For a sultry, evening Asian makeup look, most of the emphasis needs to be placed on the eyes, with the cheeks, lips, and skin just accents that don’t take the spotlight away from the eyes. Start by putting on a golden under-toned foundation, and sweeping powder over your forehead, cheeks, nose, and chin.

Then, sweep a muted shade of a dark jewel tone that will be your makeup color for the evening over your eyelids, not too heavy, just enough to create a bit of color on your lids. Then line your upper eyelids with a thick stroke of black liner, using either liquid liner, a black eye pencil, or a hard, slanted brush dipped in a water before picking up some black eyeshadow with it, to create a sharp, defined upper eye line.

Some Asian girls, if they have big enough eyes and eyelids to have room, then do another stroke of the same jewel tone as the eyeshadow, only a darker version this time, in a thin line above the black line, and that looks really pretty, too.

Then, use a dark, taupe-ish brown eyeshadow and a soft brush to shade into the outer corners of each eye to create the effect of more depth. Don’t go overboard, but create some darkness where the second eyelid fold would be.

Then, using curling and volumizing black mascara, sweep upwards on your eyelashes to make them curl upwards and out (most Asian women have lashes that stick straight forward). If your lashes still don’t look as thick as you want, carefully smudge some black eye shadow into your lash line to create a thicker, darker looking base.

An eyelash curler (particularly if you heat it first) will be able to curl the lashes even more, and open up your eyes visually, and make them look even bigger. For the most part, I wouldn’t recommend doing much of anything to your lower lashes or bottom lash line, because it’s too easy to create too many shadows and make the eyes look smaller than they actually are.