[@sichu4722]

I cannot believe we're getting this for free. We definitely want this to be a series. You are the bessstttt! 💛

[@katidoesnails]

also I literally am like two different people with fake eyelashes and not, because my natural eyelashes are blonde / brown I need a look with no lashes at all!! Like some cute to just bink bink if I don’t have any eyelashes ):

[@littlebird7400]

We can't thank you enough for this type of videos!! Incredibly well explained, so helpful, your tutorials are GOLD♥️ please let it be a series🙏🏼 Lots of love, Alex

[@dvdh4856]

YES SERIES PLEASE!! 🙏

[@liberalwithlipstick]

Yes, PUHLEASE make this a series. I’d love an explanation of how to build a look when you want to use contrasting colors that don’t easily melt into each other. I realize that’s maybe more of a color question than a structure/shape question, but I think it could still fit within a series like this. And what someone considers/strategizes when they want to build a successful high contrast look is a thought process I’ve never actually heard anyone verbalize before.

[@makeupnerd8467]

Yes please

[@ma-ma-mamary3946]

Yes!!!! Making the use of shades that are on the opposite sides of the color wheel will be the death of me. Making it look good, I mean. Because I'm a pro at making it look like a blob of mud. Or a smudge.

[@Ms10yearsafter]

@@ma-ma-mamary3946same, that's why we have you ♥...

[@asher662]

These are real tutorials! Things we actually need! Love u Alex

[@AlexandraAnele]

😭🙏🏼❤❤❤

[@my_face_but_better]

This person said the perfect answer! 🥰 exactly 💯

[@CatharsisByProxy]

I hope you never stop making your art.

[@sandrameza1644]

Yes, you help a lot. I am a fan. I am 65 and I would wear this! I don't do tik tok so I rely on these videos. Thanks!

[@sherynemmanuel]

Woah...thanks for this in-depth tutorial. This is going to be extremely useful, especially for beginners. Heck, this would be useful for everyone really 👍

[@AlexandraAnele]

🙏🏼

[@murphy1011]

Agreed. I’ve been doing my makeup for over 20 years now and I never stop learning new things. Especially since makeup tutorials became so popular on KZbin. It just goes to show how versatile makeup really is. There are endless techniques and combinations that can be done. Everyone I watch has different tips and tricks that I never would have thought of.

[@Arcannabis]

You remind me of my favorite MAC trainers, I miss the old days. You’re so good at explaining things in a way that doesn’t sacrifice artistry but is easy for everyone to understand- truly talented

[@AlexandraAnele]

😭 Thank you love! 🙏🏼❤️

[@lynnhom6915]

Yes a series. I would love to see a very subtle sophisticated, but done up look. I’m 71 and love eyes and wear makeup most days.

[@thefirststate]

Eyeshadow, blush and highlighter is my favorite make up content

[@creepypapermultipack]

You’re killing it with these eye looks lately. I’m obsessed.

[@TheLexiJess]

This girl has probably the best makeup skills in all of beauty KZbin. (imo).

[@AW-xc1xc]

I'd genuinely love to see you create an "opposite" eyeshadow look; so the shimmer shades goes where the dark smoky shades usually go, a pop of black or dark brown on the middle of the lid, etc.

[@potato-qr3sg]

That's interesting

[@lauradelaney5457]

Yessssssss great idea! I hope Alex sees this

[@briannaw6980]

i’m imagining a look where the darkest shades are placed in the typical “highlight” areas on the eye 👁 might be cool!

[@itsrachelbtw8169]

I can't tell you how much I appreciate this instruction. I don't see a lot of good actual tutorials anymore and EVERYONE can always learn more. I would definitely watch you do more of these. Teach me your ways !!!

[@amberr6]

I LOVE how you explain everything. So much as to the WHY you’re doing something. Those pieces of detail truly help me tremendously and not everyone gives so much helpful info and is so transparent and honest about their choices. So helpful dude. Thank you 🙏!!!!

