Tips for Sexy Eyes
Eye shadow is back with a vengeance. If you are going to wear it you might as well learn how to apply it so that you can use shadow and light to “sculpt” flaws away. Let’s face it! Nobody is born with the perfect face. Most people would say that they feel that their eyes are too close together or too far apart. You can use a few simple techniques with eye shadow and eyeliner to improve this.
Thankfully we live in a day where makeup can create all sorts of illusions.
To make your eyes look closer together sweep a light eye shadow over the entire eye area. Then dust a medium color on the inner half of the eyelid and blend it outward to create a natural finish. Line from the inner corner of the eye to the middle and then blend outward.
However most people feel their eyes look close together as it is and want them to look further apart. To create the illusion of the eyes being set further apart keep the inside corners of your eyes light and the outer edges darker. Then sweep a concealer one shade lighter than your skin at the inner corner of your lids. Be sure to blend this well. Then take a matte eye shadow in a medium to dark shade and stroke it outward and slightly upward from the middle to the outer half of your lid.
Start the line just a bit in from the inner corner of your eye, tapering the line up and out, just a bit past the outer corner of the eyes
The key to making eyes bigger is to focus on light shades. Dark shades will make eyes appear even smaller. Sweep a light shade over lid, and then shade the outer corner of the lid and the crease with a darker shade. Line the outer upper and lower lids with eyeliner making sure to taper a bit outside the eye (elongating it). Then take as dab of white or cream shadow in the middle of the brow bone will make eyes pop. Make sure your eyebrows are well lucked or this look will not work for you.
To make your eyes look less droopy apply shadow to the outer corner of the lid, extending color up and out like a cat eye shape. Add a light highlighter color to brow bone and skip the eyeliner — it will only exaggerate the ‘droopy’ contour. Apply mascara, concentrating on the inner corner of the eye. Lastly, you can try smudging a silver show on the inner corners of the eyes to help ‘lift’ them and make them look bigger!