The “Colourful Eye Bag” Make-up Pattern Is All Over TikTok Proper Now

So far as make-up goes, my underneath eyes are the bane of my existence. They’re crinkly, crepey, and normally a bit bit darker than the remainder of my face. I do know there is no use in attempting to vary that as a result of it is simply how underneath eyes work — however God, do they make make-up utility troublesome. Fortunately, darkish under-eye circles are welcome on TikTok, the place customers often submit make-up tutorials on the way to get a grungy and raveled look that anybody over the age of 25 can accomplish by merely present. 

UK-based 17-year-old Pippa Barnes, nevertheless, has taken that idea fully excessive in one of the best ways doable along with her colourful tackle eye bag make-up, which seems to be like gothic raccoon eyes met a technicolor rainbow. She posted her tutorial on the method on January 19, and unsurprisingly, the remainder of the app is already obsessive about it (the #colorfuleyebags tag has greater than 1.four million views, with an awesome majority of posts coming after Barnes’ first tutorial).

“Apparently eye baggage are a pattern now — which I am not going to argue with as a result of, clearly, I’ve some particular baggage occurring,” she jokes in her colourful eye bag tutorial video. “Y’all know I needed to spice this pattern up a bit.”

Her course of for reaching a colourful eye bag look is finally much like that of a vibrant smoky eye — simply on the underside portion of the attention as an alternative of the highest. In any case her base make-up is completed, Barnes applies an eye fixed shadow primer on her eyelids and her underneath eyes (like most individuals would with concealer). Then — and this is the considerably intimidating half — she emphasizes the form of her eye baggage by tapping a wholesome dose of matte black eye shadow alongside the decrease lash line and in a curved form close to the edges of her nostril with a dense eye shadow brush. What follows is a ton of mixing with a small fluffy brush and numerous shades of blue eye shadow, which she makes use of to create a dark-to-light gradient that spans from her decrease lash line all the best way towards her cheekbones.