Eyeliner Tips

With a few eyeliner tips and a little practice, your eyes will look fabulous. In no time, you'll have it mastered!

Eyeliner tips help women perfect the art of effectively applying their eyeliner. Your eyes will look dramatic with a heavier application or warm and natural with a soft line. Whichever look you choose, your eyes will be one of your most beautiful features.

Selecting Your Eyeliner

Begin by deciding which eyeliner color works best with your eye color and complexion.

• For people with brown, green, or hazel eyes, dark purples, grays, or browns work well.
• If you have blue eyes or a light complexion, browns, blues, and grays look great.

You want your eyeshadow and eyeliner to complement each other. Next, you'll want to choose whether pencil eyeliner or liquid eyeliner will work best for you and the occasion.

• An eyeliner pencil gives a soft, natural look and a little definition to your eyes.
• Liquid eyeliner gives a more dramatic look, but you need to apply this with a very steady hand.

Application Tips

Eyeliner tips and eye pencil suggestions come in handy!

• Always use a light touch because your eyelid skin is very delicate.

• Use liquid liner above the top lashes and pencil liner under the bottom lashes.

• For a dramatic evening look, use a kohl pencil under your liquid liner. It helps the liquid line stay on and your liner looks darker. Do not use liquid liner under the bottom lashes.

• Apply eyeliner as close to the eyelash base as possible so you don't end up with a space in between.

• When looking into the mirror, tilt your head back slightly so that your eyelid is more taunt, making it easier to apply your liner.

• Make a fine line because a thick line looks very harsh. Smudge your eyeliner is its too heavy looking.

• Mechanical eyeliner pencils are easier to use because they twist up.

• Instead of trying to draw one long, solid line, use feathery strokes. This only works with pencil liner!

• Putting eyeliner along the bottom lash, but only halfway across, makes your eyes appear larger.

These generous tips and helpful suggestions will make applying your eyeliner a stroke of genius!

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