Hooded Eyes – Eyeshadow, Eyeliner and Eye Makeup Tips and Celebrities with Hooded Eyelids

Would you like to know what hooded eye are and how to apply eye makeup for hooded eyes? Get information on what they are, celebrities with hooded eyelids, makeup tips for these eye types including eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, eyebrows trimming and makeup and much more.

Definition – What are hooded eyes

Hooded eyes refer to eye type whose upper eyelids are completely hidden or almost completely by the upper eye part especially when your eyes are open. This creates a hood like look on your eyes hence the name. When you have hooded eyelids, you can hardly see the natural crease on eyelid because of the above extra skin that hides it. This does not mean you have monolid eyes or you do not have creases like Asian eyes, you have them but they are not visible.

In addition, there are slight variations, with some of having the upper eyelid natural crease completely hidden, some seen partially while others, you can see the natural crease on one eye while you cannot see it on the other eye. Beauty is all about uniqueness and I find people with hooded eyelids to be charming just as those with oriental, deep set or other eye types. You just need to know how to apply eye makeup correctly and you will look fabulous.

Celebrities with Hooded Eyes

Do you have hooded yes? You are not the only one. Many celebrities have this eye type too. Some of the people and celebrities with hooded eyelids include Paris Hilton, Taylor Swifts, Jennifer Lawrence, Camilla Belle, Blake Lively, Leelee Sobieski, Renee Zellweger, and Malin Akerman, etc. You should look at how they apply makeup and ape them. This is the simplest way of looking great if you have them.

Makeup for Hooded Eyes – Eyeshadow, Eyeliner, Mascara and Eyebrows

If you have them, you need to ensure you know how to use makeup correctly to enhance your looks. Of course, applying eye makeup for hooded eyelids is a challenge since your upper eyelids are not visible anyway!

However, we have covered important hooded eyes makeup tips, which will help enhance the appearance of your hooded eyelids. This is particularly to the few people who do not find the fact they have them pleasant or anyone who want to enhance their looks. While discussing these tips, we will look at how to apply eyeliner, eyeshadow and other eye makeup for people with hooded eyelids.

To make everything clear, people with such eye types are free to experiment with whatever eye makeup color they want. It is unfortunate that  most of it will not be seen on your upper eyelids when your eyes are open. However, when deciding on which eye makeup color and types to use, you need to ensure it compliments or flatters your eye color, skin tone and other facial features. Furthermore, you can create various looks including the hooded eyes smokey eye looks.

Eyebrow Makeup and Makeover for Hooded Eyes

Do not forget to groom your eyebrows if you have hooded eyes. You should shape them according to your face shape. See more on eyebrow shapes for different face shapes. You can also define your eyebrows using a good eyebrow powder or pencil to get rid of the sparse eyebrow looks and help create more space to apply eye makeup. Defined eyebrows can help enhance the appearance of your hooded eyelids. Undone eyebrows only worsen the appearance of eyes that are hooded.

How to Apply Eyeshadow for Hooded Eyelids

When applying eyeshadow for hooded eyes, you need to be careful and slightly deviate from the conventional eyeshadow makeup tutorials, which tell you to apply eyeshadow darker only up to your eye creases. You need to go slightly beyond but not to your brow bone.  Before we look at the steps for apply eyeshadow, it is important always to ensure you apply eyeshadow with motions that are upwards to help lift the droopy eyelids. This is helps a lot when you have eyes that are hooded since they tend to have a droopy look.

