How to build an eyeshadow look

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  • čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
  • Alright peeps. Today I'm talking step by step how to create an eyeshadow look. Rememeber, you can do this with all neutrals, color, shimmer, whatever you desire. But hopefully this will help explain how to go about placing certain shades in certain areas and WHY. Hope it helps! Let me know if you want this to be a series 🙌🏼❤️
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Komentáře • 573

  • @AlexandraAnele
    @AlexandraAnele  Před 2 lety +377

    Hope this helps! I know it's long but trust me, it's everything 🥲 Also let me know if you want this to be a series and what looks you'd like explained ❤

    • @k666ti
      @k666ti Před 2 lety +13

      keep going ! i love when I can relate to a video and honestly i can’t relate to all but I’ll still try to watch 🥺

    • @sichu4722
      @sichu4722 Před 2 lety +18

      I cannot believe we're getting this for free. We definitely want this to be a series. You are the bessstttt! 💛

    • @k666ti
      @k666ti Před 2 lety +6

      also I literally am like two different people with fake eyelashes and not, because my natural eyelashes are blonde / brown I need a look with no lashes at all!! Like some cute to just bink bink if I don’t have any eyelashes ):

    • @littlebird7400
      @littlebird7400 Před 2 lety +6

      We can't thank you enough for this type of videos!! Incredibly well explained, so helpful, your tutorials are GOLD♥️ please let it be a series🙏🏼 Lots of love, Alex

    • @dvdh4856
      @dvdh4856 Před 2 lety +6

      YES SERIES PLEASE!! 🙏

  • @liberalwithlipstick
    @liberalwithlipstick Před 2 lety +486

    Yes, PUHLEASE make this a series. I’d love an explanation of how to build a look when you want to use contrasting colors that don’t easily melt into each other. I realize that’s maybe more of a color question than a structure/shape question, but I think it could still fit within a series like this. And what someone considers/strategizes when they want to build a successful high contrast look is a thought process I’ve never actually heard anyone verbalize before.

    • @makeupnerd8467
      @makeupnerd8467 Před 2 lety +5

      Yes please

    • @ma-ma-mamary3946
      @ma-ma-mamary3946 Před 2 lety +10

      Yes!!!! Making the use of shades that are on the opposite sides of the color wheel will be the death of me. Making it look good, I mean. Because I'm a pro at making it look like a blob of mud. Or a smudge.

    • @Ms10yearsafter
      @Ms10yearsafter Před 2 lety +3

      @@ma-ma-mamary3946same, that's why we have you ♥...

  • @asher662
    @asher662 Před 2 lety +319

    These are real tutorials! Things we actually need! Love u Alex

  • @sherynemmanuel
    @sherynemmanuel Před 2 lety +239

    Woah...thanks for this in-depth tutorial. This is going to be extremely useful, especially for beginners. Heck, this would be useful for everyone really 👍

    • @AlexandraAnele
      @AlexandraAnele  Před 2 lety +5

      🙏🏼

    • @murphy1011
      @murphy1011 Před 2 lety

      Agreed. I’ve been doing my makeup for over 20 years now and I never stop learning new things. Especially since makeup tutorials became so popular on CZcams. It just goes to show how versatile makeup really is. There are endless techniques and combinations that can be done. Everyone I watch has different tips and tricks that I never would have thought of.

  • @Arcannabis
    @Arcannabis Před 2 lety +74

    You remind me of my favorite MAC trainers, I miss the old days. You’re so good at explaining things in a way that doesn’t sacrifice artistry but is easy for everyone to understand- truly talented

  • @AW-xc1xc
    @AW-xc1xc Před 2 lety +90

    I'd genuinely love to see you create an "opposite" eyeshadow look; so the shimmer shades goes where the dark smoky shades usually go, a pop of black or dark brown on the middle of the lid, etc.

