Eye Corrections, or, Fixing Your Face.

Following in the stride of my post on lip corrections, we now embark on the journey for the perfect eye. It may seem like a daunting task, but it really is simple if you know what you're doing.

First things first - there's no such thing as the perfect eye. It all depends on our own personal taste and facial structure. What may work for one person with wide-set eyes may not work for another; same goes for any other eye category. Eye shapes aside, in this post we will be discussing four different eyes and how to correct them. Note: the title headings are the eye type we're correcting, that is, for the section on narrow eyes, we are making the eyes seem further appart.

Narrow Eyes

Widening the eyes is probably the most common practice in makeup today - this is the look that most, not everyone, will be going for. Widening the eyes is a matter of drawing attention to the outer corners and leaving the inner corners open and bright.  To make the eyes appear wider:

1. Prime the eye.
2. Highlight under the brow and in the inner corner.
3. Apply your medium-neutral shade over the lid.
4. Starting in the outer corner, work your dark-neutral color into the crease about two thirds into the eye with a pencil brush. (MAC 219)
5. Blend this line upwards and outwards, working in circular motions in the outer corner of the eye. (MAC 217)
6. Apply your darkest shade to the outer corner of the eye and about a quarter of the way up the crease. (MAC 219)
7. Blend this out as before. (MAC 217)
8. Line the bottom lash line as close to the lashes as possible with your favorite black eye kohl.
9. Line the upper lashes with your favorite liquid or gel liner. Make the line as thin as possible in the inner corner and slowly decrease the thickness as you approach the outer corner.
10. Apply mascara. Focus on the outer lashes - don't apply mascara to the inner fourth of your lashes.

Wide Eyes

While this is generally not a preferred look, many women out there have very wide-set eyes. The solution is exactly the opposite of correcting narrow-set eyes - drawing attention to the inner corners while leaving the outer corners open. To make the eyes seem closer together:

1. Prime the eye.
2. Highlight under the brow
3. Apply your medium-neutral shade over the lid.
4. Starting in the middle, work your dark-neutral color into the crease, ending about one fourth from the outer corner of the eye. (MAC 219)
5. Blend this line upwards and inwards, working in circular motions in the middle and inner corner of the eye. (MAC 217)
6. Apply your darkest shade to the middle of the crease. (MAC 219)
7. Blend this out as before. (MAC 217)
8. Line the bottom lash line as close to the lashes as possible with your favorite black eye kohl, then line the inner corner of the lower water line.
9. Line the upper lashes with your favorite liquid or gel liner. Make the line thinner in the outer corner, and thicker in the middle and inner corner of the eye..
10. Apply mascara.

Small Eyes

This is generally a preferred look. This technique works by giving the illusion of moving the lash line, thus making the eyes seem bigger or smaller. To make the eyes appear bigger:

1. Prime the eye.
2. Highlight under the brow and in the inner corner.
3. Apply your medium-neutral shade over the lid.
4. Starting slightly above the outer corner, work your dark-neutral color into the crease about two thirds into the eye with a pencil brush. Draw your crease slightly higher than where it normally is. (MAC 219)
5. Blend this line upwards and outwards, working in circular motions in the outer corner of the eye. (MAC 217)
6. Apply your darkest shade slightly above the outer corner of the eye and about a quarter of the way up the crease. (MAC 219)
7. Blend this out as before. (MAC 217)
8. Line the bottom lash line as close to the lashes as possible with your favorite black eye kohl.
9. Line the lower waterline with a white eye kohl. If your eyes are slightly yellow, use a flesh-tone pencil instead of a white one.
10. Tight line the upper lash line with your black eye kohl.
11. Using your favorite black liquid or gel eyeliner, line the upper lash line as thinly as possible.
12. Apply mascara. On the bottom lashes especially, only apply color to the ends of lashes.

Large Eyes

Yet again, this probably isn't the look most of us out there will be going for. However, there are people who's eyes may need a bit of diminishing. To make the eyes appear smaller:

1. Prime the eye.
2. Highlight under the brow
3. Apply your medium-neutral shade over the lid.
4. Starting in the middle, work your dark-neutral color into the crease, ending about one fourth from the outer corner of the eye. Work the color slightly down from the crease and onto your lid.(MAC 219)
5. Blend this line into the crease using circular motions focused on the middle of the eye. (MAC 217)
6. Apply your darkest shade to the middle of the crease. (MAC 219)
7. Blend this out as before. (MAC 217)
8. Line the lower water line with your favorite black eye kohl. Make sure you fully line the inner corner and tear duct. 
9. Thickly line the upper lashes with your favorite liquid or gel liner.
10. Apply mascara.

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