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The first thing I was taught when I was learning makeup design was highlighting the inner corners of the eye will create an illusion of visibly widening the area between them, in turn putting shadow in the inner corners will in fact pull the eyes closer together. It goes the same way for lining your lids. Try playing with highlighting instead of shadowing. Think of it this way, shadow = minus highlight = plus. If you smoke out your eyes and you don’t have a lot of crease to play with you might end up making your eyes look smaller however, it can be done. Try focusing on just the outer corners only and DO NOT line your lower lid anywhere into the pupil area. I’ve lined the outer corners of the lids only with really great results on asian women.

Of course you want your eyes to pop so here’s a some tips to play with. Try a light base shadow all over the lid. Usually it’s best to try something a shade or 2 lighter than your natural skin tone. You can also do this under your lower lash line. Line your top lid with a softer brown or even plum since it looks like you have brown eyes, purple shades contrast nicely with brown eyes to create even more pop. Get as close to the lash line and keep it thin and blended (but it looks like you’re already doing this). Use a darker liner and smoky shade on the outer corners only.

For the lower lid I have a few suggestions. Try not lining it with a pencil at all, just use the smoky shadow (lightly) and don’t go into the area of your iris with it, stay in the white area. If that still doesn’t look quite right try extending the shadow into the pupil area but don’t take it all the way across. There are some great thin angle brushes you can get I use the Sephora Professional line small angle brush because they’re not super expensive and they’re actually really nice. Use the same technique with a pencil just make sure to blend it with a brush so it doesn’t look too thick or dark. After that apply your fake lashes and mascara. Try using mascara on just the outer corners of the lower lid or none at all instead of using mascara on the entire lower lid (but do use it on the entire lash line on the top lid).

I’ve seen some good results with lining the inside corners of the lid with a lighter color like pale lavender, pale pink or even white, this makes your eyes pop but its also tricky and requires a lot of blending. One final tip when trying to make your eyes pop don’t line the part of the lid that touches the eye above the lashes (I think MAC makeup people call this the water line), this will definitely close your eyes up big time!

A good down turned eye correction is done with liner (usually liquid)
Apply the liner on the upper lid along the lash line, but only go 3/4 of the way along your lid, then wing the liner out, this will create the illusion that the eyes are not downturned.
I fail to explain this well, so I made a crappy paint illustration…excuse the crappiness…hopefully you get the idea
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/gougeaway/eyes.jpg