Our Eye Shape And Why It Matters.

Alright, now it's time to get serious. Lets go further into discovering what there is to know about eye makeup by talking about our eye shape. I found this great video regarding the subject by Smashbox (which is an amazing high end makeup company that I adore). You can find a link to the individual tutorials on each eye shape at the end of this post. So lets get started.

Now that we know our eye shape and what styles of shadow compliment us the best, I want to take a little time to talk about how important this is. When we start getting into makeup for the first time in our early teens, we use it to cover up our flaws. We try to hide behind it, work against the structures of our face that we think are unsightly. This is such a big mistake for a couple of reasons. First of all, hiding behind our makeup is bad for us psychologically, it makes us feel inadequate, as if our makeup is the only thing that makes us acceptable enough to go outside. Please stop, makeup is a tool for us to use to have fun, to make art with! Not hide behind. Sure makeup can help us have confidence, but we shouldn't need it to feel acceptable.

Secondly, sometimes we find that we don't like the shape of our eyes, or our face, say you have downturned eyes and you'd like them to be lifted more, so instead of doing eye makeup that compliments your shape, you apply shadows for an upturned eye instead. This isn't going to work for the obvious reasons, but I see so many people trying to transform the natural structure of their face because their unhappy with it. This just ends up looking a little weird; it's healthier to just accept our faces and bodies as they naturally are and work with them, instead of working against them. This'll come in handy more and more often when we start talking about face makeup and contouring.
Long story short, it's imperative that we accept ourselves the way we are, and flaunt our naturalborn features instead of trying to change them. You're perfect just the way you are, you don't need makeup to 'make up' for what you don't have, it's there for enjoyment.

Tutorial list:

For Round Eyes

For Downturned Eyes

For Hooded Eyes.

For Monolid Eyes

For Almond Eyes

For Upturned Eyes

Now go and have fun lovelies!

Until next week,

                  God Bless,