NYC makeup artist stuns with ‘crazy’ beauty illusion: ‘I’m shook!’

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optical illusion that her eyes are completely different shapes.“Do you guys wanna see something super crazy?,” asks veteran beauty specialist Melanie, digitally known to her more than 51,000 TikTok followers as @Melbellles, in her trending video.In the eye-popping post, which has more than 5.4 million views, Melanie — who’s purportedly worked as a makeup artist in New York and New Jersey for ten years — is seen covering her left eye with her hand while keeping her right eye visible.Her right eye is decked out in false eyelashes, thick eyeliner on her lid and a light liner along the brim of the bottom lid. “We’ve always known this philosophy that your eyes appear bigger, obviously, when you have a thicker liner on the top, no wing and a highlight or lighter concealer color on the waterline,” she said.“This is what they call a doe-eye,” Melanie continued of her widened and dazzling orb. “It makes the eye very big, very bright.”The professional MUA then covered her right eye with her hand, and revealed the left one to have a sleeker cut and darker hue.“This is what they used to call a fox eye.

Now they call it siren eyes,” she explained, noting that she’d drawn her eyeliner and added a wing — an extension of the eyeliner that’s applied to the upper lid as a thin, diagonal line that stretches out past the corner of the eye towards the temple.“So this makes the eye much smaller, much more elongated, almond shaped,” said Melanie. “What you do is put a wing very high up on the end, and then you leave a little gap in the middle and you [extend the liner past the inner corner of your eye] to make the eye appear much longer.”She then uncovered both her eyes, allowing virtual viewers to get a side-by-side look at her two opposing.