03
Mar

The new, simple way to do liquid eye liner*

(Just for Aimee, who keeps asking me to post this because I keep not posting it when I say I will.)

  • Apply a nude, neutral shadow over your eyelid, or even just some loose powder. This hides veins and gives the eyes a fresher, open look.
  • Use an angled, thin, flat brush, they are crucial for good liner application, (and make any eye shadow into liner with a bit of water.)

    Liner_bursh

  • Wet it and dip into a light-medium brown shadow.
  • Take the brush very carefully along your lash line, trying to keep the line half on your lashes and half on your eyelid so that it’s not an obvious line, and so your lashes are boosted and look fatter. There absolutely shouldn’t be any skin showing between the line and your lashes.
  • Take the brush and kick it up into a little “wing” around ½ cm before you get to the end. It needn’t be perfect, mine never are, but you must must flick up at the ends, otherwise you drag your whole eye – and subsequently face – down. (Maybe Google ‘Eye liner wing’ for a more in-depth how-to on this technique.)
  • Once you’re happy with the line, get out your cream or gel liner. Take your brush and pop the tiniest amount of gel or creamy liner on it, both sides. Using one of these liners is key: They’re the New Breed liners and they’ve come in their little pots to revolutionise eye makeup forever. Try Clinique, M.A.C or Bobbi Brown: They’re all quick to dry, look crisp but soft simultaneously and are very long lasting. In short, they’re a dream.

    Clinique

  • Very carefully follow the line you made with your brown shadow, including the wing.
  • Apply two coats of mascara.
  • Look eerily similar to this woman:

    Jolie

*No hard, scary, messy, I-can’t-do-it-and-fug-it-i-give-up, liquid liners required.

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