Be Your Own Lash Artist
Understanding Lash Maps & Your Eye Shape
Welcome to the art of lash mapping with Flutter! Understanding how different lash arrangements enhance your unique features is a lash artist's best-kept secret to creating that perfect look.
This guide will help you discover popular lash styling principles and how to achieve them using your Aura (Natural), Glow (Hybrid), or Obsession (Volume) lash clusters. Remember, the lash map creates the shape, while your choice of Flutter lash style will determine the overall volume and intensity. Feel free to experiment and become your own lash artist!
Choosing the Best Map Style for Your Eye Shape
While personal preference is paramount, certain lash mapping styles can particularly flatter different eye shapes. Here’s a general guide to help you choose. You can achieve these desired shapes with Aura for beautiful subtlety, Glow for balanced everyday glamour, or Obsession for maximum dramatic impact by selecting the corresponding lash clusters for your chosen map.
Almond Eyes: Highly versatile!
Natural Maps: Beautifully complement their balanced shape.
Cat Eye Maps: Enhance their shape with a sultry lift.
Doll Eye Maps: Create a rounder, more "doe-eyed" look.
Round Eyes:
Cat Eye Maps: Excellent for elongating the eye and creating a more almond-like appearance.
Natural Maps: Provide subtle definition without overemphasising roundness.
Doll Eye Maps: Will further emphasise roundness – perfect if you love that look!
Monolid Eyes:
Doll Eye Maps: Fantastic for creating depth, vertical lift, and the illusion of a larger, more open eye.
Natural Maps: Add soft, natural-looking length and definition.
Cat Eye Maps: Can create a striking, elongated effect.
Hooded Eyes: The key is visibility!
Doll Eye Maps: The longest lashes in the centre can help open the eye vertically, ensuring lashes are visible above the hood.
Natural Maps: Can provide lovely enhancement if lengths peek above the hood. This is our founder's personal favourite lash map!
Cat Eye Maps: Can work if longer lashes at the outer corner are placed to be visible and provide lift.
Upturned Eyes:
Cat Eye Maps: Beautifully accentuate their natural upward tilt.
Natural Maps: Complement the natural lift elegantly.
Downturned Eyes: Focus on lift!
Cat Eye Maps: Help to visually lift the outer corners, counteracting droopiness.
Natural Maps: Can offer a gentle lift.
Doll Eye Maps: The central lift can help open the eye overall.
Close-Set Eyes:
Cat Eye Maps: The emphasis on outer corners helps create the illusion of wider-set eyes.
Wide-Set Eyes:
Doll Eye Maps: Can help bring focus towards the centre.
Natural Maps: Provide a balanced enhancement.
Explore Our Signature Lash Map Styles:
Now that you have a better understanding of how lash mapping works with different eye shapes, explore our dedicated guides for achieving specific Flutter looks:
- The Natural Eye: Effortless Elegance - For a subtle, 'your lashes but better' enhancement.
- The Doll Eye: Bright & Captivating - To make eyes appear larger, rounder, and more open.
- The Cat Eye: Alluring Lift - For a sultry, elongated, and winged effect.
General Tips for Your Flutter Lash Styling:
- Customise It: Remember, these are principles and examples! The beauty of Flutter is your ability to mix Aura, Glow, or Obsession clusters and adjust lengths or the number of clusters to perfectly suit your unique eye shape, desired volume, and personal style.
- Placement Matters: For detailed application steps to achieve a comfortable and long-lasting finish with any style, please refer to our comprehensive application guide.
Love and lashes,
The Flutter Team
