Supermodels SA March 2013 | Page 25

How to do a double wing eyeliner • Start with a totally bare eyelid to create the base for the winged eye. • It’s important to go for a gel eyeliner. This allows you more precision than liquid eyeliners. • Pull the skin taut at the outer eye, look down and using a flat brush, apply liner into lash line itself on top eyelid, in between root of lashes. • Taking the line from the inner corner of the eye, put color in lash line all the way to outer corner of eye. • Close eye; pull lid towards ear so skin is taut. • Repeat base step; this time apply liner along upper lash line just above the lashes. • Go over the existing line several times to build up inten sity. • Keep line thinner towards inside of eye; make it thicker towards outer eye, ensuring you follow eye’s natural shape. • If you are doing a long wing, follow angle from bottom outer corner of eye; elongate in a single sweep outwards towards top of ear to give a winged eye that suits your face shape. • If you’re nervous of doing this in one single sweep, ex tend eyeliner from point where you just stopped at outer corner. • Try to avoid doing this in small strokes. • For a shorter wing, extend liner from last outer corner lash towards where your eyebrow ends. This will ensure the correct wing and won’t make your eye droop. • The line should taper off to a fine tip so that it looks fe line. • A winged effect can also be created with eyeshadow. • Layer eye shades, starting with a paler shade, then slowly increase intensity, adding a deeper color up to the crease of the eyelid, taking it right into corner of eye and out towards the edge of eyebrow. • Concentrate on crease of eyelid and layer shadow deeply for a dramatic effect. This is a stronger look and the wing is much thicker and more striking. • Complete look by taking eyeshadow underneath your bottom lashes to right from inside corner of the eye, and following sweep of the wing. • Complete look with lots of mascara, after curling eye lashes.