    • @potato-qr3sg
      @potato-qr3sg Před 2 lety +5

      That's interesting

    • @lauradelaney5457
      @lauradelaney5457 Před 2 lety +2

      Yessssssss great idea! I hope Alex sees this

    • @briannaw6980
      @briannaw6980 Před 2 lety +2

      i’m imagining a look where the darkest shades are placed in the typical “highlight” areas on the eye 👁 might be cool!

  • @sandrameza1644
    @sandrameza1644 Před rokem +3

    Yes, you help a lot. I am a fan. I am 65 and I would wear this! I don't do tik tok so I rely on these videos. Thanks!

  • @americanviking9384
    @americanviking9384 Před 2 lety +127

    Your tutorials have literally elevated my makeup game and confidence soooo much! You're the bestest ever 🥰💕

    • @AlexandraAnele
      @AlexandraAnele  Před 2 lety +17

      😩 This makes me so happy you have no idea 🥺😭

  • @CatharsisByProxy
    @CatharsisByProxy Před 2 lety +3

    I hope you never stop making your art.

  • @christendominique
    @christendominique Před 2 lety +14

    This look is so incredibly beautiful 🥲❤️

  • @allmyworldlygoods
    @allmyworldlygoods Před 2 lety +46

    You always explain everything so clearly and concisely. Thank youuuuuuu 🥰🥰🥰

  • @brendaleelydon
    @brendaleelydon Před 2 lety +32

    This is amazing! I've watched other people put on eyeshadow & even tutorials, but I found this MUCH easier to understand in a 'this is WHY' way and not *just* a 'this is HOW' way. I'd love to see more videos like this with other eye looks! Thanks for the video!

    • @DizzehxxMitizzeh42
      @DizzehxxMitizzeh42 Před 2 lety +4

      I was just thinking this recently, especially since I feel like other creators don't even really get to "how," they kinda just stop at "what." But here we also get why _and_ how because she's not just saying and doing, she's showing _where_ and _pointing_ and _then_ explaining why.

  • @toniapedd
    @toniapedd Před 2 lety +17

    Mesmerizing! I used to be pretty good at doing my makeup and different eye looks daily. I got Leukemia and had to stop working, I owned my own salon. Now that I rarely leave the house I feel like I've forgotten how to do everything and am rarely happy with my boring, simple shadows and eye looks I do for fear of doing it wrong or looking like I did too much. I'd love this to be a series and you explaining why a certain color goes where and such will really help me do more than the typical old school, darker crease, medium lid, hi lighted brow and corner, 'safe' look. My Leukemia is terminal, so 'safe' is not acceptable! LOL Not as bold maybe, as my only outings are to dr's appointments, but I still want to look the best I can & have to start changing things up properly. With you explaining with your artist's eye is so helpful!🥰 My request would be a nice everyday kind of look that doesn't scream, "I'm going somewhere special," but also changing the color scheme of the technique at times. You Rock!! Wish I had an ounce of your talent!!

  • @itsrachelbtw8169
    @itsrachelbtw8169 Před 2 lety +1

    I can't tell you how much I appreciate this instruction. I don't see a lot of good actual tutorials anymore and EVERYONE can always learn more. I would definitely watch you do more of these. Teach me your ways !!!

  • @azychristie7288
    @azychristie7288 Před 2 lety +54

    We definitely need a series of these tutorials. The explanation and the slow and simple nature of this video was very very helpful. Please do a series.🦋

  • @talia841951
    @talia841951 Před 2 lety +4

    yes. please make this a series. eyeshadow isn't my strong suit but it's my favorite part of makeup and i keep looking for tutorials when no one seems to create that content anymore. this is just what i need. 💕

  • @lynnhom6915
    @lynnhom6915 Před 2 lety

    Yes a series. I would love to see a very subtle sophisticated, but done up look. I’m 71 and love eyes and wear makeup most days.

