Beginners Eye Makeup Tutorial for Mature Skin How To Apply Eyeshadow on Mature Eyes

Today I'm going to show you how to create a soft glam look, perfect for mature eyes

We're going to start off by prepping with a little bit of concealer

I'd recommend using concealer mixed with an eyeshadow primer, as some eyeshadow primers

can be quite drying on mature lids, but prepping the lids in this way will give the eyeshadow

something to hold on to, while creating a blank canvas for us to work on

I've chosen these four eyeshadows to create this look, and I'll talk you through each

one that you need. The first one is at least one shade lighter than the skin tone, and this will be used

as our highlighter or our base. We then have a contour shade, which should be at least one shade darker than the skin tone

Then we have our midtone, or transition shade. This should be somewhere in between our contour and our highlight

And then we have our fourth shade, which is a highlighter. This can have a little bit of shimmer to it, and should be about one shade lighter than

the skin tone. These are just four single shadows, but there's lots of different palettes that have this

variety, so you can definitely recreate it. As far as brushes go, you're going to need a blending brush, a flat brush, a clean blending

brush, which I'll explain a little bit later, and also a smaller brush, just for any detailed work

We're going to start off with the blending brush and our midtone

We're going to apply this in the crease of the eye, stopping underneath the brows

Now for mature lids, or hooded eyes, you want to make sure that you really work your midtone

into that hooded area. This will help to camouflage it, recede it, and create a soft, blurry finish

If you're working on yourself, try keeping your eyes open. This will allow you to see the shape that you're creating

You really just want to focus on this area just above the lid

This will help to recede any hoodedness, and soften the look. We're then going to take the smaller brush, and we're going to take the contour shade

We're going to work this on the outer edge of the eye, and deep into the socket

You want to keep this nice and low. Your midtone is always higher than your contour

So keep it underneath this line, working on the outer edge of the lid

You also want to make sure you're keeping within the lines. Don't worry if you've gone outside them, because you can always clean it up afterwards

But using the edge of the nose, eye, and brow as a guide, you want to blend in from this point

This will just make sure you get that nice, soft, lifted appearance. We're then going to take the clean blending brush, and what we're going to do is blend

over everything that we've already applied. This will soften out any harsh lines

And you're not going to apply any eyeshadows with this, you're just blending with whatever's

already there. By using a clean blending brush, you're going to stop that muddy appearance that can happen

Try holding the brush really far down the handle, and just softly sweep over everything

We're then going to take the flat brush, and we're going to take the highlighter shade

and apply this on the inner corner of the eye, and softly sweep it to about the halfway

point of the lid. Try to keep this nice and low, you don't want to touch the crease with this

Everything else on the lid is kept quite matte, and this is just to add a little bit of shine

Sticking with that same flat brush, we're also going to take the matte shade, and we're

going to apply this underneath the brows. This will just add a little bit of definition, and you can also apply it over the top of

the highlight to soften any of that really harsh highlighted effect. This will give you that really blurry effect, which is perfect for mature lids

I then finish off by cleaning up on the outer edge of the eye with concealer

This will give a lifted appearance to the eye. Some lashes and mascara, and that's the finished look

If you'd like to see more looks on mature lids, definitely let me know in the comment section

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