For today’s guide, we’re focusing on hooded eyes. Below, experts offer their seasoned tricks to enhance this eye shape. See here for our helpful eye shapes chart, in case you need a visual. You can find our full cut crease tutorial here, but in the simplest terms: After applying a light matte or shimmer shade across the entire lid, “contour with a medium-matte shade in the crease, and blend up toward the brow bone,” says Crimson. For hooded eyes, allow us to introduce you to what celebrity makeup artist Katie Jane Hughes calls, “batwing liner.” Essentially, you flick your eyeliner right over the fold of skin—when you close your eyes, the pigment swoops in a tad, resembling a tiny batwing. She has multiple TikTok videos explaining the process, but you can find her tips below: So don’t highlight the entire brow bone—highlight above it. “Instead, place [product] right under the arch of the brow,” Lockard says, so you help define the area without bringing the entire brow bone forward.
