It’s no surprise that the shape of our eyes is a huge influencer on our styling choices. Just like dressing for your particular body type, styling your eyes properly brings out your best features and is a great confidence boost. Beauty bloggers and Pinterest fans have been producing content on eye shapes and makeup forever, and most of us have spent endless amounts of time, makeup brushes in hand, trying out different eyeshadow techniques for our specific eye shape. Choosing to play up your eyes or tone them down can often make or break a beauty look-and it’s the same with eyelash extension styling!
The possibilities for styling eyelash extensions are endless–from the basic cat eye to the ever-popular doll eye, each style is customised minutely to your particular eye. Over the past decade, our stylists at Lady Lash have designed a Holy Grail of four main styles which suit the widest variety of eye shapes. Our favourite four styles are (drumroll!) the natural eye, doll eye, cat eye and staggered eye–and all of these are achievable in any lash set!
The number-one rule for in beauty and fashion has got to be do what’s best for you and love your own shape. But first, we need to find it–and don’t worry, you don’t have to troupe into Sephora or ask your mum what shape she thinks your eye is. Four simple questions are all you need to determine your eye shape, and find the right extension style for you.
If your answer is no, you have a monolid shape. If you do have a crease, read on.
If they fall above this line, you have upturned eyes. If they fall below this line, your eyes are downturned. If they’re in the middle, time for another question!
If you can’t, your eyes are hooded. If you can, move on to the next question.
If you can see the white of your eyes at all time, you have round eyes! If not, your eyes are almond-shaped.
It’s honestly that easy! Now that you’re all updated on the shape of your eyes, we can match them with some lashes that are perfect for you. Of course, at Lady Lash we love to experiment–if there is a particular shape that you’ve been dying to try, we will give it a shot! For the best possible match, however, here is a handy guide.
All people and all eyes are different–that’s why working as a lash stylist is such fun! At Lady Lash, we always strive to give you the best advice for your own eyes and natural lashes, drawing on our years of training and styling to make sure you love your eyelash extensions. If you have trouble determining your eye shape, or think that something different might be more for you, just let us know! Our receptionists and stylists love to talk all things lashes, and together we can come up with a design perfect for you.
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