Colours and pairing them can be quite a task but actually it is simple if you
keep an eye on what simply looks good together they are a great pairing.
Of course skin tones, clothes, accessories all come into play but it's really what
meets the eye, what you're essentially are comfortable with and like wearing
that look great together. I like to refer to these pairings as
complementary, monochromatic and neutrals paired with colours.
As far as complementary colours go, they're really absolute contrasts and they play off
the intensity of each other which is why they look great together. Well now I'm
going to show you how complementary colours work. So I'm going to pair two
contrasting colours together. I'm going to start using a chubby stick on her eyes
it's a bright pop orange. So I'm going to start by just applying this quite gently
but generously across her eyelid.
Use your fingers if you must just to soften
off the edges. Well I'm using a lip product actually, it's a chubby stick by
StudioWest, but I like the fact that it's really soft and it gives you a
lot of play on the eyes. Just one thing to remember when you're using products
that are not meant for the eyes on your eyes.
I would proceed with caution so to speak. So just very little bit on a day that
you're not going out if you like to try that look out and if you do have any
kind of irritation or some kind of a rash stay away from doing that. Just make
sure that every now and then you check for lines and then simply dab the excess
off and give it a smooth finish. Now what really works well with an orange in
colour pairing is blue because it's exactly on the opposite side with a
spectrum of colours. So I'm going to draw in the liner using the navy liquid liner
from StudioWest. I like to keep a professional brush handy just in case I
miss a spot.
Now to intensify the blue a little bit I'm going to use a extreme eyeliner just
in the inner corner this is a huge trend right now, to use really nice bright
vibrant blues in the inner corner and you can do it with a smokey eye as well.
I'm just going to kind of softly blend the two with my liner brush.
I'm going to repeat the same thing on the other eye.
I'm just going to add a coat of mascara to her top lashes
just to complement the eyeliner.
And more of the orange chubby stick.
I'm going to take a bit of it on a
small blush brush
and just dab it on like you would a cream blush right there
on the apples of your cheek. Don't go too intense with the colour because there's a
lot of this colour on the face.
Gave a slightly sunkissed kind of effect
with the blush. So my tip here is don't start off with too much product because we use
too much to be hard to blend it off particularly because it's cream product
over a powder. So you want to make sure that you use a small amount first and
then build up to the effect that you want to achieve. I'm just going in with
orange pop the same chubby that I used across her face.
I'm going to put a big
hit of colour and then dab it off so there's just enough orange
I love bright colours and I would've left it like that but Sonia will look so much
nicer if I soften the effect almost as if she just dabbed on the colour with her fingertips.
So just a soft dab and there's a good remainder of a soft
pretty orange. So I've used orange and blue both on the eyes. Well you can do it
anywhere across the face. You can do a bright red mouth with green eyeshadow
which would look great too just like red Christmas baubles on a tree.
Basically complementary colours are colours that look striking
as soon as you see them put together.
Monochromes are different shades of the same colour and they look
fantastic when they are paired because of their subtle sophistication. Well I'm
going to show you a monochromatic look and I've chosen gold.
To start with I'm going to use Mayaa's luminous lip glaze,
it's called Golden Dream. You can use a
small dab of this colour. I'm going to use this on her eyelids as a cream base.
Now the reason I'm doing this is because I want the intensity of the gold when I
apply it on her lids to be really metallic and when you use a gloss or
something creamy as a base you'll get a good hold on the product.
So you can choose to use this or a lipstick but a small amount
so it shouldn't drip with gloss.
So I'm going to use a paddle brush and pick a small amount of the gold
eyeshadow from the gold mine palette
and pack the colour in so it looks really rich and metallic.
Now work within the crease you don't want to go past the crease.
Just do the same on the other eye.
Remember that when you use flat brushes
the intensity is greater of a colour.
You use rounded brushes you get soft diffused effects.
So here I'm looking to create a really strong gold eye
which is why I'm using the paddle brush right along.
