Sunday 1 March 2015

The Sacred Art of Blending 2

HOW TO BLEND?????

Well first of all, you'll need a good blending brush.
A really good blending brush is as soft as a baby bunny's fur, fluffy and also clean. The last thing you want is to ruin your look by accidentally bringing yesterday's black eye shadow into the mix.
The sizes and shapes of blending brushes vary. Some are  quite small and slightly tapered, there are ones that are bigger, smaller, rounder, more tapered etc.

Second of all, use two different motions for different areas.

--Use small windshield motions going back and forth on the larger areas that need to be blended out to skin colour. Don't press too hard, let the brush do the work and be patient. For extra clarification, with windshield motions I mean jerky little back and forth motions along the area on the left of the diagram. 

-- When you want to blend two eye shadow areas together, use small swirly motions. You almost don't have to move the brush at all, just gently place it on the area you want to blend and softly swirl the brush until it's blended. Repeat this at every eye shadow area you want to blend together. 

Typically the areas that you need to blend is where eye shadow colours overlap. The reason you use small and gentle movements is because if your movements are too large there's a chance you'll just move the eye shadow around but not blend it properly, it'll get muddy instead. If you do tiny areas at a time there's a much bigger chance of success. 

                            



by hantastic beauty.

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