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Q. I noticed your eyes are two dissimilar sizes. Mine are the same, so I rarely wearable center makeup equally I don't desire to draw more attending to the size difference. Are there any tips yous have to play this down?

A. You noticed correctly! I first realized that my eyes were two different sizes when I was thirteen and started doing a little modeling work (that's my start headshot, above), and a photographer was all, "WHOA. You lot demand to not smiling like that." And he taught me how to smile for photos so that one center didn't scrinch up into pettiness. And I did that for awhile, merely and so after abandoned my efforts when I realized that it was kind of weird to overthink an expression of happiness that'southward theoretically supposed to exist…yous know…18-carat.

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What y'all're talking about – that kind of asymmetry where one heart appears larger than the other – is very common to different degrees, and actually usually not caused by a difference in middle size, but rather by a difference in how much the lid covers each eye.

From the Washington Mail:

Andrew Prince, a Manhattan ophthalmologist, says he oft sees patients with i center that at least appears larger than the other.

"Often information technology's an illusion," Prince explains, that occurs "when the lid, more than ofttimes the upper lid, is drooping. The asymmetric advent can make patients remember 'My middle is shrinking' or 'My eye is bulging.'"

Uneven eye size can be congenital — something you lot're born with — or it tin be related to surgery, injury or certain heart diseases, Prince says. "The nigh mutual cause is historic period," he adds, noting that eyelid drooping (ptosis) often happens as we abound older.

My asymmetry, for example, is congenital…but and then was exacerbated past The Bully Cocktail Straw Incident Of 2010 (it's gross; become alee and read the mail service if you're interested); the incident resulted in chronic corneal erosion and swelling that gets worse when I'yard tired or dehydrated.

It's no fun, mostly because it'southward a) uncomfortable and b) part of my job involves taking bajagillions of photos and videos of…my face.

Assuming you're not experiencing discomfort, though, hither'due south the affair: everyone has aspects of their appearance that they're non thrilled with.Everyone is asymmetrical to some extent. And sure, perceived "flaws" can brand us feel uncomfortable, or self-conscious…but they're also just par for the course, and a large part of what make you all those wonderful and weird things that y'all are.

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OPTIONS FOR YOU:

That said, if yous nevertheless want to find ways to minimize the appearance of disproportion (which I certainly try to practise – with variable success – during photograph shoots, so I hear you), there are a bunch of options you can phone call into activity.

  1. Surgical Intervention. This is not something that I would do unless you're talking well-nigh an issue that seriously impacts your life or livelihood. I'one thousand non entirely certain what the options (or the costs) are, but some Googling has led me to believe that it could involve having an oculoplastic surgeon remove excess skin/fat deposits. Or a simple shot of Botox, depending on the detail consequence you're having.
  2. Hydration. If you detect that your eyes seem to appear more asymmetrical when you're tired or dehydrated, it might be a swelling issue. If yous have an important issue coming up, try to pay actress attention to getting residue and drinking enough of h2o.

three. Makeup! I know you said that yous don't like to wear lots of makeup to draw more attention to your eyes, simply what I've found is that the post-obit trivial tricks help a lot:

  • Create the visual illusion of bigger eyes by starting with a base shadow in a pale pink or gilded shade. Raise the effect past lightly smudging a highlighter (I love NARS' Soft Touch Shadow Pencil in Hollywoodland) into the inner corner of your eye.
  • Balance out the shape by using liquid liner to draw a slightly thicker line on the "smaller" heart. (This one is my favorite.)
  • Lengthening mascara (and a lash curler) can practise wonders to open up upwards the eye, creating a larger effect. I also like applying a half-strip of faux lashes to the outer edges to create a dramatic outcome that both minimizes disproportion and draws the middle elsewhere (click here for a how-to).

Finally: I am sure – and I mean this from the lesser of my centre – that the asymmetry that you feel that your eyes accept in no way impacts your loveliness. The man trunk is asymmetrical by nature, and I genuinely think that that's for a reason: to let us know that differences on the exterior are but as OK as differences on the inside, and that when information technology comes down to it…it's all good.

Remember most it: when you look at someone and detect what is beautiful about them, what you're seeing is what makes them special, not what makes them "perfect"…and symmetry is nothing if not the replacement of what is extraordinary with what is regular.

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