One of the reasons winged eyeliner has remained so popular is because it can be adapted to flatter different eye shapes. Make-up artists find it to be a useful trick when working on a variety of clients.
If you have asymmetrical eyes, a strategic wing helps to achieve more symmetry. The wing's ability to make down-turned eyes appear more perky and to elongate eyes that are close together makes this unstoppable makeup trick a never-ending beauty treat.
1960s. Sixties eyeliner took the drama of the '50s and amplified it. The most popular style was winged liner on the upper lid, paired with dramatic lashes. Sometimes falsies were worn, and sometimes eyeliner was used to paint spidery lashes on the bottom (Twiggy's signature look).
The winged eyeliner trend has been with us for years; the look is tired and deserves to take a break in 2021. Instead of trying to get the perfect cat eye, dedicate your time to practicing floating eyeliner. Yes, you read that correctly.
Believe it or not, winged liner has been making women's eyes look more defined long before Taylor Swift adopted it as her signature. The cat-eye can trace its origins all the way back to ancient Egypt.
The first recorded use of eyeliner suggests royals in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia were lining their waterlines as early as 400BC. The more the makeup the higher your status was, so Egyptians would pile on the kohl, winging it out to their hairlines and forming the incomparable, first 'cat eye. '
While we love a fierce winged liner, the cat-eye look isn't one-size-fits-all. It's important to take your eye shape into consideration when creating it. The technique stays the same for everyone, but the thickness of the line and the length of the wing can change.
Among classic fall makeup trends like rusty shadow and berry lips are an endless array of out-there looks like vintage liner and TikTok-inspired techniques. Mali Thomas, Bobbi Brown global artist in residence, agrees. “Fall 2021 is all about bold lip colors and statement eyes,” she says.
The reverse cat-eye is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Instead of applying eyeliner to the top lash line, the liner is smudged out on the bottom lash line and extended, creating a smoky reverse wing.
The best way to describe the unconventional trend is basically any line around the eyes that isn't explicitly anchored to anything else. Rather, the line is placed more in the eyelid crease or diagonally to the sides in a direction of a cat-eye.
The '80s are back, as we're sure you know. According to L'Oréal Paris, bright eyeliner is one of the makeup trends from the decade that's returned. Specifically, bright eyeliner applied to the lower lash line, aka "underliner." Princess Diana rocked blue underliner in the '80s and now it's our turn.
A fishtail liner look is essentially a cat eye line on the top and a mirror image line on the lower lash line. Depending on what you want to do with the eyes, a large upper flick with a smaller lower flick can give the appearance of doll like eyes or even a fuller lower lash line.
However, it wasn't until brands like Maybelline's and Max Factor's invention of liquid eyeliner in the 1950s that the cat-eye became a worldwide phenomenon. Egyptian movie stars Souad Hosny, Hind Rostom, and Shwikar dominated the silver screens wearing look-at-me cat-eyes sketched in a variety of different ways.
Chemical ridden products, vague ingredient labels, and hidden chemicals are three of the major problems with the beauty industry. All these problems stem from one major source: lack of regulation. Lack of regulation enables companies to put unsafe chemicals in products and vaguely label chemicals as “fragrances”.
As much as we love contouring, 2021 is all about soft, natural glam, so you can say goodbye to harsh and dramatic contour. With that said, don't feel you should abandon contouring altogether… Instead, opt for a warm, sculpted glow.
Lip gloss will be popping in 2022
The great Ariana Grande once said, "my gloss is poppin'," and truer words have never been spoken. The move away from dry, matte lips has been confirmed by glossy runway looks heavily featured in the Spring/Summer 2022 runway by Blumarine (via Harper's Bazaar).
The newest trend on the block within the aesthetics world - a look described as the 'fox eye', 'cat eye' or 'designer eye' - involves a cosmetic treatment which simultaneously lifts and elongates the upper eyelid, pulling the eye into a more almond shape, creating overall emphasis on the eyes.
Almond: shaped like the beautiful nuts, they turn up slightly at the outside corners and are the most common eye shape.
Sorry in advance to fans of the classic cat eye, but fox-eye makeup is about to take over your entire life. Inspired by the wide, upturned eyes of the animal it's named after, this style aims to elongate and brighten eyes with nothing but a little bit of liner and lash work.