The Cut Crease: Kim Kardashian's Makeup Trick for Defined Eyes

If there's one thing Kim Kardashian could probably school a lot of people in, it's makeup. The 35-year-old got makeup lessons for her fourteenth birthday, for goodness sake. And in a new makeup tutorial posted on her app, Kardashian let the world in on the technique she uses to define her eyes: the cut crease.

"It's a technique that contrasts eye-shadow color in the crease of your eye for a sharp, defined look," Kardashian writes. "The focus is all on the eyes, without overdoing it."

In the tutorial, makeup artist Etienne Ortega starts by brushing a matte champagne shadow from the Kat Von D Shade + Light Eye Contour Palette all over Kardashian's lids. Then, using a small brush, he lines Kardashian's crease (where her lid meets her brow bone) with a medium-brown shadow, also from the palette. Ortega takes a fluffy brush to diffuse the line, then dusts a white shadow over her lid to create definition below the crease.

Then he lines the outer corners of Kardashian's bottom lids using the same medium-brown shadow he used to create Kardashian's crease, extending it to create a cat-eye effect.

After curling her lashes, Ortega applied two coats of L'Oréal Paris Voluminous Mascara in Carbon Black, then lined the lower lash line with Make Up For Ever Matte White Pencil. This is what the finished product looks like:

Go behind the scenes of Kim Kardashian's 2010 Allure shoot: