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Define your eyes with Eyeliner
Eyeliner is one of the most commonly used makeup accessory, which is used in daily routine. It gives shape to eyes. It outlines the eyes in the shape you desire. It is a cosmetic product, which is applied to define eyes. The way it is applied, it creates many aesthetic looks. The most important part in using the eyeliner is how you apply it. Even if used at smallest eyes, it can make it look larger. While applying eyeliner, care should be taken not to overdo it with harsh lines.
Types of Eyeliner
Eyeliner is available in various forms and varieties. You can choose its color, out of its large array of shades. While going to buy eyeliner, you need to know about different types of eyeliners available in the market. You can choose eyeliner according to occasion, shape and color of eyes and weather conditions.
You can choose color from a wide range like black, brown, red, gold, silver, and bronze, white, green. But out of all these shades, black and brown are the most natural choice as they blend with every skin tone. For light eyes, you can go for brown, plum and bronze. People with blue or green eyes, can choose silver and charcoal color.
Gel Eyeliner: It is thick in consistency and applied with a hard angular brush. They come in variety of shades. They are better over the other kinds of liners as they are soft to eyes. They do not pull the skin.
Pencil and felt tip eyeliner: They are most often used eyeliners. They are just hard to apply as they do not spread easily and pull the eyelid. While choosing pencil eyeliner, go for cream eyeliner. These should be such that do not require much pressure on eyes. These can be used as pen to give desired look without fear of smudging it up.
Kohl Eyeliner – Kohl eyeliner is used in many Middle East countries and India for ages. Kohl Eyeliner spreads easily.
Cake Eyeliners: These are popular with artists. They come in dried cake form. You have to use wet brush to apply this.
Powder Eyeliners: Powders like eye shadows can be used as eyeliner.
Liquid Eyeliner – It is the most important type of eyeliner. It gives a dramatic shape and defines the eyes. You have to learn the art of applying liquid eyeliner for the best results.
Applying Eyeliner:
If you are choosing pencil or felt tip eyeliner, you will not have any problem controlling them, they can be used as a pen. But if you are using liquid eyeliner, you need a lot of practice.
1. Prepare for applying eyeliner. You can use pencil eyeliner for soft look and liquid for dramatic and precise look. You can also wet dark eye shadow to be applied as eyeliner. If you have pencil eyeliner, sharp it with care. You can make its tip soft by warming by hair dryer. This will help it glide smoothly. Check for clumps in liquid eyeliner. And also take care of right brush to apply eyeliner. In case of cake eyeliner or dark eye shadow, move wet brush through cake or eye shadow softly.
2. Hold the brush as if you are holding a pen. Put the elbow of your hand, in which you are holding the brush, on a hard surface and its wrist on face.
3. Now slightly tilt head back and keep eyes slightly open making right position to apply the eyeliner.
4. Now look into the mirror and concentrate intently on your eyelid in a gentle way. It will prevent eyelid from shaking.
5. Now draw a straight line across the lash line of the upper lid. Eyeliner should touch the lashes but not over the lashes. It will create illusion of longer and thick lashes.
6. After applying eyeliner, close your eyes and open when it is completely dry otherwise it will mess up your crease on eyelid.
7. Now use a cotton swab or a brush to smudge the line to give it a soft look. If you like a sharp line then do not touch it and for making changes, use a cotton swab, dipped in eye makeup remover.
8. As for shape of line, it should be according to the shape of eye.
9. If you want to apply it under lower lash, keep eyes open and draw a fine line. Applying eyeliner below the lower eyelid will make your eyes look smaller. Another important caution, it may darken your undereye circles temporarily.
10. Apply eyeliner before applying mascara and after applying eyeshadow.
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