When eyes look too close together, how can one make them look farther apart by make up?"  

Apply a small amount of white eyeshadow to the inside corners of each of your eyes using a small brush. This will make your eyes look wider, and, in turn, farther apart as it creates separation between the eyes and nose. Apply a little bit of powder foundation on the bridge area of your nose. Make sure to go all the way to the tip of your nose. This will make your nose be the focus of your face. This makes your eyes look farther apart. Draw eyeliner only from the outside of your eye to the middle. Do not draw the black line all the way into the inside corner of your eye. If you are youthful and you think you can pull it off, go wild with the "cat eye" look. Draw your eyeliner a little farther than the widest part of your eye. Very young wild people can even try putting a little glitter or a small adhesive jewel at the corner of their eye. Purchase false eyelashes. Put just a couple eyelashes at the widest part of your eye. If this is too big for your personal style, try applying mascara just to the eyelashes that are at the widest part of your eye. When wearing eyeshadow, always make the color darkest at the widest part of your eye. Let the color fade as you come toward your nose.

Answered by Ajay Chawla at 8:21 PM on November 12, 2008

To make your eyes look...

closer together. Most eyes look better when the emphasis is on the outer corner of the eye (or the 'v'). But emphasizing the inner corner will make eyes look closer together.
Start by sweeping a light shadow over the whole eye area. Then dust a medium color on the inner half of the eyelid and blend outward to create a natural finish. Next, line from the inner corner of the eye to the middle & then blend outward.


further apart. If your eyes are less than an eyes-width apart, you can create the allusion of being wider set by keeping the inside corners of your eyes light and the outer edges darker. To do this, sweep a concealer one shade lighter than your skin at the inner corner of the lids. Blend well and don't forget the gray shadowy areas on the side of your nose. Take a matte eyeshadow in a medium-to-dark shade and stroke it outward and slightly upward from the middle part of your lid to the outer half of your lid. Take eyeliner and start the line just a bit in from the inner corner of your eye, tapering the line up and out, just a bit past the outer corner of the eyes.


bigger. The key to making eyes bigger is to focus on light shades. Dark ones will make eyes appear even smaller. Sweep a light shade over lid, then shade the outer corner of the lid and the crease with a darker shade. Line the outer upper and lower lids with eyeliner making sure to taper a bit outside the eye (elongating it). Lastly, a dab of white or cream shadow in the middle of the browbone will make eyes pop. (A word of warning: make sure brows are perfectly plucked, otherwise stray hairs will stand out as if lit by klieg lights).

less...droopy. You can lift down-turned eyes with makeup. Apply shadow to the outer corner of the lid, extending color up and out like a feline shape. Add a light highligher color to brow bone and skip the eyeliner -- it will only accentuate the 'droopy' contour. Apply mascara, concentrating on the inner corner of the eye. Lastly, you can try smudging a silver show on the inner corners of the eyes to help 'lift' them.


less deep-set. Those with deep-set eyes have prominent browbones. To downplay browbone, sweep a light or medium-tone shade on lid, then shade in a slightly darker shade above the eye crease. Apply eyeliner from the inside of the eye, making it thicking in the middle of the eye & then tapering it towards the outer part of the lid. Apply light highlighter shade to browbone.

Answered by kunal at 1:44 PM on November 12, 2008

Eyes can appear too close together (or just slightly "off") if the distance between them is less than the width of your eye itself. In other words, the average face is designed 'eye / eye-sized space / eye' in even thirds. If the space between your eyes is small enough to bother you, there are plenty of tricks you can employ to make them appear farther apart.

Before we talk about makeup, take a look at your eyebrows to see if they frame your close-set eyes to their best advantage. Eyebrows that grow close together will only compound the close appearance of your eyes. Draw an imaginary line from your tear ducts straight up your face toward your eyebrows. If any brows cross this line into this middle space, get rid of 'em! Stop tweezing when your brows are even with your tear ducts and see how it looks. You may want to go a bit farther (just past the tear ducts) to create a space equivalent to the width of one eye.

The next step is to use pale, light-reflecting eye makeup to open up and widen the space between your eyes. An easy place to start is applying a bit of white shimmer to your inner eye.

Try a pearly white eyeshadow like MESS Loose Pigment in Pearl Street either dry for a soft look, or wet your brush and make a "diamond tear" for a bit of sexy eye drama. This is a cute, clean look that can hold up on its own with the addition of a little mascara on your outer lashes, or you can continue to apply full eye makeup…

If you want to apply eyeshadow to your upper lid, make sure you contain use of darker colors to the outer edge of your eye to continue drawing attention in that direction.

Eye pencil should never be applied to the inner corners of closely set eyes. Begin your top line about one-third of the way across your lash line (away from your tear duct) and try continuing the line a bit past the end of your lashes. If you line your lower lid, start near the middle of your eye and draw outwards.

Answered by NIVEDITA at 1:30 PM on November 12, 2008