How To Recreate The Butterfly Eyeliner Trend

The latest TikTok makeup trend? Butterfly eyeliner. Here’s how to recreate the look.

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Graphic eyeliner has been elevating our makeup looks for awhile now, but chances are you’ve also stumbled upon butterfly liner while scrolling your social media feeds. It’s basically floating eyeliner that morphs into the shape of a butterfly wing, often topped off with pops of color.

“You can start out with the shape of an elongated cat eye by extending outward and then round off the bottom of the line to create the look of wings,” Baker suggests. This iteration by @alicekingmakeup is the perfect inspo.

You’ve now created your base, which shows you where to begin and end your butterfly liner. “From there, you can make out where to begin the shapes on top of that baseline of the wings,” says Baker.

To top it off, Baker says to place white dots along the black liner. “This makes it look more like the artwork of a real butterfly,” she says. To clean up fallout, she suggests using a Q-tip with makeup remover. Now you’ve got yourself a ’90s-inspired masterpiece to show off.