Lash Mapping for Hooded Eyes

Every eyelash extension map drawn for hooded 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 hooded lids. The same layout is meant in each case — the name changes, the geometry does not.

On a hooded eye a fold of skin overlaps part of the lash line, so some of every set is out of sight when the eye is open. Lash mapping for hooded eyes is therefore not about adding length but about placing it where it stays visible, and about choosing a curl that clears the fold instead of pressing into it. The set that looks correct on a closed eye and disappears on an open one is the standard failure here, and it is a failure of mapping rather than of application.

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.

Skin overlaps the lash line; part of every set is out of sight.

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

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