No make-up technique can make an eyelid look lifted - if the eyebrows are not in the right place. According to Junior Sedeno, an international make-up artist for Dior, a good brow design is „the basic step for dealing with a drooping eyelid". A simple rule many women have never heard.

This season's make-up is natural, bright, soft. Skin is central - everything else is built on it. The experts agree: emphasise the eyes or the lips - not both. Both at once feels overloaded and ages the face. If you choose the eyes - brow design solves half the problem in advance.

A drooping eyelid is a phenomenon that comes with age - the skin loses collagen, the muscles weaken, the eyebrow drops by a few millimetres. Enough for the face to look tired. The fix is not expensive cosmetic surgery. The fix is the shape of the brow.

Sedeno recommends lifting the tail of the brow - but not too much. Follow the natural arc of where the eyebrow would sit if there were no droop. A 1-2 millimetre lift - no more. Too much lift creates a „surprised" look. A precision-tipped pencil, not a pen - a pencil allows correction.

For the eyeline - eyeliner: with a drooping lid, don't push a thick line. A thin one that extends toward the outer corner, with a slight upward flick. That gives the illusion of an open eye without piling up product. Try it with a brush - it gets into the lash root better than a liquid liner.

The Balkan message: half the make-up problems women face at weddings and formal events come down to not knowing how to shape their eyebrows. Don't pay for expensive treatments before you learn to shape them yourself at home. 10 minutes of work, an effect that lasts all day.