Photo Credit: @BellaHadid
Make-up trends come and go, but eyeliner always manages to stay relevant, whatever the season. It’s long been due since Taylor Swift’s cat eye made the most popular eye-liner style. Nowadays, people prefer to elongate the eye and lift it upwards, as seen with the fox eye eyeliner trend, popularised by Bella Hadid. Eyeliner is so personal and subjective that it is hard to write down the perfect technique, but by classifying them into these styles, you can choose the one that best suits your face. Regardless of whether you choose to follow trends or not, here is our guide to what your eyeliner says about you, together with a few expert tips that will elevate your eyeliner skills to the next level:
CAT EYE
If you’re still an avid fan of the cat eye in 2021, don’t worry, we’ll give you a few tips to refresh the iconic shape for a more modern, snatched and chic look. Whether your eyes are hooded, asymmetrical or droopy, a winged cat eye eyeliner is perfect for disguising these features as it adds so much depth that it can easily reshape your eyes in accordance with the shape that best suits your face. If you use this technique, you’re probably have a very welcoming aura, and you tend to make people feel at ease. But don’t be mistaken by its apparent softness: people that still choose to use this technique are probably people you should be around: keep them close, you’ll miss their genuineness when they’re gone.
EXPERT TIP:
Instead of covering the upper lid with a thick layer of black, try using a black pencil on the inside of your lid in the inner corner of the eye up until the first third or the highest point of the eye, whichever comes first. Then with a wing liner, draw a straight line of about a third of the length of the lower eyelid outwards, continuing on the trajectory of the angle that your lower eye-lid forms on the outer corner. When looking at yourself in the mirror with a perpendicular and relaxed face, you should avoid straight lines going outwards, but rather a thicker line going down up until where the eyelid folds, and a progressively finer line extending outwards. This way, you can still enjoy the boldness of a cat eye whilst applying some of the newer techniques that lift the eye upwards, emulating a face-lift surgery.
Watch here the video tutorial by celebrity MUA Hindash:
FOX EYE
This technique has got everyone hyped up about eyeliner once again. If you use this technique, you probably like being in control and you’re always the boss around people. You aren’t afraid to speak about for yourself and people are mesmerised by your energy. You have a magnetic soul and always ready to conquer the world.
EXPERT TIP:
This technique merges eye contour and elongated eyeliner together for a sophisticated, classy and expensive look. For this style you only need a winged liner, and the placement slightly differs from the cat eye. Instead of starting to draw the line from the first third of the eye, you should aim at starting from the second third of the eye outwards. That’s right: outwards, not downwards. The eyeliner should still follow the trajectory of the angle of the outer lower lid, but instead of being placed on the same level, it should be slightly more lifted, creating a parallel line with the extension of the lower lid. To lift the eye even higher, the eyeliner shouldn’t be connected to the upper eyelid when it extends outwards, but rather create a small space between the outer eye and the eyeliner to give the illusion of a bigger and more elongated eye. In other words, don’t connect the end of your eye to your eyeliner. This look can be completed with an inner corner winged eyeliner, placed at the same angle of the line that extends outwards. Use cream contour or a brown eyeshadow alongside the lower half of the upper outer lid to elongate the eye, continuing to blend outwards on the same trajectory to lift the eye further.
Watch here the video tutorial by Dilan Sabah:
Words By Tommaso Donati
