Fox eye, cat eye, doll eye and everything between. The style sets the shape, but the mapping is what makes it yours.
A lash style is a shape, not a product. It describes where the length sits along your lash line, which is what changes how your eye reads.
Before any application, your lash line is measured and marked out so the length climbs and falls exactly where it should for your features. Two people asking for a fox eye will leave with two different maps, because the shape of their eyes, the height of their brow bone and the strength of their natural lashes are all different.
That mapping is also where honesty matters. Some styles genuinely flatter certain eye shapes far more than others, and your natural lashes can only carry so much length and weight without being damaged. If what you have in mind is not the kindest option, we will say so and show you the closest thing that works beautifully.
Any of these can be applied as a classic, hybrid or Russian volume set, which controls how full it looks rather than the shape itself.
Follows the shape your lashes already grow in, with a gentle rise through the middle. Nothing is exaggerated. It looks like you have simply been blessed with very good lashes.
Suits: everyone, and the safest first set if you have never had extensions before.
The longest lashes sit through the centre of the eye and shorten towards both corners. It opens the eye upwards and makes it read rounder, bigger and wide awake.
Suits: almond and close set eyes. Usually avoided on very round or prominent eyes, where it can emphasise the roundness.
Short at the inner corner, sweeping steadily longer towards the outer, so the eye stretches sideways into a soft winged shape. The effect of eyeliner without the eyeliner.
Suits: round, prominent and close set eyes. Handled carefully on downturned eyes, where extra length at the outer corner can pull them down further.
A sharper relation of the cat eye. The inner corner stays very short, the length climbs faster, and the outer edge finishes on a distinct lifted flick. Elongating, a little editorial, and the most requested style of the last few years.
Suits: round, prominent and wide set eyes. Best approached with care on downturned eyes.
The clever one. Length builds like a cat eye but peaks just before the outer corner, then eases off slightly. You get the lift and the elongation without anything dragging the eye downwards.
Suits: hooded and downturned eyes especially, and a flattering choice on almost anyone.
Soft, rounded and deliberately airy. Lengths are varied gently throughout so the set looks feathered rather than uniform, giving a light, fluttery finish with no hard edge anywhere along the lash line.
Suits: anyone wanting something romantic and soft rather than sharp. Lovely for weddings.
Deliberate spikes of longer lashes set against a shorter base, repeated along the lash line for texture. Full and glamorous up close, still soft from across a room. Usually built as a hybrid or volume set.
Suits: most eye shapes, and a good pick if you want impact without a solid block of lash.
Style names vary from studio to studio, so if you have seen a look you love, bring the photo. We will tell you exactly what it is and whether it will work on your eyes.
A starting point, not a rule. The consultation is where we confirm it in person.
A lid that folds over and hides the lash line when your eyes are open. Squirrel mapping with an L or L plus curl keeps the lashes visible instead of vanishing under the hood.
The most adaptable shape of all. Doll eye opens it, cat eye elongates it, and very little looks wrong. Choose on the effect you want rather than the shape.
Cat eye or fox eye stretch the eye sideways and balance the roundness. Doll eye is usually avoided, since it emphasises what is already there.
The outer corner sits lower than the inner. Squirrel lifts it, while a heavy fox eye can drag it down further, so length is kept just short of the outer edge.
Little or no visible crease. Stronger curls, often D or L plus, bring the lashes forward into view so the set is seen from the front rather than only in profile.
Close set eyes gain space from a cat or fox eye pulling focus outwards. Wide set eyes are drawn together by doll eye mapping, with the weight kept towards the centre.
Beyond the map, three choices shape the finished set. You do not need to arrive knowing any of this, it is what the consultation is for, but it helps to know what we will be discussing.
Three or four saved pictures tell us more than any description can. Screenshots from Instagram are perfect, and it does not matter if you cannot name the style.
How much upkeep suits your week genuinely changes the recommendation. A heavier set needs infills closer together to keep looking sharp.
If you are new to extensions, a lighter version of the style you want is the better first set. Going fuller at your next appointment is easy. Coming back from too much is not.
If a previous set felt heavy, poked your cheek or dropped early, tell us. It usually points straight at the curl, the length or the mapping, and it is fixable.
Book a lash appointment and we will map the right shape for your eyes at the start of it. The studio runs by appointment only.