Eye Makeup Techniques
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Green eyes show up in about 2 percent of the world's population, the rarest of the four standard eye colors,…
Most of the work in eye makeup for small eyes is taking things away. The black pencil comes off the…
Most eyeshadow advice treats eye color like one big category: find the "right" palette and you're set. Brown eyes don't…
Copper, bronze and brown shadows are all built on orange, which sits opposite blue on the color wheel. Put that…
Eye makeup mostly comes down to order. Clean, primed lids go first, then brows, then shadow and liner, and the…
Pressing a light shade into the corner of the eye next to your nose makes the whole eye look more…
Most eye makeup tutorials assume you want your eyes to look bigger. Eye makeup for big eyes is a different…
Most hooded eye makeup fails in one spot. The color goes where the lid folds, and the second you open…
Most eye makeup advice assumes a lid that's flat, tight, and doesn't move much when you open your eyes. Somewhere…
Most glitter eyeshadow problems start with the adhesive layer. Press the glitter on while it's still wet and the particles…
Cat eye makeup mostly comes down to the angle of one wing. It is a tapered flick drawn from the…
Tightlining comes down to placement, not product. It's an eyeliner technique that puts pigment into the tiny gaps between the…
Start with a clean, dry lash line or waterline. Draw short strokes from the outer corner toward the inner corner,…
Curl first. Then set the wand at the roots, wiggle it side to side, and sweep up to the tips.…
Blending is the whole trick. Everything else, the shade you pick, the brush you use, is secondary to getting pigment…
Strip lashes go on in a fixed order. Trim the band to fit, spread a thin line of glue along…
Wet clumps are the easy case. A clean spoolie or a dry, clean wand run through the lashes before the…
To curl eyelashes without a curler, hold them upward against a warm metal spoon, a spoolie, a mascara wand, a…
Eyelid skin gets a lot thicker as it moves toward the brow. A 2013 study in Anatomy and Cell Biology…
A winged eyeliner look starts as a thin line along the upper lashes that keeps going past the outer corner…
Eyeliner is mostly short strokes. Draw thin dashes right at the lash roots, make the line a little thicker toward…