Asian Makeup Tips: How to Create a Glamorous Look

Many women with Asian heritages have a hard time finding good makeup products designed specifically for Asian skin, and importing cosmetics from Asian countries can cost a small fortune. After a few years of trial and error, I finally learned how to use certain colors to play up my best features, even though they weren’t specifically designed for an Asian women.

Here’s what I learned about Asian makeup tips.

Best Asian Makeup Tips

Asian women look best in medium to dark colors of any hue. Good Asian makeup color choices include ashy browns and bronze shades, which are ideal neutral colors for the eyes, and foundations and powders should have yellow bases to compliment the golden undertones in Asian skin.

Young asian woman with makeupBold, dark jewel colors look lovely against dark eyes and lashes, or you can forgo eye shadow entirely in place of jet black liquid eyeliner. If you don’t have the second eyelid crease that most other ethnicities have, you can recreate one through a thin smudge of dark, golden-under-toned brown shadow.

Just remember that most Asian girls have less actual space on their eyes to work with, so don’t do too much all at once on your eyes, or the entire effect will seem a bit fake. Most Asian girls have very even skin tones, so I recommend only liquid liner, mascara, and a little blush for a casual daytime look. Shading in an eyelid crease takes time to do well, so you probably only want to save that for special occasions.

Since Asian faces tend to be a little flatter than average, bronzers and darker foundation to create lights and shadows can add depth to your face. Light, shimmery highlights should go right under the eyebrow, and under-eye concealer should always be used to reduce the appearance of puffiness or shadows under the eyes.

If you’ve got more time to spend on makeup, adding shadows to the sides of the nose and temples, while lightening the bridge of the nose, the inner corners of the eyes, and the cheekbones, can have an immediate and dramatic affect on your appearance.

Curling your eyelashes makes a huge difference to, because most Asian’s eyelashes are fairly straight and don’t stick upward at all. Colored mascara can bring attention back to your eyes, or black mascara can create a pleasant neutral look.

Try a soft plum or reddish-pink on the apples of your cheeks on top of the bronzer. Usually, lips should be fairly subtle and not more than a little glossy. Almost all Asian women are going to want the attention to be on their lovely eyes.

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How to Flatter Asian Eyes With Makeup

Asian girl wearing makeupAsian women need to follow a slightly modified makeup routine to take advantage of their heritage’s natural beauty.

Since many Asians have a less-developed or non-existent second eyelid crease, it’s possible to draw the shadow that an eyelid crease would make with a darker version of your skin tone eyeshadow and a very fine brush. Focus on adding color and darkness very gradually, otherwise you will overdo it and the drawn-in crease will look glaringly obvious.

Many Asians have less area between their eyes and their eyebrows, so they will need to work with smaller brushes and applicators than most other women use, so that they don’t walk away from the mirror looking too heavily made-up and fake.

Glittery, metallic eye shadows on the lid can draw attention to eyes, especially if they are on the small side. Gold-colored, shimmery make up can bring out the golden undertones common with many Asian girls’ skin.

Asian eye colors usually have less pupil color variation than most other races, so Asian girls can wear a lot more color and brighter color around their eyes than other girls can without looking over-the-top.

Dark jewel colors will look the best around Asian eyes, especially dark, rich hues of green, blue, and purple.

Remember that no matter how dark your eyes and eye lashes seem, pure black eye shadow and mascara will probably look too dark and severe on your face. So unless you’re going for the gothic look, dark brown will be a much more natural and flattering color for your face.

Most make up tips for non-Asian girls will advise putting a medium shade on the lid, a dark shade on the crease, and a very light shade on the brow bone under the eyebrow. However, Asian women need to graduate the shades from darkest to lightest, beginning with the eyelids. A thin shadow can be placed into the crease area, but the upper lid should not be heavily shadowed.

Asian eyes also look very pretty with a sideways gradient, ranging from a light shimmery color near the inside corners of each eye, spreading into darker shadows on the outside of each eye, with the strip under the brow bone still a light color.

It’s important for girls without eyelid creases to realize their eyes are beautiful just the way they are. Sure, you can create a crease with eye shadow, but creative use of eye lid color can yield stunning and lovely results without it.

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