Tie-Dyed Eyes Makeup Look

Tie-Dyed Eyes

Makeup Look from STYLE Santa Fe

Experimenting with fun and bold colors can help you express your inner creative goddess. One fun look that I have developed is Tie-Dyed Eyes. Tie-dye is very much a part of Santa Fe-style as the style was partly influenced by the hippie movement, by bohemian artists and free-spirited creative minds.

You may pick your own colors. I am going to suggest working with about four colors for your tie-dyed eyes. You may select these colors based on your favorite tie-dyed piece of clothing. For this tutorial, I will be matching the colors to a tie-dyed top that I own in beautiful blues, browns and golds.

First, after completing your other makeup applications, line the eyes as you normally would to shape and define. Use a brown, brownish-black, black or even a blue, depending upon your tie-dyed color choices and your skin tones.

Begin with a matte, base brown. Apply from the inner eye up and out across the crease and on the inner area to just below the brow and outward.

Next, select a bright blue shade of eye shadow. Using a wet-dry eye-shadow brush, dab a light application of the blue in the inner eye corners extending out just a fraction like an eighth of an inch, a fourth at the most.

Now take the same blue color and wet or dampen your brush and swipe your color and apply to the outer area of the lower lid from the outside of the pupil to the corner of the eye and extend upward to “lift” the eye. Repeat the process on the upper lid from the outer corner of the pupil to the outer edge of the eye, meeting the lower line that you extended upward. Smooth and soften with a small dry brush.

Now use the gold eye shadow and apply from the mid-lower lid up toward the brow area above the crease. Blend well. Choose a gold that is really shiny, even metallic, that will really “pop.” Wet your brush and apply. Wetting the brush for these colors will make them jump out even more and it will give them longer staying power. (I applied this look in the morning and by bedtime it was just as pretty). Blend well. With a small liner brush, just hit under the eyes with a light brush of the gold for extra sparkle.

Highlight with a white (matte is better because we really just wanted to blend and smooth). Go over all eye colors lightly with the white blending and smoothing, especially blending the edges of the gold into the blues on inner and outer corners.

Use a sponge to wipe any excess colors that “drifted” outwards of the cat eye corner, and blend upward at an angle. Brush over the entire look with your favorite bronzer if it is for evening-wear. If it is for daytime, brush over the entire area with a soft matt blusher on pink or tan just to tone the sparkle down a bit so as not to overdo for daytime. Go back with the gold if you need to refresh any areas.

Touch up your eyeliner in any areas that need touched up or re-lined. I used the Mr. Write pencil liner in gold that I recently reviewed and although I did not care for it as an eye-liner per say, it does work nicely to add a little more gold sparkle to the inner eyelid corners. Dust all and set with translucent powder.

This particular look can be finished and complimented nicely with a sparkly gold lipstick.

Have fun with it and be creative. If you do not have the eye shades that you want, do not be afraid to mix your own. This technique may be tailored to work with any color of tie-dyed outfit to suit your color schemes and skin tones.