Style names, decoded
Style names are regional and generational: the same lash mapping geometry answers
to different words in different chairs, and the same word points at different builds.
This page records what each name usually means — descriptively, anchored to
parameters, with the page that treats it in full. Nobody is declared wrong for using
a name differently; where the industry disagrees, the disagreement is part of the
record.
Eight names carry their own definition pages. The rest resolve to an effect or a
technique this library already maps — the name is the door, the geometry is the room.
Fox eyeA held-short inner half, a rising line, and a tail lifted above the lid rather than merely lengthened. Direction, not length. The full definition ›
Cat eyeA climb along the lid to a peak at the outer corner — extension, not tilt. The eye reads longer; its axis does not move. The full definition ›
Kitten eyeThe cat eye at a fraction of the rise: same climb, same peak, dosed to sit just above what the eye already does. The full definition ›
Open eyeHeight carried as a plateau across the middle third, so the aperture reads wider without reading rounder. The full definition ›
Doll · doe · baby dollThe centre-peaked family: length concentrated over the pupil, rounding and enlarging the eye. One parameter family with open eye, two intents. Fifteen doll maps by eye shape ›
Wispy · spikesA texture, not a direction: a soft base with spikes standing a set step above it at a repeating interval. It sits on top of a map. The full definition ›
Wet look · wet setVolume fans closed to narrow points so the set reads as dark separated strands rather than fluff. A finish that stacks onto any map. The full definition ›
Anime · mangaThe spike family at its endpoint: a countable handful of tall closed spikes on a receded base — the animator’s shorthand rebuilt on a real lash line. The full definition ›
Kim KA base laid in near strip-lash density with long closed spikes standing well clear of it in loose groups — the wispy principle with both populations pushed to their statement end. The full definition ›
SquirrelAn arch over the outer iris that eases down after it — the lift happens before the outer corner rather than at it, which is why it survives downturned eyes where a fox map droops. Fifteen squirrel maps by eye shape ›
Russian volume · mega volumeTechnique words, not shapes: how many fine extensions stand on each natural lash, and how the fans are made. Any of the shapes above can be built in them. The volume index ›
HybridAlso a technique word — classic and volume mixed along one line. Often confused with wispy because texture is its usual purpose. The hybrid index ›
When a client brings a name, not a map
Ask which half she is ordering: where the length goes, or how the line is
finished. Fox, cat, kitten, open eye, doll and squirrel place length; wispy, wet
look and the spiked sets finish the line — and one of each can be built into the
same pair of eyes. Most naming arguments are two people describing different
halves of one set.
Every definition here ends the same way: if you build it
differently and it holds, send your version — it goes up
beside ours, under your name.