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Eye Makeup Tips to Enhance your Eyes
The simplest way to enhance your appearance is proper eyes makeup. Properly selected eye makeup helps you easily achieve your best look and can totally change your appearance making small eyes appear bigger, close-set eyes wider, etc.
Emphasize Your Natural Eyes Beauty
Creating beautiful eyes is really simple if you know the basic eye makeup application technique but you should always remember a simple rule - eye makeup should enhance your eyes and underscore your unique features and style.
Selecting the most appropriate eye makeup technique, first of all, pay attention to the shape of your eyes and their color. Determining eye shape is just as important as choosing the right colors for your makeup. Depending on the shape of your eyes you should choose different colors and ways of applying eye makeup.
General Eye Makeup Tips
Highlight your eyes with proper eye makeup
1. Apply foundation to prepare your eyes for eye makeup application
2. Applying eyeshadow
- Choose eyeshadow to match eye color
Eyeshadow colors for blue eyes
Shades of brown, gray, taupe, deep blue, camel, violet.
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Eyeshadow colors for green eyes
Shades of plum, purple, mauve, pink, dark gray, charcoals, all shades of brown, black
Eyeshadow colors for brown eyes
Shades of blue, blue gray, plum
- You can use two or three tones of eyeshadow but three tones are better.
Don't forget to blend all three colors well!
Light shade
The lightest color will open and brighten your eyes.
Apply light shade from the inner corner to the middle of the eyelid, from lashes to brow line.
Medium shade
The medium color will give slight depth to eyes
Apply medium color to your eyelid crease Don't forget to blend well
Dark shade
The most intensive color will give shape to the eyes.
Apply the darkest color to the outer corner of your eye. If your eyes are close-set, apply the darkest color on the lower eyelid along the eyelashes.
Optionally apply dark shade along upper lash line and under lower lash lines
- How to apply eye shapes makeup
Close-set eyes makeup
Wide-set eyes makeup
Prominent eyes makeup
Almond eyes makeup
Small eyes makeup
Hooded eyes makeup
Deep-set eyes makeup
Asian eyes makeup
Round eyes makeup
3. Shape and define your eyes using eyeliner
The main goal of using eyeliner is to open, shape and emphasize your eyes.
General Tips to Apply Eyeliner
- Apply eyeliner as close to lashes as possible
- Hold outside corner of the eye with the finger tip to apply.
- Smudge the line or use the matching eyeshadow to soften.
- To make eyes appear bigger, apply eyeliner from middle of the eyelid to the outer corner of your eye and extend eyeliner beyond the eye.
- You can line your eyes with deep-toned eyeshadow instead of the eyeliner
- When using dark eyeshadow on the lower eyelid avoid lining the bottom.
How to choose eyeliner to match eye color
Using different shades of eyeliner also allows you to change the look of your eye color.
Choose an eyeliner color to make your eye color stand out:
Eyeliner for blue eyes- brown shades, camel, taupe, black, charcoal, dark green, dark blue.
Eyeliner for green eyes - deep purples, dark browns, golden browns, blacks, charcoal, shades of plum, navy blue
Eyeliner for brown eyes - different tones on brown, golden browns, bronze, black, deep navy blue, dark grays
How to apply eyeliner for different eye shapes
Round eyes
To elongate round eyes, use darker eyeliner to line the outer two-thirds of the upper and lower lash lines.
Extend eyeliner out and up beyond the eyelid at the outer corner.
Apply mascara for top lashes only, more on outer half.
Almond eyes
Use eyeliner on the upper eyelid to make almond eyes appear large. If you want your almond eyes look more round, stop eyeliner before the outer corner of the eye.
Apply mascara on upper lashes with emphasis on outer corners.
Asian eyes
As Asian eyes are hooded, your main goal is to make them appear wider keeping their beautiful shape.
If you have Asian eyes, use eyeliner to draw a thick line along upper eyelid and a thinner line on the lower eyelid. Soften lines with a brush
Curl your eyelashes and apply mascara on upper and lower lashes.
Small eyes
Small eyes are proportionately smaller in comparison to the rest of the facial features. To make small eyes appear bigger, line upper and lower eyelids with soft-coloured eyeliner.
Apply black mascara on upper and lower lashes.
Close-set eyes
Your aim is to make close-set eyes look further apart that can be achieved b emphasizing the outer corners of your eyes.
Use eyeliner to line upper and lower eyelids keeping color most intense at the far corners of the eyes. To bring the attention to the outer corner of the eye, apply eyeliner so that it becomes thicker near the outer corner of your eyes (both top and bottom). If you like, the bottom line can even be extended just beyond the eye.
Apply mascara on the top and bottom lashes with some extra coats on the outer corners.
Extend the length of brows outward with a brow pencil.
Wide-set eyes
Your goal is to reduce the space between the eyes to make your eyes look close together. To bring eyes closer together, you should emphasize the inner corners by using darker colors in the inner corners.
Use eyeliner to draw a very thin line from inner to outer corners on both upper and lower eyelid keeping color most intense in the inner corners of the eyes
Pencil eyebrows a little closer to the nose.
Use mascara to lengthen and curl your eyelashes.
4. Apply mascara to complete your eye makeup
How to enhance your eyes shape with mascara
Round eyes
If you have round eyes, apply mascara for top lashes only, more on outer half.
Almond eyes
For almond eyes, apply mascara on upper lashes with emphasis on outer corners.
Asian eyes
If you have Asian eyes, you can make them appear wider applying mascara on upper and lower lashes.
Small eyes
To make small eyes appear bigger, apply black mascara on upper and lower lashes.
Close-set eyes
To make close-set eyes look further apart, apply mascara on the top and bottom lashes with some extra coats on the outer corners.
Wide-set eyes
To bring wide-set eyes closer together, apply mascara on both upper and lower lashes.
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