27
Nov

Definitely Excellent Under The Eye Makeup Trickery

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I learnt this tip from Brooksy, (who learnt it from a makeup artist) who is a beauty maven at Another Magazine.

She was blown away by its very amazing effect.
As was I.
As will you be.

Ok, so you know how you apply your under eye illuminator under your eye* in a line and then pat it in til its all gone? Much the same way you do concealer?

There is a much, much better way to brighten the eye area.

Try this: Instead of doing a straight line, just under and parallel to your lower lash line, draw the outline of an upside down triangle. (And always use more than you think of this stuff; it’s thin. Makeup artists always pile it on.) Just draw the outline, don’t fill it in.  So you make the base of the triangle  (i.e the non pointy bit) parallel to your lash line, around 1 cm down from your eye, and then point the triangle down towards your jaw. (Each side of the triangle should be around 2.5 cm long, I’d say.) Now, pat it in with a dabbing motion from your middle finger til it’s all gone.

What you’ve just done: Is brighten the whole eye area. See, our natural dark spot under the eye isn’t a straight line. The eye socket is kind of a long oval-circle type shape. So by dabbing in illuminator in over that whole area, you’re throwing light on the whole area, instead of just doing the top third of it. The makeup artist who shared the tip said you can tell when people do it the ‘old’ way, because they get that kind of panda look; they have two obvious white lines around the eyes, but then there’s this obvious cut-off point. Whereas with this technique, you’ve blended down far enough that it’s totally seamless.

Oh look, it’s hard to articulate, but it gives a truly unreal effect. Your whole face looks fresher. You’ll see.

*One thing people get VERY WRONG about Touche Eclat and other such illuminators: They are not concealers. You have to conceal first, then use these guys. All they do is brighten.

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