  • @katie4996
    @katie4996 Před 2 lety +11

    I’ve doing my own makeup for 15 years. And I’ve never heard blending explained this way. Well done ❤️

  • @LaurieStylesxoxo
    @LaurieStylesxoxo Před 2 lety +13

    I haven’t felt inspired with eye makeup in months. Not even enough to do a look on days I wanna wear makeup. But this eye look intrigued me and now I wanna try to do it! Please make more videos like this!! ❤️❤️

  • @sushmitakn895
    @sushmitakn895 Před 7 měsíci +1

    You're so talented! Your content is so refreshing and interesting. Just watching the way your hand moves, and the looks you create, your true artistry shines thru!!

  • @krissy8552
    @krissy8552 Před 2 lety +2

    This needs to be a series. Creating, blending and building of all different looks, colors would be great. Grungy, smoky, bright. So much fun!!

  • @amberr6
    @amberr6 Před rokem

    I LOVE how you explain everything. So much as to the WHY you’re doing something. Those pieces of detail truly help me tremendously and not everyone gives so much helpful info and is so transparent and honest about their choices. So helpful dude. Thank you 🙏!!!!

  • @embernicole9609
    @embernicole9609 Před 2 lety +4

    Please make this a series!!! I love your process of creating a look because it is pretty much how I feel most of our minds work lol. I hope we get to see more of these!!

  • @nikashagha7507
    @nikashagha7507 Před 8 měsíci +1

    This was extremely satisfying to watch you truly are talented omg

  • @rachelknight5797
    @rachelknight5797 Před 2 lety +19

    Wow, that is so beautiful! At first, I thought the shimmer wasn't transferring to your lid, but then I realized it's rather holographic. Very nice! I love this 🥰

  • @thefirststate
    @thefirststate Před 2 lety

    Eyeshadow, blush and highlighter is my favorite make up content

  • @alyssadube2786
    @alyssadube2786 Před 2 lety +25

    Okay kind of random but you're literally one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen😭
    And your videos have helped me SO much to feel more confident..you're the absolute besttt🖤

  • @Ellamaybuttons
    @Ellamaybuttons Před 2 lety +4

    I was literally thinking the other day how helpful it would be to have a breakdown of the composition of eyeshadow looks, and you deliver. Thank you, would love to see more!

  • @mervet.3850
    @mervet.3850 Před 2 lety +1

    you're literally the coolest person i have ever seen 💕

  • @TheLexiJess
    @TheLexiJess Před 2 lety

    This girl has probably the best makeup skills in all of beauty CZcams. (imo).

