Graphic Art

Sharp, winged eyeliner, feline flicks and shockingly bright colour. For winter, eyes are devastatingly big, bold and beautiful. It is a trend which is staying till summer so get creative and convert those pretty peepers into your own personal canvas. Think like a visionary, combining opulent shapes with unorthodox hues. Pick up your brushes and practice some fine art with beauty’s new trend for graphic eyes.

Blank Canvas
Every good artist knows the importance of priming the canvas before splashing it with colour. Preparing the eye area for make-up will not only leave you smudge and crease free, but make colour zing with vibrancy. Eye-shadow Primer Potion from Urban Decay (£9.50) comes in a suitably artistic pot and when applied to the eyelid before make-up it ensures that shadow has unyielding staying power.

Paint Palette
There’s no room for neutrals here. Outrageous hues of Mediterranean aqua, sour strawberry and lemon yellow dominate the lid for eye-catching eccentricity. Take tones high, sweeping a block of colour to the brow for a contemporary composition. Acidic, seizure inducing brights work best in matt textures, even a hint of shimmer can detract from the show stopping power of the hard hitting hues. MAC stocks a plethora of eye-shadows in every colour of the rainbow (£10.00).

Charcoal Sketching
Stretching across and past the eye, theatrical wings of soot black eyeliner create theatrical sex appeal. With an inspired nod towards Amy Winehouse and her signature eye make up, lashings of creamy liner and soft shadow are piled onto the lid. A brushed arc of charcoal from the eye’s outer corner to the edge of the brow will produce neo classical connotations. Stila’s kajal eyeliner in onyx (£13.50) is ideal for forming sexy, smudgy flicks.

It’s in the Details
Less isn’t always more. When it comes to the eyelashes bigger is certainly better. Go abstract with a set of false lashes from the king of cosmetics, Shu Uemera. His lash bars are a veritable feast of falsies, from silver skyscrapers to turquoise spikes these fashionable little decorations will bring out the artiste inside you (from £10.00).