How to apply eye makeup to enhance your features

With just a little practice and a good assessment of your eyes and what they need to show your best, you can build confidence in your charm. See what a difference you can make with color and shading.

• To enhance small eyes: Use only light shades of eyeshadow from lashes to crease, then blend the darker shade up and toward the tip of the brow. Apply highlighter to the outer corners. Mascara only on the upper lashes. The eyeliner on the upper eyelids should be very thin. Underline from the center of the pupil to the corners.
• Hollow eyes: Use a light color of eyeshadow over the entire lid. Use a darker shade above the crease and the darkest shade in the crease. Do not underline the eyes and use the eyeliner only in the center of the upper eyelid. Mascara concentrated on the tips of the lashes.
• shallow eyes: Use a darker shadow on the eyelid, lighter on the brow. Dotted eyeliner at the base of the lashes. Corner to center underline. Mascara for upper lashes only.
• Closed eyes: Accent shady outside corners. Lighten the inner corners of the eyes. Extend the eyeliner towards the eyebrows.
• narrow eyes: Light eyeshadow centered from lashes to crease. Darker tone in the inner corners. Darker still in the outer corners and up. Optional underlining. Use only the thinnest eyeliner for the upper eyelid.
• Droopy eyes: Upper and lower mascara. Curl the lashes. Dark smoky shadow in the center of the eyelid on the lashes. Extend this color up and out. Eyeliner from the center of the upper eyelid, widening upwards towards the outer corners. Underline the center and outside.
• Heavy creases on the upper and outer eyelids: Light eyeshadow on the inside of the eyelid, darker on the outside. Mix carefully.
• Projecting cover: Neutral shadow on the entire eyelid, smoky brown or gray on the brow. Blend well, no eyeliner. Heavy mascara on upper lashes.
• Brow bump: shade the voluminous area, use a light shadow only near the eyelashes. Dark eyeliner on upper and lower eyelids.
• Puffiness under the eyes: Highlighter from crease to brow. Emphasis on the eyeliner.

With just a little practice and a good assessment of your eyes and what they need to show your best, you can build confidence in your charm. See what a difference you can make with color and shading.