Makeup For Prominent Eyes

October 21, 2009 by MUA In Scrubs
Filed under makeup lessons

As much as women with small eyes would try every technique to achieve bigger, brighter-looking eyes, those on the opposite end would search for ways to make their big eyes more subtle. If you see someone whose eyes remind you of headlights, you just got yourself a model of “Prominent Eyes.”

The walking headlight is an exaggerated example, just so you could get the picture. When you see the headlights coming out of the socket, that’s a prominent-protruding variety just like this man on the left. Don’t confuse prominent with protruding eyes, which will be discussed separately. As mentioned on our post on the “Different Eye Shapes,” a particular shape can overlap with another and produce a combined effect such as the “heavy duty” prominent-protruding type. The anime or doll eyes would more likely illustrate the prominent eyes type alone.

Let us get enlightened on how prominent eyes are subdued through makeup techniques.

Our example, Anne Hathaway, is more of a living doll than a walking headlamp. Big eyes convey emotions without the need for words, but when the emotions get overwhelming, Doll Eyes can be understated with the following tips:

Apply a matte dark shade to the eyelid blending upwards to the crease. The dark shade will shrink the huge appearance of the eyes.
From the crease, blend upwards and outwards toward the brow bone with a medium-colored shade.
Use a highlighter just beneath the brow bone
Shrink the lids further by darkening the upper lash line using a fluid, pencil or gel eyeliner (observe Anne’s pic above).
Apply black pencil eyeliner to the lower waterline. Line all the way from the outer to the inner corner but stay on the waterline. Lining thickly below will broaden the already huge eyes.
Curl lashes, apply mascara.
Groom eyebrows. Avoid thin eyebrows as this has the tendency to widen your eyes even more.

Til the next makeup tip!