EOTD: Blending 101

I've never sat down and thought about how to blend colours together on the lid, I usually just blend enough so that both colours kind of merge into one and you can't see any harsh lines.

I was on Youtube the other day and saw a link for a Pixiwoo blending video and decided to take up the challenge myself.  First I had to decide if I had monolids or lids with a socket bone.  I'm a bit dense when it comes to things like that so I Googled monolids and decided I had socket bone lids.

The video can be found here.

What I used:

• Boots No7 Stay Perfect Trio in Twilight (I bought mine ages ago and the packaging has changed a bit since then, they're now sold in round tubs).
• Boots No7 Eyeshadow Blend and Contour brush: for the lid work and blending of crease colour.
• Boots No7 Eyecolour brush: for applying the crease colour.
• Ruby and Millie eyeliner brush: for lining the eye.

How I got on with it:
I feel it necessary to say a few things about the No7 eyeshadow.  The colours in the photo above are as true to life as I could get them.  The white is really snow white and the black is really dark with lovely specks of glitter in it.  This is not how it applied, the pigment was severely lacking.  How Boots can charge the best part of a tenner for these lame shadows is beyond me.

Anyway, the proof is in the pudding..

Could have applied more if I'm honest but thought the shadow would be more pigmented.  Pretty happy with how I managed to lighten it out up to the brow, though.

I wasn't sure where my socket line was and where my brow was so I just felt around and decided it was the underside of the brow bone because I felt around and it circled into my eye "hole".

I thought this looked really crappy when I checked the photos on my camera because I could see a space between the black eyeshadow on the socket bone and along the lashline but then...

I still wasn't happy with the colour disparity so I decided to..

I was quite happy with the way it balanced out..

 Now for the next bit..

 This was the final step, I feel I could have added more black eyeshadow to the socket but I would have been there for ages as the pigmentation was wank.

Overall, I think I did OK considering this was my first try at proper blending, I feel the pigmentation of the shadows held me back a lot so I'm going to be retrying this later on in the week with either my Sleek palette or my Stila palette.  I think next time I will try to go a little higher with the blending on my socket and a little lower with the blending on the lash line but I'll have to find a less fluffier brush.  Also, I think I might actually invest in a crease brush.

What do you guys think? Are any of you experts at blending? If so, how did you improve at it?