One look, five eye shapes

Hi! Today I'm here with a post that I'm particularly excited about. This is because I've wanted to do this kind of post forever.

In this post I'll be showing you how one specific eye look differs from eye shape to eye shape.

This is important because most people watch videos on youtube and think "oh this is a pretty look, I shall try!" and then it looks nothing like it did on the video. This happens obviously because everyone has different eye shapes. It's obviously not because you're not a professional makeup artist, even if you follow the steps presented it will most likely turn out different, or you'll have trouble finding the places where to place this or that color.

I, by no means, am trying to say that I am a makeup artist, I've previously mentioned how I'm still learning and all that, I just thought this would be interesting,

I gathered a couple of friends and offered to do their makeup, I used the same techniques to all eye shapes, the same brushes, the same eyeshadows, all the same products and yet you'll see they look completely different from each other.
Let's get to it!

I did a modern smokey eye where I used black on the outer v of the eye and silver pigment on the rest of the lid and into the inner corner. This is how it looks on my eye. Although it looks like I have hooded eyes, I do not, as you may have realized from previous posts. I have pretty standard eyes, the crease is just a bit folded in sometimes.
As you can see, when my eye is open, most of the colors I placed on the lid are visible and the silver stands out from the black, elongating the eye a bit.

Here you can see the exact same makeup done on my friend Tamara. Her eyes have a very interesting shape and I always get so excited when she asks me to do her makeup because it's such an unusual eye shape from all others I've done makeup on! 

Her eyes are ever so slightly hooded, not too too much, just a tiny bit. You can see that her mobile lid folds under the socket of her eyes a tiny bit but the silver and the black are still visible.

As you can see, it looks absolutely different on her from how it looked on me.

This is how the same makeup looks on Catarina, a regular presence here on the blog.
Her eyes are a bit more round than mine or Tamara's and her eye is a lot more hooded than ours, although still being a very standard eye shape.
The shades placed on the lid are still visible but her eye looks a lot more sad because of that black eyeshadow I placed on the lower lid.

Here you can see Rita's eyes. I have the privilege to do her makeup quite often because she's my girlfriend after all, so I have kind of gotten a bit more of practice with hooded eyes like hers. 

Her eyes are very hooded and very long. They're small but they have an almond shape, making them look rather long and not wide.

On her eyes, the same makeup looks completely different. You cannot see the shades on the lid because the mobile lid is being "swallowed" into the socket, making it almost disappear, so you can only see the black from the crease and the black eyeliner. It almost looks as if the silver wasn't even there.

Mariana has very very hooded eyes. When she looks straight at you, you cannot see not a bit of her mobile lid, just a bit of the lash line.
As you can see on the top photo, when her eyes are open, it seems like she only has black eyeliner on the top lid and a bit of black smudged on the lower lash line.
The silver on the inner corner also doesn't stand out as much as it does on any of the other shapes I presented you.


In next week's post I will be showing a step by step on how to create this exact look for hooded eyes, not Mariana's but Rita's.

I hope this post has helped you understand how much makeup differs from eye to eye according to its shape.

I loved doing this post and doing makeup for the girls and all, it was a lot of fun!

I hope you have enjoyed this post and I'll be back next week with another one!

Love,
Anna