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I've been struggling with makeup for about 10 years, I've never been able to find a look I'm satisfied with. This is because my face is kind of weird and correcting one of the issues makes another one look worse. Here's what I'm dealing with:
1. Humongous eyes. Everyone always points out how big and blue my eyes are, to the point where I get self-conscious about it. My eyes are also set pretty far apart, but because they are also gigantic, the distance between them is smaller than the width of the eye itself, that makes them close-set as well. Does anyone else have this problem?
2. My eyes are deep-set. In natural sunlight with no makeup, my eyes are hidden in the shadows and all you can see is the big, dark sockets, which looks kind of freaky to me. To help combat this to a certain extent, I put very light colored concealer around my eyes (particularly in the upper socket area) and wear light-colored eyeshadow, but doesn't light shadow also make your eyes look bigger? Don't want that.
3. My eyes are a bit down-turned/droopy looking, and some of this is the shape of the socket itself. I keep reading that to counteract that, you're supposed to put eyeshadow sweeping out and up, but I can't do that because then my eyes look even bigger and farther apart.
4. I think my lips/mouth are too big for my face. I only wear chapstick (no lip gloss or lipstick) because I don't want to draw any more attention to my already big lips.
5. My hairline is very far back, which is something I've always been pretty self-conscious about. And to make it worse, my forehead doesn't really slope back like on most people, it just sort of goes straight up from the bridge of my nose, which makes it look even bigger. I'm going to try a new hairstyle, but I don't really know what to choose (that's something for a whole other thread). Anyway, I dunno if there are any makeup styles that look better with large foreheads, but I figure I'd at least bring it up.
So yeah, that's about it. I've never sought advice on makeup before, never had a makeover, and never read girly magazines, so I figure it's about time I got some input. My current routine consists of putting concealer and powder on, blush, eyebrow pencil (my eyebrows are naturally transparent and disappear in sunlight), dark eyeliner on the outer top lid, light eyeshadow on the lid itself, a bit of darker eyeshadow on the outer corners of the top lids, and then mascara mainly on the top lids (I put a bit on the bottom just to create a border). Currently I do the same routine every day and don't change it based on what I'm wearing, but I'm willing to learn!
Here are some crappy shots of me, from the front with no makeup, from the side with no makeup, and then outside in the shade with makeup.
1. Humongous eyes. Everyone always points out how big and blue my eyes are, to the point where I get self-conscious about it. My eyes are also set pretty far apart, but because they are also gigantic, the distance between them is smaller than the width of the eye itself, that makes them close-set as well. Does anyone else have this problem?
2. My eyes are deep-set. In natural sunlight with no makeup, my eyes are hidden in the shadows and all you can see is the big, dark sockets, which looks kind of freaky to me. To help combat this to a certain extent, I put very light colored concealer around my eyes (particularly in the upper socket area) and wear light-colored eyeshadow, but doesn't light shadow also make your eyes look bigger? Don't want that.
3. My eyes are a bit down-turned/droopy looking, and some of this is the shape of the socket itself. I keep reading that to counteract that, you're supposed to put eyeshadow sweeping out and up, but I can't do that because then my eyes look even bigger and farther apart.
4. I think my lips/mouth are too big for my face. I only wear chapstick (no lip gloss or lipstick) because I don't want to draw any more attention to my already big lips.
5. My hairline is very far back, which is something I've always been pretty self-conscious about. And to make it worse, my forehead doesn't really slope back like on most people, it just sort of goes straight up from the bridge of my nose, which makes it look even bigger. I'm going to try a new hairstyle, but I don't really know what to choose (that's something for a whole other thread). Anyway, I dunno if there are any makeup styles that look better with large foreheads, but I figure I'd at least bring it up.
So yeah, that's about it. I've never sought advice on makeup before, never had a makeover, and never read girly magazines, so I figure it's about time I got some input. My current routine consists of putting concealer and powder on, blush, eyebrow pencil (my eyebrows are naturally transparent and disappear in sunlight), dark eyeliner on the outer top lid, light eyeshadow on the lid itself, a bit of darker eyeshadow on the outer corners of the top lids, and then mascara mainly on the top lids (I put a bit on the bottom just to create a border). Currently I do the same routine every day and don't change it based on what I'm wearing, but I'm willing to learn!
Here are some crappy shots of me, from the front with no makeup, from the side with no makeup, and then outside in the shade with makeup.