Eyeliner Techniques

If you go through literature, whenever an author or a poet describes the beauty of a woman, in most cases he starts with the eyes of a woman. It is a well-known fact that beautiful, bright and desirable eyes of a woman can make any man go weak in his knees. But sadly, all women are not born with natural beautiful eyes. This is where eye makeup, especially eyeliner, which can define and lend beautiful shape to the eyes, comes handy. There are various eyeliner techniques which are used by women, to give their eyes different kind of looks. Believe me, with a little change in application of eyeliner and a matching eye makeup, the same woman can look like a sweetheart and a vamp, whenever she wants to. Here are some eyeliner tips and tricks, which any woman can use to make her eyes look appealing.

Eyeliner Tips and Tricks

Choosing the Right Color
It is very important to choose the eyeliner color that suits your eye color the most. If a woman has light-colored eyes, she should go in for brown, charcoal and navy-colored eyeliner. A woman with black or brown eyes, should choose eyeliner of plum or brown color. For a soft look, pencil eyeliners should be used, and to give the eyes a dramatic look, use liquid eyeliners. Read more on eyeliner for blue eyes and eyeliner for brown eyes.

Liquid Eyeliner Techniques
Instead of opting for the traditional way to apply liquid eyeliner, be creative once in a while to give your eyes a different look. Start with lining the upper lashes with a different color eyeliner such as bronze or pink or blue glitter. The line should be thin in the inner corner of the eyes, medium thickness towards the middle and very thick near the end of the eye. When this line is dry, take a black eyeliner and apply a thin line with it very close to the lashes. This liquid eyeliner technique will give a very trendy and classy look to your eyes.

Another simple liquid eyeliner technique is to apply black eyeliner on the upper lashes in the regular traditional way, and follow it up with a shimmer pencil on this black line.

Pencil Eyeliner Techniques
Pencil eyeliner is comparatively more easy to use than a liquid eyeliner. One of the simplest pencil eyeliner techniques is to line the upper lashes by starting from the middle of the eye, towards the outer corner, followed by going to the inner corner of the eye and sweeping the pencil towards the middle of the eye. Another pencil eyeliner technique is to simply smudge it a bit after application, with a cotton swab, for a subtle and natural look. More on eye makeup techniques.

Eyeliner Techniques for Eye Shapes
For large eyes, any of the eyeliner designs such as classic, smoky, dramatic or goth can be used, as everything suits naturally big eyes. However, for small eyes, special attention is necessary for the application of eyeliner since wrong eyeliner techniques for small eyes, can make the eyes look even more smaller. For small eyes, preferably, liquid eyeliner should be used. Dark eyeliners such as black or brown should be avoided on very small eyes. Instead one should opt for blue or plum-colored eyeliner. The correct eyeliner technique for small eyes is to apply the liner from the inner corner of the eyes, towards the outer corner, but slightly away from the outer corner and ending the eyeliner line, just at the outer edge of the eye. Another way to make the eyes look large is to apply the eyeliner from the center of the eye, instead of the inner corner and ending it the same way as described above.

These were a few of the eyeliner techniques which you can use to beautify your eyes. One last tip on eye makeup before I sign off - Keep the eye makeup subtle in the morning by applying a pencil eyeliner or a light shade of liquid eyeliner, and dark and bright at night, by applying a black or a dark brown eyeliner, for gorgeous looking eyes.