Makeup For Hooded Eye

Who hasn’t tried to recreate a look in a magazine only to find that your eyes now look itty-bitty or bulging and buggy? That’s because certain makeup techniques work better than others at enhancing your unique characteristics. For instance, there are seven different eye settings: close-set, wide-set, deep-set, prominent, down-turned, hooded and monolid. You can have any one or combination of these settings, but all of them are beautiful — it’s just a matter of knowing how to enhance your unique eye-setting. Today, we’re focusing on how to enhance monolids.

Although this type of eye is common among Asian people, it can be spotted in people of all ethnicities and is characterized by a slight or complete lack of a crease on the eyelid. Sandra Oh, Jenna Ushkowitz and Ming Xi are a few celebrities with this eye type.

Many women with monolid eyes find it difficult to wear makeup and some have given up altogether. Don’t lose hope beautiful. Instead, try faking a crease with these tips:

Apply a light shade of eye shadow from lash line to brow bone.
Apply a medium or dark shade of eye shadow to the outer corners of your eye and blend along the area that would have a crease, if you had double eyelids.
Use a shimmery highlight on the inner corners of your eyes and along the brow bones.
Curl lashes and apply a couple coats of mascara to complete the look.

Here is another technique you can try to make your hooded eye aka monolids appear more open:

Dust a light shade of eye shadow all over the eye.
Apply a medium shade of eye shadow at the crease, blending to the upper outer corners of the eyes. Make sure to blend shadow vertically up, which will help open the eye.
If you want to, apply the darkest shade of eye shadow along your creases and hoods. Blend up shadow up, but don’t apply as high as you did with the medium shade.
Then apply a thin line of eye liner, tightlining your upper waterlines, before curling your lashes and applying two coats of mascara to the top lashes only. Tightlining your eyes will intensify and enlarge their shape and thicken your lash base, which can vanish under the hood.

Regardless of which technique you use above, another eye look that work fabulous with monolids is the classic cat eye. Now that you have these tips, there’s no reason to fret over your eyes. We have empowered you with the knowledge you need to enhance your beautiful peepers. Now you just have to practice. If you’d like to learn more about how to enhance your unique features, contact us and set up an appointment today.