If you’re not getting the effects you hoped for from your makeup regime, it may be that your current eyeliner technique is not suited to your eye shape? Here’s the thing… different eye shapes need attention in specific areas to get the very best definition.

Using my tips and techniques here, you’ll soon be getting the best from your eyeliner to enhance your eye shape…

The Important Bit

In this blog post I will recommend ways to use eyeliner for general eye shapes. This is not to say that the way you are currently using your eyeliner is wrong by any means!

If you love how you’ve applied your eyeliner for years – stick with it! I believe makeup is a tool to help us feel great and not to create rules. I’m simply going to suggest alternative ways that you might like to try with your eyeliner…

Almond Eyes

• Beautiful almond eyes resemble the shape of almonds

• They are symmetrical and normally have a very slight upswept outer corner on the bottom rim of the lower lid

Best Liner Technique for Almond Eyes

Beautiful almond eyes look good in everything! Almost any eyeliner look will suit almond-shaped eyes. Lucky you! However, my favorite way to enhance almond eyes is like so…

…begin with a thin line from the upper inside corner, glide along the inner two-thirds of the lid and once you reach the outer third, start to build the thickness up.

You could do this technique using a statement liquid liner or a soft eyeliner, which you can smudge upwards and outwards for a more sultry look.

Hooded Eyes

• Beautiful hooded eyes have a fold in the skin that can rest on part of the lower eyelid

• Some of the most beautiful women in the world have this eye shape

Best Liner Technique for Hooded Eyes

Some of the most beautiful women in the world have this eye shape. I love to make-up hooded eyes – they always look so sexy!

If you wish to enhance them even more, try to give the illusion of more open eyes – so with this in mind, less is more when it comes to using eyeliner.

The trick is to not apply eyeliner to the eyelid, but instead, apply eyeliner to the upper waterline instead. This will give you the look of eyeliner but will leave the eyelid free of a dark shade, which will help open the eyes.

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