Pearly White Half Cut Crease Eyeshadow

 

It gives me butterflies to type that I have semi- figured out a cut crease. For ages I just didn’t know where to put things. Now that I have it down to a certain extent I really have been enjoying creating them.  For this version I wanted a bright white shimmery “cut” part with greyish mauve matte on the crease and outer corner area. The outcome looked extremely bridal/ feminine to me at the end. I’ll definitely be recreating this one a few more times with different shades and maybe a better transition from cut part to outer corner. Making that part seamless is harder for me than I feel like it should be!

Here is how I achieved this cut crease step by step:

1. Apply eyeshadow primer and set with a matte skintone powder
2. Blend out crease, lower lash line & outer corner shades. Build up a little bolder than you think you need because the cut crease takes some of it away.
3. Using concealer, cut out out half the crease.  Imagine a dome shape on your eye, and make that shape with the concealer.
4. Set with Colourpop High Tide, then Morphe Beam
5. Stamp Makeup Geek Bandwagon transition shade with a flat liner brush around the dome to softly define
6. Add mascara, lashes, & a thin liner over the band
7. Waterline pencil, inner corner highlight

 

The lashes were a new style for me that I’ve worn twice now- Koko Lashes Monroe. They have a thick band that wants to stay straight on my round lid so I had to add a little liner to disguise it. Next time I use them again I’ll be cutting them basically in half to make them more easy to apply as an outer corner style.

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Complexion| WET N WILD matte primer, NARS natural  radiant long wear foundation, TARTE shape tape, COTY airspun powder, BARE MINERALS bisque under eye powder, MAC melba blush, MUFE pro fusion bronzer, BECCA champagne pop highlight


Eye| MAC eye base, KKWxMARIO decade, MAKEUP GEEK bandwagon, Wild West, & cabin fever, COLOURPOP high tide, MORPHE beam, ULTA naked truth waterline, NYX liquid liner, LOREAL voluminous primer, MAYBELLINE big shot colossal mascara, KOKO Monroe lashes

Brow| ABH auburn dipbrow, ULTA brow tint



Lip| TOO FACED perfect nude liner, OFRA manila liquid lip

 

This lipstick was so comfortable that I could barely tell I had it on.  If you find liquid lipsticks annoyingly drying, I recommend trying out Ofra’s formula.  Now onto mastering a full cut crease instead of just half…

-Kim