Anime Eyes!

Sigh... This look was a lot harder than I expected it to be. I started over several times trying to make it work. Basically what I did was draw larger eyes around my eyes in a way that fit my regular eyes, but that was difficult. Then I put white around my real eyes to make it look like the whites of my eyes extended farther. After that I added eyelashes which was surprisingly very difficult to make realistic. Lastly I put shadow on my eyes to look like I was wearing makeup.
I think what I learned from this was that I need to not draw the eyelashes because the made things look very unrealistic, and I feel it would have looked better without.
Here is my before, then my first attempt, and lastly the final result.