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Hooded Eyes · Squirrel · Classic 1:1

A real a hooded eye, the shape this map is drawn for.
This is a hooded eye — check yours against it before reading the map. Photo source & removal
PEAK inner outer peak high, then eases to the tail lashmatrix.org
Where the peak sits and which way the length tapers.
Why Why it is laid out this way

Ask ten trainers for one hooded map and most of them land here, because the squirrel puts its height under the brow arch where the skin has already pulled away. Built in single strands it becomes the lightest way to get that lift, which makes it the version to reach for when her own lashes are fine. Nothing about it is dramatic until the fourth zone, and that is deliberate.

Zone order · bar = relative length Z1 Z2 Z3 Z4 Z5 PEAK Z6 Z7 inner outer
Build order, inner to outer — the peak zone flagged.

The order the zones go in

  1. Locate the arch on herEyes open and relaxed, find where her brow arch sits and where the skin stops covering. The lift belongs between those two marks.
  2. Keep the first three quietThree low zones stepping up barely at all. They are not filler — holding them down is what makes one zone look tall.
  3. Lift in two stepsTwo clear steps take you from the quiet zones to the longest singles. Small steps here and the lift never arrives.
  4. Put the peak under the archLongest strands in the fifth zone, standing above the skin line rather than tucked behind it.
  5. Fall, then finish shortCome down a step, then a bigger one, so the tail ends noticeably below the peak and above the inner corner.
Length curve · one peak, gentle taper inner outer
The length curve: one soft peak, then a gentle taper.

The length curve

Read the diagram as three flat zones and then a hill. The flat part is the covered part, so length spent there returns nothing — and by staying low it makes the fifth zone look considerably taller than the numbers suggest. The fall afterward is what keeps it a lift rather than a cat: the outer corner is not the destination, it is the way back down.

Built wrong, it looks like this

Inner zones fed up to meet the liftA smooth ramp all the way across looks tidy on the tile and does nothing on the eye. The lift only exists as a difference.
✗ WRONG no contrast, no lift ✓ RIGHT quiet, then a lift
Peak dropped a zone too earlyOne zone inboard and the tallest singles sit under skin. Everything you paid for is behind the fold with the eye open.
✗ WRONG peak sits too far in ✓ RIGHT peak under the arch
Tail carried at peak lengthWith no fall the map turns into a cat-eye, and a cat-eye is a different argument on a hooded lid than a lift is.
✗ WRONG turns into a cat ✓ RIGHT peak, then a fall
When not to use this mapHold off on a client with almost no hooding, where this much lift looks like a style choice rather than a correction. It also asks a lot of one small group of lashes, so if her fourth and fifth zones are visibly weaker than the rest, build the same shape in fans instead of stretching singles to reach.
Deep The physics underneath

Every bit of this map's effect rests on one zone of single strands. That concentration is worth pricing properly.

The same map, built four ways

Classic 1:1
This cell, and the lightest way to build a hooded lift. Height comes from length alone, so you are asking one zone of lashes for the longest strand on the set with nothing helping them carry it.
Handmade volume
Reach the same peak height with less material per lash, which is the standard answer when the fifth zone cannot hold a long single. What you trade is time and the tidy simplicity that makes this cell easy to check.
Promade / pre-made fans
Uniform width would make the two-step lift very even, and evenness is what the lift depends on. The bulkier root is the catch, and it lands on the zone with the most skin resting on it.
Woven / clover
Width across a lift adds nothing, because the problem this map solves is vertical. It is the one technique whose main strength is irrelevant here.

Spread angle versus weight

Spread moves mass — never removes it narrowload on the axis widetwists off-axis

Nothing fans out on this cell, so the equivalent question is how close together the peak strands sit. Crowd them and the fifth zone turns into a dark tuft that the skin above it makes look like a shadow rather than a lift. Space the peak so individual tips are visible against the lid and the same length reads as height.

What the natural lash can carry

  • The whole effect leans on the fourth and fifth zones. A single strand there is doing what a fan would do elsewhere, so those lashes are the closest to their limit on the entire map.
  • The two-step lift is also a two-step increase in leverage. Each step out adds weight and moves the load further from the root, which is why the second step is the one that costs you.
  • Look at what the peak zone is made of before you decide how far to lift. If a third of those lashes are fine or newly grown, the zone cannot hold the height the map is asking for and the lift has to be shortened.

Where this map fails first

Where this map fails first inner outer past the peak: the fall goes lashmatrix.org

The zone after the peak is the quiet failure on this map. It carries almost peak length on lashes that are already thinning toward the outer end, so it empties first — and when it does the peak is left standing alone with nothing beside it. The lift stops reading as a lift and becomes a single tuft of long lashes, which clients describe as the set looking odd rather than sparse. Fill the fall zone at every appointment even when the peak still looks perfect.

FAQ Common questions

Why is squirrel the default recommendation for hooded eyes?

Its peak sits under the brow arch, which is the part of a hooded lid where the skin has already lifted away. Height there is height that survives the eye opening.

Should the inner corner really stay that short?

Yes, and shorter than instinct says. The lift is a contrast, and the only way to make one zone look tall is to keep the ones before it low.

Is classic strong enough for a hooded lift?

For a client with reasonable lash strength, yes, and it is the lightest option available. If the peak zone cannot hold a long single, build the same map in fans rather than shortening the lift.

What stops this becoming a cat-eye?

The fall after the peak. Hold the length out to the corner and you have changed effect, whatever the map is called.

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