2NE1 Falling In Love - Minzy Inspired Eyeliner + My natural eyebrows!

Hey dolls!

The coloured eyeliner's all the rage right now because it's a cute way to add colour for the summer.

PISH.

It's freezing here in Melbourne.

*imagines self in a beautiful Bali resort*

Coloured eyeliner's super simple to achieve and it's a great chance for those eyeshadow hoarders out there to finally bring that pretty coloured eyeshadow out. Yes, you know who you are. You have a zillion coloured eyeshadows but only use your trusty Naked Palette. *nudge nudge*

Tightlining Eyes

So girls, do you ever tightline your eyes?

I know probably 90% of you girls (guys?) reading this use eyeliner very often, maybe everyday? But how many of you actually have the habit of tightlining your eyes?

From observing professional makeup artist in action (YouTube and real life), they always tightline the eyes without fail. I know some makeup artists actually cringe or feel annoyed when someone doesn't tightline. XD

Just a quick FYI, tightlining involves darkening the lash area and waterline to make the eyelashes look fuller. You could use any type of eyeliner to tightline, be it pencil, powder, liquid or gel eyeliner. I'd strongly suggest a highly pigmented liner to easily 'colour' the lash line without scratching the delicate eye area and also a water/smudge proof liner to prevent your liner from melting or smudging. Not a pretty sight I tell you.

I tightline my eyes by gently lifting the eyelid and 'dabbing' the eyeliner onto my waterline and lash line. I also usually go over the liner with a small angled brush loaded with black eyeshadow to fill in spaces I've missed and also to seal in the liner.

I find that my Benefit BADgal usually smudges easily, hence the black eyeshadow. However, if your liner stays put for the day without causing the 'panda symptom', good for you! You have one step less in your routine. =D

A word of advice, please try not to 'pull' your lids while tightlining. Our eyes blink a zillion times a day and our lids are gently stretched every time we blink. We don't need the extra pulling and tugging to stress our lids, unless extremely sagging and hooded eyes are your thing?

Don't worry if you're 'not getting it' the first time tightlining, it took me some time to find my comfortable rhythm.

As with all makeup skills, I'd like to quote myself (lol!!):

"Dear, shut up and practice."

Panel 1:

Upper lashline tightlined.

Panel 2:

Lower lashline tightlined.

Panel 3:

Eyelash curled and given love with mascara.

This is a great method for girls with very little eyelid space and want to keep the lid space. As with applying eyeliner above the lashline, eyelid space is used up, hence reducing or even completely covering the double eyelid.

I know you love your double eyelids eh?

On my eyes:
Eyebrows and waterline - Revlon ColorStay Brow Enhancer
Eyeliner - Benefit BADgal & MAC Carbon
Mascara - Cosmagic Exte Bomber Mascara

I've always avoided lining the bottom lashline because people said it would make our eyes seem smaller. However, it feels like my eyes seem bigger after lining them!

What do you think?

Do you have the tightlining habit?

=D

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Maybelline Unstoppable Eyeliner in Espresso

Hi hi hello hey!

I'd like to share a short post on my current favourite eyeliner! Well err... Kinda like my favourite eyeliner for the past half year but you get my drift!

So here's a review on the Maybelline Unstoppable Eyeliner in Espresso.

Oh and also a story at the end of the review. =D

✽ Overall ✽

Overview: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡

I love it! It's my everyday eyeliner and it hasn't given me anything negative to say about it so far!

Love factors:

♥ It's a twist up which means a precise line everytime. Also means no sharpening which I absolutely don't like!

♥ A really nice dark brown, not as harsh as black but not so subtle that it doesn't blend nicely into my eyelashes.

♥ Doesn't smudge and give me panda eyes during wear. However, it will smudge when rubbed. As seen in the 'smudge test' below.

So... As promised a story!

Once upon a time there was a princess who was trap in a tower by an evil witch cause she wanted her beautiful scarlet red hair but the princess was a strong willed girl so the princess defeted the witch by squashing her with a house and she kept her beautiful hair. The end.

I was kidding!!!

Okok before the virtual pitchforks come out, let me tell you about how I got my hands on the Maybelline eyeliner!

As I was packing to vacate my hostel room a year back, everyone in the residential kinda collected boxes in a heap so everyone was welcomed to take the boxes. I picked up a tiny box cause it was perfect for my stuff, (plus, tiny = cute) and there was a whole heap of papers and bubble wrap in the box. After clearing it out, guess what I found!

Casually laying the the bottom of the box is this unopened eyeliner! And it was calling out to me

'take meeee~~~'

So obviously I took it la! Haha!!

I was really glad the eyeliner magically found it's way to me cause it's a really good eyeliner and just a week before I found it, I was thinking to myself that I really wanted to try a brown eyeliner since my then current black Benefit one was driving me nuts!

Ah fate works in magical ways...

Anyway hope you enjoyed (both) my stories! =P

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May