hey guys so for today's video I'm doing a super in-depth video on how
I like to do my half cut creases on myself in this video I go into
a lot of detail about brushes a technique shadow placement picking
up shadow on your brushes all that good stuff so if you're a beginner
or new to eyeshadow this video is perfect for you I think this half
cut crease technique is so so beautiful it complements so many eye shapes and
so many face shapes I do have another video on my channel that focuses more
on the center cut crease so that halo eyed look so if you'd want
to see that video I'm gonna link that down below for you and if you want to
learn exactly how I do this half cut crease go ahead and keep on watching
so I wanted to show you guys what my face looks like when my eye and face is
completely relaxed so I'm just looking straight ahead and this is what it looks
like my eyes are slightly hooded you can still see part of my lid but you can't
see my entire lid and I have just a lot of extra skin right here so that's when
my eye looks like completely relaxed but naturally I tend to just lift my
eyebrows when I'm talking when I'm filming I'm always looking my eyebrows
it's just something I do so this is with my eyebrow lifted this is just
how I talk and I know a lot of people do this too so this is what my eyebrow
lifted and my face is like tight you know so here's lifted relaxed but I just
wanted to share that with you because I know my eyes aren't completely hooded
but they are slightly hooded we're gonna get right into this and I'm going to try
to be as detailed as possible and try to explain everything that I'm doing
and why I'm doing it first off for my brushes today I will be using my Sigma
favorites brush set that I created with Sigma so my brush that has my 5 a go to
eye makeup brushes in it I totally think that you can use this brush
set to create any eye shadow look and especially a half cut crease which is
what we're doing today so I already have foundation on and my eyebrow is done
obviously and we're going to prime the I I personally alternate between something
like a Mac Paint Pot and a thick liquid concealer you can really use either them
but today I'm gonna use concealer and I like to use concealer because it does
help hide any veins and redness on your lid so you can use a brush a finger a
sponge to blend this out and you want to make sure you get this all the way into
your inner corner right in here and also your outer corner out here I tend to
miss this area sometimes now I'm gonna set my lid in place with the powder I
like to use a translucent powder this is the RCM a no color one you can also
use something like a foundation powder that matches your skin tone or even a
skin tone colored eyeshadow so I'm gonna take my sigma e35 and just dip it in my
powder and you just want to set all that concealer in place especially in
your crease so now my eyelid is set and it's ready for eyeshadow for my palette
today I'm using the honest on Xia soft glam palette just because I know that a
lot of people on this one and I'm gonna be sticking with neutral shades today
you can do a half-cup crease that's literally any color combo I do half
cut creases all the time on my channel and you'll see that I can use as so
many different colors to do a half cut crease but today we're gonna go easy and
go neutral so I'm gonna start with the transition shade I'm gonna take orange
soda on the sigma e35 from my brush set and I'm just gonna blend this back and
forth in my crease this is just going to give you a nice little wash of color
and we're gonna build this up so what these shades I'm placing in my crease
I'm making sure to bring it all the way into my inner crease right here and all
the way out here you don't want to bring this shade right underneath your brow
but you can see I'm pretty close to my brow but I'm not touching it
now I'm gonna switch to a deeper shade and a more tapered brush so
this is a sigma e25 it has a little bit of a tapered point at the top you
can see it's a little bit flat and less fluffy than that first brush
I used here are them together for comparison so again this a 25 is
in my brush set but if you have really really small eyelids and
need something even smaller I'd recommend the Sigma E 27 so this
is the e 27 and it's an even smaller version of the e 25 so I'm going to
pick up the shade rustic on my e 25 so I swirled the tip of my brush in
the shadow then I'm going to tap off the excess so you can see the shadow
is on the tip of my brush and we're gonna start to deepen up the crease
so this brush is a little more precise in the first one I use so it lets me
place the shade more directly in my crease and again you want to make
sure you get the shade all the way into your inner crease especially right here
because you want that to peak through when we do the actual cut crease and
just to show you here is when my eye looks like relaxed and I'm blending now
I'm going to take a little bit more of that first orange soda shade and
I'm gonna blend right on top of that rustic shade to help soften any edges
all right so right now the colors of my crease are pretty much done what
I'm going to do now is work on the outer corner of my eye and then we'll do the
cut crease so I picked up more of that rustic shade and I'm using the side of
my e25 now you can see it's not just the tip it's on the side and I'm gonna stamp
that on the outer corner of my eye and connect it into my outer crease
I'm doing about two to three layers
of the shadow out here to get it as dark as I want
now I'm gonna take a little bit more of that orange soda shade
and I'm going to use that to lightly blend right here in the center of my
lid where that dark brown is meeting my blank lid so just
right here just because I want this to be a little bit softer
now at this point I like to go back to my first fluffy brush my e35 and
I have no extra product on this brush but I'm just gonna lightly blend over
everything okay now it's time for the part you've all been waiting for the
actual cut crease I'm sure you've seen this technique before it's nothing new
I've been doing it on myself for years but I'm just showing you guys more in
depth on what I'm doing so I'm gonna use my Tarte shaped tape concealer again you
just want to use any kind of liquid concealer that's a little bit thick
I'm going to show you some other ones I've used for this technique covergirl
trublend urban decay stay naked makeup revolution conceal and hydrate the
essenti Beauty concealer and the Too Faced Born This Way concealer I've
used this one a lot on my channel pretty much any concealer like that will work
perfectly for this i'd recommend not using a pot concealer you want a liquid
now let's talk brushes for a second for my cut crease brush my favorite
is the sigma lo5 lip brush so this was technically made for the lips but for me
it is perfect for cut creases because it's nice and small it's so small and
flat and precise it just lets me get right in here to make a nice line you
