How to Apply Eyeshadow on Your Round Shaped Eyes
Do you find it challenging enhancing your round shaped eyes when you apply eyeshadow to them? If you answered yes, then this blog is for you. I will explain the basic steps to enhance your beautiful round shaped eyes with eyeshadow.
If you've never thought about your eyes in relation to eyeshadow placement before, it's worth starting now. The right eye makeup techniques can make you look awake and enhance your overall features. Even though round eyes present a unique challenge when applying eyeshadow. They are usually large and amazingly striking, just think of celebs like Mila Kunis or Katy Perry.
The eye’s length and width tend to be equal, with the white of the eye highly visible. If you have round eyes, they may tend to look small, droopy, or sunken in when you, incorrectly, apply eyeshadow on round eyes.
Using bright shades in the corner of your eyes and creating an upturned wing with eyeliner can make your round eyes pop.
Round eyes are often labeled ‘cute,’ which is great if that’s the look you’re going for, but if you want something a little sexier, a smokey eye is the easiest way to do that. If you have beautiful round eyes and don’t know what to do with them, I am here to help you choose the correct way to apply eyeshadow on your round eyes.
To apply eyeshadow on your round shaped eyes, the main goal is to make your round eyes look more almond shaped. To achieve this, you need to concentrate extending the eyeshadow outward from your eyes.
Round Shaped Eye
This is a basic placement pattern for the eyeshadow using light, medium and dark eyeshadow shades
In this diagram, I am showing you how to apply the eyeshadow on your round eye using a neutral color pallet; however, you can use any combination of colors that look good with your eye color, as long as you follow the diagram using light, medium and dark shades in that color pallet of your choice.
Round Shaped Eyes Eyeshadow Application Steps
Use a medium shade, apply to the entire eyelid.
Use a medium dark to a dark shade eyeshadow color, set a “< “shape in the outer corners, make sure the “<” shape is slightly turned upward.
Apply the lighter shade eyeshadow color in the corner of eyelid and just below the eyebrows.
Now it is time to blend the eye shadow colors.
You can achieve this by making small circular motions with a fluffy eyeshadow brush.
Make sure you concentrate the blending where the two colors meet. This way, you blend the edges without blending away the intensity of the eyeshadow.
For a soft, natural look, blend the edges where the two colors meet until you don’t see a solid color line.
If you want more of a dramatic look, don’t blend as much
Time to line the eyes with an eye pencil, liquid liner or liner pen.
Line the upper eyelid from the inner corner of the eye to the outer corner. Keep the line as close as possible to the lash line.
My trick to achieve this is, slightly lift your closed eyelid and try to draw a line with the eyeliner tip into the eyelashes. It is as if you are coloring the roots of the lashes. By doing this, you are drawing the fine line at the base of your eyelashes; you will not get that blank space from the base of your lashes and the drawn line on your lid.
Thicken the outer corner liner and slightly fade upwards. You can blend this down with a cotton swab or a small eyeshadow brush if you want your eyeliner to be soft in an appearance. Applying the liner this way will extend your eyes outwards, counteracting the roundness.
Line under lower lashes on the outer 1/3 from the outside corner of the eye. To give a more dramatic look, you can line inside the waterline.
If using an eye pencil, you can smudge the pencil line down to just a shadow to give a smokey effect. You can also apply a little eyeshadow of the same color as the pencil liner, on top of the smudged liner.
These are optional steps
Curl your lashes with an eyelash curler
Apply false lashes
Apply mascara
There you have it, my basic way, how to apply eyeshadow on your round shaped eyes. However, if you still have a question about your round eyes or any other makeup application inquiries, then book a Virtual Makeup Tutorial with me in the comfort of our own home or office. I offer several different makeup lessons from which to choose. My classes will not be like watching a YouTube video or seeing an Instagram post of an influencer showing everyone how to do a “Cookie-Cutter” makeup application. They will be fun, and each class is designed for you alone, no two classes are the same because no two people are.
I look forward to seeing you in one of my classes.
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