Thursday, March 15, 2018

Why I don't wear eyeliner

There is one thing you won't see on this site. And that's eyeliner designs. You will never see this on my eyes:


Oh, I've tried. I always thought I just didn't know what I was doing or had bad tools. Some of that was true, but it's also (mostly) my eye anatomy. I have very hooded eyes. Like I basically don't have an eyelid. My eyeball goes straight into my eyebrow bone. Those fanciful eyeliner designs above--that person's entire face is an eyelid. 

No matter what you do, your lid is going to swallow your design. 
 This is a thick black eyeliner fail, making my eyes look teeny:

Below, I tried underlining, since I have no eyelid to line normally. Lol...fail. Looks too werewolf: 


I've had a lifetime of eyeliner fails before I realized that for my eye anatomy I have to do the non-goth thing and use it sparingly or not at all. I don't know how many times I walked out in my teens looking like the "don't" below

If you MUST eyeline, I recommend:
1. shaving your eyebrows off and making lid space that way:

2. use REALLY thick black eyeliner that extends past your crease

3. Use a teeny bit (image from the above video, which is a must-watch if you've got the same eyes I do:

You know what I use my eyeliner for? Lipstick/lipliner. 
I should do the V bangs again...