Ta Ming Chen, a Taiwanese fashion and beauty makeup artist based in New York City, believes the fox-eye trend has more to do with looking "sexy and mysterious" than "looking Asian." Fox eyes makeup trend Hypebae® is a registered trademark of 101 Media Lab Ltd, in the U.S. and Hong Kong.

The point of the look is to lengthen the eye, using eyeshadow and eyeliner right along the upper lash line, and elongating up and out toward the temples, making eyes sleeker and more slanted upward, which resembles the natural eyes seen in East Asian features. 2. TIRED EYES/SLEEPY EYES TREND At New York Fashion Week, beauty revisited the '90s, revamping the decade's signature smokey eye for an age dictated by how anything translates to social media.

On the other hand, if you want to change the shape of your eyebrows because it is a fashionable trend, that may not be the best solution for you. Fox eyebrows may fall out of favor, but fox eye surgery is a permanent change. Step #1: Fill in your brows with a dark brow pencil and use concealer to reshape them up & off to the side. Another trick is to add falsies to the outermost corners of the lash-line to emphasise the length of the eye. The same applies to mascara. Don’t apply anything on the rest of the lashes. You don’t want to end up with a rounded look. Ensure that your eyeshadow is centred on the outer-third of the eye - and not the inner-corner or the middle. Bear in mind that your liner or eyeshadow mustn’t go straight across - it has to be positioned upwards. You can use a tape to set the angle.

I was heartened to see that as quickly as this trend took off, Asian Americans began responding with their own stories, discussing cultural appropriation, and stating “my eyes are not a trend.” While this swell of Asian American voices speaking out was encouraging, I am still frustrated how time and time again, BIPOC are forced to respond to racist and culturally appropriative trends using our culture, our features, and our heritage for followers and clout. There are currently over 126K posts using the hashtag #FoxEyes, most of them on beauty accounts, and over 123 million views on the hashtag on TikTok, though it should be noted that many of the views are on response posts. Fox eye vs cat eye makeup: real life story Many times a patient will come in and show me a picture of the most beautiful person wearing a lot of makeup who has the fox eye that they want. I explain that a lot of the fox eye shape that they are showing me has been done with makeup. We have to be careful to set expectations for what these surgeries can really accomplish.