Eyeliner is often seen by inexperienced makeup users as the most difficult product to apply. Although many have trouble with pencil liners, liquid liner is seen as a realm unto itself, so we’ll save that kind of application for a future blog.
In order to apply pencil liner, pull your outer eyelid so that it lies taut against your eye. Get the liner brush or pencil as close to the lash line as possible. There are two schools of thought on the best way to apply liner. Depending on how straight your lash line is, you can either draw a single line, starting from the inside of the eye, or “stipple” with the liner, adding tiny, connected dots along the lash line.
Be sure when drawing the line to have the outside eye line be thicker than the inside line; thick eyeliner on the inner eye makes the eyes look closed-up and narrow-set.
A good policy is to start with as thin a line as possible, then widen the line where appropriate; it’s much easier to correct a thin line by adding to it than to try to narrow down a too-wide line.
Don’t let there be a gap of skin between the lash line and the eyeliner; the look is unnatural and garish, and indicates that the eye liner isn’t properly applied.When applying eyeliner to the lower lid, be sure that the line touches the line of the upper eye on the outside. Lower lashes should be given a thinner line than upper ones; only go 1/2 or 2/3 of the way from the outside of the eye inward when lining lower lashes–any further, and it will create a “raccoon” or “eyeglass” effect.
A trendy technique right now is “tight lining,” that is, applying the eyeliner inside the eye’s pink rim. This isn’t recommended by professional makeup artists, who say the practice is completely unhealthy as it puts foreign materials directly against a mucous membrane. Also, any loose clumps of liner will drift into the eye area, causing specs, irritation or infection.
Candice Yacono
(photo credit: ashley rose)
13. April 2009
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