1. Thin Liner in Lashes with Tri-color Eye Shadow

Create a thin, even line from where your lashes begin to where they end, avoiding filling in the inner crease where your cornea is. By using your liner to accentuate only your lashes, you keep a natural look that doesn’t distract from your eyes.

To begin the tri-color shadow, pick 3 colors all similar in shade (for instance: beige, golden brown, and coffee). Split your eyelid into three sections with the smallest being the first one by your inside corner.

Fill in, going from lightest to darkest eye shadow from the inner corner of your eye. This is the perfect daytime look that shows you are wearing makeup, but puts more emphasis on your features than the actual product you’re wearing.

2. Triangular Eyeliner

This is the perfect liner look for going out, and can be intensified or played down. Starting where your lashes begin, draw a thin line of liquid liner to the end of your lashes.

To elongate your eyes, at the end of your lashes draw a line that goes slightly up following the line of your lower lid, trickling it down into the original line at the start of your lashes. This is not a cat eye and doesn’t swoop up in wings, but rather a distinct geometric line for your lashes.

3. Fox Eye

Triangular liquid eyeliner is the mark of the round eye, and is key to making your eyes pop. This is thin eyeliner from where your lashes begin to the end of your lid and then a slight downward triangle to connect with your bottom lashes.

Not a harsh long triangle, but a little stubby mark to connect your bottom and upper lashes. This creates the illusion that there is more curvature to your eye shape.

4. Shock of White

By putting liquid black liner thinly on your upper lashes and about halfway from the outer corner of your bottom lashes, you can utilize the white crayon liner as well.

Put a thin line of white liner in the inner lid of your eyes to make them pop against the harsh black liner.

5. Doll Lower Lashes

This one is tricky, but if you pull it off, it can be an asset to the round eye for a subtle work look. Put the thinnest line possible of crayon black eyeliner on your lower lashes and use mascara to extend your lower lashes to their fullest length.

Spend more time elongating the bottom lashes than the top to maximize the power of this look.

1. Miniature Smoky Eye

The smoky eye was made with hooded eyes in mind. While the hood presents a challenge, the best way to maximize your eyes is that when doing a smoky eye you make sure to use the traditional colors (greys, blacks, even purples) and keep it small. Leave some space, if you can, between your lid and the hood and do a smaller smoky eye.

You will be amazed that the same level of dramatic “going out” attitude can be packed efficiently into a subtler smoky eye. Make sure to use cream based eyeliners for this and eye shadow shades overtop. Cream liners stay on best for hooded eyes which tend to rub off makeup.

2. Simple Daily Look

Like the rounded eye, hooded eyes benefit from thin liquid eyeliner on the top lid, where the lashes grow, but the difference is, they can extend the liner all the way to the inner crease.

It’s important if you go with this more natural approach, you extend your top eyelashes to their fullest length to overpower the hooded lid. Extend your eyeliner all the way to the crease along with a thin lower line in your inner lid with dark crayon liner.

3. Dramatic Green Smoky

This is a dramatic party look for hooded brown eyes. Instead of the typical beiges in the crease of the smoky eye, use a light ivy green verging on mint.

Complete the look with a cat eye swoop, but be careful. Too dramatic of a cat eye will take away from your shape; keep the cat eye small and conservative in the swoop.

4. Work-with-the-hood Cat Eye

When doing a cat eye, make sure you don’t begin the swoop until you’ve fully reached the end of your hooded lid. Don’t make the mistake of starting the swoop too early or at too much of an angle, or your lid will wipe it off quickly.

Work with the curve of your lid to create a look that stays on and is more suited to the slope of your brow.

5. The Black and White Cat

This is the equally dramatic “going out” look for both blue and green eyes. Complete #4 hooded cat eye, and then add a line of white on top as a second layer, and then another layer of white in your bottom inner lid.

This is a fierce look that maximizes the width of your lid and packs a punch that goes with any clubbing outfit.

1. The Duo Swoop

Almond eyes are the queens of the swooping liquid eyeliner, and to create an interesting, fresh look, utilize a duo swoop. On the top lid, go crease-to-crease in a very thin dark liner, ending in a thin very deep swoop.

On the bottom lid, start an extremely thin liquid line at the eyelash start and end in a sharper, less swooped point.

2. Full-eyed Triangular Liner

This is the one look where almond eyed can fully encircle their eyes in thin liquid liner, and it enhances their features without distracting from them.

By keeping the inner liner sharp and pointed towards your nose in balance with a triangular swoop at the outer eye, a dramatic going out look is achieved. If you go with this dramatic look, be careful not to use too much eye shadow and avoid dark colors.

3. No Bottom Liner

The only exception for putting bottom liner on almond eyes is the very specific geometric look of #2, and that look is only for a night on the town.

The normal day look for almond eyes should be heavy on the lash length and only emphasize the top with eyeliner to open the almond eye up a bit.

4. The Nude Cat

Pick nude colors for your lids and use multiple tones of colors close to nude but slightly off. Smudge them together so they blur, but not that much that you can’t still see the distinct colors.

Line your top lid in a thin cat eye swoop that is angled high enough for the nude colors to melt into the swoop. This is like a very subtle smoky eye look, but with nude colors instead of the traditional grey tones.

