How to Easily Fake a Soft Cut Crease on Hooded Eyes
If you have hooded eyelids, then you know that eye makeup can be problematic. Follow this tutorial to learn how to create a fake soft crease for your hooded eyes.
It won’t work as well for extremely hooded eyes, but for most hooded eyes this look will create a natural-looking soft crease and open your eyes beautifully! Likely, you have all the necessary products in your makeup bag already!
Tools and materials:
- Nude powder eye palette
- Flesh-tone eye shadow pencil
- Light-toned creamy eyeshadow
- Small pointed-end eye brush
- Eyeliner
- Mascara primer
- Mascara
1. Create the soft crease with eyeshadow
Start with the lightest color in your eye shadow palette, and dust it all over your lower and upper eyelid.
Now using the middle shade of your palette and a pointed eye makeup brush, shade in a line right along the crease of your eyelid. You can extend the line out a bit from the outer edge of your eyelid up towards your eyebrow.
Use the second darkest color in your palette to shade over the crease line you just made.
To make the soft cut crease really visible, you need to make your eyelid below the crease very bright. To achieve that brightness, apply a very light-toned creamy eyeshadow to your eyelid below the crease line.
Use the darkest shade in your palette to shade in the area just above your eyelid crease.
Now use a clean eyeshadow brush to blend the color above the cut crease only.
Apply the second lightest eyeshadow shade from your palette right below your eye, under the lower eyelashes.
If you want, you can also add a bit of a darker shade below your eyes.
2. Add mascara
Apply mascara primer to your upper lashes.
Then, apply your eyelash mascara on top of the primer.
3. Small-wing eyeliner
When you have hooded eyes, full-wing eyeliner look is difficult to do and not always flattering. The trick for hooded eyes is to do a half-wing liner that masquerades as full liner.
Draw a line with the eyeliner from the outer edge of your upper eyelashes, starting just below the crease, and go out and up to about the middle of your cut crease.
Then, add to the line, moving from the starting point and extending the line in just a little bit. Don’t extend the line across your whole eyelid, or even half-way across – it’s really just for emphasis at the outer end of your eyelid.
Apply a light flesh-colored pencil shadow to the inner rim of your lower eyelid. You can run that line just under your liner wing as well, to open your eyes even more.
4. Always a bit of lipstick
Apply your favorite lip liner and lipstick to finish your look!
Soft cut crease for hooded eyes tutorial
What a gorgeous finished look! This method of creating a soft cut crease for hooded eyes will open your eyes and make them bright. No one will know that you don’t have a natural crease! Leave a comment to let us know how this worked for you.
Products used
- Becca Ombre Nudes Palette
- MAC Blank Type Eyeshadow
- Tarte Opening Act Lash Primer
- Tarte Tarteist Mascara
- Kat Von D Tattoo Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner
- Rimmel Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal Liner, Nude
- Rimmel Lip Liner - Addiction
- MAC Lipstick - Faux
- Jouer Lip Topper - Skinny Dip
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