How to: Winged Eyeliner (without tape!)

Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog! I'm all blank-faced today because I wanted to do a winged eyeliner tutorial for y'all!

(I actually have a bad cold right now so my face is extra-rosy, haha!)

Winged eyeliner something I figured out on my own and never really thought much about, and I know I do it differently to a lot of other beauty bloggers, but this is my personal take on how to get a nice wing.

I start by taking a non-waterproof eyeliner and drawing thin, faint lines from the outer corners of my eyes. I usually try to line this up with my bottom eyelid. Try to make sure the angle of the lines on both eyes match before continuing to the next step.

Since you're using non-waterproof liner, you can always erase it with a cotton tip and a bit of water, and try again. If you end up with patchy foundation from erasing your mistakes, you can either buff it out each time with foundation/concealer on a make up sponge, or wait until the end and you can sharpen up the line with a bit of concealer on a brush.

Once the guidelines are nice and even, this is when I pull out the fancy liner, and go in for the kill. I always imagine an invisible line between the end of my eyeliner guide and the inner corner of my eye, then I close my eye and draw along this line. When your eye is closed the line will look straight and might confuse you, but not to worry - once your eye is open the line will look like it has a nice curve.

If you're finished and you find your wings are too thick, it probably means your original eyeliner guide wasn't horizontal enough. Feel free to curve your eyeliner to the shape of your eyelid next time (rather than keeping the line straight) if you're worried about the wings being too thick.

You can also try moving the starting point of your guide a bit lower to make the line thicker, depending on whether you'll have dark eyeshadow under your eyes or not. Like so:

You can even play with the angle of your guideline for different occasions. A higher-angled guideline will have you looking cuter and is more fun/casual, whereas a lower-angled guideline looks a lot more elegant as it usually turns out thinner also. I find that a higher angled line will also make your eyes look like they're smiling, so this is good if you're trying to cover up a bad mood.

(Sorry that the right column is blurry - my camera just wouldn't focus and I don't know why?? But I hope you get the idea xx)

The eyeliners I used for this tutorial are the L'Oreal "Superliner Superstar" and the Mac Cosmetics "Brush Stroke Liner" (FYI: best eyeliner I've ever used).

I hope this tutorial was helpful! Comment if you have a request for a future tutorial!

God bless, Annabella x