First, put a light eyeshadow color over the entire eye. This gives you a neutral palette to work on. Then, add a soft brown in the crease of the eye, (the brow bone), and on the side of the outer eyelid so you are making a sideways V. Imagine taking a pencil and lining it up to the outside of your right eye (where your eyebrow ends) and turning it on a diagonal so that the other side of the pencil lines up with the outside of your right nostril. Look at your eye with the pencil lined up against it on a diagonal. No eyeshadow should go beyond this line. So, be sure that when you apply the brown shadow, you blend it, and keep it within the correct area. If you go over the "pencil line", just wipe the excess shadow off with a cotton ball.

This V shading creates a nice, subtle look for your eyes. Too add a little more depth to the eye, put a gold-ish color on the lid, and a slight bit of shell pink under the brow as a highlighter. This helps to soften the whole eye (instead of just a brown and an off-white color, which would look VERY CONTRASTING, or to put it more bluntly, it would look horrible!). By using graduated colors, it's not so much of a contrast. It blends more–and looks so very pretty!