![]() ![]() The most important thing to remember is that it's OK to start and stop drawing the line you don't have to do it all in one swoop. I fill in the space between the two lines and even out and thicken the rest of the line. "Then I draw another line, starting about a millimeter closer to the inner corner of my eye, toward the endpoint of the first line, to make a triangle. "I draw a straight line from my starting point toward the end of my eyebrow however far I feel like drawing the wing that night," she says, adding that it's OK to use more than one stroke to do it. To get the point of the cat eye, I use the outer corner of my eye and the end of my eyebrow as reference points: The line between those is the angle of the wing." Feel free to use a very light dash-line (remember those?) to get the idea before you go for it. "To help stabilize my hand, I rest my elbow on the table and then place my chin in my hand to draw the line. I line my upper lid in two to three strokes, getting as close as I can to my natural lash line," she says. One of the most vexing of all makeup techniques, the perfect cat eye "just takes a lot of practice," says the super-sultry star of RDR's season 5, Honey Mahogany (Instagram: like to use a cream eyeliner and an angled liner brush. Just draw the line closer to your natural crease, leaving space between it and your eyebrows for something less theatrical. If you're not looking to fully block your brows, draw on new ones, and create a new eye shape from scratch, Violet's shading and blending tricks will help exaggerate a natural eye shape, too. Above the drawn-on crease I do an ombré black-to-gray with eyeshadow, just like how the shadow on a real eyelid would look." Again, be sure to blend. Underneath the crease I've drawn, I use a pearlescent cream eyeshadow that really catches the light. You have to play with shadow to create the illusion of a new eye shape. Then I go in under my brow bone and draw in a new crease. I just cover my entire natural lid with eyeliner, up to my crease. ![]() "After I block my brows"-a process of covering your eyebrows with an Elmer's glue stick, then covering them completely with setting powder. "Creating a new eye crease is a big drag trick," she tells me. The trick to getting more "eyelid real estate," it turns out, is something called the cut crease. Violet, like lots of women, has slightly hooded eyes. Were I not a shameful slave to jeans and sweaters, I'd want to be like Violet. Violet Chachki (Instagram: the winner of RDR season 7, is the pinnacle of dramatic burlesque glam. ![]()
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