[@talia841951]

yes. please make this a series. eyeshadow isn't my strong suit but it's my favorite part of makeup and i keep looking for tutorials when no one seems to create that content anymore. this is just what i need. 💕

[@melcarol3313]

My jaw literally dropped when you added the lashes. I have to try this technique. It’s stunning

[@MrsAnnThropy]

I’m gonna cry, this video makes me so happy. These are the videos people need to put out for makeup. We’re tired of recreating a look, tell me how to put the colors I like together and use the shades I have already lol when I was little my mom taught me what she was taught when she tried modeling school (it was the 80s when she went), and it’s been interesting to see it evolve but it’s now so complex that it’s not just the same basic rules as it was. It’s more of a genuine art form and that requires the techniques to be explained more than just how to apply the makeup to your face correctly. I love this n I love u I’ve said it a million times n I’ll say it a million more times I’m so happy I found this channel 💜

[@MrsAnnThropy]

If it’s not obvious, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make this a series

[@bruhscheffer1]

Finally KZbin recommended a really good content!!

[@thefirststate]

Yes, please make it a series. I promise I will watch, comment and like your content.

[@nikashagha7507]

This was extremely satisfying to watch you truly are talented omg

[@mervet.3850]

you're literally the coolest person i have ever seen 💕

[@lizbethruiz5736]

Tysm, theres barely any tutorial videos out there anymore, like I struggle a lot to make a look, it ends up this blob, just a stain in my lid. I appreciate your content and I'm all in for the series.

[@dirtclassy]

DUDE. I haven’t seen you this happy or excited in your videos in a long time, it’s super cool to see you having fun! The energy is contagious. I’m gonna go play now, too 💛

[@americanviking9384]

Your tutorials have literally elevated my makeup game and confidence soooo much! You're the bestest ever 🥰💕

[@AlexandraAnele]

😩 This makes me so happy you have no idea 🥺😭

[@leena5531]

genuinely obsessed with this eye look

[@allmyworldlygoods]

You always explain everything so clearly and concisely. Thank youuuuuuu 🥰🥰🥰

[@AlexandraAnele]

Thank you love! 🙏🏼❤️

[@Lisa-sq3zl]

Agreed! You are my new virtual bff 😆.

[@marshawilliamson8602]

Series, please. The “why” helps me to remember “how”.

[@krissy8552]

This needs to be a series. Creating, blending and building of all different looks, colors would be great. Grungy, smoky, bright. So much fun!!

[@Seashelldub]

THANK YOU! So often I’ll buy a palette then have to search KZbin for tutorials using that exact palette because I don’t know how to build looks myself. Also, your skin is like distractingly gorgeous

[@skn85]

You're so talented! Your content is so refreshing and interesting. Just watching the way your hand moves, and the looks you create, your true artistry shines thru!!

[@m.e.5]

That shimmer looks wet! How beautiful. Your brows-sensational!

[@embernicole9609]

Please make this a series!!! I love your process of creating a look because it is pretty much how I feel most of our minds work lol. I hope we get to see more of these!!

[@vanessawatkins7482]

That shimmer eyeshadow shade is everything! I need it. I love this hopefully series! You're an amazing teacher!

[@Ms.Sweet.J.91]

Wenn ich gerade aus schaue, hab ich exakt das gleiche Lid wie Du deshalb bin ich Dir SOOO DANKBAR, das Du so viele verschiedene Augen Mace Up's zeigst. Wunderschön, wie immer. Danke Dir 👍🏼👌🏽❣❣❣😘

[@annelisepace1589]

Late to this video but you’re such a good art teacher!! Which translates to being an amazing makeup teacher!

[@reese3005]

I LOOOOVE the idea of a step by step for creating all the popular eyeshadow shapes/styles/trends(?) That would be great!

