before/after, #2

first time appling digital makeup!
the hardest part was that damn strand of hair down her face.

i did the eyeshadow by creating a new pixel layer with a soft light blending mode. then, i made a selection around the eye and inverted it so that everything *but* the eye was selected. (it sucks when you get eyeshadow in your eye...) with a semi-low opacity (50-70%) i painted the color i wanted right on the lid. then, with a slightly lower opacity (30-50%), brushed a lighter shade of that color over the top. no special paintbrushes, just a small very, very soft brush.

for the liner, i used a slightly harder brush (not much more than 50%) and sampled the color from the top lid. if you're putting liner on a girl with no makeup, i'd use a really dark charcoal rather than jet black, but it also depends on her lash color. then, i just painted right along the bottom of her lid. after, i used the smudge tool to blend it in so it didn't look like i... painted along the bottom of her lid... (only blend down into the skin. there's no reason to smudge it into her eye. let's be sensitive to things in the eyes...) you can play with the opacity after that to bring some texture through.

the most difficulty i found i had is that... i'm no makeup artist. i know what goes well with my skin and my eye color, but i really had to wing it here. my instructor advised that if you really want to master photoshopping makeup to check out fashion sites of magazines, photogs, anything that can give you some ideas as to what goes where and what colors compliment each other.

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this image was used on my other blog, frozen.oranges,
in an entry i wrote about intertwining my love for digital retouching
and my passion for raising awareness about eating disorders.
the entry is called, "maybe she's born with it, maybe it's photoshop."