August 01, 2006

Asian Eye Make Up

As many of you have noted, the western way of eye-make up application simply does not work as well for Asian eyes due to different structures. So to make sure that Asians have some summer make-up fun as well, I've found some Asian inspirations for you.

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As much as I didn't like Gina on last season's ANTM, her being on the show DID teach us something about Asian eye make-up application (I checked April as well, but she had western eyes). I love this dramatic blue fading effect with the smidgen of silver at the corners. Looks fairy-like.

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A bit of eyeliner, a lot of mascara and some pinkish eye shadow, the look is very simple yet sophisticated.

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For something edgier, here they used the usual mascara, eye liner and bronze-ish eye shadow, but added a black line underneath the eye to give it a more edgier effect emphasizing the slant of the eyes.

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Fresh off the runway, is the pale pink lipped fresh faced look. For that effect, observe the asian models- Hye Park at Giambattista Valli and Han at Peter Som.

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Then of course there is Du Juan. Love the sexy red lips and those lashes!! They are so perfectly long and curled!!

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For more star style, take note from Ziyi Zhang and Lucy Liu. I just love the fresh faced look of Ziyi Zhang, it looks so natural (like nothing is on it) and yet we know a lot of effort was probably put into it.

Have fun girls!

51 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love that you take note of Asian readers, not many fashion blogs do that and I am so glad you do! Because it helps to have these things to read :) and asian role models to look up to in terms of dressing and makeup. thanks!

8/01/2006 11:51 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i second "grace". there are not too many blogs, even magazines that feature make-up for asian faces. thank you!!

8/01/2006 12:08 PM  
Blogger Sophia said...

some magazines like australian vogue or bazaar do cover asian style makeup but they were done from a western perspective so as an asian i just dont find them "authentic" at all, if you know what i mean! well done hehe :)



http://sofysophia.blogspot.com/

8/01/2006 12:49 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you :) Not many magazines/blog cover Asian makeup styles.

PS- Du Juan is so gorgeous!

8/01/2006 12:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great Post. Hye Park is stunning.

8/01/2006 2:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you sooo much , and thanks for putting lucy liu and Hye Park in it , Lucy liu's awesome , I really love her make up and I'm so out to copying it.
, thanks and Hye Park is just stunning but you can't really see any make up on her face so yeah , but you should have put GONG LI on shes really the most stunning chinese actress , but thanks heaps , I'm totally copying the Lucy liu style and I'll try to emulate what happened on Hye Park's face although i do love her eye make up thanks sooo much!!!! i lurrv once again LUCY LIU and hye parks make up

8/01/2006 2:45 PM  
Blogger Sophia said...

of course not! in fact, i believe not too many girls in the asian countries are single lidded. they have "eyelid stickers"/surgery to get rid of that! so much so that none of my friends are actually single lidded! its just our eyes are not as deep-set as caucasians' :)

8/01/2006 7:22 PM  
Blogger Frapp said...

I adore Ziyi Zhang. She's so amazingly gorgeous, and you can tell she's naturally beautiful even without make-up.

8/01/2006 8:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh i love love love love looooooove you for posting this topic...again, i'll echo the above comments about asian makeup rarely being discussed. these actresses are so pretty...now i want to play with my makeup ^_^ thank youuuuuu~

8/01/2006 10:41 PM  
Blogger fashion.faux.pas said...

fantastic!

8/02/2006 12:04 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

remember the first cover of Chinese Vogue? Du Juan (on far left) looks absolutely stunning!!! I think that's the best I've ever seen an Asian girl look... do you have any tips on that?

8/02/2006 12:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

usually i get my makeup at sogo or mitsukoshi, so i don't end up looking like, uh, a disaster.

8/02/2006 12:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

love the post! <3 hey barney's girl, are you asian too?

8/02/2006 12:50 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks so much, this is really rather helpful, I have so much trouble finding techniques to apply eye makeup that work with my eyes. :)

8/02/2006 6:35 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i have "asian" eyes eventhough i'm european. i have blue eyes and really dark hair though. do you think this would work for me too? i love the make up styles!

and i love the blog. keep up the good work! :D

8/02/2006 6:51 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ziyi Zhang looks gorgeous!! I love watching her films too
love the blog!!

8/02/2006 11:39 AM  
Blogger alluretone said...

Du Juan is so stunningly gorgeous.

Same goes for Ziyi Zhang.

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8/02/2006 2:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you for being a voice of Asians interested in fashion!

8/03/2006 5:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thank u for showing us asian makeup. also, keep up the amazing work. ur fantastic

8/03/2006 2:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for the post! I'm actually one of those girls that has a monolid AND a double lid so I tape mine for the sake of making them even - 'tis such a pain.

