Make Up Basics Part 5

Give your eyes a lift

If your eyes slope downwards at the
corners, this can make your face look
tired and sad. Using makeup you can
lift them to give a younger expression.
There are a couple of techniques that
you can use with makeup in order to
create this look.

Method 1- Using Eyeliner
Take a dark eased and using a
fine eyeliner brush, line the eye
all around. Make a thick and strong
line on the upper eye lashes and
increase thickness toward the outer
corner making sure you blend the
colour upwards. At the lower lash,
draw a thin line in the inner corner
and gently thicken out as it meets
the the other line in the outer corner.
This gives an effect of lifting and
elongating the eye.

method 2- Applying Eye Shadow
To get the effect of a natural eye you should
focus colour on the centre and inner corner
of the eye.This is called the contour technique.
Use a neutral eye shadow and apply all over
the lid until you reach the crease; be sure to
add a darker shade near the crease starting
from the center and finishing about three
quarters of the way along the eye.

Use a fine brush and dark shadow, line the
upper lash starting in from the outer corner.
As you progress to the inner corner of the
eye, taper the line and then repeat on lower
lash line remembering to highlight under the
brow by the outer corner. Using this gives
the effect of drawing the outer corner up
and the inner corner down.