Asian Eye Makeup Tips : 5 Tips to Make Your Eyes Look Big and Beautiful

Many Asian women worry that their eyes are too small, but using shadows, highlights, and colors, it’s surprisingly easy to draw attention up to your eyes, no matter their shape or size.

Here are 5 Asian eye makeup tips to help you look your best.

1. Eliminate Undereye Puffiness and Darkness

Skin tone and facial features vary a lot even within people from the same ethnic group, but many Asian women struggle with under-eye dark circles, puffiness, or both. Both these features create shadows, and shadows make your eyes look smaller and less noticeable. Using one, matte color will visibly ease the puffiness, because it looks like the skin is all the same level, and it will “open up” your eye area visually.

Use special under-eye concealer to counteract the darkness, and dab it in! Regular foundation won’t absorb right and will probably be too dark, and rubbing the concealer in instead of dabbing won’t build up enough color to cancel out the shadows.

2. Don’t Overdo Your Eye Makeup

No matter the size of your eye itself, unless you’re biracial or really lucky, you’re just not going to have the eyelid space that other girls have, so makeup tips for other ethnicities will look disastrous on your eyes. If you want to use a non-neutral makeup color, choose one, not several, and use it sparingly. Every other eye makeup you put on your lids should be based on a soft, flattering, taupe-based color.

3. Take Advantage of Eyeliner

Asian women are masters (or mistresses?) of wielding eyeliner, especially tricky liquid eyeliner, like pros, probably because the normal eye makeup tips don’t work very well on Asian eyes. Black, winged eyeliner that stretches slightly beyond the outer edges of your eyes can visually expand and open your eye area. With liquid liner, use several smooth strokes to run along your actual upper eyelash line to darken the base of your eyelashes. If you’re using powder or pencil eye liner, rub back and forth to really work the color into your lash line.

I almost always advise using it on the bottom lash line, however – too much darkness on eyes that are already smaller than average just create a giant, closed-looking shadowy area. Another reason is that the traditional Asian beauty ideal, particularly East Asian like Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, is in simplicity and smooth flawless features. And if you find that look appealing, adding bottom eyeliner will just clutter up your face and take the attention away from your natural beauty.

4. Use Subtle Jewel Tones on Your Eyelids

For almost all occasions, swiping a soft, blended layer of a jewel toned color eyeshadow (choose from emerald, ruby, rich purple, and navy blue) will add the finish eyeshadow touch to make your eyes pop. Frosty colors, though I know they are popular with some Asian girls, like light blue and hot pink, have become associated with little girls wearing play makeup and teenyboppers, while jewel tones will make you look timeless.

5. Mascara and Eyelash Curlers are Your Friends

One of the biggest Western ideals of beauty is having long, curly eyelashes. For Asian women, who are almost always born with short, straight lashes, it can seem like an impossible dream to get enviable lashes. However, if you’re following all my Asian makeup tips, you’ve worked eye liner into your lash line already, which serves to make your eyelashes look both darker and thicker.

Next, you need a volumizing, jet black mascara brand. Good Asian makeup brands are Shiseido and anything from YesStyle. Honestly, Asian eyelashes are usually sparse and short enough that you probably can’t overdo it with mascara, but do use an eyelash comb to separate any clumps after you’ve gone through at least two strokes on each eye with the mascara wand. Wiggle it at the base of your lashes, and slowly pull it upward and out, through your lashes.

Finally, pull out your eyelash curler and prepare to attack your eyelashes. I’ve known some Asian girls who have heated theirs up with a blowdryer first for greater effect, but that’s not truly necessary. Clamp down with the eyelash curler for a good 10-20 seconds, pull away, and clamp again. After a few times on each eye, you will get a noticeably lifted effect.

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Asian Makeup Suggestions to Give the Illusion of Bigger Eyes

Many Asian women would like to create the appearance of bigger, more expressive eyes, so here are some Asian eye makeup tips to play up your best features.

When trying to make eyes appear larger with makeup, one of the best makeup tips is to consider one of the easiest tricks make up artists use, plucking or waxing the eyebrows. Shaping your eyebrows into a nicely curved arch yourself is a fairly simple task but if you are not confidant enough to do them yourself then visit a beautician. Beauticians are trained to know the best way to shape your eyebrows to suit your face. Once professionally shaped it is just a matter of you plucking away stray hairs as they grow back.

Now your eyebrows are done your eyes should already appear wider. Start by dabbing a small amount of concealer along the top of your eyelid and below your eyes and smooth in gently taking care to not drag the skin too much. Skin around the eyes is thinner than elsewhere on your face and you do not want to risk damaging it. Your concealer should give your skin an even tone all over and will be the perfect base for applying your eye shadow.

A simple rule to remember when choosing eye shadow is light colors open the eyes and dark colors close them. You should ideally have a eye makeup color palette of three shades. Brown is a color that suits all eye colors so in this instance we will use brown. You will need a dark chocolate brown, a lighter medium brown and finally a pale cream.

Start by covering the whole top lid, up to just below your eyebrow with the light cream shadow, and be sure to blend it in well. Next, add the medium brown along the crease of your eyelid from the inner corner outwards, again, it is important to spend time blending this in well. Finally, on the outer corner of each eye add a touch of the dark chocolate brown shadow and blend it in until the eye shadow colors show no definite beginning or end.

You will now need a black or brown eye pencil. Eye pencils are great for widening the eyes if applied correctly.  It might take you a while to get it right first time but the practice is so worth it. You will be starting on your top eyelids where the lash meets the lid. You are going to draw a thin line from the beginning to the end of your lashes. Repeat this on the other eye and then check in the mirror to make sure you have drawn them evenly. When you are happy with the result, it is time to move onto the next step.

Use the eye pencil underneath the eye, again along the lashes as close as possible. This time starting from the middle of the eye and sweeping along to the outer corner. Applying eye pencil only from the middle of the lashes gives the illusion that your eyes are wider set than they actually are. Smudge the eye pencil slightly with your finger so as not to leave a noticeable line.

You are now ready for the final stage of your make up. Mascara is a lot of women’s “cant live without” product and is fantastic for opening up the eye area – it will add the finishing touch to your look. Mascara should be applied in two coats to both bottom and top lashes making sure the first coat is allowed to dry properly first thus avoiding the dreaded clumpy mascara look.

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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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