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Hooded Eyes Makeup: 15 Tricks to Make Your Eyes Look More Open
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items Hooded eyes can make eyeshadow, eyeliner, and mascara disappear when your eyes are relaxed. The fix isn't necessarily more makeup. It's about placing each product where it stays visible.
This list focuses on practical hooded eyes makeup techniques for creating a more open, lifted look, including eyeshadow placement, crease definition, thin eyeliner, tightlining, mascara direction, and strategic brightening.
This list focuses on practical hooded eyes makeup techniques for creating a more open, lifted look, including eyeshadow placement, crease definition, thin eyeliner, tightlining, mascara direction, and strategic brightening.
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Hooded Eyes Eyeshadow Placement
Hooded Eyes Eyeliner Techniques
Hooded Eyes Mascara & Brightening
Hooded Eyes Eyeshadow Placement
Keep your eyes open and relaxed while applying your eye makeup.
This makes it easier to see exactly where the eyeshadow or liner will sit once you're looking straight ahead instead of discovering afterward that half of it has vanished into the fold.
This makes it easier to see exactly where the eyeshadow or liner will sit once you're looking straight ahead instead of discovering afterward that half of it has vanished into the fold.
1. Apply Eye Makeup With Your Eyes Open
Don't automatically use your natural crease as your eyeshadow placement guide.
With your eyes open, look for the fold that's actually visible. That area can help you decide how high to place your transition shade so the definition doesn't disappear when your eyes are relaxed.
With your eyes open, look for the fold that's actually visible. That area can help you decide how high to place your transition shade so the definition doesn't disappear when your eyes are relaxed.
2. Find Your Visible Crease
A matte transition shade placed slightly above the natural crease can stay visible even when the hood covers part of the mobile lid.
3. Place Transition Shadow Slightly Above the Crease
The hooded area doesn't need a lot of shimmer.
Keeping the space directly beneath the brow mostly matte creates more contrast with the brighter parts of the eye and keeps the focus closer to the visible lid.
Keeping the space directly beneath the brow mostly matte creates more contrast with the brighter parts of the eye and keeps the focus closer to the visible lid.
4. Keep the Area Under the Brow Mostly Matte
Blend the outer corner diagonally upward toward the temples instead of taking the shadow straight out.
That upward direction works particularly well when the outer part of the eye naturally appears heavier because of the hood.
That upward direction works particularly well when the outer part of the eye naturally appears heavier because of the hood.
5. Blend the Outer Corner Upward
Hooded Eyes Eyeliner Techniques
A thick liner can take up a surprising amount of visible lid space.
Keep the line as close to the lashes as possible. If you add a wing, a short, thin shape usually leaves more room for the rest of the eye makeup.
Keep the line as close to the lashes as possible. If you add a wing, a short, thin shape usually leaves more room for the rest of the eye makeup.
6. Keep Your Eyeliner Thin
Instead of guessing the angle of your wing, follow the direction of your lower lash line outward.
It's a simple way to create a more natural-looking lift without drawing the wing too high or too low.
It's a simple way to create a more natural-looking lift without drawing the wing too high or too low.
7. Use Your Lower Lash Line to Guide the Wing
Tightlining adds definition around the upper lash line without covering much of the visible lid.
This can be especially useful when there's very little mobile lid space available.
This can be especially useful when there's very little mobile lid space available.
8. Try Tightlining Instead of Thick Upper Liner
A heavy line underneath the eye can visually close in the eye.
Try smudging the lower lash line instead of leaving a sharp, dark border. A warm brown or chocolate-toned shadow can also give definition without making the lower eye look as heavy.
Try smudging the lower lash line instead of leaving a sharp, dark border. A warm brown or chocolate-toned shadow can also give definition without making the lower eye look as heavy.
9. Keep Lower Liner Soft
A small angled brush gives you more control around the folds of a hooded eyelid.
Use it to refine the outer corner and sharpen the wing rather than trying to create the entire shape with one thick pencil stroke.
Use it to refine the outer corner and sharpen the wing rather than trying to create the entire shape with one thick pencil stroke.
10. Use a Small Angled Brush for Precise Liner
Hooded Eyes Mascara & Brightening
Start at the base of the lashes and gently wiggle the wand before pulling upward.
Keeping more definition at the roots helps emphasize the lash line without putting unnecessary weight on the lash tips.
Keeping more definition at the roots helps emphasize the lash line without putting unnecessary weight on the lash tips.
11. Concentrate Mascara at the Lash Roots
Direct the outer lashes slightly outward toward the temples as you apply mascara.
Keeping the outer lashes pointed in the same general direction as the eyeshadow and wing helps maintain that lifted shape.
Keeping the outer lashes pointed in the same general direction as the eyeshadow and wing helps maintain that lifted shape.
12. Angle Outer Lashes Outward
A small amount of light color at the inner corner can create a focal point that makes the eyes appear more open.
Keep the brightening concentrated instead of spreading a pale shade across the entire lid.
Keep the brightening concentrated instead of spreading a pale shade across the entire lid.
13. Brighten the Inner Corner
Hooded eyes don't mean you have to avoid shimmer.
Apply it only where you can actually see the mobile lid when your eyes are open. The center of the visible lid is usually a more useful placement than covering the entire hood.
Apply it only where you can actually see the mobile lid when your eyes are open. The center of the visible lid is usually a more useful placement than covering the entire hood.
14. Put Shimmer Only on the Visible Lid
After blending, clean the outer edge with a small amount of concealer and a flat, precise brush.
Keep the cleanup angled slightly upward toward the temple. It helps sharpen the outer shape while removing any eyeshadow fallout.
Keep the cleanup angled slightly upward toward the temple. It helps sharpen the outer shape while removing any eyeshadow fallout.
15. Clean Up the Outer Edge