5. The Swallow Swoop

This is basically a cat eye swoop, but very thin and elongated. The trick is to make the swoop look the same width and darkness as your eyelashes, so it blends in.

You can even bird tail the end of the swoop so it makes a “V” at the end.

1. The Big Loop

Using a dark eyeliner crayon, continue making a thin line as usual, but once you get halfway through your upper lid, swoop the line up in a thick arch and continue making the line in the eye fold towards the inner corner of the eye.

Outline the dark liner lightly in dark eye shadow, and fill the open area, between the two sides of the liner, with a light beige or golden eyeshadow.

2. The Three Lid Look

Making a slightly sloped, needle sharp cat eye in liquid liner, draw a second cat eyed swoop in eyeliner crayon on top of the first, but leaving blank space in-between. Don’t put this in the eyelid crease but slightly over it.

Smudge the second, higher wing to be more faded but still visibly a cat eye swoop. Fill in the space between the two wings with bright and glittery eye shadow. This is a great “going out” look that will turn heads when you walk in.

3. Modified Full-eyed Triangular Liner

Similar to the almond eye’s full-eyed triangular liner is the version for upturned eyes. The difference is that here there is a break in the dark liner on the bottom lid. Making the inner eye crease even more slanted downward will highlight the already natural slant of your upturned eyes.

The break in the liner allows for a more even appearance with the upturned eyes already angled in slant. See #2 in almond eyes for a more detailed description.

4. The Ultra-three-lid Look

This is an even more dramatic “going out” look than #2; the original Three-lid for upturned eyes. The difference here is that instead of doing the upper swoosh in smooth eyeliner, you complete it in eye shadow of whatever daring color you chose.

Increase the arch by the point where your eyebrow begins to rise, but not at the highest point for a bit of contrast.

5. Brown on Black Liner

Upturned eyes can get dramatic with their look, but for more natural days, where you still need the precision of a liquid liner but don’t want the severity, cover the liner in a coat of brown eye shadow when wet.

This will give your eyes a softer look and the thin lines you need without having to use a brown eyeliner crayon.

1. Dramatic Cat Eye

This is the one eye shape that can go bold, black and angled as they please with the cat eye swoop. Having a monolid keeps symmetry from being an issue with too dramatic a swoop in your cat eyeliner.

2. Downward Point

Monolids need to create a look that lengthens their eye, so by creating a downward point on the side with a brown or black eyeliner crayon, this is possible. It’s a great everyday look and while monolids can pull off the cat eye just fine, this is also a great option.

If you really want to create a more natural look, connect the downward point to both eyelids and on the upper put a thin line to the natural start of your lashes. Go over the upper part of this look with a lighter brown or dark brown on black color to really blend it together.

3. The “S” Line

Start with your liquid liner by making a thin line across your lash line. Then, make a line from the inner corner and across your lid in a shape of an “S”, and fill it in.

Allow the downward arch to be thickest at the middle of your eye and swoop up in a large arch towards your brow.

4. Creating the Crease

By using subtler liquid eyeliner on the top lid and “painting” in a crease with dark eye shadow, you can have a fashionable nighttime look. Use an ombre effect of light browns with the darkest at the corner and blending into the fake crease.

This image shows it very well, except for the eyeliner in the watermark, which shrinks the width of the monolid model’s eye.

5. Neon Swish

Monolids can get away with flashy, colorful eyeliner, if they’re feeling the urge to be daring. Instead of putting a full line of liner on their eye, monolids can do an ombre effect of light to dark of a certain color. Then at the corner of their eye, make a sharp upward triangle.

This fun and playful look is sure to get everybody talking and asking you for makeup tips after the party.

1. Three Color Tail

For a dramatic “going out” look, droopy eyes can create the three color tail by putting on a thin line of dark crayon liner from bottom crease into a swoop upward on the outer corner. Then make a tail directly above in a white or lighter eyeliner and finish with a third tail above that one in a bright color of your choice.

This fun, flirty look will put all eyes on you with your flashes of color, while making your eyes appears more even.

2. Shock of White

Use a white eyeliner crayon and put a line of white directly under your bottom lashes as well as a delicate darker line in your watermark that points up. This will leave you fresh faced and ready for a long day at the office.

3. The Mirrored Cat Eye

This is two parallel sweeping cat eye swoops on both the underside and upper lid of the eye. Both are very thin and precise and shouldn’t be connected, leaving a tiny sliver of skin visible between the two.

The inner crease double swoop is just as dramatic as the outer one, just not as long. For an extra glamorous look, you can add glimmering eye shadow between the swoops on both sides.

4. Simple Cat Eye

Like most (but not all) of the other eye shapes, cat eyes are a good look. Droopy eyes should use them especially, because they even out the slant of their eyes and create the illusion of a more even tilt.

5. Unattached Double Cat

This is the simple trick that looks very hard to do. Make a cat eye on the top lid, and instead of going to the bottom crease to begin the second, start from the first cat eye. Continue the slant under the eye, but instead of connecting it to the bottom crease, leave it to dangle sharply below your eye.

Make sure the lower slash goes to the length of your crease line but hangs just below it.