A few days back Piya asked, “How to apply eyeshadow?”

For me that’s a pretty broad question. I was a newbie myself until last year and it was pretty difficult for me to understand the basic terminologies of eye makeup. In fact, I am still learning today also and perfecting my art. Eye makeup is tricky, isn’t it?

So I thought I would start a series kind of a thing from all my learnings and it might prove to be useful to some of the people who are just starting with makeup.

This is the basic eye chart (click to enlarge) that I have prepared. If there is some error or confusion just let me know. I’ll correct it.

How to use this chart?

If possible take out a print of this chart and take a look at your eye in the mirror. Gently touch every part of your eye with your finger and recognize what it is called what in the makeup world.

We will talk more about eyeshadows, brushes, colours and lots of other things in my coming posts. But as of now, let’s just deal with the very basic stuff.

Ciao.