Kajal would be a mistake
If you’re over 40, use these 3 ways to lift your eyes
Katie Jane Hughes forgoes kohl on the waterline. You might also prefer to use these three ways to lift your eye area.
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Kajal is part of your everyday make-up routine? If you want to visually lift your eyes and are over 40, you might like these three methods better.
Already clear: We love our eyeliner. However, today he has to forego a homage, because we now know three ways that are much better suited to optically lifting the eye.
Instead of Kajal: With these 3 ways we lift our eyes over 40
There are countless excellent ways to successfully integrate kajal into your makeup routine. As Tightlining to thicken your eyelashes or using a light tone on the waterline to visually enlarge your eyes. However, if you have one Lifting effect If you want to achieve this, it is better to use other techniques.
Of course it is not linked to age – It doesn’t matter whether you are over 40, 50, younger or older. What the topic of this article aims at is that the Skin around the eyes becomes more flexible with age. Of course, this is not linked to a specific generation, but rather depends on your skin condition. If your elastic and collagen fibers are less firm than they were when you were 20, then you will like these tips. Because if you have droopy eyelids etc., eyeliner is not ideal for lifting your eyes. Instead, rely on this one three ways.
1. Brush eyebrows upwards and lengthen them
You might think that in order to lift your eyes, you also have to put makeup on your eyes. But that’s actually not the case! Instead, what matters more is what happens around it. Our biggest lever: the eyebrows. Because they frame the face and have an extremely big effect on your eye area.
- Show the shape of yours eyebrows down, Your entire game can seem rather sluggish. The space on your lids is visually reduced, which can make your eyes appear smaller and more tired.
- Thin eyebrows are socially associated with older age. Do we think that’s good? No. Is it still the case? Yes. On the one hand, it is because full hair is associated with youth – even when it comes to eyebrows. On the other hand, thin brows used to be trendy. Wearing them like that now brings back memories of the 90s (but there’s nothing bad about that per se). What’s currently popular is simple bushier, fuller brows.
- Straightened hairs or eyebrows that point in all directions have a big impact on your overall look. You immediately look less directed. Something that can be easily changed with one movement, and combing upwards also creates a lifting effect.
If you want to lift your eyes, then brush your eyebrows upwards towards your temple. Pay particular attention to catching the ends so that the general trend doesn’t go downwards. If necessary, lengthen your brow with a pencil, trace individual hairs or use a tinted eyebrow gel so that you have more fullness. You will immediately notice that the space on your eyelids increases and the entire area appears more open and simply lifted.
Tip: A little light shimmer eyeshadow (or highlighter) on the brow bone enhances the effect. Also fades out the sound towards the temple.
2. Apply bronzer to the temple
As already mentioned, the temple seems to be important for the topic of eye lifting. Why? The human eye is very sensitive to when you look back at other people. If we contour the region next to the eyes, it has an immediate effect on them. This is exactly why we apply our bronzer or contour powder right there from now on.
- Approach it slowly Pigmentation of your product so you don’t apply too much. Preferably one fluffy brush Choose one that has particularly long bristles, as this means there is less pressure and the likelihood of stains is reduced.
- Go into your powder and knocks off the excessagain to avoid a blotchy result.
- Now we work in windshield wiper movements: We start at the outer corner of the eye, the end point is the hairline. So you slide it slightly diagonally upwards over your temple.
- Finally, you can use any powder brush to create the result hideso the transition looks natural.
The slightly slanted application makes the part optically lifted. In addition, due to the dark color, it tends to fade into the background, which makes the face narrower appears.
3. Open eye makeup
What the hell does that mean now? open eye makeup? To be honest, we could have added five more points to explain exactly what is important when it comes to eye makeup to achieve a lifting effect. But we just wanted to focus on two today.
1. Mascara – surprise!
The first is called mascara and eyelash curler. Because this tip seems obvious, we wanted to give you another one. Very briefly for all make-up newbies: In the best case scenario, warm the eyelash curler slightly with a hairdryer, curl the eyelashes from the roots to the tips and back again and then coat them with a light, ideally waterproof mascara. It doesn’t matter whether you’re over 40 or not: With this trick, your eyes will look instantly lifted.
2. Light shades
You may not have known this tip yet. Everything that is bright appears visually – we have already used this with the eyebrows. While we like to apply light shimmer eyeshadow to the inner corner of our eyes to open up the area and look more awake, we can also use this tip for the outer corner of our eyes. Because that’s exactly where we have it very often dark spots. Let’s either cover these with one light concealer or one Eyeshadow the entire eye area benefits from the lifting effect.
- It’s best to use a small brush with straight bristles, tied as tightly as possible for more control.
- Now go into your eyeshadow and place the brush on it lower lash line at. Yes, you heard right! Outside, below is the place where your brush is waiting to go in Towards the temple to be moved. You can do this with either a pulling or stamping motion.
- The one you created bright line can look a bit harsh with white eyeshadow. Take your finger or another brush and blend everything out until you’re happy.
