Eye makeup with glasses

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I've got news glasses that are bigger frames than my old ones, and you can really see my eyes now. I'm short sighted so the lenses make my eyes look tiny. I usually wear liner on the top lid and mascara, but what else can I do? YouTube tutorials were, um, overly glamorous.

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I have glasses but don't wear very complicated make-up combinations.

Through trial and error, and reading Sally Hughes' fantastic beauty column on the Guardian, I stick to always wearing at minimum:

• under-eye concealer (glasses make my dark circles a bit more obvious)
• creamy eyeshadow (because I hate particles dropping on my lenses). No over-complicated combinations of colours, as I find it's wasted when I'm wearing glasses anyway. I stick to monochromatic colours: gunmetal, taupe, dark green...
• mascara (thickening rather than lengthening as I already have long lashes, and I find that lengthening mascara makes them brush against the glasses, urgh)

I also try to have neat brows, as they will enhance your face and your glasses if done right. I have a little brush and some clear mascara, and also get them threaded from time to time.

Also: don't forget your lipstick! I've seen some women on the tube who really look great with strong lipstick and glasses.

I'm (very) short sighted and I wear glasses most of the time. I mainly use lighter eye shadow colours such as beige, neutrals, gold and bronze. I try to avoid darker colours as they make the eyes seem smaller.
I sometimes do a winged liner, but I try to make sure it's not too massive. I usually use brown liner for that. Or I use a push liner brush and a brown eye shadow to line my eyes. I rarely line under my eyes with a black or dark brown colour as it really makes my eyes look small. I do try to use mascara both on the upper and lower lashes as it seems to make the eyes look bigger.
I have quite long lashes so they always brush against my glasses, so I curl them - that helps loads and also makes my eyes look bigger and more awake.
Some people use a nude eye pencil in the waterline to make the eyes look bigger.

My glasses show up everything! I have to be careful using much mascara. I now realise I cannot wear anything too sparkly on he lid or it looks crepey (and I don't have crepey eye lids). I am not bothered (luckily) about putting on a perfect face (just as well) as I rather like the messy rock chick look. As I cannot ee very well without glasses and the make up glasses I tried were not much good I just have to put up and shut up. I either wear fairly neutral stuff on eyes and go mad with lips or wear a smoky eye with not much mascara. Much as I love a dark look on the eye, I am really loving bright lippies at the moment (Mac Impassioned and Chatterbox) and am quite lazy so just rim my eyes a bit.

Hate it when my lashes look good until I put my specs on and you ee not only spider lashes but all their babies hanging on too!!!!!

Thanks everyone. I am trying a few things but still look like I have tiny piggy eyes.

My main top tip is to put your glasses back on when you do your lippie.

The secret if actually to have perfectly defined eyebrows. I find that when I do wear my glasses , they take the attention away from the fact that my lenses have shrunk my eyes. If you can really perfect your eyebrows you can look v groomed with glasses on. Have neat, groomed eyebrows and use an eyebrow product. The best I've tried are mac eyebrows pencil ( v v easy to use and gives perfect neat brows but runs out quickly) and Ilamasqua eyebrow cake (powder and brush- trickier to use but lasts forever and once you've mastered it you're fine). concealer above and below the eyebrow, clinique mascara and a good eyeliner.

I'm quite long sighted, but I found a x12 magnifying mirror is great for putting on eye makeup without needing glasses after the shock of seeing your 12X magnified pores and wrinkles

I wear large geek style glasses for extreme short sight ,I wear exactly the same eye make up as when I wear my contacts
Lots of liner ,smokey eyes, as said above ,well defined brows and Im partial to a slick of Ruby Woo on my lips
I like the contrast of the red lips and stark black glasses frame