This is another picture heavy photo tutorial. This is a look I love, but don't always want to put the effort into. I love gradient eyeliner, and when you add in "rainbow" it's just even better.
Step one is always Prime and Prep your lids. I use Glory Box's TKO primer and skipped the primer for the moment. On to step two.
For my gradient eyeliners, I like to prime and then add a little bit of neutral shadow so that you minimize creasing
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| As you see, it doesn't add much color, but it helps creasing. |
Next, I move to adding my base. I use Tick:Tock Cosmetics' Infinity eyeshadow base in Milky Way. I use a liner brush and only put the base where I want color to go.
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| It's not a perfectly straight line, but it works. |
I try to go in perfect rainbow order, ROYGBIV or Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet. I'm using only Sugarpill for this look. I busted out my Burning Heart and Sweet Heart palettes for this. I love my Sugarpill.
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| Love+ goes down first |
As you can see, I started with red. Love+ is the perfect red (as long as you aren't vegan, I'm pretty sure this shade contains carmine) Next, I moved on to Flamepoint
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| I blended the shades together as I go, as opposed to waiting as I usually do. |
After I get Love+ and Flamepoint down, I moved on to Buttercupcake. Buttercupcake is a great yellow, though on it's own it starts to look a little mustardish.
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| Buttercupcake and Flamepoint took some work to blend like I wanted. |
After Buttercupcake, I used Midori. It's a wonderful, slightly shimmery green that I don't use nearly enough. I'll admit, any time I open my Sweetheart palette, the only shade I see is Dollypop (a bright, bright pink)
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| Buttercupcake and Midori took a little work to blend right, too. |
After Midori come Afterparty. Afterparty is a slightly shimmery blue. I rarely wear blue and could count on one hand the number of times I've used this shade.
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| Midori and Afterparty blended pretty well with little work. |
Next comes Poison Plum. It's the one Sugarpill shade that I usually have to put a little more effort into to get a decent color payoff. After adding a few layers of Poison Plum, I had to wipe off a little extra base because I didn't extend my liner out far enough.
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| Afterparty and Poison Plum also blended pretty easily. |
Once all that is done, I added some black eyeliner along the base of my lashes and along the bottom edge of the colored liner. I feel it really helps to make the rainbow gradient pop. I also added some mascara, of course.
I think gradient eyeliner sounds/looks intimidating, but it's actually fairly simple and easy. I generally have a harder time figuring out what shades to use than I do actually doing this look. As long as you have a few minutes longer than usual to do your makeup, you should try a gradient liner. It's a lot of fun and adds a lot of "pop" to your look! I really hope this was helpful. :) <3