  • @imaginepithynamehere4257
    @imaginepithynamehere4257 Před 2 lety +6

    It's funny. Nobody sat me down and said, "this is how you apply makeup" until I was 20, and in hair school. In chapter one, they basically give you a mini etiquette school, crammed into 3 or 4 days, and part of that included makeup.
    My Mom never wore makeup, and, by the time I was interested in it, both of my decade-older sisters had moved out of the house. The one guide I had was a friend who wore the palest foundation she could find, and applied it like a person would slather sunscreen on a baby. To be fair, she rocked it.
    For years, all I had was 2 eyeliners, a compact of pressed face powder, and one lipstick. One day, this friend accidentally left a little pot of the perfect (for me) transition/contour shadow at my house after a weekend sleepover. She told me I could just keep it, and being a broke kid, I was like, "yussss!"
    I also have slightly hooded eyes. I began by putting it just on my eyelids, but that didn't look right. So I began to build it up, and up, in increments, until I was rocking a perfect swoop, with shadow swept up onto my brow bone, then blended out into my regular skin colour. I managed to achieve that with the one tiny sponge applicator that attached to the bottom of the pot of eyeshadow, and used my fingers to blend and diffuse the outer perimeter.
    It's funny how, even someone who was as clueless about fashion and beauty as I was, could find the perfect eyeshadow, and apply it so it enhanced my personal eye shape. Just going by what looked good, and what look wrong to me. I am pretty decent at art, so that probably came into play.
    I rocked that taupe contour colour, solo, as stated above on my upper lid, blended it in my lower lash line, then wore a little brown or black eyeliner on my top lid, and that was it.
    The day they taught us makeup in hairschool, I came straight home, and taught my little sister, who was my roommate, how to do her makeup. She's now in her mid-late 30s, and she still uses the same technique I showed her all those years ago. She even uses the same neutral drugstore pallette that she's been buying throughout the years. It still works for her!
    This is becoming a bit of a ramble, but you just brought back some memories.
    It's funny how we did things before CZcams. We didn't have TV growing up either; we lived too far out, there was no cable service. Just a TV and VCR with lots of movies, and early, phone-modem-internet that was mostly text-based. There was no Google; you had to know what you were looking for. We only used it for chatting with people on BBSs.
    So, we'd emulate books, magazines, movies, and we'd try out shit on eachother with friends' makeup, or the drugstore samples section (cringe) until we found what worked.
    I had another friend who had very large eyes, and she wore black eyeliner 360° around each eye, but done to perfection. I was always so jealous that she could rock this super metal look, but every time I tried it, I'd look like an elderly cat with an eye infection. It doesn't help that I've got very wide cheekbones, so if I tried to wear black eyeliner like she did, I'd end up with these tiny, squinty, black eyes floating in the middle of all this skin and bone.
    None of us knew anything about contouring, and because it was the 90s, very few teenagers wore blush. Everyone who wore makeup had a monochrome blob of matte skin, paired with dark matte eyes and lips. Don't forget the TONS of powder. Everyone rolled around with the ubiquitous Cover Girl powder compact on them at all times.
    It was ridiculous: even though the closest tiny town to my house, where I went to school, had a very large Indigenous population, (probably 50% or more) there was almost zero representation in the makeup aisles in the two drugstores. Anyone with deeper skin tones than "medium" often couldn't find foundation or concealer. So, they'd have to settle for an ashy, too-light base, or a shade with a matching value, but the totally wrong undertone. It was that, or go without. Or, if they/their parents had the money, make the 2 hour bus trek into the closest small city to special order foundation from department store makeup counters.
    Buying department store makeup was, to most of us in that small, economically depressed, ex-logging town, an indication of fabulous wealth. We had to steal drugstore stuff, get hand-me-down makeup from older relatives, and swap/share with friends. It's shocking that we all didn't end up with eye infections, dermatitis, or impetigo.
    This is why I always gift nice, brand-new makeup, skincare and brushes to any younger friends and family members who are interested in it.
    There were some people in our general age bracket in our small town with fairly deep complections. One girl told me that she had family members in larger cities on the mainland, places that had far more black representation. She would have to send them money, and photos of herself and her sister's faces in natural light to them, and they would send the two of them colour matched base products in the mail.
    Some things were cool about the 90s, but that wasn't one of them.

    • @satviksingh1200
      @satviksingh1200 Před 2 lety +1

      Loved reading this. I always love to hear the stories of people's journey with makeup especially before yt. I hope you're living all your makeup dreams now

    • @imaginepithynamehere4257
      @imaginepithynamehere4257 Před 2 lety

      @@satviksingh1200 thank, bud! Same goes to you!

  • @creepypapermultipack
    @creepypapermultipack Před 2 lety

    You’re killing it with these eye looks lately. I’m obsessed.

  • @m.e.5
    @m.e.5 Před 2 lety

    That shimmer looks wet! How beautiful.
    Your brows-sensational!

  • @thefirststate
    @thefirststate Před 2 lety

    Yes, please make it a series. I promise I will watch, comment and like your content.

  • @MrsAnnThropy
    @MrsAnnThropy Před 2 lety

    I’m gonna cry, this video makes me so happy. These are the videos people need to put out for makeup. We’re tired of recreating a look, tell me how to put the colors I like together and use the shades I have already lol when I was little my mom taught me what she was taught when she tried modeling school (it was the 80s when she went), and it’s been interesting to see it evolve but it’s now so complex that it’s not just the same basic rules as it was. It’s more of a genuine art form and that requires the techniques to be explained more than just how to apply the makeup to your face correctly. I love this n I love u I’ve said it a million times n I’ll say it a million more times I’m so happy I found this channel 💜

    • @MrsAnnThropy
      @MrsAnnThropy Před 2 lety

      If it’s not obvious, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make this a series

  • @lizbethruiz5736
    @lizbethruiz5736 Před 2 lety

    Tysm, theres barely any tutorial videos out there anymore, like I struggle a lot to make a look, it ends up this blob, just a stain in my lid. I appreciate your content and I'm all in for the series.

