World Cup Eye Art

The screen opens on a model's face, close up, with a row of eye art tools along the bottom. You start by picking a team color scheme, then a base shade for the eyelid. Tap a color and it goes on instantly, so you can see right away whether that bright yellow really works with the green. A small fan flag sits in the corner as your theme reminder.

The toolkit is all about eyes. There are cream shadows in matte and glitter finishes, liquid liner pens, tiny stick-on gems, decals shaped like soccer balls and flags, mascara, and a set of false lashes. Everything layers, so glitter goes over matte shadow and gems sit on top of both. The liner pen has three tip widths, which matters more than you'd think.

The twist is that the art has to survive a face. Before your look is done, the model blinks and moves her eyes, and thin liner or badly placed gems get smudged or knocked off. It turns a simple makeover game into something closer to a timing puzzle. When you finish, the camera zooms in for a close-up photo of both eyes, side by side with your flag colors, and that shot is your result for the round.

Work in this order: matte shadow first, then glitter, then decals, then liner last. Use the widest liner tip for the base line and the thin one only for details near the corner. Place gems close to the inner corner, where the blink test barely reaches them.