1. Begin by applying a smooth foundation on your clean and oil free eyelids. If you have under eye wrinkles or dark circles, apply eye concealer to help camouflage them and make your eyes look open. You can dust a translucent powder after applying concealer to ensure it stays in place.
2. Apply eyeshadow primer and eyeshadow based. Each of these two has distinct roles they play. See more on eyeshadow primer and eyeshadow base.
3. Next, apply a highlighter on your lower lash inner eye corners and on your brow bone to help brighten up your eyes.  However, do not overdo it.
4. Apply lighter shade of eyeshadow from your lash line upwards to your eye creases.  This will help create the illusion of advancing eyelids.
5. Apply the medium shade (mid tone eyeshadow) on your eye creases over to your hooded area to help your eyelid hood to look a bit receded and blend it thoroughly. Furthermore, on your upper outer eye corners, apply the medium shade (mid tone eyeshadow) too. You should apply it upwards and outwards to help make your eyes a bit lifted. Furthermore, you can also create a V shaped and blend it inwards over your eyelid creases and below your lower lash line,
6. Apply eyeshadow on your lower eyelid with the lighter eyeshadow towards the inner eye corner and darker towards the outer eye corners.

Many tutorials will tell you to apply darkest eyeshadow on your eye creases and hoods just as you have done with the mid tone. Most people often ignore dark eyeshadow and instead use the mid tone eyeshadow only as it makes eyes to appear dragged down.

However, if you like, apply the darkest eyeshadow on your eyelid creases and on the hood that covers the creases. This helps to make the hood to appear to be receding. However, do not go as high as you have gone with the mid tone eyeshadow and blend thoroughly.

How to Apply Eyeliner for Hooded Eyes

When applying eyeliner of for hooded eyes, you need to be careful to ensure the eyeliner is not transferred to the eyelids when you open your eyes. It is most recommended that you use only the best brands of liquid eyeliner as pencil or gel eyeliner will transfer their color to your eye hoods when you open wide your eyes. Here is how you will apply eyeliner:

• Line your entire upper lash line using a thin line and do the same to the lower lash line beginning form outer eye corner to the inner eye corner. Let the eyeliner you have applied to be as close to your eyelashes base as possible.
• Try to line your upper inner eye rims too to help your eyelashes to look much thicker

Winged Eyeliner for Hooded Eyes

If you love cat eye eyeliner, you can create a wing but ensure it is not covered by the hood when you open your eyes. To do this, you need to get a good angled eyeliner brush and black eyeliner, preferably liquid. Some people use gel eyeliner to create hooded eyes cat eye eyeliner. You can follow the normal steps for cat eye eyeliner but instead of curving the wing upwards, make it straight to avoid it being covered by your hood. The wing should not pass beyond your natural eye crease as part of it will be covered and spoil its shape.

You can also create a V shaped wing on your outer eye corner by adding a small amount of eyeliner on the lower part of the wing to help give an upward wing impression. Although you can use any eyeliner color, it is recommended to use brown, dark colored or black eyeliner since it will make your eyes to look great.

How to Apply Mascara for Hooded Eyes

Mascara can help enhance the looks of your hooded eyelids. It is advisable to curl your upper eyelashes only before you can apply your mascara. You should also apply mascara on your upper eyelids only. If you are fond of fake eyelashes, they are one of the best companions!

Tips, Secrets and Advises for Hooded Eyelids

When applying eye makeup, you need to follow the below tips and secrets if you want stunning and irresistible looks

• Always thoroughly blend your eye makeup to ensure there are no color streaks or demarcations.
• If you have a combination of eye types such as wide set eyes, close set eyes,  small eyes, round eyes, etc. that also hooded, ensure you keenly consider each of these features and follow the application method for the feature you make to make least visible. For instance, you might be having big hooded eyelids and you want them to appear small. You then need to follow steps for applying makeup for big eyes.

Conclusion

We have comprehensively covered on hooded eyes, from what they are, makeup tips (including eyebrow grooming, eyeshadow, mascara and eyeliner) and much more. Not to over emphasis, that they are lovely and a charm and should not be confused with saggy or droopy eyelids.

Further recommended reading

Makeup For Hooded Eyes; 17 Amazing Tips: https://olwomen.com/makeup-for-hooded-eyes-17-amazing-tips

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