All That Black: Look 2: Almost Black and Complimentary Colors
Yay! It's time for our second installment of how to wear black eyeshadow! Today we are going to start off by talking about complimentary colors. A complimentary color is the color that sits exactly across the color wheel from the color you pick. With so many tertiary, quartiary (I made that word up), and so on and so forth colors, it can get a little messy, so I am only going to show you a wheel that goes to the tertiary level. If you are not sure what the complimentary color would be for a not-quite-purple-not-quite-pink-wtf-are-you-color, you can usually use basic color knowledge to find a suitable match.
So let's say you do have that color (because just the other night I moved one color around 100 times organizing my makeup since I couldn't choose pink or purple for it's category)
The opposite of pink (light red, it might have other hues) would be a light green. You really could use ANY green, but to be a true compliment, they should be the same saturation. The opposite of purple is yellow. Okay. so the middle ground between green and yellow is yellow green. Now you know your complimentary color for your deviant pigment.
In this tutorial, we are not going to use TRUE complimentary colors, because, well, this tutorial is for wearing black eyeshadows (or close to it).
I have a few different looks I did, just to show, but the color combinations are only limited by your makeup collection.
Radar Love with Misfits and Moonbeams.
Radar Love is a nice soft pink, while M&M is a black with a deep green flitter. The first picture, it has kind of a green sheen/tint just from the glitter and undertones, while the second picture looks pretty solid black.
Penny Arcade with Glitter and Doom
Glitter and Doom is a VERY deep blue-toned purple. It looks almost black in the jar, and you can build it to an almost black on your lid, like I did, for a nice color contrast against the yellow of Penny Arcade. It LOOKS black because yellow is purple's complimentary color... but if you saw my FrankenGlitter tutorial, you know that G&D is NOT black.
Dreamsicle with Taransula (this is today's tutorial!)
Dreamsicle is a light, matte orange and Taransula is a navy blue...it looks almost black in the jar, but you can tell it's not quite a true black. Next to orange, you can't really tell that this is navy unless you have an expert eye for colors.
Ok, now for the tutorial! (sorry for the blurry photos at the beginning, I did this tutorial at night and didn't realize that the flash was making it blurry)
What you need:
Primer
Black and white bases
Madd Style Cosmetics:
Dreamsicle
Taransula
Tweaker
Sprinkle Mist
Eyeliner (solid and liquid)
Mascara
Eyeshadow Brush
Angled Eyeshadow Brush
Mascara
Apply your primer and let it dry, then apply your white base all over your lid
Apply and blend your black base on your outer lid and a little in your crease. This is to give depth to Dreamsicle while we can still maintain a matte color by not using Taransula later on.
Take Dreamsicle almost all the way up to the edge of your bases. Don't worry about blending, we want a nice crisp line here.
Apply Taransula along the edge of Dreamsicle. Don't blend it upwards too much, but you can do a little blending downwards, just keep it crisp and clean. (you can see the black base at work under Dreamsicle in the second photo)
Apply Taransula to your bottom lid... this IS a black eyeshadow tutorial after all.
Apply Tweaker heavily to your inner corner (this opens up your eyes!), apply it lightly to your brow bone, and then put it on your lower waterline (again, this will help open up your eyes, but you don't need it SUPER WHITE to get the open eye look)
Line ONLY your upper waterline with your solid eyeliner, line your upper lid with liquid liner and apply mascara.
I always fill in my brows when I have darker/dramatic looks... I decided to go back a year in how I did my makeup and fill them in with a fun color... You can use any MSC pigment to fill in your brows for a temporary "punk rock" twist, or to match your current hair color.
So let's say you do have that color (because just the other night I moved one color around 100 times organizing my makeup since I couldn't choose pink or purple for it's category)
The opposite of pink (light red, it might have other hues) would be a light green. You really could use ANY green, but to be a true compliment, they should be the same saturation. The opposite of purple is yellow. Okay. so the middle ground between green and yellow is yellow green. Now you know your complimentary color for your deviant pigment.
In this tutorial, we are not going to use TRUE complimentary colors, because, well, this tutorial is for wearing black eyeshadows (or close to it).
I have a few different looks I did, just to show, but the color combinations are only limited by your makeup collection.
Radar Love with Misfits and Moonbeams.
Radar Love is a nice soft pink, while M&M is a black with a deep green flitter. The first picture, it has kind of a green sheen/tint just from the glitter and undertones, while the second picture looks pretty solid black.
Penny Arcade with Glitter and Doom
Glitter and Doom is a VERY deep blue-toned purple. It looks almost black in the jar, and you can build it to an almost black on your lid, like I did, for a nice color contrast against the yellow of Penny Arcade. It LOOKS black because yellow is purple's complimentary color... but if you saw my FrankenGlitter tutorial, you know that G&D is NOT black.
Dreamsicle with Taransula (this is today's tutorial!)
Dreamsicle is a light, matte orange and Taransula is a navy blue...it looks almost black in the jar, but you can tell it's not quite a true black. Next to orange, you can't really tell that this is navy unless you have an expert eye for colors.
Ok, now for the tutorial! (sorry for the blurry photos at the beginning, I did this tutorial at night and didn't realize that the flash was making it blurry)
What you need:
Primer
Black and white bases
Madd Style Cosmetics:
Dreamsicle
Taransula
Tweaker
Sprinkle Mist
Eyeliner (solid and liquid)
Mascara
Eyeshadow Brush
Angled Eyeshadow Brush
Mascara
Apply your primer and let it dry, then apply your white base all over your lid
Apply and blend your black base on your outer lid and a little in your crease. This is to give depth to Dreamsicle while we can still maintain a matte color by not using Taransula later on.
Take Dreamsicle almost all the way up to the edge of your bases. Don't worry about blending, we want a nice crisp line here.
Apply Taransula along the edge of Dreamsicle. Don't blend it upwards too much, but you can do a little blending downwards, just keep it crisp and clean. (you can see the black base at work under Dreamsicle in the second photo)
Apply Taransula to your bottom lid... this IS a black eyeshadow tutorial after all.
Apply Tweaker heavily to your inner corner (this opens up your eyes!), apply it lightly to your brow bone, and then put it on your lower waterline (again, this will help open up your eyes, but you don't need it SUPER WHITE to get the open eye look)
Line ONLY your upper waterline with your solid eyeliner, line your upper lid with liquid liner and apply mascara.
I always fill in my brows when I have darker/dramatic looks... I decided to go back a year in how I did my makeup and fill them in with a fun color... You can use any MSC pigment to fill in your brows for a temporary "punk rock" twist, or to match your current hair color.