Apply your Eye Make-up like a Beauty Queen!

I was watching the live telecast of Miss Universe 2010 Pageant Finals at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas and just wonder how they do those gorgeous makeup, specially the eyes! Love, love, love them!!! Ha... time to make this fingers scribbling again and share it w/ you folks. Here's how to apply eye makeup in only 8 steps. Be it in your wedding day, a special dinner, or just wanted to be pretty YOU all day! Doesn't have to be all expensive to look like a beauty queen! :)

1.Prep your eyes with concealer Concealer can be used to cover up undereye circles or just the bluish discoloration just under your inner eye. To cover dark undereye circles, apply three dots of concealer under each eye. Start at the inner corner where skin tends to be darkest, then under the pupil and the third on the outer edge. Pat, never rub with your ring finger (this finger tends to have the softest pad) until it disappears.

2.Apply eye base to your lid Eye base is the secret to keeping your shadow in place for hours. Without properly priming your lid first, your eyeshadow will likely end up a greasy line in your crease.
3.Apply shadow. It's great to use a three-toned shadow and build from lids to brow. Allowing them to blend into each other like a rainbow is gorgeous, according to celebrity makeup artist Mally Roncal. Start with a light color that almost matches your lid. Sweep the color across the lid and up to your browbone. Follow with a medium color across your lid only. Build on this with a darker color in the crease. Blend the colors well.

4.Follow with eyeliner Dark eyeshadows work great as eyeliners. Wet a slanted brush, then dip in a dark eyeshadow. Line eyes as close to the upper lashes as possible from the inner corner to the outer corner. Follow with liner on bottom eyes, but only line from the middle of the eye out. Smudge the bottom line with a Q-tip or your finger. You don't want a prominent line. For a smokey eye, use a brush to pat in a dark eyeshadow along the upper lid and below the lid. You don't want a stark line, instead you want to blend it so it's 'smudge-y.'

5.Brighten your eyes with a highlighter This step involves only the inside part of the eye. With a gold or pink highlighter (white is too bright), draw a v-shaped shape that follows the inner corner of your eye from top to bottom. Blend with your fingers. This will help make eyes 'pop.'
6.Highlight your brow Take the same highlighter and dab it on your browbone, concentrating on your mid-brow outward. Blend with your finger.

7.Curl lashes An eyelash curler will make even long lashes look more gorgeous. For added effect, you can heat the curler under a blowdryer for a couple seconds. Test curler before applying to lashes because you could burn yourself.

8.Apply mascara Place the wand of your mascara brush at the bottom of lashes and wiggle back and forth. Follow with another few sweeps of the wand. Apply to bottom lashes as well.



Reminder:
When applying mascara and eyeliner, try and apply it just above/below the waterline (depending on whether you are applying to top/bottom lids, respectively) and not wear it can be blinked onto the actual eyeball. If you do end up with a line of string-like liner/mascara on your eyeball, don't panic. Simply blink until you see a small edge of the string on your lower lid or next to your tear duct. Then you can just place a finger on it and drag it out. It doesn't hurt (unless your eye doesn't agree with the actual product, in which case you need to change the product, unless having rashes and red-eye is your idea of a makeover). If you find that blinking and waiting for the liner to come out itself doesn't work, try having a few tears, and that should get it onto your lower line. If that fails, wash your face and use a bottle cap/eye wash cap to tip some water into your eye.

Doctors cannot clean behind your eyes, so, and this is only in a worst case scenario, if you do get some gunk behind your eye, wait it out. Natural blinking and tears will easily move the gunk toward the eyelids.