Makeup Over 40

Eye shadow makeup for downturned corners; it’s actually easier than you may think.  You know that the downturns add years to your eyes, but there are ways of almost making them disappear.

Let’s get ready and straighten out those corners!

Supplies Needed

You can check the eye shadow makeup post for everything I will be using for this technique (and the list is pretty much the same for every set of tips I will show you, so get them together now).

Most important for this one, though, is that the eye liner you use should not be black.  Charcoal grey, dark brown, deep plum, navy, etc. are all fine, but black will be too harsh for this effect.

The Eye Shadow Makeup Look

This particular look is rather natural.  I suggest neutral tones, at least until you get the hang of this.

The point of this look is not to look like you are using makeup to correct your downturns; it’s to look naturally better.

The How-To for Eye Shadow Makeup for Downturned Corners

First, make sure your eyes are clean and primed with an eye shadow primer.  You can see in the photo that my eyes down’t have a severe sag, but it’s enough to add a year or two to my looks.  (The photo is me without anything on my eyes except primer.)

Start by gently dusting your lid from lash line to just below your brow bone with a medium neutral shade.  It should be a few shades darker than your natural skin tone.  Do this very lightly; you want a very sheer coverage at this point

Using the same color, add a line of heavier coverage to your crease area, going from the outer corner to the outer edge of your pupil.  You want the crease to be darker than the lid.

Using your blending brush, blend the crease color into your crease area, blending inward to the inner corner of your pupil.  Again, you don’t want to use a heavy hand with this, at least not until you’ve got the technique down pat.

With a smaller detail brush, add some of the highlight color to your browbone, just under the highest point of your eyebrow arch.  Blend down.

Still with the small detail brush, add a tiny bit of the highlight color to the inner corner of your eyes, and slightly up the lid.  This is to brighten your inner corners, which tend to be a little dark.

This is your basic neutral/natural look.  To continue with the correction, let’s move onto page 2 for eye shadow makeup for downturned corners.

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