How to Make a Fake Black Eye

Wash and dry your skin before you begin., Smear black eye pencil around your entire eye socket, including your eyelid., Apply a coat of matte, dark purple eyeshadow over the eye pencil., Apply some dark red eyeshadow or lipstick in small amounts...

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Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Step 1: Wash and dry your skin before you begin.

    Otherwise, you can irritate it.

    What's more, you want to work with a clean palette.
  2. Step 2: Smear black eye pencil around your entire eye socket

    Give special emphasis to the area below your eye, nearest your nose.

    Smudge the eye pencil with a tissue wrapped around your finger for a smoother look.

    Be sure to let the edges of the "bruise" fade realistically.

    Highlight immediately beneath your eye and the line that forms a crescent shape underneath your eye.

    These two areas get very puffy and inflamed when hit. , Highlight the edge of the nose that got hit (near the corner of the eye) and just below the eye, where the last knuckle would land.

    A cream-based shadow may be more effective, but matte powder will work, too. , Use a stipple sponge, if you have it, to mimic a scrape.

    Concentrate the red on the corner of the eye near the tear duct and at the top of the cheekbone near the outer edge of the eye. , Dab the brush on your hand before applying to make sure you're not accidentally concentrating too much product on any one area. , Add these colors at the outer corner of your eye, your orbital bone, and the lower edge of the "bruise".

    When a bruise fades, it turns more to this end of the color spectrum.
  3. Step 3: including your eyelid.

  4. Step 4: Apply a coat of matte

  5. Step 5: dark purple eyeshadow over the eye pencil.

  6. Step 6: Apply some dark red eyeshadow or lipstick in small amounts.

  7. Step 7: Add dark blue or dark maroon eyeshadow to the inner corner of the eye and along the eyelid.

  8. Step 8: Finish by blending in yellow or light green.

Detailed Guide

Otherwise, you can irritate it.

What's more, you want to work with a clean palette.

Give special emphasis to the area below your eye, nearest your nose.

Smudge the eye pencil with a tissue wrapped around your finger for a smoother look.

Be sure to let the edges of the "bruise" fade realistically.

Highlight immediately beneath your eye and the line that forms a crescent shape underneath your eye.

These two areas get very puffy and inflamed when hit. , Highlight the edge of the nose that got hit (near the corner of the eye) and just below the eye, where the last knuckle would land.

A cream-based shadow may be more effective, but matte powder will work, too. , Use a stipple sponge, if you have it, to mimic a scrape.

Concentrate the red on the corner of the eye near the tear duct and at the top of the cheekbone near the outer edge of the eye. , Dab the brush on your hand before applying to make sure you're not accidentally concentrating too much product on any one area. , Add these colors at the outer corner of your eye, your orbital bone, and the lower edge of the "bruise".

When a bruise fades, it turns more to this end of the color spectrum.

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