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Lash Mapping for Downturned Eyes

Every eyelash extension map drawn for downturned eyes — all five effects in all three techniques. The shape decides what the map has to correct; the effect and technique decide how.

Also called droopy eyes, down-turned eyes. The same layout is meant in each case — the name changes, the geometry does not.

A downturned eye ends lower at the outer corner than it starts at the inner. Lash mapping for downturned eyes is the clearest case in the library of a map doing corrective work: length placed past the middle and angled up lifts the line, while length carried all the way to the outer tip follows the droop and deepens it. The difference between those two maps is a single zone, and it is the difference between a lifted eye and a tired one. Some searchers call it droopy eyes.

The fifteen maps below are the five effects in all three techniques, drawn for this shape. Each states the zone order, the length curve and where it gets away from people — for a working lash tech mid-appointment and for a learner still building a reference.

A real downturned eye, the shape this map is drawn for.
A real downturned eye — check yours against it before reading. Photo source & removal

The lash line ends lower than it begins.

Natural

Natural: a wide, low top through the middle, nothing that announces itself.

The correction lives in the curl. If it shows up as outer length, you have mapped it wrong.

Built as: Classic 1:1 · Hybrid · Volume

Cat-Eye

Cat-eye, one strand per lash — with the length stopping before the tail.

Length on the tail follows the tail. Rebuild the tail with curl instead.

Built as: Classic 1:1 · Hybrid · Volume

Doll / Open-Eye

Doll: the longest strands sit over the middle of the eye, one per lash.

Nothing outboard of the centre may match the centre. Outer zones stay clearly under it.

Built as: Classic 1:1 · Hybrid · Volume

Wispy

Wispy: long strands rising out of a shorter base, all of them over the middle.

No spikes in the last two zones. A spike near the corner is an arrow down the slope.

Built as: Classic 1:1 · Hybrid · Volume

Squirrel / Fox

Squirrel: the high point sits past centre but well inside the corner.

Move the high point outward and this becomes the map this shape must not have.

Built as: Classic 1:1 · Hybrid · Volume

Standardising this across a team? In the studio. Teaching from it? Teaching from this.

Other eye shapes: Almond Close-Set Deep-Set Hooded Monolid Round Upturned Wide-Set