For the sake of visibility and clarity, I'm just going to apply very neutral shadow over my primed eyelid as a backdrop for the winged line:
With my Sonia Kashuk bent eyeliner brush and Maybelline Eye Studio black gel liner, I'm going to line my upper lash line. I'm going to make mine moderate in thickness, but you can definitely go thicker or thinner to suit your own taste.
Notice that it's thinner towards the inner corner and gradually widens towards the outer corner. Next, I'm going to create a little flick along my outer corner using an upward stroke.
The flick can be as long or as short as you'd like depending on how dramatic you want your wing to be. Now, I'm simply going to connect the tip of the flick to the rest of the eye line. Sort of like connect the dots:
See how the wing is starting to take shape? Now all we have to do is fill in the uncolored space with more black gel liner:
All done! Wasn't that fun and easy?
Overall look:
Winged liner is my favorite way to define my eyes. I have small, almond-shaped eyes, so I find that it's a very flattering way to accentuate my natural eye shape. I like its effectiveness towards adding instant drama without requiring much else. Hope some of you found this tutorial useful, and hopefully clear. I was working on a video, but kind of flubbed it and have to re-film. I'll see about getting it up as soon as I can, though I do have another midterm next week. Ugh! Thanks for reading tonight!
Hugs,
Cat
I love winged liner on you! I always wear my eyeliner winged as well, because I find it nice with almond eyes (high five for almond eyes). Thanks for the tutorial Cat! I need a little more practice to make the line sharper!
ReplyDeleteIsn't winged liner awesome? :D A trick I used to get my lines a little more crisp and clean is to re-trace the edges of the winged shape with liquid eyeliner. See if that works for you. :)
DeleteThanks for the tip Cat! I've been toying with the idea of getting a liquid eyeliner so we'll see how that works out! In the meantime however, I was selected as the Bdellium Tools February's La Beaute of the Month, and I chose their much raved-about (especially by Jessica from Beautezine) 760 eyeliner brush as my prize! Jessica did a tutorial on her site and I was completely sold! If I get to pull that off I'll be really pleased with myself :)
DeleteOooooh! I'm excited for you! :D I'll bet you'll do great!
Deleteasdfghjkl, when you do it, it looks so easy! >.<
ReplyDeleteI practiced a lot, but still, I do have my bad days where they look terribly uneven, lol!
DeleteI've watched so many Youtube videos on this and could never get it to be perfectly even, defs going to try this today. Thanks so much Cat for a easy step by step!!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you found it useful! :D I'll try to get a YouTube video done on this particular technique sometime soon.
DeleteMy flick is never at the right angle... @.@
ReplyDeleteThe angle of the flick is a little hard to gauge sometimes, have you tried lining it up with the imaginary line that runs along the outside of your nose and the outer corner of your eye? Hope that doesn't sound too confusing...I'll try to incorporate it in the tutorial video when I get around to making one. :D
DeleteSo gorgeous :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Phyrra! :)
DeleteWow, you look so great! I've been struggling to get the winged look right. It takes practice but you make it look so easy. Thanks for your tutorial! It was very helpful.
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Aw, thanks! Glad you found it useful. :D
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