A MAKE-UP artist has shared her 30-second hack for an instant eye lift – and yes, it works on droopy eyelids.
Kaila Gibson assured women with sagging skin that there are ways to lift your eyes upwards, as she does it on her clients all the time.
Her professional mantra is to “help women feel put together in five minutes or less”.
Luckily, her instant eye lift for youthful orbs can be done in just seconds with a kohl pencil and small blending brush.
“When you’re bringing your eyeliner all the way to the edge and down to the corner of your eye when you already have droopy skin or eyes that tend to point down,” Kaila started.
“What you’re gonna do is essentially point your eyes further down.”
She instead suggested trying to achieve a “lifted effect” by using make-up to draw the outer corner of your eyes upwards.
In short, you’re going to create a wing with the kohl pencil for the illusion of lifted eyes.
“Yes, I know I don’t deal with this issue,” Kaila prefaced before her tutorial.
“But this is something I would do on my own clients.”
She instructed you to draw a line across your top eyelid but stop where the eye starts to droop down or skin starts to sag.
And then rather than drawing to the corner, she instructed to draw upwards to create a wing-effect.
“It doesn’t have to be fancy or anything because we’re going to use a small brush to use everything out,” Kaila said.
“If you have droopy eyes you are gonna have to lift your skin a little bit to work around those – that’s typically what I have to do with some of my clients.
“A good rule of thumb is to move that colour out towards the tail of your eyebrow.
“You can see I have more of this lifted effect.
“Having this illusion that it’s lifted is going to bring the focal point up, as opposed to it drooping down.”
The MUA assured that the eyeliner “doesn’t have to be perfect” or “a nice wing”.
“Just essentially smudging that eyeliner out towards the tail of your eyebrow is what’s going to give it that lifted look.”