Like some of the others have said, WHERE'S GONG LI? She may be a bit older but she looks FABULOUS for her age. To be honest, I think she looks better than Zhang Zi Yi, even when age is not a factor, and is by far more talented.

~Ninjarina

8/04/2006 2:48 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks so much for this post and addressing asian girls!!! I've mastered smudgy eyeliner and curly lashes but I'm still working on those bronzy looks. Keep it up I love your blog.

I've got one monolid and one doublelid, but don't go sticking. I prefer a little imperfection.

8/06/2006 1:09 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well i'm asian and i'm NOT monolid. same goes for most of my friends and they don't use those eyelid tape thing....

so mel, u're definitely not too rate don't worry. heehee :)

8/06/2006 2:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i LOVE the fact that you made a post dedicated to us asian girls. figuring out how to do my eye makeup has been a perpetual thorn in my side.

j'adore gong li. she's gorgeous, and i think she's 40! isn't that amazing? i'm curious to see how she is in miami vice the movie.

8/07/2006 8:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ok, I have a rather mixed heritage, and my eyes seem to be stuck halfway between asian, and western. I can't seem to find anything that works . . . advice, anyone?

8/11/2006 3:24 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You get total cool points for remembering the asians! People always forget about us, thanks for taking notice...Asians love fashion to you know. :)

8/13/2006 4:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thankyou sooo much :D !!1 I always look for makeup styles for asians and end up dissapointed and unsuccesful :( !!! its great you remembered :D !! xxx

8/31/2006 8:26 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi!! well, i´m from South America, and here they totally don't pay attention to these kind of topics, so this is great!!!
Love it!!!
Byee

11/07/2006 11:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh wow. I am seriously loving this blog! Thank you so much!

12/07/2006 8:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm Australian, and just purchased Margaret Kimura's book on "Asian Beauty"- finally some advice for me- Im hopeless w my asian eyes and allways searching for asian model faces!
Sophia L.

2/04/2007 9:05 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Hey Mel, I don't have a monolid too so you're not alone. It's weird though... both my mom and sister have monolids.

4/22/2007 7:47 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what can i say?? thank you so much!!!
i'm loving it!

4/30/2007 5:06 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OMG eye make-up for asians are soooo difficult, lots of people have surgery to have wide open eyes, but i don´t know...
i thought about having it, but i hate needles hahaha

5/20/2007 6:21 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't use Ziyi Zhang as an example of eye make-up for Asians. She had done the double-eye lid surgery so now her eyes got the western style eye lids and are more eye make-up friendly than those of us Asians who still have our single eye lid.

I think I'm going to do the surgery myself. It does make a differece.

8/11/2007 3:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have the type of Asian eye that naturally has a visible lid but it's still different to Caucasian eyes. Especially mascara and lashcurlers are tricky. I still appreciate the tips here because make-up tips for small and wide set Caucasian eyes aren't quite right for Asian eyes.

8/25/2007 2:32 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HEY!!

Omg, thank you SO MUCH for this post!! My formal is coming up in 9 days, and I'm doing my own make up, but I can't seem to find anything anywhere that could lead me in the right direction with my asian features. So thank you heaps!!

(I love Ziyi Zhang and Lucy Lui)

xoxo

10/14/2007 6:51 PM  
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1/24/2008 12:50 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i really enjoyed ths blog :)
being asian means that when my friends try makeup out on me... it really doesn't go too well ><

but this blog has made me smile :)
thanks ^^
x

6/12/2008 4:17 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thanks so much!

I used to make my eyes look bigger with make up, but after seeing this, especially the gina make up (great for a over the top party) i really am going to experiment with make-up with accent ON my asian eyes, and not desparatly wanting to widen them up.


Sorry for my crappy english -o-"

7/14/2008 5:43 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

omg how ugly chinese lucy lui is looking as always n ziyi tooo.i feel like vomitting wen i chinese aged women or woteva......they eat everything with four legs except table danmmmm fuk u all chinese,,,,,,,u all r liar n fuking cheating the whole world.....

9/18/2008 5:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i agree about makeup being completely different on asian faces, i always have problems at photoshoots with makeup artists doing everything all wrong, they should read this!

also,
http://www.asianbeautyblog.com

11/20/2008 1:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Although I'm not Asian my eyes have that slanted look and I've had troubles with how to do eye make up...so this was great! :)

4/29/2009 9:43 AM  
Anonymous Tsukiko Iida said...

Thank you. It is so hard to find a blog with a true look at asian makeup. Most of the time it is from the western piont of veiw, but that is no help at all.

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