Today was the very first day in the past two (or three) weeks I felt makeup inspired sufficient to do something a lot more ambitious than color in the crease, color on the lids as well as a bit in the outer corner, as well as I’m hoping it’ll break me outta my present eyeshadow rut (*crosses fingers*).
I phone call this a “graphic feline eye,” as well as you may or may not keep in mind it from this Buxom Eyeshadow Bar publish a while back.
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It’s an exaggerated version of feline eye liner (aka “winged liner”) made with vibrant purple eyeshadow (instead of liner), as well as it’s one of those makeup looks that may seem hella complicated, however it’s truly not at all. The hardest parts are most likely getting the wing angle as well as the shape of the eye symmetrical on both sides, however if you go slowly as well as work in layers, I’m sure you’ll be completely fine.
Here we go!
First, I started by curling my lashes as well as tightlining my upper lash line with black liner…but you can avoid that if your lashes are naturally curly (lucky you!), and/or you’re just not that into tightlining (oh, as well as I do both eyes together at the exact same time to keep them symmetrical).
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Next, I lined my upper lash lines as well as drew a wing utilizing an angled clean as well as a dark plummy purple eyeshadow, however I started by kind of marking in a couple layers very first with the shadow as well as the clean head dry to get the general shape. then I wet the clean head, dipped it back into the eyeshadow once again as well as went back over the line as well as wing to deepen the color as well as produce a minor gradient.
The shape, angle as well as length of your wing, which is most likely a tad untidy at this point, kinda serves as a roadmap for the rest of the eye look.
Next, to provide some depth to my eye socket, as well as since it likewise improves the gradient effect, I swept a great brown eyeshadow into my crease as a shift color.
After that, I fine-tuned the shape of the feline eye with an angled clean as well as a different purple eyeshadow (all that truly matters is that it’s different than the plummy shadow you utilized earlier), generally doing the exact same thing I did with the plummy purple shadow, by starting out building it up with a few layers utilizing a dry clean head to get the general shape, then wetting the clean head, dipping it back into the shadow pan, as well as retracing the lines to somewhat sharpen the edges (you don’t want them as well sharp though).
At this point it looked quite jacked up, LOL! however that’s okay since it must come together eventually…
Next I filled in the feline eye shape utilizing a flat eyeshadow clean as well as the exact same purple eyeshadow from the last step.
Then I sharpened any type of staying edges that still needed a bit additional meaning utilizing the exact same angled eye clean from earlier.
Lastly, I patted a little amount of highlighter into the inner corners of my eyes, coated both my upper as well as lower lashes with mascara as well as lined my lower water line with a beige eye liner (I just felt like the bottom lash line needed something a bit subtle there as well as bright).
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Fin!
Makeup used in this look
Plummy purple eyeshadow — Buxom Eyeshadow in VIP
Purple eyeshadow — Buxom Eyeshadow in swank Purple
Cool brown eyeshadow — Light matte brown from the Chanel Entrelacs palette
Tightline eyeliner — Chanel water resistant eyeliner in 88 Noir Intense
Mascara — Chanel Le volume de Chanel
Highlighter — MAC cream Colour Base in Hush
Cheeks — Guerlain Terracotta 4 seasons in 03 Naturel Brunettes
Lips — metropolitan Decay Lip liner in Naked2, metropolitan Decay Lipstick in Naked2, as well as Buxom Lipgloss in Karen
Your friendly community appeal addict,
Karen