When it comes to makeup, eyeliner is by far a must for me. I could have no other makeup on my face at all, but as long as I have eyeliner on, I feel like I can take on the world. The reason for this is because I very much feel that eyes define our faces more than any other feature on our faces. Our eyes show our personality; they are the window to our soul. So for me, lining my eyes is putting who I am, my personality and traits, out there for the world to see in vibrant color. Wearing eyeliner is like putting my best foot forward, and over time, I have developed a preference for certain eyeliner looks. So, here are four of my favorite eyeliner looks.

Natural Single Line Eyeliner – Everyday Eye Makeup

This eye makeup look is great for everyday wear. I love to pair a single line of eyeliner with a bright red or a dark brown lip color. You can make this look even more natural by pairing it with a pink or nude lipstick.

Creating this eyeliner look is very simple and easy because all you do is draw a single line above your upper eyelid. I like to make this line thick: slightly thinner at the inner corner and thicker at the far most outer corner of the eye.

I love this eyeliner look because it is fast to create and comfortable for longwear. A single line of eyeliner can be drawn in only a few minutes and it is professional for business settings and appropriate for the workplace and office.

Classic Half Double Eyeliner – A Romantic Eye Makeup Look For Dates

This eyeliner look is intense and it does require a bit of work to achieve. There are two steps to create this look. The first step is to follow the natural shape of your eye. Make the eyeliner thinner at the inner corner and much thicker and wider at the outer corner. I have almond-shaped eyes, so I drew the eyeliner in an almond shape. I drew the line downwards at the very outer corner but in a sideways triangle shape. Think of a wing, but going downwards and much thicker.

As for the second step, on the lower lid, I drew the eyeliner as close to the eye as possible/tightlining, but I didn’t apply it directly to the waterline. I also did not apply eyeliner at the inner corner of the eye. Instead, I applied eyeshadow there. The eyeliner on the lower lash line was made thinner as I got closer to the inner corner. Then, I stopped the eyeliner just a bit past the middle of the eye.

Thin Double Eyeliner

I absolutely love this eyeliner look. I tightlined my waterline here for this makeup look, but only on the lower lash line. To avoid irritating my eyes, I used an herbal kajal eyeliner to tightline my lower lash line. Also, in order to succeed with this look, you have to use really dark eyeliner. Many drugstore liners are not dark enough, especially if you have an olive, tan, or more golden brown complexion. Thus, I always recommend kajal liners for people with sensitive eyes and who want very dark eyeliner.

In order to get such a perfectly straight, dark, neat, and polished line as the one I drew on my lower lash line, you will have to go heavy on undereye concealer. The undereye concealer that I used to achieve this look is the Maybelline New York Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circle Treatment Concealer in the shade Medium.

I applied the Maybelline concealer all over my eye after applying an eye primer. Then, after applying my eyeshadow and eyeliner, I applied the Maybelline concealer again directly underneath my liner on the lower lash line. I didn’t use a brush to apply the concealer; instead, I applied the concealer with a sponge applicator to get a thicker application, and then I patted an extra layer of concealer underneath my liner.

Applying concealer directly underneath the eyeliner would serve as a barrier to help prevent the kajal eyeliner from moving around, as well as make the eyeliner look very neat, more perfect, smooth, and dark.

For the upper lash line, I drew my eyeliner so that it did not extend past the outer part of my eye. I made the line slightly thinner at the inner corner, but I focused on keeping the width of the eyeliner the same from the outer part to the inner corner of the eye.

Lastly, I did have to layer the kajal a bit while tightlining the lower lash line in order to get the liner as dark as I wanted, as dark as it is in the photos.

Thick Double Eyeliner

This eyeliner look is not for everyone and it does take a lot of practice to be able to draw your eyeliner thickly without smudging it all over your face. So, this makeup look is for more advanced makeup users. This makeup look is also popular among people who are into goth and punk fashion, as well as people from other parts of the world such as India, Turkey, and the Middle East.

In this eyeliner look, you follow the natural shape of the eye. The eyeliner forms a sideways triangle shape at the outer part of the eye. The eyeliner is thick all around the eye, including at the inner corner of the eye, so this is a very dramatic eye look. This look is great for parties or special occasions since it draws a lot of attention to your face and eyes.

In order to draw this eyeliner look, you have to follow the natural shape of your eyes, so if you don’t have almond-shaped eyes as I do, then your eyeliner will look different from mine.

I personally find this eyeliner look to be faster to create compared to all of the other eyeliner makeup looks in this list. The reason for this is because you really don’t need much precision to create this look; you just need to draw your liner all around your eye, from the inner corner to the outer corner. As long as you use a good eyeliner pencil that is smudge-proof, or you know how to smudge-proof your liner, then this look is not hard or time-consuming to achieve.

If you are interested in trying an herbal kajal liner, you can find them here in my store on this website. If you want to learn how to smudge-proof your eyeliner, you can learn to do so in a blog post I wrote here on this site: 4 Ways To Smudge-Proof Your Eyeliner

What is your favorite eyeliner look?

DL's Health & Beauty

Enter the realm of health, wellness, beauty, makeup, and fashion. The world is full of so many different forms of beauty. Every culture has its own unique beauty, but one thing that all of them have in common is that healthy is always beautiful. But health is not constant or instant in life. Health is part of the life journey that we are all on until our time is up.

We all have a unique health journey. My health journey started in college when I studied human health and disease at The University of The District of Columbia. Later, I studied health and psychology at The University of Maryland University College. After college, I continued following medical breakthroughs around the world, from India to the UK. I soon realized that there was so much health knowledge out there, but so few people had access to it. Thus, I turned to writing. My goal is to share valuable health breakthroughs with the world and connect health to beauty and multiculturalism; that is how this site came to life.

Wherever you are in your health and wellness journey, there is always more to learn and there is beauty to be found everywhere in various forms. So, let's walk this path together and discover fully what the realm of health and beauty has to offer!