  • @dirtclassy
    @dirtclassy Před 2 lety

    DUDE. I haven’t seen you this happy or excited in your videos in a long time, it’s super cool to see you having fun! The energy is contagious. I’m gonna go play now, too 💛

  • @sugandhasharma2818
    @sugandhasharma2818 Před 2 lety +1

    I love seeing you create eyeshadow looks!! They are always so creative and different and beautiful ✨✨♥️♥️

  • @Lita_Joann
    @Lita_Joann Před 2 lety +10

    Omg please make this into a series! I need more 😅 The look is amazingg 😍 love, love, love. I would like to see a step by step smokey eye with neutral tones x

  • @reese3005
    @reese3005 Před 2 lety

    I LOOOOVE the idea of a step by step for creating all the popular eyeshadow shapes/styles/trends(?) That would be great!

  • @jusjillt
    @jusjillt Před 2 lety

    Please Yes to a series on various look’s & application process. As always your detailed Description helps with the application at home and just an overall understanding on how to use your brushes as well as how to layer the colors used we appreciate your videos💗

  • @wendytran6110
    @wendytran6110 Před 2 lety

    Skin looks so healthy! I love it! You can wear the worst makeup and still make it good girl! Love!

  • @vanessawatkins7482
    @vanessawatkins7482 Před 2 lety

    That shimmer eyeshadow shade is everything! I need it. I love this hopefully series! You're an amazing teacher!

  • @rebeccavorwald7821
    @rebeccavorwald7821 Před 2 lety

    I will take these videos at any time you want to give them!!!!!!!!!!!! So freaking fabulous, Alex! I would SO rock this!!! Love it, love it all!!!!! Play anytime, I'm here for it!!!! Blessings to you!! ✌️💚🙏

  • @behsharam4993
    @behsharam4993 Před 2 lety +6

    I would love to see a tutorial on editorial looks, particularly those that take eye makeup outside of the eye area and making it work with your facial structure and face makeup. I love playing with editorial looks. I want to go bigger and bolder, but I feel like it never looks right with my face.

  • @annelisepace1589
    @annelisepace1589 Před 2 lety

    Late to this video but you’re such a good art teacher!! Which translates to being an amazing makeup teacher!

  • @honeybadgergrrl77
    @honeybadgergrrl77 Před 2 lety

    Girl, you always make me buy stuff, lol. Just got that Sigma brush, I'm so excited. I recently got back into makeup after going away from it for a long time, and your channel is so amazing, you have such good tips, and you are honest without being mean. I'm also super fair with dark eye circles, and I've learned SO MUCH. THANK YOU for the color correct recs. I swear, these makeup companies should be making you RICH, I've made so many good purchases from watching your channel.

  • @sashimi6889
    @sashimi6889 Před 2 lety

    also LOVE this look u created and that glimmer is beautiful

  • @Ta_Sa_
    @Ta_Sa_ Před 2 lety

    You always alerts know what i need!!!! Thank you

  • @madsquishy3410
    @madsquishy3410 Před 2 lety

    Love this eye look on you so much! And I just vibe so hard with your whole outlook on how makeup should be fun!!

  • @lostandfond2163
    @lostandfond2163 Před 2 lety

    This look is exactly what I needed for Easter!!!! Thank ❤️ you! High key my favorite person for makeup tutorials

  • @BaileyTheSaxophonist
    @BaileyTheSaxophonist Před 2 lety

    Loved seeing you have fun 🤩

  • @jeanlinder1310
    @jeanlinder1310 Před 2 lety

    I loved this! I love watching you play with make-up and explain how you built the look. So cool!

