Eye Shapes - Diffrent Types Shape Of Your Eyes

Before applying eye make-up, you must first understand the shape of your eyes and how to compliment them.

Almond shaped eyes - Apply lighter shade from lash to brow. Medium shade on lid. Dark shadow on outer third of lid. Generous coats of mascara for lashes, comb well.

Close set eyes - This eye have a dramatic, sultry look. It can be enhanced by concentrating colour near the eye's inner corners. Extend smoky shadow beyond outer corners to exaggerate them. Brush lashes out.

• Apply the most intense colour near the outer corners of the eyes.
• Line top and bottom of eyes in any colour, but begin drawing a quarter of the way out  from the inner eye.
• Smudge lines.
• Brush mascara on to upper and lower lashes

Deep set eyes - Use light shade from lash to brow, slightly darker above the crease on brow bone. Use eye pencil or liner on both top and bottom of the eye, smudge to soften. Generous coats of mascara for all lashes, comb well.

Round eyes - To make them appear more almond-shaped, use light-toned shadow all over top lid, darker in entire crease. Line top and bottom lid, extend liner out and up at end. Mascara for top lashes only, more on outer half.

Wide set eyes - Apply a light to medium shade from lash to brow. Place darker shadow shade near eye's inner corners, continuing across lid and feathering out lightly towards temples. Focus liner, mascara on inner corners.

Small eyes - They are proportionately smaller in comparison to the rest of the facial features. To enhance small eyes line upper and lower (never inside). Use pale, shimmery, eye shadow. Curl lashes.

• Apply a medium-toned shadow (such as soft grey or blue) to the crease.
• Use a soft-coloured liner (try taupe) on the top and bottom lash lines, extending the top line across the entire lash line and the bottom line from just under the iris to the outer  corner.
• Sweep black mascara on upper lashes.
• Apply light shadow on the eyelids.
• Apply more intense shades in the creases.
• Add lift to the outer corners.

Hooded eyes - These eyes are set so the natural crease in the eyelid is not readily seen. Highlighting the brow bone and lining the lash base gives hooded eyes an alluring shape.

• Apply a medium to dark shadow on the crease and hooded area.
• Sweep a lighter shadow on the brow bone and on the inside corner of the eye.
• Apply black mascara to upper lashes.
• Line upper lash-line only. Gradually soften shadow as you approach the brow.

Prominent eyes - These eyes which set far forward in the face tend to dominate the facial features. The eyelids are too pronounced. Medium to deep shades of shadow on the lids help to minimize their appearance. Liners applied to the lash bases from corner to corner gives prominent eyes a smoldering and mysterious look.

Oriental eyes - These eyes have a distinctive lift at the corner and have very little lid. The depth of the eyes can increase by deep shades of eye shadow and the dimension can be increased by applying eyeliner as close as possible to the lash base.

• Draw a fairly thick line all the way across the top lash line with a brown or black pencil.
• Apply a medium to dark shadow on the lid and in the crease.
• Finish with a coat of black mascara on both upper and lower lashes.