[@brendaleelydon]

This is amazing! I've watched other people put on eyeshadow & even tutorials, but I found this MUCH easier to understand in a 'this is WHY' way and not *just* a 'this is HOW' way. I'd love to see more videos like this with other eye looks! Thanks for the video!

[@DizzehxxMitizzeh42]

I was just thinking this recently, especially since I feel like other creators don't even really get to "how," they kinda just stop at "what." But here we also get why _and_ how because she's not just saying and doing, she's showing _where_ and _pointing_ and _then_ explaining why.

[@Lighthouse1852]

Ooh, fun, art school! Great idea to demonstrate on a monochromatic neutral colorway first! Alexandra as a trained artist knows all the principles and does a fantastic job keeping it simple. If anyone wants to learn more about creating the illusion of bringing an area forward or pushing it back, a few ideas help. I hope Alexandra does more with this subject, it would be fun to see. Fantasy looks and daily looks. Every shade in a palette falls somewhere along these ranges: lightest to darkest, warmest to coolest, shimmeriest to matte, most vivid to muted. Not everyone realizes that even in an all-red palette, those differences exist. Wherever on the face you create the biggest contrast between extremes, that's where the viewer's eye tends to go first. That's why bright dark red lips compete with a smoky eye. Lighter shade => forward (darker = recessed.) Shimmer shade => forward (matt-er = recessed.) Warmer shade => forward (cooler = recessed.) Vivid shade => forward (muted = recessed.) So, pale shimmery champagnes usually pop forward the most. (Ahem, highlighter.) A darker, cooler, sludgy, matte is the easiest way to cheat the crease and outer corner. Of course a warm light color like canary yellow can look fantastic in the crease, but if the goal is to exaggerate a recessed crease, yellow takes more skill than a taupe. Anyone nervous about mixing bright colors with each other: it's almost foolproof to pair colors that sit close to each other on the colorwheel. Green + teal blue. Yellow + orange. Etc. It's much harder to blend two complementary colors, for example, red + green. Blue + orange. They turn to mud quickly. It takes compatible pigments within the two shadow pans to achieve an attractive neutral. Trial and error is the only way to find out if the two complementary shades you chose will play well together. With your own underlying skintone as the third color in the mix, the difficulty escalates.

[@wendytran6110]

Skin looks so healthy! I love it! You can wear the worst makeup and still make it good girl! Love!

[@shreya6328]

really needed a detailed explanation like this, and yesss a series would be of so much help! love you!

[@rebeccavorwald7821]

I will take these videos at any time you want to give them!!!!!!!!!!!! So freaking fabulous, Alex! I would SO rock this!!! Love it, love it all!!!!! Play anytime, I'm here for it!!!! Blessings to you!! ✌️💚🙏

[@toniapedd]

Mesmerizing! I used to be pretty good at doing my makeup and different eye looks daily. I got Leukemia and had to stop working, I owned my own salon. Now that I rarely leave the house I feel like I've forgotten how to do everything and am rarely happy with my boring, simple shadows and eye looks I do for fear of doing it wrong or looking like I did too much. I'd love this to be a series and you explaining why a certain color goes where and such will really help me do more than the typical old school, darker crease, medium lid, hi lighted brow and corner, 'safe' look. My Leukemia is terminal, so 'safe' is not acceptable! LOL Not as bold maybe, as my only outings are to dr's appointments, but I still want to look the best I can & have to start changing things up properly. With you explaining with your artist's eye is so helpful!🥰 My request would be a nice everyday kind of look that doesn't scream, "I'm going somewhere special," but also changing the color scheme of the technique at times. You Rock!! Wish I had an ounce of your talent!!

[@katie4996]

I’ve doing my own makeup for 15 years. And I’ve never heard blending explained this way. Well done ❤️

[@jusjillt]

Please Yes to a series on various look’s & application process. As always your detailed Description helps with the application at home and just an overall understanding on how to use your brushes as well as how to layer the colors used we appreciate your videos💗

[@petronella2366]

21 mins felt like 5, loved it ❤️

[@nikkil9311]

I would LOVE a series! Learned so much, and so mush fun to see someone "play" and how they are thinking. Thanks!

