Colored shadows can be tricky to work with, but you can’t go wrong with shades of brown and copper since it works well with practically every skin tone and eye color. Browns are great for everyday wear since the natural shadows of your lids are a brownish red. Eyes are the first thing people notice; make them clean, defined, beautiful and not too distracting. You want people to notice you, not your heavy makeup so here’s a way to give your eyes that bit of pop it needs without being overdone. This is a great basic everyday look that can be changed up easily and worn for any occasion.

Step 1: Start with clean eyes and apply primer all over the lid up to your brow bone. Elf Primer is a great alternative to Urban Decay’s Primer Potion. For only 1 dollar compared to a 20 dollar primer, it’s a must have.
Step 2: Apply a red toned brown shadow all over the lid up to the crease with a wide blending brush. Mac’s Brown Script is matte and has great pigmentation with no fallout.
Step 3: Sweep the copper shimmer shadow from the inner corner to the middle of the lid with a small flat shader brush. The middle of your lid is the highest point of the lid and will make your eyes appear larger and add more dimension once it reflects. These Maybelline single shadows have great pigmentation, don’t smudge or crease, and are affordable.
Step 4: Apply brown shadow with a crease brush in outer V blending towards the center of your crease.
Step 5: Use a liner brush to line the bottom lash line with the same brown shadow to define your eyes softly without giving them a harsh line a liner would. Avoid taking it all the way to the inner corners. Focus on the outer corner your bottom lash line blending it towards the middle.
Step 6: Blend the crease shadow between lid and brown bone with a blending brush and a cream shimmer shadow to help it stand out and appear higher.
Steps 7-9: These next steps are totally optional since this look can be worn more naturally without any liner and mascara alone, but I personally prefer liner. Apply a copper toned liner in the waterline and line your upper lash line with a black liquid liner close to the lash line, slightly winging out to elongate the eyes.
Step 10: To finish it off, top it off with mascara on the upper and lower lashes to open up the eyes.

This is an extremely versatile look that can be changed from day to night just by adding more brown to the crease, thickening the line of your liner, adding more coats of mascara, or lining the bottom lash line with a shimmery copper toned shadow or a colored shadow for more drama. Enjoy playing around with this look and trying out copper tones!

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1. Gather your supplies. You’ll need a curler, faux lashes, lash glue, and mascara.
2. Start off by measuring the false lash against your natural lash. You don’t want the false lash to be any longer lengthwise, so clip the ends if necessary.
3. Apply a thin layer of lash glue (I love DUO Lash Adhesive in black – it dries black instead of white, making it much easier to conceal with makeup). Focus the glue on the ends of the false lash, as this is where the lashes tend to loosen the easiest.
4. Hold the lash in a semi-circular shape using two fingers while waiting for the glue to dry. Give it approximately 20-25 seconds, until the glue takes a tacky form.
5. Using tweezers, close your eyes and apply the false lash to the base of your natural lashes. Hold it in place and keep your eye shut for an additional 20 seconds or so. This will give time for your false lash to form and set — avoiding and messiness.
6. Afterwards, use the backend of your tweezers and gently press the false lash into place — again focusing on the ends of the lash, which tend to loosen the quickest.
7. When everything is dried and set, curl your natural and false lashes together, to give them a more blended appearance.
8. Apply a thin coat on your false and natural lashes, again with a purpose of blending the two together.

… and you’re all done! Be sure to bring lash glue with you in your bag when you go out, just in case your lashes get loose edges. Otherwise, you are set for the rest of the night!

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No curler, no primer, no mascara: Here, you can see my lashes without any products or tools used. No lash curling, no primer, no mascara!

Curler, no primer, no mascara: Here, you can see what my lashes look like curled, again with no product over top.

No curler, no primer, mascara: Here, you can see what my lashes look like with just mascara.

Curler, no primer, mascara: Here, you can see what my lashes look like curled with mascara, however, without primer.

No curler, primer, mascara: Here, you can see my lashes with primer and mascara, without curling.

Curler, primer, mascara: Here, you can see my lashes with the whole deal – curling, primer and mascara.

  At the end of the day, every little step will make a difference. If you have time to curl and prime your lashes in the morning, do both… it can’t hurt! However, if you only have the time (or patience) for one extra lash-related step, I’d say go with the primer!

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Here is the simple how to:

1. Start with a primer as always to ensure a long lasting look. I use Too Faced Shadow Insurance, or Mac Paint Pot in Painterly. Apply a flesh toned eye shadow to start with a light base for the navy shades. Apply all over lid up to brow bone. 
2. Place a dark navy shadow in the crease and begin to blend inward toward the iris of the eye. Keep blending until it is diffused. Apply a lighter blue shade right in the middle of the lid for a little extra dimension.
3. Bring the darker eye shadow down onto the lash liner, as apply as a liner, while also smoking it out with the lighter blue shade. Apply a white eye shadow to the inner corner of the eyes and blend outward. Think a white to navy gradient.
4. Falsies can be the easy fix to a subtle makeup look. Putting them on is easier then you think. Apply a thin strip of lash glue to the base of the false lash. (Make sure it is not clumpy nor thick and goopy.) Allow to dry for about 30 seconds while the glue becomes tacky.
5. Apply as close to the lash line as possible while pressing firmly on the lashes so they adhere to your lash line. Keep your eye closed for about 10 seconds while the lash glue bonds the lash to your lash time.
6. Add two coats of mascara and cover the false lash line with liquid black eye liner.

Finish with a bat of the eye and get ready for summer with this smoky look!

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