How do I draw arrows with shadows?

The desire to understand how to draw arrows with shadows, to learn how to paint eyes with a beveled brush arises in many girls and women who do not want to waste time using eyeliner. This technique is popular, because to master it, you need a minimum set of cosmetics. Detailed step-by-step instructions will help novice makeup artists create a beautiful and neat shaded arrow using eyeshadow.

Drawing arrows with shadows is no more difficult than drawing with a pencil or a special liner. To cope without eyeliner, the use of a special beveled brush, moistened before contact with a loose cosmetic product, helps. In addition, this process has other important features.

1. Low durability. After 6-8 hours, dry shadows will lose their clarity. Wet or creamy ones will last longer.
2. The softness of the line made. It will not be as graphic as when using a liner, but it will completely replace the pencil one.
3. Convenience of shading. You can make trendy smokey ice in a variety of color palettes.
4. The ability to vary the brightness of the pigment. The more intense it is, the more noticeable the arrows will be.
5. Variety of textures. Loose, creamy, with different particle sizes. Correctly performed makeup with such a set of shadows looks very impressive.
6. Various working techniques. Visually increasing the length of the eyelid will help keeping the beginning of the arrow from its central part. If you need to make the eyes more rounded, draw the outline from the inner corner.
7. Can be applied over eye makeup. A pencil simply cannot cope with this task.

You can quickly make an arrow in front of your eyes using shadows.

The step-by-step process looks like this.

1. Moisten the beveled brush. This step is necessary when using dry, loose eyeshadows. Wet ones can be drawn directly onto the instrument.
2. Draw a starting line. It is located along the upper ciliary contour. Stretches outward from the inner corner of the eye.
3. When you reach the edge of the century, stop. Direct your gaze straight ahead. Continue a line from the outer corner of the eye to the temple. This will be the bottom outline of the arrow.
4. Draw a contour along the upper eyelid from the outer edge. You need to step back a little from it. The longer the line, the closer to the middle of the eye it is drawn when drawing.
5. The resulting triangular contour will remain filled with pigment. You need to wet the beveled brush again, dip it in the shade. Then paint over the arrow.

Fashionable eye makeup options with shading managed to conquer not only world catwalks, but also millions of the most ordinary girls. They can be performed not only with the help of shadows, but also in a combined technique. To make the arrows look more graphical, a pencil is additionally used, with which a contour is drawn without gaps, as well as a gel liner, which fixes the result for a long time.

The step-by-step process will look like this.

1. Cover the surface of the eyelids with a base, concealer or a thin layer of foundation. Powder with beige matte eyeshadow.
2. Cover the surface of the movable eyelid with shining light shadows.
3. Apply matte brown pigments to folds and outer corners. Shadows at this stage are applied with a natural fluffy brush.
4. Along the lash line at the top, paint over all areas with black eyeliner. Better to choose the persistent option.
5. Draw a classic arrow over the pencil with gel eyeliner.
6. With a miniature brush, blend the outer edge of the eyeliner. Then add dark brown matte eyeshadow to it. Feather the line.

It remains only to touch up the eyes, and the fashionable makeup in natural shades will be ready.

There are many types of arrows. Most of them can be done with shadows. You just need to carefully prepare the base for them. Degrease the surface of the eyelids so that the makeup does not roll off in the folds, cover them with a concealer or base, evening out the tone. After that, the main shadows are applied. Usually, lighter ones are located on the movable part of the eyelid, and dark ones - in the corners of the eyes outside.

Further, the actions are slightly different, because the type of arrow has to be taken into account.

• Classical. In this case, a "tail" is drawn at the outer corner of the eye. Then the ciliary contour is painted over. The line is made thin, it is easier to work with creamy or liquid shadows.

• Wide. In this case, the arrow line noticeably increases in size at the outer corner of the eye. It is led from the middle of the movable eyelid, first by drawing a triangular outline, and then painting over it. The easiest way to achieve the desired effect is with dark brown, blue, black shadows. On the lower eyelid, the arrow is also made, but not for the entire length.

• Arab. For make-up, bright blue, green, purple shades with obligatory sparkles are taken. Black outline is also popular.Stroke is drawn around the upper and lower eyelids, in a solid line, no spaces.

Not all types of arrows can be beautifully drawn with shadows. Double or "cat" is best done in a combined technique, with a base in the form of a liner. A layer of shadows is already superimposed on top of it.

Beautiful examples of finished works will help you understand how arrows drawn with shadows can look.

• Crisp hands with graphite shadows. Outwardly, they are practically indistinguishable from working with a liner or pencil.

• An example of feathering shadows and arrows. The contour around the eye is only slightly darker than the main background. Ideal for soft smokey.

• Neat arrows with shadows in a fresh make-up look. This combination looks beautiful on a young face.

• Arrows drawn with a beveled brush. For their implementation, it is better to take a creamy base.

• Spectacular arrows extending towards the outer corner of the eye. This work of the master looks very stylish, but delicate.

See the video for several ways to draw arrows with shadows.