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How to Do Emo Makeup for Girls?
Wash your face and neck well with a face wash suitable for your skin. Pat dry your skin. Apply a smooth and even layer of liquid foundation all over your face and neck with the help of your fingers. Make sure that the liquid foundation is close to your natural skin tone, and gives you a calm, or more clearly a sad, look. If you wish, you may use a face powder or concealer of a suitable shade to meet the same purpose. Use a sponge or a makeup brush to apply the mentioned products. A great emo makeup tip is that while applying liquid foundation, face powder, or concealer, remember not to put it on the inner corners of the eyes. Or else, you may end up with a caked look.
To do emo makeup for girls, you need to work a lot on your eyes. To start with the Emo eye makeup, apply eyeshadow. You may use out of variety of shades to create an emo look. However, darker colors and bright neons do extremely well. Do not smudge the eyeshadow. Take an eyeliner stick or kohl stick, and apply on the lower eyelid. Try to apply the eyeliner or kohl in one continuous smooth line. You can start the line from either direction, whichever is comfortable for you. Emo makeup look requires a thick black effect. Therefore, you may need to go over the first eyeliner line on the lower eyelid 4 - 5 times. Makeup experts prefer using a colored eyeliner to add vibrancy and glamor to the original emo makeup style. Smudge the bottom eyeliner a bit. It will give you a smoky appearance.
Now, focus on your upper eyelid. Repeat all the steps of putting eyeliner or kohl described above on the upper eyelid. Meet the eyeliner ends meet up at both the corners of your eyes. At the outside corner, extend the eyeliner line slightly towards your temples. Apply black mascara to both upper and lower eyelashes. In case, your eyelashes are not thick, you may use fake eyelashes. As has already been mentioned in this article, emo makeup focuses more on the eyes. Therefore, you need not use a bright shade lipstick on your lips. Go for a nude lip gloss so that all the attention goes on your eyes.
See also:
- Emo Fashion and Hairstyles
- Female Emo Haircuts