Because you're in the public eye, and God knows you need to look good.
Guess what, noodles?
I read this little tip somewhere and it really works!
Before applying your mascara, warm it by rolling it between your hands for a bit. The warmth makes the product spread much more easily over your lashes.
So I just stick my mascara in my bra before applying it. That does the job nicely and my lashes are lush.
Enjoy!
Yep, Urban Decay is my favorite line for eye make-up. Cruelty free, great colors, they’re beautifully pigmented (none of this getting the package home and realizing that what looks like a dark brown pencil is really a sheer taupe one on your skin), and they last.
24/7 glide-on eye pencil in Corrupt.
Shadow in Bust.
Easy peasey and nice results:
Eyebrows are important! They really are! They frame your face, open your expression, and give you LIFE. If they’re growing all crazy and fuzzy, your brows can make you look old and tired and scowly. Get them shaped! Get them shaped by a professional just once in a while and keep them groomed in between visits.
PeaceBang has very skimpy brows at this point in her life, so she doesn’t so much need to get her brows waxed or threaded as to make sure she takes the two seconds each morning to fill them in a bit. I use either Anastasia powder and a little angled brush or a Benefit soft pencil, which gives less beautiful results but takes literally three seconds to do (the powder takes about 15 seconds).
My new discovery is this lovely highlighting pencil, High Brow by Benefit, (and I found a much less expensive version by Nyx) that you swoop just under your nicely shaped brow, blend, and go forth with a much more open eye than you had seconds before.
Any girl who loves make-up knows about the trick of highlighting the brow with light eyeshadow, but that can take precious seconds that we don’t always have. I LOVE this pencil’s consistency and matte pinkish hue. I use it just below and just above the brow bone and convince myself that maybe that I can put off that eyelid lift for another few years.
I can’t vouch for this Nyx version, but it’s ten bucks and ladies on the interwebs seem to like it fine.
Hey, puppies!
So you know how you’ve been running around all day and you look at yourself at 7:24 pm right before your 7:30 pm meeting and you realize that you look smeary and exhausted? And you don’t feel like putting more make-up on because with any luck at all you’ll be heading home by 9:56 and be sound asleep by 10:06 pm? Yea, RIGHT! But you can HOPE.
Anyway, you could spit on your finger and try to rub away some of the smeared mascara and eyeliner, or you could rub a dry tissue under your poor, tired little eyes to try to scrub away the worst of the smudginess, or if you’re carrying eye cream in your bag, you could apply a touch of that to the bags under your eyes and wipe away the make-up, but who the heck carries eye cream in their bag?
So here’s a little trick you can do: take the organic, non-scented lip balm out of your desk drawer, run it under your eyes, take a tissue, and wipe away the smeared end-of-day make-up. There. You look so much less haggard now.
Hi dears!
Many women who wear eyeliner draw it on and leave it there, and it looks just like what it is: a line drawn on the upper or lower eyelid. The point of eyeliner is to enhance your eyes and make them more visible, not to frame them in a hard outline. Please, please take the time to apply eyeliner so that it follows the shape of your eyes, and blend, for the love of all that is holy, BLEND!
Black eyeliner is dramatic, but it is also quite harsh. Miss Sarah Jessica Parker is the Patron Saint of Harsh Black Eyeliner. The Lord only knows why, but SJP has been devoted to this eye-tinyfying make-up technique forever, and even though legions of fans pray daily for her conversion, she has yet to be delivered from her spiritual bondage to harsh black eyeliner. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER:
Navy or dark purple/aubergine eyeliners are much better bets for most women (especially those of us over 35), and of course brown is another fine option (I generally avoid it, as it doesn’t add any oomph. My eyes are brown. I don’t like matchy-matchy — I like a color that brings out the violet specks in my own brown eyes).
And don’t forget grey and greige! (grey/beige)!! Grey eyeshadow and liner are work wonderfully well for many different skin and eye colors — but finding the right shade of grey (not Fifty Shades, though) can be a challenge. I am always on the look-out for good grey/greige products that are pigmented enough to show up on my skin, and that don’t have blue undertones, a common problem with grey cosmetics.
Voila! May I recommend to you Stila eyeshadow in Grace, gorgeous greige (I didn’t make up that word, you know),
and Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On eyeliner pencil in Desperation,
Both are cruelty-free brands, PeaceBang tested and approved! The eyeshadow shows up beautifully over foundation or primer (it goes on as a very low-key neutral on my pink/white skin without primer), and the eye pencil is very smudgeable and very pigmented (yay!). I use it well-blended on my lower lid and on my upper lid, smudged very close to the lash line. If I want a bit more drama I will add a cat’s eye flick of black or navy liquid liner to the ends of my eyes for better definition and staying power.
Enjoy!