Easy Step-by-Step Makeup for Mature Hooded Eyes

Tools and materials:

• Dark eyeshadow
• Light eyeshadow or shimmer
• Flat brush
• Round brush
• Mascara

1. Find your crease

To easily find your crease, simply check where your lid falls over your mobile eyelid. People with hooded eyes have two creases when they look forward. 

Naturally, your crease should be somewhere right under your socket bone, just beneath the eyebrows. 

2. Add matte eyeshadow

Start with a darker, matte eyeshadow. It can be brown too, but it should be dark because we will be creating the illusion that our crease is further up by the eye socket’s bone.

Using a matte color is crucial as we play with dark and light colors, so matte will give a more profound illusion. Relax your eyes, look straight forward, find your eye socket bone and gently make a mark with a pointed brush. 

Now, lift your eyebrow and fill in that groove, as shown. It should be a half-moon shape.  

Tip: Use your finger if your eyebrows don’t lift easily. 

Those who have natural drooping eyes like myself should not continue down with the half-moon shape. If you do, it will add a more droopy effect. 

Now, you should be able to see that your mobile lid appears to be bigger and that your crease looks like it’s higher. 

Also, you should be able to see the eyeshadow when your eyes are open and relaxed. 

Once you’re happy with this shape, blend it out upwards (never down) with your brush. 

3. Deepen the crease

Now, take a darker color and use the makeup brush point to create a deeper effect right on the crease, as shown. 

4. Enlarge the mobile lid

Now that your crease line is sorted, now use a lighter, brightening color on the mobile lid. Shimmer for this step will also look great, but don’t go over the top. Using a flat brush, apply your choice of eyeshadow to the whole mobile eye area. 

As you can see, my eye already looks more prominent because of the light eyeshadow. 

5. Optional: shade the sides

If you want to shade the sides more, go ahead. The choice is yours, and do what feels best. 

Here’s a quick test. I have taken the same dark eyeshadow that I applied on my crease and added it to my mobile lid area on the other eye. Can you see a difference? If anything, it makes my lid look smaller and my hooded eye much deeper. 

6. Finishing touches

I applied the same eyeshadow that I applied on the crease to my lower lashes, then finished with some black mascara. Finally, I added a little white shimmer to the eye socket bone.

Step-by-step makeup for mature hooded eyes

There you have it, ladies! Step-by-step makeup for older hooded eyes. I hope you enjoyed this eye makeup for hooded eyes tutorial and that you now know how best to apply makeup for hooded eyes, so you can look and feel confident!

The difference is astonishing. My eyes look brighter and more defined. What do you think of this makeup look? Let me know your tips and tricks for disguising hooded eyes in the comments below.

Products used:

Tarte Tartelette in Bloom palette (Rebel, Leader, Charmer) - UK

Tarte Tartelette in Bloom palette (Rebel, Leader, Charmer) - US

Blank Canvas cosmetics E42 BRUSH (my fave crease brush)

UK & US https://www.blankcanvascosmetics.com/...

Nars Climax mascara

UK https://rstyle.me/n/dfe4t7b93hf

US https://rstyle.me/n/dfe4s6b93hf