[@LaurieStylesxoxo]

I haven’t felt inspired with eye makeup in months. Not even enough to do a look on days I wanna wear makeup. But this eye look intrigued me and now I wanna try to do it! Please make more videos like this!! ❤️❤️

[@AlexandraAnele]

😭 This means so much to me 🥺❤️

[@user-sm9tg4rc1n]

Yes please this series is needed

[@sylviaspaugh9206]

This is probably one of my favorite videos you have done! I always enjoy ur approach to making content and how ur on screen personality is so genuine and realistic, but specifically I like how u emphasis using placement and techniques to flatter each person’s individual anatomy and also that u explain reasons behind what u do for your self. This was super helpful for me! thxxx ☺️💕💕

[@christendominique]

This look is so incredibly beautiful 🥲❤️

[@alyssadube2786]

Okay kind of random but you're literally one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen😭 And your videos have helped me SO much to feel more confident..you're the absolute besttt🖤

[@AlexandraAnele]

STAAAHHHPPPPP Alyssaaaaa 🥺😭

[@annakarnas4914]

Alyssa, totally agree.

[@scarlettea6514]

Fact!

[@azychristie7288]

We definitely need a series of these tutorials. The explanation and the slow and simple nature of this video was very very helpful. Please do a series.🦋

[@nicolelindoff]

Om gurrrrl I have been doing just about the "same" look for years and I just found my new look!!!!!! Boom. Mic drop

[@MyRonttu]

YES make this a series please!!! Love it ✨

[@mariapanagiotaki4335]

Yes yes!! I want that new series of make up looks!

[@bhags1109]

This eyeshadow look is 🔥 Yes please make it a series!! 🥺

[@ctruthwin]

Girl I learn so much from you , you're a amazing teacher ❤

[@sblue4575]

Ok ok you must make this a series I love this look

[@nasrindigby8594]

This look gives you Sophia Lauren eyes 😍

[@twistedtenderness]

This has got to be one of my favorite videos of yours of all the 🖤

[@nadialouisa9301]

I loved watching u play with makeup. Please make it a series.

[@sugandhasharma2818]

I love seeing you create eyeshadow looks!! They are always so creative and different and beautiful ✨✨♥️♥️

[@roseannegonzales3009]

That eyeshadow look 👀 looks fire 🔥 AF ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@pammycakes8553]

You are such a citrine gem, and I don’t just mean your eyeshadow creation. I enjoy your teaching videos and I embrace your authentic nature. I still use your toothpaste and dental floss hack everyday!!! Thank you soo very much for ALL of your divine content. 💎💜🦋. Oh, yes, if you ever want to show us different ways to use dark cream eyeshadows in different colors, that would be fun!! Much love and gratitude!!

[@briannanickolle]

Wow that pallet is absolutely gorgeous

[@13cindys]

Yes please!!! I love watching you apply eye makeup!

[@swatishukla5781]

You're the only one I found on KZbin who have my eye type.. Love you🤟🤟 dear

[@sourkaramel]

Yes please to a series!!!!

[@snickerz-_-5133]

Love when you teach! Super dope look! You have one of my favorite personalities on KZbin!!

[@rhonda2337]

Yes please make this a series! I love makeup but am terrible at knowing how to do my eyeshadow and liner for hooded eyes

[@saintn2103]

loving these sort of abstract looks.

[@shark2073]

YES please do a series!!

[@lilredcapone4469]

Yes 👍🏻 to the series! learning something new with each video also just fun & relaxing to watch & get a few giggles 🤭 in lol

[@NewYorkCityGritty5]

Make this a series pppppleases! Wow that looks really beautiful 😍 I wanna be cool enough to wear my eyeshadow like that! I'm trying to think of an outfit to go with lol. Yes, make this a series!!!!!

