Your Plumber doesn’t come to your house with just a screwdriver… he comes with all the right tools to do the job properly in the shortest period of time.
Most everyone wants to have their make-up looking perfect in ten minutes or less, and here’s the ticket.

1. Your all over color is easily applied by a large flat brush (this color should be a similar color to your skin and a mat texture if you wish to achieve a natural look)(choose a size that fits comfortably on your lid.
2. After applying an eyeshadow base or a concealer (choose a base with little oil, as you don’t want it to crease, one of my favorites is the basic MAC concealer
3. To correct discoloration as well as giving the eyeshadow something to adhere to, hold the brush flat across your lid and press the color into the base.
4. After you can see that there’s no more area with just the base exposed,
   buff away the excess powder.
5. If you’d like to add a highlight (this color should be a similar color to the all over color, but with a reflective property), you can use the same brush by dipping the tip of the brush into your highlight color and putting it along your lash line over the ball of your lid as well as directly under your brow.

The crease brush (this color should be a darker version of your skin tone in a mat texture if you’relooking for a natural look) is the most difficult for most people. This type of brush makes it easy as long as you hold the brush the right way and dip it into the powder correctly.

1. With the brush straight up and down, dip the point of the brush into your crease color.
2. Unless you have a protruding lid, you’ll want to apply the color into the crease and onto the lower part of the brow bone without getting it on the ball of your actual lid. This is achieved by putting the point of the brush into the crease and holding the brush at a raised 45-degree angle with the rest of the brush resting on your lower brow bone.
3. Starting from the outside corner (the first place you touch will always be the darkest), work inward toward your nose in a windshield washer motion until the desired effect is achieved.

Creating a crease gives your eye shape by creating depth where there may not be any.
The higher the contrast, the more dramatic your look.

The angle brush can be used for both wet and dry eyeliner as well as for your eyebrows.

For your lower eyeliner (this color can be your crease color, as it’s supposed to appear as a shadow from a heavy lash line)…

1. Dab the brush into your desired shade,
2. Place the brush under your lash line at your outside corner and drag the brush toward your nose (small bristles side first).

For your upper lid (I prefer either black or a dark brown as it makes your lash line appear much thicker), if you choose to use powder shadow…

1. Dab the brush into your desired shade,
2. Place the brush where your lashes begin (near your nose),
3. Tilt your head back,
4. Look down toward the mirror and pull the brush toward your outside corner as close to your lash line as possible (leaving no skin showing between the lashes and liner).

If you want a more defined line… dampen your brush before dipping it into your eyeshadow (highly pigmented eyeshadows work best for this, such as MAC, Nars, Shu Uemura and Trish McEvoy’s definers) and proceed (carefully) in the same manner.

Now (as we all know) there are hundreds of different brushes out there. I’ve been doing make-up now for over 20 years and I do use other brushes (depending on the end result that I’m looking for as well as for larger or smaller eye spaces.
I just find that these three (shapes) are the ones that I go for most often and give the fastest and best results for a natural look.

As a side note: don’t skimp on your brushes! Good brushes will last you for many, many years as long as you take good care of them. ALTHOUGH ,THEY DO NEED TO BE WASHED!

Imagine if you didn’t wash your hair (yuck). It wouldn’t look very pretty and it probably wouldn’t perform the way you wanted it too either. I’ve had my set of MAC brushes now since 1993 and other than having to glue my powder brush handle back on once, and losing a few angle brushes here and there) they’re in perfect shape.