could use something a little bit bigger like a typical concealer brush this is
the one that I use so here they are for size comparison you can see this one's a
little bit bigger I've seen some people go even bigger than that and use a brush
like this this is a Sigma e 58 there's a little size comparison there you can
see it this a 58 is much larger than the lo5 so for this technique I think
the smaller the brush the better so I just place a little bit of concealer
on the back of my hand and I'm gonna dip one side of my brush into that concealer
and what you want to do is kind of look down and place some concealer
on the bottom part of your lid but you do not want to get it on your
eyelashes okay so I have a good amount of concealer on my lid and then I like
to look up and around and there we go so where that concealer transferred to
is exactly where I want my cut crease so I'm just taking whatever's left on
my brush and I'm gonna start to kind of connect the dots here and I like
to do pretty small motions for this again smaller the brush the better I
recommend getting really really close to a mirror for this step but I obviously
can't because I'm filming this and you just want to create a Halfmoon shape
and I just like to move the concealer around to get it exactly where I want
it I still didn't pick up any more concealer I'm just using
what was on my brush and I like to go a little bit more than halfway
it's like right here would be halfway back just go a little
bit farther and then I'm gonna wipe off that brush on a little towel and
I'm gonna Pat along this line right here you can also use your finger for
this step but again I like small brushes so I can be more precise
so you can see now I have this nice cut crease a line right there so now
you can pretty much apply any shade you want on top of that concealer I'm gonna
use a shimmer shade just because I like how that looks you can put a
matte shade on top of the concealer but I'd recommend setting your eye
first with some kind of translucent powder or foundation powder first
because putting a matte eyeshadow on top of a sticky concealer is gonna be
a big mess so I'm gonna use my same brush that I was using in the shade
it glistening and I'm just gonna apply that on top of the concealer
at this point you could switch to a larger lid brush since like the hard
work is done but I already have this brush out someone's gonna keep using it
but see how I just use the edge of this
brush just to nicely go on top of that concealer
now I'm gonna go back to my e25 with no additional product on it and I'm
gonna blend right where that matte Brown meets the shimmer just to soften this a
little bit and now I'm gonna switch to a Sigma e30 pencil brush and I'm
gonna take a darker shade so I'm going to take Cyprus umber right so I have
that shade on my brush like that and I'm gonna Pat this on my very outer
corner to deepen it up even more and it gives the eye more depth and dimension
now this next step is optional but I think it makes the cut crease pop even
more but this step can be a little bit tricky and it takes some time getting
used to and getting it like perfect so I'm gonna take the little cut crease
brush I used and just wiping it off again making sure there's no shadow
on it right now and I'm gonna take more of that rustic shade right on
the tip of my brush I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna do first I don't
have it on my brush right now and I'm gonna use this to outline at the top
of my cut crease so you can see some of that Brown is peeking through but
going over it again is gonna make it pop even more so I'm literally
dipping the tip into the shadow and you don't want too much product just
a little bit and I'm going to very carefully outline the cut crease
see how that just makes like the slightest difference and just makes
it pop even more like I said it's optional but I think it looks good
now we're pretty much done with the top lid now let's do the lower lash line for
the lower lash line and recommend using small brushes like the Sigma e30 for the
longest time I was using fluffy brushes like my e35 on my lower lash line and
it just gets all over the place it looks messy so like this brush is too big for
my lower lash line it's not precise at all so I recommend using a pencil brush
like the e30 or you can go even smaller and take the e21 smudge brush this is
also in my brush set but I'm gonna stick with the e30 so I'm gonna take more of
that rustic shade and I'm gonna blend that on my entire lower lash line and
I'm using the tip of the brush for this which is exactly why you want a pencil
brush then I'm gonna take a little bit of orange soda again and just use that
to lightly blend right underneath that dark brown and then I'm gonna take the
darkest Brown that I used Cypress number and I have this on the tip of
my brush and I'm gonna focus this on the outer part of my lower lash line
now I'm gonna do it one more step with eyeshadow which is highlighting the eyes
so now I'm gonna switch to the e21 for my brush set it's just a nice little
small brush and I'm gonna take the shade at tempera and I'm gonna go right in my
inner corner and I also like to go right under my brow right here okay now I'm
gonna pop on just a basic thin black line of eyeliner my current favorite
eyeliner is the house labs liquid one and Punk so that's how I'm gonna use you
could totally use like a pencil or gel formula but this is the one that I like
all right so there's my thin line of eyeliner I'm gonna go off camera and
pop on some mascara and lashes all right I popped on some lashes I used
one of my current favorite styles right now which is the makeup geek
Ava lashes I just think these lashes are so beautiful and here's the final look
so you can see that now my eyelid looks much bigger and I have much more space
to work with if I wanted to play with like multiple colors on my lid or do
something fun and crazy I think this is such a flattering look for so many
face shapes and so many eye shapes it just looks beautiful doing a half cut
crease can be pretty tricky if it's your first time trying it but don't
get frustrated if it's not right on the first try it took me years to
get this technique down honestly all you got to do is keep practicing and
if you feel like it looks weird on yourself maybe try bringing your cut
crease out farther maybe towards here or even farther inwards you could also
try bringing the cut crease even higher if you wanted honestly I probably could
have gone a little bit higher today but this is totally fine I just want
to encourage you guys to try this technique and don't get frustrated
with yourself this is probably the most in-depth tutorial I've done on
my channel in my whole life so I hope you guys learn something new or helpful
as always I'm gonna link every single product I use down below including the
brush set that I use and if you want to check out any other Sigma brushes
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