It is often said that eyeliner with a wing can not be done on all eyes, but it is basically possible on all eyes, even if you have hooded eyes or droopy / wrinkled eyes, the question is just how nice you manage to get it. It can be difficult and in some eyes may not look as nice at all angles, and you may have to apply much more / less than you really wanted. But it goes :)
I did e.g. eyeliner with wing on an older lady this fall, and she was very happy and would try not to wash her face so she could have it the morning after too :) She had a lot of wrinkles and sagging eyes, but she felt great with eyeliner wing and it is the main thing!
Hooded eyes are an eye shape that has nothing to do with age, and means that you have quite a lot of skin on the eyelid. And on just eyeliner with wing, the same make-up tips apply for hooded eyes and droopy eyes.
The problem with these eyes is that the globe line, which in many others stays approximately at the height of the outer corner of the eye, extends further out and "breaks off" the eyeliner wing.
Hooded eyes are very common and Blake Lively is a good example of this eye shape.
The goes to paint a straight line on a wrinkle / skin fold, but when you then move the eye and look in different directions, suddenly the line no longer looks straight. So you want to avoid that.
But now I thought I would at least give you some tips that can work well, but it is partly difficult to show my eyes because I do not have such an eye shape, and also all these eye shapes look different so there is nothing concrete "right way" but you have to start from your own shapes and lines.
But I will do my best for you to understand my tips :)
I pressed the skin down a bit with my finger to extend the skin fold from the crease line a bit, so you can see more clearly what I'm talking about!
In the picture I have marked approximately how I usually paint my eyeliner wing, it is a good slope for the eyeliner to lift the eye in a nice way. But as you can see, now my skin fold from the globe line is a bit in the way there, just like it is on people with hooded eyes and droopy eyelids.
So if I were to paint like that, it would only look good when I look exactly at this angle, but when I look to the sides / blink, it would not look like a nice wing anymore, but then it will be choppy and kinky.
What you can do instead is to paint the eyeliner wing further out from the eye, where you do not have creases at all or at least not as deep / clear lines. But if you did it by only painting on the top of the eye, then it would look like the wing does not belong to the make-up at all because it ends up so far out.
Instead, you can also paint on the underside of the eye and, as it were, tie the wing together with the eyeliner on the lower lash line. Then you balance it all out! (I show pictures further down in the post)
Another problem area when making eyeliner, both with and without a wing, is that the eyelid is not so visible when you look straight ahead. Therefore, I recommend making an as narrow eyeliner as possible, because if you have a wide eyeliner, it will only look black when you look straight ahead and then you will make the eyelid look even smaller.
A tip is to mark the lash line with a lashliner (read my very old post about it here, I will make a new post with better pictures soon) because then you do not have to paint so much at all on the skin on the eyelid to still get a clear eyeliner line.
I have done a step-by-step description of this with the wing, but it was so sick hard to do on yourself when you press down the skin like that, it gets a little uneven because I pressed different amounts, etc. But you probably see well what I mean anyway I hope!
1. Mark the lash line with a lashliner and then paint the eyeliner thinly just above the lash scalp.
2. Paint the eyeliner along the lower lash line, narrow inside / middle and wider at the outer edge.
Follow the line on the lower lash line and draw a line straight out.
4. Shape the eyeliner wing by drawing a line from the tip and towards the upper lash line, and fill in the gap.
In the last picture you see the eyeliner without me extending the skin fold in the globe line, and as you can see, the wing is now quite far from my real fold! Imagine that I had not painted at all under the eye, then it would have just looked like a super long eyeliner compared to the eye.
The advantage for you who have eyes like this is that you can look in the mirror and see exactly how the skin changes when you touch the eyes, etc. It was very difficult for me when I just held my finger hehe.
Then you do not have to make such a sharp eyeliner as I have done, I did it just to show, but the same principle applies to sooty eyeliners and generally all make-up in this elongated shape!
Hope you / one of you thought the post was helpful! ♥
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Hi. I use eyeliner a lot and have hooded eyes. In the past, I had no problem getting well, but I lost all my hair, including my eyelashes, a few years ago. And now I have the problem that my eyeliner "eats up" the eyeshadow where the eyeliner meets the upper part of the eyelid (hope you understand what I mean) probably because it gets too tight in some way. Do you have tips on any superduper eyeliner that sits like a rock? I have used Isadora's small bottles, both water soluble and waterproof and most recently I bought Stila Stay all day Eyeliner and they all work the same. Can add that t I have very oily / oily eyelids too… * help * :)
Hello Hello! First, do you use eye shadow primer? And in such cases which one? Because it sounds like it's rather your oily eyelids that are the problem and not that you are missing eyelashes, or at least I can not see in front of me how the eyelashes would affect the eyeliner and eye shadow in that way. In any case, oily eyelids are a real culprit for the durability of the eyeliner! Ordinary non-waterproof eyeliner is seldom strong enough to last, and waterproof is not oilproof (you often remove waterproof makeup with oil-based products) so it will not last either. Especially not if there is both oil and rubbing stress when you blink.
In other words, the best thing is not to buy a superduperbra eyeliner, but to use a good eye shadow primer that you saturate properly with eye shadow (or powder if you do not want any color), which in turn means that your eyelids do not become as oily, and then the basic problem disappears! Nyx Hd eyeshadow base, bra cosmetics eye primer and Lumene eyeshadow primer are my three favorite primers! However, do not know if bra cosmetics are available in Sweden anymore.
Hope the tip was helpful, and if I have misunderstood something or the like, shout out :) Hugs!
Thank you very much for the answer! I actually use eye primer, from Make up store. But it does not work optimally… On the other hand, since I wrote the last comment I have bought eye primer at H&M which actually works better (and costs much less!) And so I have thought about taking some dark brown eye shadow on top of my brown eyeliner and this this week, the eye-make'n has been sitting really well. It's just so sad to have to take so many steps before you're done. Before, I could only take mascara, eyeliner and eyeliner on the waterline, so I was ready and in the worst case, just take mascara….
I can suggest a fun palette with eye shadows from H&M that I have used three different combinations this week and received several compliments about:
http://www.hm.com/se/product/19344?article=19344-A
Iaf, thank you so much for your tips and thanks for an interesting and updated blog!
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Great tips! This is what I often do to make it look good on my hooded eyes. Alternatively, if I do not want it too dark under the eye, I can shade a little brown shadow or some fun color and connect it with the wing at the outer edge, so it still looks to belong to the makeup :)
Hi.What this was great, I'm 50+ and it's really hard to get it nice.Had been fun watching a video tuturial on someone older when you do it, hugs :)