Now I'm going to use the bronze
right here. Just wrap the eye on the bottom lash line with it
To manage the spill I'm using a compact powder
Like I always say, I like to wrap a metallic product in a matte product.
So, I'm going to use a small dab of this powder it's compact powder No. 4,
it's called Amber. I'm just going to work that into the crease
to clean up around the metallic gold.
Although there's not a very evident crease
it mattifies the crease so the gold stands out.
Now for loads of mascara, really dark.
Now, I'm just going to contour her face because there's that whole bronzy effect,
bronzy gold effect that's happening across her face. So I'm using the same
compact powder to use as a very soft bronzer.
Just following the hollows of her own face.
So once you have the bronzer done, I'm just going to highlight with Bronze
which is a blush from the Mayaa collection by StudioWest.
I'm going to just blend it in with the contour that I've created
so you can see a nice contrast between the matte and the gold bronze here.
Now to this to add an extra
dimension I'm going back into the gold eyeshadow and really close to the eyes
just by the light catches her face you can add a light dusting of the gold.
Just going back with fit to powder to blend it in right here on the cheeks
So, I'm going back to the gold gloss and taking a small amount on my hand.
Now I'm just going to take a smattering of this like quite roughly and just kind of
put it on her cheeks, just on the apple of her cheeks to give it a kind of wetness
so it looks more glossy rather than powdery and blushy.
Now be careful not to put too much. You just want clean to show up not shine heavily.
It just immediately changes the texture of your makeup if you can see so there's more
creamy quality to the makeup.
So now just to finish off the look I'm going to use
the gold mine gloss again on her lips and a generous amount of it
I quite like how it looks, there's the shimmer, there's gloss, there is a kind of softness to it
but it's monochrome so it kind of softens anything that you put together
and going monochrome with a colour like this is really flattering on our skin.
Another great pairing is neutrals with any bright colour. What this does is draws
attention to your favorite feature. I'm going to begin with using an extreme
eyeliner pencil in olive. Just run a good amount of this colour into the eye.
Make sure you get enough of the colour between the lashes as well firstly you don't
want to miss a spot second it helps when you start smudging the product. I'm going
to smudge a good amount of the olive eyeliner pencil even on the top.
Get a bit on the corners as well so you have enough product to create any shape you want.
Using a smudging brush just soften off the green
I'm going to sweep over this a matching khaki eyeshadow from the Bombay jewels
palette by StudioWest. So take a blending brush you don't want too much colour just
enough to make that pop. I'm going to sweep the colour over the lash line.
Then softly towards the crease. You don't want any harsh lines it's really just to
showcasing of this colour all across the eyelid.
Using a smudging brush in the
same colour I'm going to run over the colour at the bottom lash line.
So there you have a really distinctly coloured eyes which I'm just going to finish off with
a good coat of mascara.
Well I've got a small smudge there I'm not going to take it off just now
because it's not it's still wet I'm going to let it dry and then once it dries
I'll use a Q-tip and just flick it off. Now the whole point of this video was
pairing a neutral with a colour. So I'm going to keep the rest of the face very
bare very neutral. So neutral lips neutral cheeks and coloured eyes.
I'm going to use amber a compact powder so it's the number four amber by StudioWest
and I'm just going to add a small gentle
contour and colour to her cheeks. I don't want anything to take away from the
colour on her eyes
I'm going to check if that spot is right should have by now and just really
softly take it away with a Q-tip. There you go
it's done, no damage at all. You just want to blend off the eyeshadow again into
place. Well now I'm going to finish off this look with a neutral lipstick
called Barely There. Just a good sweep of the soft colour
and a touch of gloss.
I'm going to use Sparkling Cinnamon which is a lip glaze by StudioWest.
Just to give this a little light right in the centre of the lips. Well in this look as
you can see the focus is on the eyes so the colours on the eyes and the lips are
neutral. But you can also switch that around and do a deep or bright lip with
neutral eyes. I hope this video was helpful and the next time that you go shopping
pairing colours is easy. Until the next time stay tuned, stay Glamrs.
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