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How to darken and deepen your eyes...Without looking overdone!
Tightlining:
Tightlining is the first step in really making your eyes pop, it's a makeup technique that has been used for decades to really emphasize the lash line without emphasizing your eye makeup.
Tightlining is easy to do, simply take the index finger of your non-dominant hand (the hand you don't write with) and gently pull upwards on your eyelid. Using a waterproof eyeliner, line the "water line" of your lid, at the base of your lashes. Waterproof eyeliner is practically necessary, unless you don't mind reapplying in a few hours, due to the eye's wet nature.
This will darken and deepen your eyes without the obviousness of upper-eyelid eyeliner, and perfect for "natural makeup" girls and women who have monolids or extremely shallow or small upper eyelids, or women who simply can't apply upper lid eyeliner smooth and evenly.
As a Native American girl, I have extremely shallow lids that are nearly completely monolid, and my upper eyelids are not visible when my eyes are open. I use tightlining on a daily basis to darken my lash roots and make my eyes more obvious and the focus of my face.
Natural redheads and blondes can really benefit from this, as traditional eye lining techniques can look too obvious and overdone on our fair skin tones.
Questions about makeup, techniques and tightlining can be sent via PM or here on this thread. Also, feel free to share YOUR favorite make up techniques!
How to darken and deepen your eyes...Without looking overdone!
Tightlining:
Tightlining is the first step in really making your eyes pop, it's a makeup technique that has been used for decades to really emphasize the lash line without emphasizing your eye makeup.
Tightlining is easy to do, simply take the index finger of your non-dominant hand (the hand you don't write with) and gently pull upwards on your eyelid. Using a waterproof eyeliner, line the "water line" of your lid, at the base of your lashes. Waterproof eyeliner is practically necessary, unless you don't mind reapplying in a few hours, due to the eye's wet nature.
This will darken and deepen your eyes without the obviousness of upper-eyelid eyeliner, and perfect for "natural makeup" girls and women who have monolids or extremely shallow or small upper eyelids, or women who simply can't apply upper lid eyeliner smooth and evenly.
As a Native American girl, I have extremely shallow lids that are nearly completely monolid, and my upper eyelids are not visible when my eyes are open. I use tightlining on a daily basis to darken my lash roots and make my eyes more obvious and the focus of my face.
Natural redheads and blondes can really benefit from this, as traditional eye lining techniques can look too obvious and overdone on our fair skin tones.
Questions about makeup, techniques and tightlining can be sent via PM or here on this thread. Also, feel free to share YOUR favorite make up techniques!
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