Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel
My name is Jessica and today's video is on Western vs. Eastern cat-eye eyeliner
Depending on your eye shape, one style might suit you more than the other
So I'm going to show you both so you can compare and see which one you like more in this video
This video was also made in partnership with moody lenses
Make sure to watch 'til the end to see some of my favorite colored contacts I've been wearing
So I am going to show you other contacts later,
but I wanted to quickly mention the ones I'm currently wearing
You see gray contacts often in both the East and West,
so I'm going with the moody x Line Friends "Oops! Brown & Friends" lenses
These have a really nice soft transition in the center to blend the contact colors in
Starting with the Western eye makeup, I'm going to begin drawing a pretty thick black wing
We're bringing this over the fold in my eyelids to get a more lifted eye look
Make sure the end is super sharp
Let's fill in the lash line and waterline
Next, I'm curling my lashes and applying mascara
Lower eye makeup is pretty simple; it's usually just one or two eyeshadow shades smoked out
I'm using the same neutral brown as a transition shade
before going in with a darker eyeshadow on the outer corner
I'm next applying falsies that have a flared end to pull the eyes up even more
Finally, I'm applying mascara to my lower lashes,
and that's it for the Western makeup!
You can see the eyes look a lot more lifted
and most of the makeup is within this triangle shape
Whereas in the East, they have a more inverted triangle
I'll show you what I mean in a bit
On the Eastern makeup side, I'm going to start sketching out a new eye shape
I'm not bringing the wing above my double eyelid
This method saves a lot of eyelid space
and ensures the wing won't get distorted when I look up
I'm using a brow tint pen to start making the wing
Brow pens are a lot thinner and more precise, so they help a lot with sketching out a thin wing
I'm next using a brown liquid liner to extend the wing past the end of my eye
Using a brow pencil, I'm going to sketch out a fake lower eyelid
Let's fill in the lash line and waterline
I'm going to elongate the eye even more with inner corner eyeliner
I'm next connecting the lower eyeliner to the wing
You'll notice using this mixture of liquid and pencil liner helps create a nice gradient,
and looks less harsh than using just liquid liner
Next, let's move on to under-eye makeup
I'm contouring my lower eyelid, the area that pops out when you smile 😄
I'm lightly adding dimension to my eyelids with eyeshadow
Next, let's curl our lashes and apply a burgundy mascara,
which blends in with the brown liner better
Before the mascara dries down, I'm separating the lashes into sections
as a guide for the falsies later
Let's also curl the lower lashes and apply mascara
To make our eyes even bigger, let's draw fake lower lashes extending past the eyeliner
Use a nude liner on the outer corner to match the new eye shape we created
You can use white for this too, but I personally find it too harsh so I like using nude
The eye looks a lot wider now, but we lost some of the lower liner
so I'm going to reconnect the fake lower lash line to the wing
To get the popular separated manga lashes look,
I'm gluing the tip of these Ardell individual lashes
and squeezing them to create a spiky lash
Then, I'm going to apply glue on the top side of the base of the lash
and apply the lashes beneath my real lashes
I usually use around five lashes
You don't want to use too many because we want the lashes to look very separated and dolly
Finally, I'm going to highlight the under-eye
And that's it for the eastern side!
Do you see how this eye has more of an inverted triangle shape?
There's a lot of attention on the under-eye makeup and contouring the eyes to look bigger on this side
compared to the Western side, which focuses on lifting the eyes for a facelift effect
And finally, it's time for the contacts try-on!
If you guys aren't familiar with moody lenses, they offer affordable colored contacts
with different designs from natural to fun colors,
which are made from the same material as Acuvue lenses
Their thing is using lenses to express different moods and makeup looks,
which is something I love doing to transform a look
Let's start with the lenses I chose for the Eastern style makeup
These are called "Fairy" and they have the outer limbal ring,
which outlines your iris to make your eyes look bigger
I love how natural the transition of the colors are
You can see there's a gradual fading of the contact color into your eye color
Another lens I love for this makeup look is "Meteor Funk" from the Cosmo Disco Collection
moody lenses does different concepts for different collections, which I think is so cool and creative
These lenses are slightly enlarging and have really unique little sparkles
Moving on to the Western makeup, I think "Ring of Blues" compliments this look really well
These are a grayish-green color with subtle shimmer
"Kamen Galactic" also really suits this look
It very subtly adds highlights and a slight gradient to your eye
Both of these were also from the Cosmo Disco Collection,
which is probably my favorite out of all of their collections
You can check out their other unique designs and collections
at my link in the description box below
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Thank you so much for watching
Let me know which eye makeup you like better
I personally really like both;
I think it's really cool comparing how different regions develop different makeup techniques
Thank you again to moody lenses for partnering with me on this video
If you liked any of the colored contacts I wore today, I'll leave a link down below with my code
and I will see you in my next video
Bye!