How to Draw Flames on Your Face With Eyeshadow and Eyeliner

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Sketch out some flames on paper so you can practice drawing them before you do it on your face.

   It helps, a lot.
   
   When you finally get to using the makeup, you can do it on your whole face, but it looks better just on one side.
   
   If you are right-handed, it will probably be easier for you to do it on the right side of your face, and vice versa with your left hand.
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   Step 2: If you have long bangs or hair that covers the area that you're drawing in

   Draw the outline of your flames, and then add a few little flame lines inside the borders. , Also, put a little bit in an arch shaped just above your cheekbone, almost touching the bottom of your eye. (If you can't tell where this is, move your lips over to the side of your face as far as they will go without it hurting.
   
   Your cheek will be lifted up almost into your eye--that shows the line where it goes.) , If you are wanting your eye to stick out in the flames, color the top of your eyelid with a lot of the dark orange eyeshadow, as if you were applying daily makeup, except you need a good bit of it. , Note all the points on your fire, and color the tips of it red, and then draw it out with wispy lines of red.
   
   Keep in mind that you need to go over this more than once, so after you've put it on, go over it again.
   
   Trace underneath your eye and in the crease of your eye.
   
   Make the lines from underneath your eye and above your eye meet come down in a little bit of a swirly line. ,,, It helps your eye stick out even more.
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   Step 3: pin it back--it is a major frustration drawing with your hair all in the way.

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   Step 4: Take the gold eyeshadow and color around the inside edges of your flame lines

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   Step 5: including the flames that are inside the borders.

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   Step 6: Take your dark orange eyeshadow and fill in everything that isn't gold

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   Step 7: and be sure to blend the colors together or you'll see the lines and it won't look as good.

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   Step 8: Use your red lipliner.

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   Step 9: Take a q-tip or cotton ball and smudge the red lipliner until you can't tell where the lines were drawn

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    Step 10: but the red still stands out boldly against the orange and gold.

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    Step 11: Finally (this is optional) use gold liquid eyeliner and trace just beneath the red lipliner underneath your eye and accent mostly the top

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    Step 12: going around the outside lines of the black

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    Step 13: so it's not too in-your-face

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    Step 14: but it's easy to tell it's there

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    Step 15: and outline the flames 'inside the borders'...and...your finished!

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    Step 16: Also optional

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    Step 17: put mascara on the top and bottom eyelashes.

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