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Hi! I’m Yvette Parrish. Thanks for joining me at Expert Village. Today, I’m going to show you how to apply makeup properly, professionally, and the use of brushes. Start with your dark color first. Why, you ask… because the dark color, when you apply it in your contour, that is what is going to give you the definition and the depth that you are looking for. So I am going to use a brown, and I am going to lift up her eye right here, I am going to move it like that and I am going to lift it up, now when I lift it up you can see the concave contour come through. I am not saying lift it all the way, just be gentle and lift up, and this will allow you this area right here to apply you dark color, and then when you release and open, open your eye, you can see the base. Now when you open your eye and you look in the mirror, I want you to be able to see this line. If you are not able to see it, you did not go high enough when you applied. Now you notice I haven’t blended, I have only done the contour, I kind of have a look at my model, make sure that I placed it where I want to place it, and now do the same for this eye. I lifted up slightly and I am just applying the depth color. I have not blended, do not blend yet. And that is the kind of where I want the color. I make sure it is what I want, I lift it up, I take my same brush and I am going to clean it, so what is happening is this brush is now going to be clean, and now I can blend it. If you don’t clean your brush and you try to blend it, you just kind of make a mess there. So now the brush is clean, so what I want to do is I am going to blend, I am going to do the same thing. I am going to gently lift up her eye, and I am blending that contour line, so it is a very soft pretty smoky look. Now remember we have only applied the base lid eye shadow color and her dark contour color, and look how pretty that looks once it is blended. I am going to do the same with the other eye, and once you have a cream foundation eye shadow beneath it, it makes your blending much easier.