[@yvonneesquivel9671]

Hey👋🏾! Alex your consistant content is so appreciated! I can imagine as a content creator the backend of watching views and all that analytic ish must be such a mind 🤯. I dont watch every single vid but in my humble opinion you are the best at explaining how to DO makeup! You’re just the dopest, makeup, professor on youtube 📺 Wanted to leave some 💖 in the comments

[@erionafrancescasherifi4492]

Please make it a series!!!! Pretty please❤️

[@barose1]

I so needed this! Please make this a series :)

[@zaipascual13]

I think this is one of the most beautiful looks I've seen on you and it's so flattering, I'm definately trying this on meeee

[@Ellamaybuttons]

I was literally thinking the other day how helpful it would be to have a breakdown of the composition of eyeshadow looks, and you deliver. Thank you, would love to see more!

[@svatekzprahy]

you're a doll. absolute professional. love your videos 💖

[@briannagoldenstein3832]

Lol you always make me smile. Seriously love you. And yes please make this a series - super helpful.

[@hahahandel]

You are the best beauty channel!!

[@kylieanderson6367]

Yes please to a series. I love colour and would like to be better at putting them together so I dont look like a clown. I tend to overdo everything Haha. You are great ❤💙💜💙❤

[@sherryb1083]

Absolutely beautiful girl. I love all your videos. I also like that you zoom in so close that we can actually see what you are doing and that you recognize not everyone has same eyes so you offer up other alternatives and tips.

[@cheryljoaquin6023]

Thank you for this tutorial. It's so helpful to hear why you place the shadows where you do. I am totally here for a series of eye look how-tos!

[@meowsie1646]

So neat how the matte white was kind of like a winged liner in how you darker all around it. Love love love

[@potato-qr3sg]

I adore this look idk about you but its giving me major maddie vibes. Ur videos totally stepped up my makeup game and i love seeing you play with makeup just as much as i love doing it. Lots of loveee❤❤❤

[@BlackThorndRose]

I don’t know how well this will apply to eyeshadow but it’s a neat trick aside from squinting to find the value of a color. What you can do is set the camera on your phone to a grayscale, and you will very easily see the difference in value. I’m a hairstylist and typically do this after lightening someone’s hair to pick up the true level so I can color correct and/or tone the hair properly. If anyone is also a hairstylist this trick is a game changer!

[@aissanougba1966]

you explain so welllllll so good for begginers

[@melaniemay8742]

you make it look so easy 😭 it looks sooooo good! & your hooded eye is v pretty

[@andreysouza1789]

no but... that woman... aarrrrggh u r AMAZING, Alex ❤❤💙

[@CharlyTateSunshinyGirl]

SE-RIES, SE-RIES. Seriously. We need more series. Playlists. Give it to us. Fabulous stuff.

[@zephyrlockwood8399]

Plz do a series girl!! Love this

[@paigeolson8027]

Love this look so much, and would love a series!

[@fatematabassumhoque]

YES TO THE SERIES 💯

[@franzzee6278]

i watched this 3 times already because you did your eyeshadow quite similarly to hiw i do my asian eyes, and also because i love a punk smokey eye, and you literally look like a doll😩

[@evielozada2054]

Holy smokes, your skin looks amazing!! I haven’t even made it to the eye part of the video.

[@brr1181]

Love everything you do, but this series idea would be amaze!!!! Thanks freeeen!!

