All the Cardi B Glam We Can’t Stop Thinking About

Why Cardi B’s Beauty Looks Always Set the Tone

1. Cardi B’s Eyes to The Sky Snatched Look 

This look is seriously a moment, and even though it looks like it’s celebrity makeup artist-crafted, we promise you can do this look at home. The first thing to think of when crafting this look is, the sharper the edges, the more snatched the face will look. One of the easiest ways to achieve that is by adding tape to the outer corner of your eyes in the upwards direction that you want your sharp eyeshadow edge to occur. From there, dust on your favorite smokey eye shade. 

We love the KIMCHI CHIC BEAUTY Twenty Five Send Me Nude'les Eyeshadow Palette, which has buildable shades in a variety of colors. Apply your shadow all over the lid and don’t worry if it spills over onto the tape. Remove the tape, and then highlight the crease even further with a concealer that matches your skin tone, like the DOMINIQUE COSMETICS Wide Awake Full Cover Concealer.

2. ’90s Supermodel Cut Crease Moment

Trends from the '90s have been popular for a while now, but Cardi B really leveled up the look for her promotion shots for her latest album. A cut crease is all about laying down a bright nude (a few shades lighter than your skin color) on the base of your eye and then carving out a crease with a darker shade to sculpt your eyes. Make sure to start out with an eyeshadow primer, like the APPEAL COSMETICS Hydrating Eyeshadow Primer to keep the look in place all day. 

3. Monochromatic Eyes

You may have heard of eyeshadow that matches your outfit, but our queen Cardi took it a step further and matched her eyeshadow to her eyebrows, eyelashes, eyelids, and drum roll…. eye color. Hey, she never said she was about being subtle. While you might want to skip changing your eye color with colored contacts, you can still go full glam with colored lashes, brows, and lids. 

For eyebrows, try OVERTONE’S The Color Wink: 2-In-1 Lash and Brow Makeup, which easily washes off at the end of the day with regular makeup remover. Grabbing a two-in-one lash and brow formula allows you to get a more precise color, then you just have to go hunting for the most similar shadow shade.

4. Cotton Candy Eyes

Cardi B is famous for matching her hair colors to her outfit and makeup combos, and this cotton candy look is no exception. She has three different shades of pastel colors in her hair and the same three shades on her lids. For gorgeous, pigmented colors that don’t budge, we’re huge fans of the ABOUT-FACE eye paints. When crafting a multi-colored eye look, start with the lightest shade first. In this case, it’s pink, so blend out a soft pink shade all over your lid, then reach for a turquoise or baby blue shade to carve out the crease and blend outwards. For the third color, grab a purple eyeliner, like the FENTY BEAUTY Flypencil Longwear Pencil Eyeliner and drag it all across the bottom lash line. 

5. Red Hot

This sparkly eye look is beyond stunning, but Cardi B isn’t the only one who can pull it off! You can recreate this look at home by adding a pink-silver eyeshadow shade all across the lid, and then begin dusting a brighter cherry red shade that extends up near the brow bone. Finish off the look with a hot pink glitter eyeliner that goes across the top and bottom lashes. Bonus points if you turn it into a cat eye! We’re obsessed with the NYX Epic Wear Metallic Eyeliner in shade fuchsia metal. 

6. Ice Queen

If we could only choose one Cardi look to recreate for the rest of our lives, it would be this one. The key to this look really popping is adding 3D rhinestones on top of metallic shadow. For this, we only trust HALF MAGIC BEAUTY’S face gems which literally never budge. 

An easy way to get the perfect celestial graphic eye look? Use a silver metallic eyeshadow, like the DANESSA MYRICKS BEAUTY Colorfix Multi-Use Eye, Cheek & Lip Waterproof Liquid Pigment in shade platinum, and paint the color all over your top lid. Paint another line that goes under the inner corners of the eye and outwards. Don’t worry about it being perfect because you’re going to grab a cotton swab dipped in makeup remover and clean it up to create the shape you want. Then add concealer around the under eye to finish off the look.