Goodbye, Hooded Eyelids! Makeup Secrets for Bigger, Lifted Eyes
We're lifting hooded eyelids! Big, bright eyes and lifted lids give your face a clearer, more attractive expression. Cosmetic surgery can create a lifting effect on the eyes, but hooded-eye makeup can also make your lids look lifted and your eyes look bigger and brighter.
What Are Hooded Eyes? Get to Know Your Eye Shape
Hooded eyes are eyes where the lid folds down over the lash line. As a result, the eyelid partially or fully covers the mobile part of the lid. If the outer part of the eye appears droopy, your facial expression can look sad as well.
To understand your eye shape and create the makeup it needs, you can do a quick test yourself. First, keep your eyes open and look at your eyelids. Then check whether the area where you apply eyeshadow disappears under your lid. If the area where you apply eyeshadow sits under your lid, you have hooded eyes.
The Challenges of Makeup for Hooded Eyes, and How to Solve Them
Hooded eye makeup lifts drooping lids so your eyes look lifted. Here are some of the challenges of hooded eyes and how to solve them:
- Because the lids cover the eyeshadow, the eyeshadow isn't visible. To avoid this, apply your eyeshadow with your eyes open.
- Eyeliner can be tricky to apply on hooded eyes, but it is possible to apply it without smudging! You can use a waterproof eyeliner, which dries quickly, or focus on the outer corners of your eyes.
- When your lids are hooded, the under-eye area inevitably looks droopy too. You can apply highlighter under your eyes.
- With hooded lids, the distance between your brow bone and your eye looks shorter. Applying highlighter to your brow bone makes that distance look longer.
- Since hooded lids cover the lashes, you should use an eyelash curler.
Eyeshadow Techniques: Redefine Your Crease
To see exactly where your crease is, keep your eyes open. You'll notice a natural fold above your eye; that fold is your crease.
To make your eyes look bigger and more lifted, you need to analyze your eye shape correctly when applying eyeshadow. Open your eyes in front of a mirror and find your crease. Shade just above your crease with a matte eyeshadow. You can apply a darker shade to the outer corner of your eye, blending upward. This creates a lifting effect on your face.
Choosing and Applying Eyeliner: Frame Your Eyes
When your lids are hooded, eyeliner can transfer onto the lid. For a precise application, you can choose a pencil or gel eyeliner, since they help you apply it with control. Your eyeliner should also be waterproof so it dries quickly and doesn't smudge.
You can draw a wing at the outer corner of your eye and angle it upward. This creates a lifting effect.
Lashes and Brows: Complete Your Look
Properly shaped brows make your expression stand out. If you have hooded eyes, it helps to have your brows angled slightly upward. The tail of the brow in particular shouldn't point downward. Brushing your brows upward with brow mascara lifts your eyes too.
To keep your lashes from disappearing under your lids, you can use an eyelash curler or a mascara with a curling effect.
Highlighting Touches: Brighten Your Eyes
Highlighter on the brow bone helps lengthen the distance between the brow and the eye. It lifts your eyes and gives you an attractive gaze. Making the lid look more open is ideal for eyeshadow on hooded eyes.
Applying highlighter to your inner eye corners also makes your eyes look bigger and brighter. Instead of a very glittery or shimmery highlighter, a more natural, fresh brightness is ideal for the inner corners.
Using a cream highlighter under your eyes lifts them. Applying highlighter toward your temples deepens your gaze.
What to Avoid in Hooded Eye Makeup
- Heavy eye makeup on your lower lashes,
- Glittery, shimmery highlighters,
- Techniques that pull the tail of the brow downward,
- Skipping curling your lashes,
- Covering your entire lid in a dark eyeshadow shade.