'Anime Eyeliner': The TikTok Beauty Trend For Serving Graphic Cartoon Eye Looks
You know that phase when you're done with a movie or TV series, and all you can do is think about the characters? You follow their actors' socials, you watch other shows starring them, and you start taking style inspo from them. Yeah, that's also a thing when it comes to anime shows. The only problem is that Daiki Aomine from "Kuroko no Basket" does not really exist, and we can't cosplay Nezuko Kamado from "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" without spending lots of money and time. So, like the rest of TikTok, we've settled for the closest option: copying their makeup, and more specifically, their eyeliner looks.
Meet "anime eyeliner," a graphic cartoon eye look that mimics the eyeliner style of different anime characters. It involves different styles, from widening the eyes and adding fluttery lashes in "Sailor Moon" fashion to narrowing your eyes like an anime villain with an inner corner wing. Get into the anime TikTok frenzy with these seven different graphic eyeliner looks, starting with a classic smokey eye inspired by Gaara.
Gaara's smokey eye
Recreating Gaara's iconic smoked-out eye look after spending our childhood watching "Naruto" is our second favorite thing about this look. The first would be how easy this is to do. With your choice of eyeliner, apply around the outline of your eyes, creating a small wing on the outer corner. Then, with a brush, lightly blur out the eyeliner outline to create the smokey-eye effect. Take it further and try this with the bleached brow trend to nail Gaara's look.
Zero Two's red corner
Zero Two from "Darling in the Franxx" gave us fashion inspo for days, but her eyeliner look had us itching to copy. To start, draw three small inverted triangles on the inner half of your lower lash line to mimic lashes. Then, with a red liner, outline the remaining half of your lower lash line on your outer corner and create a small wing. Our favorite red liner remains Fenty Beauty's Flypencil Longwear in Cherry Punk, but you can use any shade of red you like.
Hawks' double corner liner
From Todoroki's half-ice, half-fire look to Bakugou's fantastic character design, "My Hero Academia" was pure cosplay candy. But even more memorable for us was Hawks' eyeliner. To recreate, make a thin wing on your outer corner and another on your inner corner. Then, right below the wing on your inner corner, make an inverted triangle and connect both. If you prefer a deconstructed look like TikTok creator @jessi777__'s version, avoid connecting the inverted triangle with the wing for a three-piece liner look.
Sukuna's intricate liner
Sukuna's eyeliner look is a graphic makeup lover's dream, and to recreate it, you'll need black, red, and white liners. With your black eyeliner, create a long wing on your outer corner and a shorter one on your inner corner. Then, right below the long outer wing, draw another line and a wide inverted triangle right under. You can also make a thin black line across your nose bridge and draw tiny eyes around the lines with your red and white liner for greater graphic accuracy.
Mitsuri's doe-eyed look
Your eyeliner can do more than help you with a great cat eye or seductive siren eye look. You can achieve the doe eye with nothing more than black liner and a white eye pencil. To do this, widen your eye by creating a new outline along your outer corner and lower lash line with your black liner. Then, fill it with a white pencil to imitate your cornea, and place a single black dot below your lash line. Easy Mitsuri peasy.
Sesshomaru's red eye look
"Inuyasha" will stay on our Halloween mood board, and this red eyeshadow look from Sesshomaru is the biggest reason why. Try it by making a black eyeliner wing on your upper lash line, and then right on top, smear some red eyeshadow on your lids, blending out with your fingertips or a small eyeshadow brush. Apply mascara to your top lashes, and you're done. For extra graphic accuracy, take Sesshomaru's inspo and make a crescent with blue eyeliner or pencil between your eyebrows.
Akatsuki-inspired makeup
Even if you aren't into anime, the red cloud emblem of the Akatsuki in "Naruto" is such an easily recognizable symbol — and it makes for an amazing eyeliner look, too. Like TikTok creator @eyeoutfits' tutorial, create red clouds along your inner and outer corner with some red eyeliner and make an outline around them with white liner.