How to Apply Eyeliner 10 Looks. Would you wear the same jeans and t-shirt to work every day?
No? Then why do you insist on wearing the same eye makeup for days, even months, on end? Oh, we hear the excuses already: You're too busy getting everyone ready in the morning; you don't want to emerge from the bathroom looking like you got punched in the eye; the list could go on. Which is why you resort to your usual thin, black line. (Yawn.) Sorry, but if you're not the new princess of Wales, there's no excuse for wearing the same blasé eyeliner day in and day out -- especially when there are so many different, outrageous ways to use this essential makeup tool.
Skip ahead to see the 10 new ways to use eyeliner now. Think about it: Eyeliner is not only a way to play with color and make a statement, but it's also the perfect instrument to reshape your eye. "Wherever you put darkness is where your eye is drawn to," says Chang-Babaian, "which means eyeliner allows you to change the shape of your eye. " Rainbow-Colored Hair.
I'm certainly no stranger to coloring my hair, but no matter whether I've lightened, darkened, or highlighted over the years, I've pretty much always stayed safely in the medium-brown arena.
But, then last week, Lauren Conrad And you know what? I. Couldn't. Stop. Thinking. Can a non-celeb get away with this look? How do you choose the right shade of pink? Do you have to consider your base color? What if you end up hating it? Designcrush - tipped out. 6 secrets of make-up. Total-beauty TODAY Style TODAY Jan. 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM ET Totalbeauty.com / By Sharon Yi, TotalBeauty.com You could say that I have a love/hate relationship with makeup.
But then there are those days when my liner refuses to go on straight, my bronzer makes me look like an Asian Snookie, or my lashes refuse to curl. I had one of those days last week, and after walking into work wearing two very different winged tips on my eyes, my editor assigned me a new story: Go to makeup school and write about it. Want to see the best techniques I picked up without spending the thousands of dollars (and crazy amount of time) it takes to go to makeup school yourself?
Lesson No. 1: Spend some bucks on your tools At Napoleon Perdis' Makeup Academy in Hollywood, Rebecca Prior, NP's National Educator, begins the first lesson by introducing us to our tools. Here are the eight basic brushes you need: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Once you have your tools, you need to know how to hold them.