Eyeliner Tips For Big Eyes.

Sep 2, 2016

Kiara H.

My eyes are really big and protruding and so doing a good wing eyeliner is kind of hard and it looks a little weird on my eyes. does anyone have any tips for a great wing :)

Sep 2, 2016

Grace M.

Do you line your water line too? That helps shrink the eye. Try that with a wing and it might make you feel more comfortable wearing a wing!

Sep 2, 2016

Kiara H.

Oh yeah that could work thanks:)

Sep 2, 2016

Grace N.

A small wing that points downwards at the flick helps make them look smaller.

Sep 2, 2016

Kiara H.

Oh thanks grace I'll try that too.

Sep 3, 2016

Jacqueline H.

You have what are called prominent or protruding eyes and what you want to do isn visually push the eye back by creating a light to dark sort of effect by using 3 shadows, not just eyeliner. You want to place the deepest shadow color and apply it as close to your lash line as you can get and fading it out as you move up towards your brow. With your eyes, here's are a few pointers:

1. Don't highlight your eyelids-doing so will only make your eyes appear more prominent. Everything you want to do to make your eyes appear smaller and recede. Anything you highlight will bring forward, deeper colors visually push back.

2. For your eyes, bypass a winged liner. What you want to do is apply your eyeliner all the way around your eye with the same kind of thickness. Doing this will close your eye up slightly, and this is what you want to do with your eyes.

When applying shadow you have your basic 3 shades: highlight, midtone and contour. Your highlight is always the lightest shade of the 3; the midtone is the second deepest shade, and should closely match your skin tone. Granted, this is the most 'boring' of the three shades; however, it is the midtone shade that helps create depth and eases blending. The contour shade is the deepest of the 3 shades you will be using.

Here's how I recommend doing your shadow you desire Apply your highlight to your brow bone. Now, take your midtone shade and apply it starting at the base of your upper lash line and bring it all the way up and to your brow bone. If you lay your brush right at your upper lash line and work your way up...you'll get the greatest concentration of color which is exactly what you want with your particular eye set. Always make sure to sweep your midtone color along your lower lash line starting from the outside and bring it across to the inside corner. On your lower lash line the midtone is what will help you blend your liner.

Now take your contour shade and starting at the base of your upper lash line, bring that color all the way across your lid and up and into your crease. Now just sweep your contour shade underneath your lower lash line. This will help create dimension while visually receding your eye back a bit. When you bring the contour shade up and into to your crease, make sure you go back and take a brush like MACs 217 and in very slight back and forth movements, (windshield wiper movement) move the brush back and forth just to make sure that the contour shade in your crease is blended.

Final step- eyeliner. Now take whatever liner you are going to use (I would use pencil or gel, not liquid.) and apply the liner all the way around your eye. You want to keep the thickness consistent. Now, take a brush like MAC's 219 and blend the top edge of the liner a bit. You want to go in small circular movements. This will push the top edge of the liner up a bit more which will help your eye recede. Now when you blend the liner on your lower lash line, make the same circular movements with the brush but do not move the brush down, keep the brush moving upwards. You want to blend that liner so the color is more focused on your lower lash line. If you blend down, what will happen is you will drag the liner farther down and open your eye up more and make it look like you are really tired, which is something you don't want to do. Blend enough so there is no harsh line.

Winged liner is great, but for your particular eye set, to make your eyes appear 'smaller' you need a more thorough approach: shadow and liner. With a wing, if you flip the tail up, you actually open your eye up more (not something you want to do with your eyes), and if you make a downward flick on a wing, all that will serve to do is make your eyes look down-turned, in essence, it won't make your eyes look any smaller...it will just change the direction in which your eyes look on your face: Upturned and open, or down turned and kind of droopy.

Hoped this helped.  :)

Sep 3, 2016

Kiara H.

Thanks so much. I've never heard of the wing down thingy but I'm going to try it :)