How to Enhance Your Eye Shape!

Everyone's eye shape is different. Some have small, round eyes, others have wide, elongated eyes. A lot of people don't quite know how to do their makeup to suit they're eyes but fear no more! Today I'm going to tell you how to enhance the look of your eyes or even how you can change them slightly.

Small Eyes:
I myself have small eyes, and over the years I have learned many tricks to make them appear wider and rounder. Firstly, winged eyeliner will be your new best friend. Winged eyeliner will elongate the look of your eyes and will make them look nice and wide, another trick I'd like to share is revolving around eyeshadow. Take a light, white shimmery colour and apply it the the center of your lids, this will make them appear rounder. Also apply this too your inner V, this opens up the eyes to make you look wide awake! Next apply a white eyeliner to your water and tightline, this will open your eyes even farther! Finally when applying mascara wing it out slightly by wiggling the wand outwards, this will increase the wideness of your eyes.

 

Large Eyes:
Firstly if you have large eyes, you are so lucky and I am very jealous. However there are ways to really draw attention to those beautiful peepers. Try not to go overboard with the eyeliner as this will make your lids appear smaller, I know I'm contradicting myself by saying that eyeliner will make your eyes look bigger if you have small eyes, however applying eyeliner to small eyes will make them seem more "there" if you know what I mean where as applying too much to large eyes will make them appear smaller. To enhance your eyes try tight lining your eyes with a dark color, with bigger eyes its nice to emphasize them with long, full lashes, by tight-lining, your lashes will look much fuller, next curl your lashes, always curl your lashes before mascara. If you apply your mascara before you curl them, you run the risk of weakening/pulling out your lashes. (Quick tip;heat up your curlers with a blow drier for about ten seconds, this will help them hold their curl) Lastly try using a thin sweep of color underneath or ontop of your eyes to help make them pop, a turquoise color usually looks good on most colors but try out a few to find what suits you best.

 

Round Eyes:
If you want to elongate your eyes, your best bet is going to be to use winged eyeliner again as well as applying your mascara outwards as I suggested in the "Small Eyes" section. Next take a brush and line it up from the side of your nose, up to the corner of your eyes and using a brown shade (I love 'Mulch' from M.A.C) apply it in the crease of your eye following the brush as a guide. Then using a clean blending brush soften the lines you created. Using the brush as a guide will give a triangular kind of effect thus creating the illusion of wider eyes.



Wide Eyes:
For wide eyes you want to do basically the same thing as I suggested for small eyes minus the winged eyeliner and winged mascara. Instead, apply liner to the lids of your eyes without extending it farther than the corner of your eyes. Also apply a pencil liner to your waterline (if black is too harsh try a brown shade instead) Also apply your mascara to pre-curled lases straight up instead of pulling the lashes outward.



And that brings my advice giving to an end! Please keep in mind that no matter what you do, your eyes are unique and beautiful and these are simply suggestions as to how you can alter your look.

xoxo Sarah