I poured my cup of coffee, settled down into my cosy couch and pulled up my fluffy, soft blanket onto my lap whilst reaching for my phone.
I set time aside in the mornings to go through my DM's and get back to as many people as I can and help them with any makeup concerns.
One particular lady stood out to me.
She was asking for help with wearing eyeshadow.
This wasn't out of the ordinary but it was what she said next that surprised me and equally made me sad.
She said 'do I just have the wrong type of eyelids for eyeshadow?'
I wanted to reach through the phone and shake her but also hug her lol.
The answer is - NO!
You do not have the wrong type of eyelids.
Not for eyeshadow, not for anything.
The features you have are beautiful and I don't mean to sound corny or get preachy but I need women to understand this.
This is no 'better' feature to have for makeup.
You can have hooded eyes, almond eyes, wide-set eyes, close-set eyes, deep-set eyes, round eyes.....heck, blind or 'old' eyes and still be able to wear beautiful eyeshadow.
I'm really passionate about this because it makes me sad that anyone could be scrolling through Instagram, see nice eyeshadow, wonder why they can't do eyeshadow like that and draw the conclusion they were born with the 'wrong' eyes.
The truth is, it's just a skill we all can learn - how to do the right eyeshadow for our own unique and individual eye shapes.
That's all. Focusing on what we can do for our eye shape.
Okay, cool, now we got that out of the way, I want to focus on the very common eye shape - Hooded Eyes.