EYELINER Tips & Tricks

Finding the perfect eyeliner shouldn't be too hard. You need two things in mind. 1) Natural or smokey? and 2) Eye color

1) First, off do you want a natural look or a smokey eye look? If you want a natural look, you should do a much thinner line. However, if you would like a smokey look, then you should have a thicker line, with eyeshadow and mascara (and maybe even false eyelashes)

Natural Eyeliner:

In this picture, Angelina Jolie definitely has eyeliner on. But if you look at the up most (first) picture, her eyeliner looks sooo much more natural compared to that.

For this look, you might need a black eyeliner and a brown one. You can see how the eyeliner appears thicker on one side than the starting. So just apply a thin layer, and then once you get in the middle, try to make a thicker one. Try to line close to your lashes, because it will give an illusion of your eyelashes looking thicker. (using the BLACK eyeliner)

Then for your lower rim, try a brown eyeliner to make for a much natural look. For long lasting eyeliner, take eyeshadow and just tap it on your eyeliner, so the eyeliner doesn't smudge or wear off easily.

You can also apply some beige/golden/brownish eyeshadow to create that natural soft look.

Smokey look:

1) Wash your whole eyelid with a nice white/apricot eyeshadow (regardless of your skin tone)

2) Take a gray/steel color and wash HALF of your lid with that. Then take a nice shimmer apricot bright color and color the other half. Now kind of mix them together.

3) Now for you crease, take the gray and just smudge some on the crease

4) Take the the apricot and tap some on your brow bone.

5) Apply a really thick line of eyeliner. Using liquid eyeliner will be the best, to create the dark, crisp look.

6) Apply about 2 coats of mascara

7) Apply false eyelashes if you wish

(there are sooo many more eyeshadow colors for smokey eyes!)


ALSO, here are some ways to MAKE SURE your eyeliner stays put....so no more smudges or raccoon eyes: 
http://tsorain.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-make-eyeliner-last-longer.html

Quick Tip: Try using NAVY eyeliner. It makes the whites of your eyes look whiter, and your eyes will be brighter!

Another Quick Tip: Try taking your eye color and finding the color of it opposite on the color wheel, and use that color as your eyeliner. They are complementary colors, and they will make your eyes POP!

So I hope now, that eyeliner isn't as hard as it was before.

Good luck!

And take care!