  • @traceywilson-kissoon604

    That was so incredibly helpful! Thank you Alex you are such a great teacher 🙏❤️

  • @nikkil9311
    @nikkil9311 Před 2 lety

    I would LOVE a series! Learned so much, and so mush fun to see someone "play" and how they are thinking. Thanks!

  • @shreya6328
    @shreya6328 Před 2 lety

    really needed a detailed explanation like this, and yesss a series would be of so much help! love you!

  • @lievermorgen
    @lievermorgen Před 2 lety

    Loved this one Alex, thank you.

  • @talyamatz9028
    @talyamatz9028 Před 2 lety

    I love it and you literally make it look so easy. Please do a series!!!!!!!!!!

  • @fatematabassumhoque
    @fatematabassumhoque Před 2 lety

    YES TO THE SERIES 💯

  • @sjvilla99
    @sjvilla99 Před 2 lety

    Wow!! Absolutely gorgeous look!!

  • @becauseimLexie
    @becauseimLexie Před 2 lety

    I love this!!! I have all these colors so I can't wait to try it out!! That tip about the way you hold your brush is so helpful too ty ty ty!!!

  • @LindsyPaige
    @LindsyPaige Před 2 lety

    I LOVE this look and love love love watching you just play and create!

  • @AllTheHappySquirrels
    @AllTheHappySquirrels Před 2 lety

    I love this as a series idea. Yes, please!
    And this look is dope AF 😍

  • @yazCamp
    @yazCamp Před 2 lety

    Yes please an in-depth series 🙏 . I love how well you explain ever step.

  • @deborahcates
    @deborahcates Před 2 lety

    This look is so gorgeous! ❤️

  • @crystallopez6428
    @crystallopez6428 Před 2 lety

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️tutorials like this thank u so much!!! YOURE AMAZING 👏🏻

  • @sidrakhan1130
    @sidrakhan1130 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for such an easy to understand/follow tutorial! Loving the look! 👌🏼

  • @Seashelldub
    @Seashelldub Před 2 lety

    THANK YOU! So often I’ll buy a palette then have to search CZcams for tutorials using that exact palette because I don’t know how to build looks myself. Also, your skin is like distractingly gorgeous

  • @rubianelazarin3418
    @rubianelazarin3418 Před 2 lety

    I loved seeing how much fun you were having! Please turn this into a series ❤

  • @saintn2103
    @saintn2103 Před 2 lety

    loving these sort of abstract looks.

  • @itsgivingbaby
    @itsgivingbaby Před 2 lety +2

    Really love how you explain your process. The final look is gorgeous!! Thanks so much!!

  • @Lighthouse1852
    @Lighthouse1852 Před 2 lety

    Ooh, fun, art school! Great idea to demonstrate on a monochromatic neutral colorway first! Alexandra as a trained artist knows all the principles and does a fantastic job keeping it simple.
    If anyone wants to learn more about creating the illusion of bringing an area forward or pushing it back, a few ideas help. I hope Alexandra does more with this subject, it would be fun to see. Fantasy looks and daily looks.
    Every shade in a palette falls somewhere along these ranges: lightest to darkest, warmest to coolest, shimmeriest to matte, most vivid to muted. Not everyone realizes that even in an all-red palette, those differences exist.
    Wherever on the face you create the biggest contrast between extremes, that's where the viewer's eye tends to go first. That's why bright dark red lips compete with a smoky eye.
    Lighter shade => forward (darker = recessed.)
    Shimmer shade => forward (matt-er = recessed.)
    Warmer shade => forward (cooler = recessed.)
    Vivid shade => forward (muted = recessed.)
    So, pale shimmery champagnes usually pop forward the most. (Ahem, highlighter.) A darker, cooler, sludgy, matte is the easiest way to cheat the crease and outer corner.
    Of course a warm light color like canary yellow can look fantastic in the crease, but if the goal is to exaggerate a recessed crease, yellow takes more skill than a taupe.
    Anyone nervous about mixing bright colors with each other: it's almost foolproof to pair colors that sit close to each other on the colorwheel. Green + teal blue. Yellow + orange. Etc.
    It's much harder to blend two complementary colors, for example, red + green. Blue + orange. They turn to mud quickly. It takes compatible pigments within the two shadow pans to achieve an attractive neutral. Trial and error is the only way to find out if the two complementary shades you chose will play well together. With your own underlying skintone as the third color in the mix, the difficulty escalates.

