Apply Eye Makeup for Deep Set Eyes
Deep-set eyes are wonderful, because you can experiment with all sorts of techniques. These tips will help open up your eyes and are especially useful for people with small eyes.
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Steps
- Wash your face and apply moisturizer and your base.
- Beginners should stick with eyeshadow that already comes in a trio. Advanced users can usually find their own shades.
- Use a primer. This will keep the colors in place all day and prevent creasing. Urban Decay primer potion is recommended.
- Cover any dark circles with a concealer because deep-set eyes especially cast a shadow under the eye.
- Apply the lightest shade all over: from the base of the eyelashes to the brow bone. To maintain the conventional look, refrain from applying any eye make-up beyond the span of your eyebrows.
- Smudge some of the color around the inside corner of the eye all the way to your lower lashes (don't get any in your eye!).
- Look straight ahead into the mirror. Apply the second color from the middle of your pupil outwards (remembering not to go beyond your eyebrow). This color goes on your lid. Blend it upwards into your crease. Follow the natural shadows of your eyes.
- Apply the darkest shade with the pointy tip of the applicator brush for precision. Apply it to the outside corner of the eye. Blend the color into the crease and slightly into both the upper and lower eyelash lines. Don't go further in with this color than the outside edge of your iris (the colored part of your eyeball).
- Apply a coordinating eyeliner. Start the eyeliner where you started shade #2 (right above the pupil).
- Set the color by lightly dusting loose powder with a large brush over the entire area. NYC loose powder is excellent for this step.
- Use an eyebrow brush to shape your brows and brush out any excess powder (especially important if your eyebrows are dark).
- Use an eyelash curler to curl your lashes. Apply mascara starting from the outside corner of the eye and work inwards.
- Step back from the mirror and examine your handiwork. Remember that most people won't be looking at you as closely as you look at yourself in the mirror.
- Make sure you remove all traces of make-up before going to bed. Use eye make-up remover, or in a pinch, you can also use Vaseline or baby oil. Rinse it off, so that it won't clog your pores. Follow with a face wash specifically formulated to remove make-up, but avoid using it around your eyes.
- Finished.
Tips
- Try to avoid pencil eyeliner, especially on your lower lash line (as this skin is more delicate). Pencil liners have a tendency to tear at the skin. Use liquid, or at least a pencil that applies smoothly like Mary Kay pencil liners.
- Never add a dark eyeshadow to just your crease. It makes the eyes look even more deep set.
- Don't encircle the eye with dark eyeliner. This will close your eyes and make you look like a raccoon. Keep all dark make-up away from the inner corners of the eye to keep them open.
- Try to add the dark eyeshadow a little in the crease, but mostly pull it up onto your browbone.
Warnings
- Never share make-up, as this could also lead to infections.
- Never apply eyeliner inside your eye. This could lead to eye infections.
- Replace eye makeup in a reasonable amount of time--avoid holding on to eye makeup for years and years. Again, infections.
