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Wide-Set Eyes...are more than one eye-length apart.
Your Goal: Make your eyes look closer together by emphasizing
the inner third of the eye.
Line: Starting at the inner corners, line the eye completely, top
and bottom.
Accent: Apply light shade on the outer 2/3 of the lid, lashes to
browbone, brushing towards the outer corners.
Define: Sweep your deep color on the inside third of the lid, brushing
towards the inner corner of eyes. Shadow from lashes to just below the
browbone. Blend edges into the light shade to get a soft gradation of
color.
For An Extra Touch:
Highlight: Center a little highlighter just under the brow in the
middle of the eye.
Brows & Lashes: Accent color a little heavier at the beginning
of brows. Don't extend brow color beyond your natural line. Apply lashcolor
evenly on upper and lower lashes, with an extra coat or two on the lashes
closest to the inner corner of the eye.
Deep-Set
Eyes
 Deep-Set
Eyes ... are recessed or shadowed by a prominent brow bone. Lids may
be hidden and the eyebrows appear close to the eyes.
Your Goal: Make the eyes look more open, less recessed.
Line: Using a fine line, outline upper and lower lids evenly.
Accent: Sweep light color over the entire lid, lashes to brows.
Define: Stroke your deep shade just ABOVE (not in) the eye's natural
crease. Blend lightly at the edges to soften. This brings the lid portion
'forward' optically.
For An Extra Touch:
Highlight: Brush a little highlighter in and along the lid crease.
Do not blend.
Brows & Lashes: Raise the plane of the brow line by skimming
brow color lightly along the tops of brows. Since pale brows make eyes
look even more recessed, select brow color a shade or two darker than
your natural tone. Mascara top and bottom lashes lavishly.
Prominent
("Bette Davis") Eyes
Prominent Eyes ...are large and may appear to bulge, with prominent
upper lids.
Your Goal: Bring the eyes in a little and minimize the top lids.
Line: Line upper and lower lids, with a slightly wider band of liner
along the lashes of the lower lid.
Accent: Sweep light shadow horizontally across the browbone to take
the focus off the lid area.
Define: Sweep a horizontal band of deep shadow across the whole lid,
extending from the inner corner to just beyond the outer edge of the eye.
This subtly elongates and minimizes prominent lids.
For An Extra Touch:
Highlight: Add a dot of highlighter below the arch of the brow.
Brows & Lashes: Emphasize the highest point of the brow to counteract
the roundness of the eye shape. Lightly mascara top lashes, concentrating
more color on lower lashes.
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Round
Eyes
Round Eyes ....are shaped almost perfectly oval, not deep-set or
overly prominent.
Your Goal: To give eyes more elongation.
Line: Outline both lids evenly, top and bottom, extending eyeliner
just beyond the outer corners.
Accent: Focus light color on the outer section of the browbone,
brushing outward to elongate the eye. Cover area from browline to lid
crease.
Define: Concentrate deep shade at the edge of the eyes, extending
color out beyond the eye to elongate.
For An Extra Touch:
Highlight: Overlay a little highlighter on the highest edge of
the browbone.
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Tips!
Tip!
Keep pencil eyeliner from smudging by going over the line
with matching powder eyeshadow.
Tip!
Another way to line your eyes: Use your favorite deep- toned
eyeshadow, wet or dry, with an eyeliner brush.
Tip!
Use a white pencil to line the inner edge of the eye to make
whites -and eyes-look, brighter and bigger; and to hide any
redness.
Tip!
Keep a magnifying mirror nearby to check your work.
Tip!
Shadow won't stay? Powder lids before you apply your colors.
Tip!
Apply an Eye Base first if color settles into crepey areas
or lines.
Tip!
Less is more! It's easier to build color up layer by layer
than to erase too much.
Tip!
Clean up slips and smudges as you work with q-tips moistened
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Brows
& Lashes: Extend the outside edges of the brows. Creating an arch
will also make the eye look less round. Concentrate mascara on the top
lashes, especially on the outer corners of the eyes.
Down-Slanting Eyes
Down-slanting eyes...are eyes that seem to droop downward at the
outer edges.
Your Goal: "Lift" the outside edges for a livelier look.
Line: Line upper and lower lids. On the lower lid only, slant the
liner upward, extending a bit beyond the outside corner of the eye
Accent: Brush light shade along the browbone, concentrating most
Of the color on the outer edges and slanting upward.
Define: Apply deep color to the outer third of the lid, from lashes
to crease. Stroke upward at the outer edge to create a lifting effect.
For An Extra Touch:
Highlight: Add a touch of highlighter to the highest point of the
browbone.
Brows & Lashes: Accent (or create) a gentle arch to give the
brow a slight upslant. Focus most of your lashcolor on the upper lashes,
especially at the outside corners.
Hooded
Eyes
Hooded Eyes ...are eyes with sagging lids and folds of skin around
them.
Your Goal: To minimize the hooded effect.
Line: Use a fine line to outline the lids, upper and lower.
Accent: Sweep light color on the highest point of the browbone,
above the crease.
Define: Smooth deep color horizontally over hooded area, (slightly
above the crease of the eyelid).
For An Extra Touch:
Highlight: Overlay highlight over the browbone.
Brows & Lashes: Shape brows into an arch to "lift' the
eye further.
Concentrate most of your mascara on upper and lower lashes from
inner corner to the middle of the eye.
Small
Eyes
Small Eyes...are smaller than average, or when compared to the
rest of
your features.
Your Goal: Make eyes look larger.
Line: Use a fine line to outline the entire eye. Use a light to
medium shade of eyeliner
To avoid "closing" in the eye and making it look even smaller.
Accent: Brush a light shade over the entire lid from lashes to
browbone to "open" the entire eye.
Define: Stroke deep shade horizontally, starting from the inner
corner, along the lid crease. Extend color slightly past the outer eye
corner to widen.
For An Extra Touch:
Highlight: Stroke highlighter under the browline, blending into
your light color.
Brows & Lashes: Brush brows up and extend the line of the brows
slightly past the eye. Thin brows make eyes look larger. Apply mascara
generously on top lashes and lightly on lower lashes.
Asian
Eyes
Asian Eyes....are almond-shaped with little or no natural crease
in the lid.
Your Goal: Create contrast between eye, lid and browbone.
Line: Line upper and lower lids, keeping line close to lashes.
Accent: Bring out the browbone with your light shade.
Define: Create the effect of a crease in the lid, by starting your
deep color
at the inside corner of the eye and drawing it horizontally midway between
the lash
line and the brow bone. Blend to avoid an obvious 'stripe' of shadow.
For An Extra Touch:
Highlight: Add highlight on the outer third of browbone.
Brows & Lashes: Giving the brow a slightly arched shape 'opens'
the eye. If eyes are small, also extend the edges of browline. Apply mascara
generously to upper and lower lashes.
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