Every woman should know a few good eyeliner tips! When you line your eyes, you create a more dramatic look and make your eyes pop! Every makeup diva uses liners to accentuate their eyes! Whether you use pencils or liquid, it’s really only personal preference. Both work very well at achieving lusty, seductive eyes.
Most movie stars and celebrities use eyeliner to compliment their style and emphasize their eyes. It’s a sure fire way to draw attention and you’d better believe that they know it. You can wear it alone or with other makeup. There are no rules when it comes to lining your eyes. Black is the most standard color but there are many other colors available for you to choose from!
Use these eyeliner tips to guide your liner application. Most of all, have fun and experiment with the different colors available. You just never know when you'll stumble onto a look you really like!
General Eyeliner Tips
Before you apply liners, apply a base coat of foundation and/or loose powder to the entire lid area. This gives your eye make-up something to adhere to. Even if you don’t want to wear a facial foundation, at least apply it to your lids.
If you don’t use foundation, an optional choice is a makeup primer or eyeshadow primer. Primers act like foundations and can really help keep your makeup in place much longer than it normally would.
Black is the most standard liner color. All women can accentuate their eyes with black liner. It goes with all eye colors!
Brown is only second to black! Brown liners look great with all eye colors too, but is softer than black. Many women prefer to wear brown liners in the day and black liners at night, for that reason.
Instead of buying brow pencils to fill in your eyebrows, just use your eyeliner pencils. You'll save money and time! Smudge them out for a softer look.
Apply liquid liners along the upper lashes only. They’re just too messy to wear under your bottom lashes!
Pencil liners can be used above the top lashes or below the bottom lashes, or both!
Apply pencil liners (only) to the rims of your eyes for a dramatic look.
Clean your pencil liners regularly, by wiping them off with a soft tissue. This will help prevent pink eye infections.
Extend your eyeliner lines as far as you feel comfortable wearing them.
For cat eyes, line your eyes slightly outside your outer eyes to open your eyes. Make the line as thick and pronounced as you like, however the line should be thickest at the outer corner of your eyes, and thinnest at the inner corner of your eyes.
For a smokey look, line your eyes with a liquid or pencil black eyeliner along the top lashes, and then cover them with a dark color shadow (like dark gray or off black) and smudge out the line. If you use liquid liners, allow them to dry before covering them with shadow.
Use eyeshadow instead of liner to line your eyes. Apply them with an angled shadow brush or the skinny side of an eyeshadow sponge applicator.
Liners come in a wide variety of choices, like liquid, cake, and pencil.
The most important of all eyeliner tips, is that there are no rules for applying liners. Set your own tone with them, according to your own personal choices. If someone doesn't like it, you know what to tell them!
Correcting Eyeliner Tips
To widen your eyes, line the top lashes from mid point to just beyond the outer edge. Line the bottom lashes from the outer corner for only one inch. This draws attention to the outside of your eyes and widens them.
If you have wide set eyes, keep the liner along the lash line only though. Extending the line will only make your eyes look even wider.
For close set eyes, only apply a thin line of liner to your eyes and thicken the line towards the outer eye. Extend the line beyond your eyes. This helps to widen your eyes. Do not apply dark liner colors to the rims of your eyes because it only makes your eyes look smaller.
To enhance your eye color, wear a colored liner that compliments your eyes. Try deep blue or violet for blue eyes, dark purple or black for brown eyes, soft blue, green, or brown for hazel eyes, and green or gold for green eyes.
To open your eyes, use an eyeshadow and an angled brush and apply a thin line along the upper lashes.
If you make a mistake applying liner, try using a damp q-tip and twirl into a fine point with your fingertips. Use it to take off lining mistakes.
If you have dark circles under your eyes or puffy eyes, only line the top lashes. Lining under the bottom lashes only makes you look more tired.
Colored Eyeliner Tips
Traditional makeup matches your liner color to your mascara color.
For a different look, try using a different color liner with your mascara. Try a purple liner with black mascara, brown liner with green mascara, blue liner with blue mascara, or green liner with brown mascara. If you like the way it looks, anything goes!
If your eyes are looking tired, try a white liner to make your eyes pop and wake up your eyes. White pencil liners can be applied above the top lashes or in the rims of your eyes!
Blue eyeliners can be used to enhance blue eyes, but they also accentuate brown, hazel, or green eyes!
Green liners are used to enhance green eyes, but can also be worn by those with brown or hazel eyes.
Purple liners look fantastic on blue and brown eyes.
Mix eyeliner lines with two liner colors. Try lining your upper lashes from the inner eye to the midpoint in white, and extend the line from the midpoint to the outer eyes in black. You can achieve the same effect by using shadow colors in place of liners. I love using a white shadow along the upper lashes to the middle, and purple shadow from the middle to the outer eye.
Apply a black, brown, or white liner to the rims of your eyes and then apply the same or different colors along either/or both lash lines.
Lets face it! There are no set of rules or boundaries for liner application. Some people like to say there are, but there really aren't! Use these eyeliner tips loosely to add drama to your eyes. Set your own boundaries and stick to your personal preferences. Believe me, they will change throughout your life!
or eyeshadow primer
. Primers act like foundations and can really help keep your makeup in place much longer than it normally would. 
