Your eyes add dening character to your face. The color, shape,
and size are unique to you, and the eye makeup you use to
highlight and enhance your eyes is no different. With the eye
shadows, eyeliners, and mascara in this chapter, you can really
make a statement.
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Fun and colorful eye shadows
Easy, all-natural eyeliner
Making your own chemical-free mascara
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If you’d like to make more color-intense eye shadows,
simply add a little oxide or TKB Trading Purely Matte
Texture Base for Eyes to the mica.
To help prevent your eye shadow from creasing on
your eyelids, try adding a few drops of hydrogenated
polyisobutene in the nal grinding.
You can use the color grinds in these recipes to make
eyeliner, too. Just dampen your eyeliner brush, and dip
it into the shadow. Tap off any loose powder, and line
your eyes. It works best with pressed eye shadow, but
you can use loose shadow, too. These grinds also work
well in the mascara recipe later in the chapter.
Because we’re working with such small amounts of
ingredients in the eye shadow recipes, you’ll need
some special tools. Most scales won’t weigh the tiny
amounts of micas and oxides called for, so you need the
ve TKB stainless-steel measuring spoons. These little
measuring spoons—which measure Tad, Dash, Pinch,
Smidgen, and Drop sizes—do the trick and are easy to
use. When you see those sizes capitalized in the recipe,
you know you need to get out your TKB measuring
spoons.
eye shadow basics
Eye shadows aren’t difcult to make. By using the
basic color wheel, you can create all the eye shadow
colors you could ever want to mix and match with your
eye color. Warm colors, golds, and bronzes make brown
eyes look sensational. Blue eyes sparkle with blues,
warm browns, bronzes, and lavenders. Green eyes pop
with purples, roses, greens, and golds. Browns, golds,
coppers, greens, purples, plums, and sables are all
great colors for hazel eyes.
Let the recipes in this chapter get you started on
creating your own colors. With hundreds of micas, or
colorants, available to choose from, you’ll have lots of
fun experimenting and creating new shades of shadow
to pair with your eyes.
I buy all my micas online from TKB Trading
(tkbtrading.com), and in the recipes, I’ve listed all the
micas by name so you can easily nd them if you want
to make these exact blends.
You apply mica eye shadow a little differently than
commercial eye shadows. For less-intense color, use
a brush; for a heavier and more-intense look, use a
sponge-tip applicator.
If you feel the shadow isn’t adhering to your skin as
well as you’d like, you can add a little more jojoba
oil—just don’t add too much, or it will be too wet and
clumpy.
Hydrogenated polyisobutene is a synthetic oil some-
times used to replace mineral oil. It’s a polymer that
leaves the skin feeling silky and conditioned. Today
it’s used in many cosmetic and hair-care products.
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Be sure your measuring spoons, sifter jars, and other
supplies are all clean and sanitized. Your workspace,
too. And always wash your hands thoroughly before you
begin.
Let’s make some eye shadows!
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