Makeup for Almond Eyes ♡ Twenty Fourteen

Monday, February 3, 2014

Makeup for Almond Eyes ♡ Twenty Fourteen

A few days ago, my roommate Gloria asked me if I knew any tricks for eye makeup on almond eyes. Although I've had a ton of practice on my own kinda-almond shaped eyes, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to give you guys some tips and tricks if you're having trouble finding your crease due to the shape of your eye. Many thanks to the gorgeous Miss Gloria for sitting down and being my model-

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First, like any kind of eye makeup, I started off by priming her lids and around her lash line with my Too Faced Shadow Insurance. Feel free to use any eye primer for this step, but I recommend making sure the whole eye area gets covered. Especially for an almond shaped eye, you want the shadow to stick where you put it.

Next, this is my first trick for almond shaped eyes! Grab a white primer pencil, you can either use a white liner or thicker eye crayon for this part. I find that the Jumbo NYX Eye Pencil in Milk is the easiest to use for this step. Find your natural crease and draw it right out with your white pencil. Don't worry if you feel like you used too much or if it looks heavy, we're blending this out a whole ton. The idea is to draw on your own crease if you have trouble finding it, which is usually something that happens with almond shaped eyes. This trick helps you learn the depth and length of your natural crease, and by defining it in white over and over, you will be able to learn where it is without chalking it out first!

Now it's time to blend that out with your fingers. Don't blend it out too much that it either disappears or blends into your lid. You want to keep that rounded chalked shape as a guideline for where your shadow will go.

Next, I added some of Mac's Painterly to her lids, just to get a nude base for my lid color.

I'm using Urban Decay's Naked from the original Naked Palette on a Mac 239 brush to pack onto her lid. Matte colors on the lid really do well with almond eyes because they help define where your crease begins!

I'm now grabbing the lighter color of the NARS Cordura Eyeshadow Duo and I'm going to sweep that right over where the Milk is. By chalking out where the shadow is going to go, it's a lot easier to create balance in the look.

After defining her crease, I added some of the darker color in the Cordura Duo to the outer V. This is a great trick to really enhance your almond eyes. The ombré effect it gives off will add some dimension to the lid, and make the almond shape stand out! I then blended this all out with a Mac 224.

Next, to truly make her highlight pop, I went in with Milk one more time and colored in her brow bone and inner tear duct. I find that this is very useful trick for almond shaped eyes because it brings out the brow bone which can sometimes be lost between an almond-crease and eyebrow. I blended this out with my ring finger and it's now time for some shadow!

I went in over the Milk with Mac's Shroom which is a gorgeous sparkly whitey-cream.

Finally, it's time for liner! Another tip for almond eyes is to open them up as much as you can! The best way to do this is by applying white liner to your waterline! I use this method in my eye makeup everyday and it's become one of my favorite things to do. It's actually magical how much this opens your eye. On Gloria, I used my NYX White Liner, and look at how much bigger and awake her eyes look! I would not recommend using black on your waterline if you have an almond shaped eye because it will close up your eyes and make them look a lot smaller.

Finally, my last trick for almond eyes is to give a winged liner affect! Almond eyes already have the natural shape to create the perfect wing, so all you have to do is extend it out and follow the natural curve. Here, I used Urban Decays 24/7 Eye Pencil in Zero, and it truly added a nice finishing touch to the look!