How To - Winged Eyeliner for the Absolute Beginner.

OK so winged eyeliner is among one of the most difficult things to master makeup wise. It's right up there with smokey eyes and cream contouring, ya feel me?

So I really wanted to share with you a way to create a winged liner look without being fantastic at free handing a wing onto the outside of your eye. I have found that this works amazingly well for me. I hope you're as thrilled with this as I am.

What you'll need for your wing:
Sticky Tape (just the basic kind you use for gift wrapping)
Matte Black Eye shadow (I'll be using one by Inglot)
Liquid or Gel Eyeliner (I'm using Maybelline Hyper Glossy Liquid Eyeliner)
Concealer
Stiff Angled Eye Brush
Concealer Brush

How To Create Your Winged Liner!
To begin grab a piece of sticky tape about 3-4 cm long. Now you're going to stick this to your face, don't be scared it won't ruin any makeup you already have on (if need be a bit of concealer to clean up after is brilliant). You want to place the sticky tape just under the edge of you lower lashes and stick it on an angle up to the end of you eyebrow. See here.

Now that you have your tape placed give it a good press so there are no air bubbles to ruin you line. Using a stiff angled brush map out how long you want your wing to be along the sticky tape and connect it down to the outer corner of your eye using the matte black eyeshadow. Using the shadow means you can easily fix up the line without it getting incredibly messy.

Now that you have the length that you want close your eye (try to keep the other eye open to see what you're doing) and draw the wing to the width that you want, thick or thin or in between. Generally you want to start about a third of the way down the wing and drag the line to anywhere in between the outer third of your eye to the halfway point of your eye. Go ahead and connect that wing to your upper lash line to create the width of your wing. Once you're happy go ahead and line the rest of your eye. Fill in that wing with the shadow so the liner has something to grab.

Ok when you're completely happy with how your wing is looking, (remember to check against the other eye so that they are even! this is so important!!) You can go over the wing with the liquid or gel liner. (I'm using liquid so for this tutorials sake I'm going to say liquid.) Again starting at the extended line of the wing draw down from the end point to the outer corner of your eye. I find it is easier to get the liquid liner off the wand/brush provided and load it onto your angled brush so you get the same crisp line that you were able to achieve with the shadow. Then you want to draw the width line down to the lash line, generally the middle of you're eye is a good guide if you're going for a fatter wing. Fill in your wing and draw the rest of your line on.

If you're like me and have hooded eyes I like to set my liner with the matte shadow again so it doesn't transfer onto my brow bone. (hooded eye problems). To finish remove your sticky tape from underneath the eye and peel upwards then clean up your wing with some concealer. Just run a little bit under your eye and with a concealer brush slowly go along your wing and sharpen that line. Add your favourite mascara and you're good to go!

It takes a little work but the payoff is awesome. Having the control with the shadow makes it easier to create that perfect wing but still having the ability to clean up without having black smudges everywhere.

I would love to hear and see you're feedback on this method of winged liner. Let me know if you try it!

Here's a look I created using this winged liner method!

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Until next time beauties,

Shannon

These thoughts and opinions are completely my own, This post is not sponsored, nor were these products provided to me.