  • @deborahjohnson3960
    @deborahjohnson3960 Před rokem

    I really like this! I'm going to try this❤

  • @sourkaramel
    @sourkaramel Před 2 lety

    Yes please to a series!!!!

  • @jennaroark
    @jennaroark Před 2 lety

    Love it!!!! Thanks for the super helpful tips ❤️❤️🙏🏻

  • @tracyhosterman6087
    @tracyhosterman6087 Před 2 lety

    Yes please do a series!

  • @lizbethalvarado906
    @lizbethalvarado906 Před 2 lety

    love this! please make series ❤️

  • @mzim8037
    @mzim8037 Před 2 lety

    Amazing video thank you! I needed this. You’re so beautiful!

  • @teresacarlucci4695
    @teresacarlucci4695 Před 2 lety +8

    Love, love, love!!! Yes, I would absolutely love a series. This look is so dope. I will definitely be trying this out. 🔥

  • @chrisgogreve8743
    @chrisgogreve8743 Před 2 lety

    This was a great video. I love it when you play with makeup. Thank you.

  • @anthra12
    @anthra12 Před 2 lety

    This is so bomb Alexandra ! thank you so much ! can't wait to try it !!!!!

  • @Aleherreravaldez96
    @Aleherreravaldez96 Před 2 lety

    Your blending its soo good. I love this.

  • @stephdelo3674
    @stephdelo3674 Před 2 lety

    This look is fire and I'd love to try it!!!

  • @sashimi6889
    @sashimi6889 Před 2 lety

    this helps so much and makes makeup so much more fun and exciting thank you

  • @user-sm9tg4rc1n
    @user-sm9tg4rc1n Před 2 lety

    Yes please this series is needed

  • @rachelparker6680
    @rachelparker6680 Před 2 lety

    You’re a true artist 💖

  • @antoniadragomir2759
    @antoniadragomir2759 Před 2 lety +4

    I would love to see a grey smokey eye! And thank you for explaining this so technically and logically, it really helps me have more control over what I want to achieve with my look

  • @qtgurly9539
    @qtgurly9539 Před 2 lety

    you're so talented! I love your videos!!

  • @evavitale7411
    @evavitale7411 Před 2 lety

    I love watching your tutorials!

  • @samhaleyyy
    @samhaleyyy Před 2 lety

    yessss please make a series!!!

  • @barbr100
    @barbr100 Před 2 lety

    You are an excellent teacher!

  • @shark2073
    @shark2073 Před 2 lety

    YES please do a series!!

  • @iamjamiexlee
    @iamjamiexlee Před 2 lety

    this was very helpful! Thanks Alex!

  • @tanyab78
    @tanyab78 Před 2 lety

    I love this look!!! So wearable, yet grungy rocky!!! 😍😍😍

  • @julianagonzalez3789
    @julianagonzalez3789 Před 2 lety

    I love this eye look 🥰🥰🥰

  • @Nibicah
    @Nibicah Před 2 lety

    I would love that as a series. Always nice seeing you play with eyeshadow (also your looks are kinda special what I rly like)

  • @Quachy100
    @Quachy100 Před 2 lety

    LOVE this look thank you ♥️

  • @HoNeyBr0wn
    @HoNeyBr0wn Před rokem

    This is everything 😭🙌🏾 Thank you!!

  • @esthermoon627
    @esthermoon627 Před 2 lety

    You are an artist. Very lovely.

  • @eggs4breakfast
    @eggs4breakfast Před 2 lety

    LOVED this. It felt like a hang out but also so informative. Can't wait to try this out