[@veronicahayes2635]

Yes please. More ideas please. I love these teaching videos

[@imaginepithynamehere4257]

It's funny. Nobody sat me down and said, "this is how you apply makeup" until I was 20, and in hair school. In chapter one, they basically give you a mini etiquette school, crammed into 3 or 4 days, and part of that included makeup. My Mom never wore makeup, and, by the time I was interested in it, both of my decade-older sisters had moved out of the house. The one guide I had was a friend who wore the palest foundation she could find, and applied it like a person would slather sunscreen on a baby. To be fair, she rocked it. For years, all I had was 2 eyeliners, a compact of pressed face powder, and one lipstick. One day, this friend accidentally left a little pot of the perfect (for me) transition/contour shadow at my house after a weekend sleepover. She told me I could just keep it, and being a broke kid, I was like, "yussss!" I also have slightly hooded eyes. I began by putting it just on my eyelids, but that didn't look right. So I began to build it up, and up, in increments, until I was rocking a perfect swoop, with shadow swept up onto my brow bone, then blended out into my regular skin colour. I managed to achieve that with the one tiny sponge applicator that attached to the bottom of the pot of eyeshadow, and used my fingers to blend and diffuse the outer perimeter. It's funny how, even someone who was as clueless about fashion and beauty as I was, could find the perfect eyeshadow, and apply it so it enhanced my personal eye shape. Just going by what looked good, and what look wrong to me. I am pretty decent at art, so that probably came into play. I rocked that taupe contour colour, solo, as stated above on my upper lid, blended it in my lower lash line, then wore a little brown or black eyeliner on my top lid, and that was it. The day they taught us makeup in hairschool, I came straight home, and taught my little sister, who was my roommate, how to do her makeup. She's now in her mid-late 30s, and she still uses the same technique I showed her all those years ago. She even uses the same neutral drugstore pallette that she's been buying throughout the years. It still works for her! This is becoming a bit of a ramble, but you just brought back some memories. It's funny how we did things before KZbin. We didn't have TV growing up either; we lived too far out, there was no cable service. Just a TV and VCR with lots of movies, and early, phone-modem-internet that was mostly text-based. There was no Google; you had to know what you were looking for. We only used it for chatting with people on BBSs. So, we'd emulate books, magazines, movies, and we'd try out shit on eachother with friends' makeup, or the drugstore samples section (cringe) until we found what worked. I had another friend who had very large eyes, and she wore black eyeliner 360° around each eye, but done to perfection. I was always so jealous that she could rock this super metal look, but every time I tried it, I'd look like an elderly cat with an eye infection. It doesn't help that I've got very wide cheekbones, so if I tried to wear black eyeliner like she did, I'd end up with these tiny, squinty, black eyes floating in the middle of all this skin and bone. None of us knew anything about contouring, and because it was the 90s, very few teenagers wore blush. Everyone who wore makeup had a monochrome blob of matte skin, paired with dark matte eyes and lips. Don't forget the TONS of powder. Everyone rolled around with the ubiquitous Cover Girl powder compact on them at all times. It was ridiculous: even though the closest tiny town to my house, where I went to school, had a very large Indigenous population, (probably 50% or more) there was almost zero representation in the makeup aisles in the two drugstores. Anyone with deeper skin tones than "medium" often couldn't find foundation or concealer. So, they'd have to settle for an ashy, too-light base, or a shade with a matching value, but the totally wrong undertone. It was that, or go without. Or, if they/their parents had the money, make the 2 hour bus trek into the closest small city to special order foundation from department store makeup counters. Buying department store makeup was, to most of us in that small, economically depressed, ex-logging town, an indication of fabulous wealth. We had to steal drugstore stuff, get hand-me-down makeup from older relatives, and swap/share with friends. It's shocking that we all didn't end up with eye infections, dermatitis, or impetigo. This is why I always gift nice, brand-new makeup, skincare and brushes to any younger friends and family members who are interested in it. There were some people in our general age bracket in our small town with fairly deep complections. One girl told me that she had family members in larger cities on the mainland, places that had far more black representation. She would have to send them money, and photos of herself and her sister's faces in natural light to them, and they would send the two of them colour matched base products in the mail. Some things were cool about the 90s, but that wasn't one of them.

[@satviksingh1200]

Loved reading this. I always love to hear the stories of people's journey with makeup especially before yt. I hope you're living all your makeup dreams now

[@imaginepithynamehere4257]

@@satviksingh1200 thank, bud! Same goes to you!