Eyeliner Tricks


Eyes are one of the prominent features of a person. They truly express your mood at any given moment. Certain beauty products play a huge role in making your eyes more expressive, and eyeliners top that list. An eyeliner gives definitive shape to your eyes and brings out their natural beauty. It is the reason why an eyeliner is and should be a staple in the cosmetics kit of every woman. However, random selection and application of eyeliner can be an irretrievable mistake and can really spoil your mood set for that occasion. It is the reason why, today I am here with a few handy eyeliner tricks that are easy to understand and practice on your own, for a stunning eye makeup. So, let's get started!

Cool Eyeliner Tricks

First of all, you need to understand that there are various types of eyeliners like, liquid eyeliner, pencil eyeliner, powder eyeliner and gel eyeliner from which you need to select the best eyeliner that doesn't smudge. This way you can get the best and long-lasting eye makeup. Learning how to apply eyeliner is actually an easy task that can be mastered by practice, but you need to choose the best eyeliner shades that match with your eye color, hair color and complexion. This is a key factor that requires a lot of judgment and observation as well. Once you figure out the best colors that suit your eye color, then pulling off various kinds makeup tips for eyes (doe eyes, smoky eyes, dramatic eyes, cat eyes, etc.) is not a big deal for you. Here are a few eyeliner tips for you according to the common eye colors.

Blue Eyes
When you are planning for stunning eye makeup for blue eyes, you need to make sure that you find out a few interesting and suitable eyeliner color shades for blue eyes. Since you got blue eyes, you need to concentrate on color shades that fall under cool color categories. You can also go with neutral color shades like taupe or camel. Some of the best shades to choose for /eyeliner for blue eyes include, bronze, black, blue, copper, peach, coral, pink, pale pink, dark blue and violet. If you want to give smoky look to your blue eyes, then you can use colors like brown, dark brown, charcoal black, and shades of copper. You can also use dark green, forest green, dark golden green, dark navy blue, etc.

Brown Eyes
Brown eye color is the most versatile of them all, because you can match any shade of eyeliner with them. However, in order to find the most appropriate colors, you need to check out the following eyeliner tips for brown eyes. First of all, you need to choose darker color shades for eyeliner for brown eyes. Some of the hit eyeliner colors you should opt for include: hues of slate blue, plum, gray, etc. Since brown is a neural color, you need to choose colors that fall under warm colors category like golden brown, bronze, red plums, champagne, beige, green, metallic pink, tangerine, royal blue, etc. However, always refrain from light shades of pink and purple.

Green Eyes
Similar to brown eye colors, people with green eye colors should also seek for eyeliner colors that fall under the warm color category. Hence, you need to opt for shades of mauve, gold, brown, copper, purple, dark brown, dark purple, etc. One thing that you need to watch out for is your skin tone or complexion. If you have green eyes and darker complexion, then opt for purple or, mauve eyeliner. If you have pale complexion then you can go with pinkish brown and medium purple complexion and if you have medium complexion, then you can opt for light brownish pink or mauve eyeliner.

Hazel Eyes
Eyeliner plays a huge role while donning makeup for hazel eyes. You need to be quite careful while selecting the best eyeliner color for hazel eyes, so that it reflects well through them. Some of the staple colors that can be used for hazel eyes, on any given day include, rich brown hues, charcoal black, violet, lilac, eggplant or aubergine. This proves that most of the colors that fall under neutral colors category are actually suitable and advisable in many hazel eye makeup tips. If you are looking for eyeliner tricks for small eyes that are hazel in color, then I would recommend you to use white eyeliner. White eyeliner makes hazel eyes to look significantly bigger.

Trivial Tricks

Here are a few quick tricks for learning various stunning eyeliner techniques. You can follow these techniques only when you are pretty sure of applying eyeliner on your own.
  • As a part of liquid eyeliner tips, I would suggest you to apply liquid eyeliner after you are done with application of the eyeshadow. You should apply mascara only when the eyeliner is totally dry. You can also try using liquid eyeliner on the top eyelid and a suitable pencil eyeliner on the bottom rim.
  • In case you desire for cat eye makeup, then all that you need to do is to create eyeliner design by dragging the liner slightly past the corner of the eyes. Make sure that you have closed your eyes while doing so. This way, you will surely get better effect and avoid getting those white lines that appear between the liner and eyelashes.
  • Do not use too sharp eyeliner pencil, if it is freshly sharpened, then roll it against the back of your hand first and then use it. If you have dark circles, then you need to refrain from dark eyeliner shades, since they only contribute in highlighting them.
  • In case the eyeliner style that you have applied is looking too sharp for you, then you can soften it by using a hint of powder eyeshadow and eyeshadow brush. You also need to understand that liquid eyeliners are mode versatile than the pencil eyeliners.
If you are an amateur, then make sure that you have practiced applying eyeliner on your eyes before any major event! It will surely avoid any major fashion disasters! All the best!

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