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Keep Within The Lines

It’s quite amazing how many women still battle to keep their eyeliners from smudging.

The reason it happens is because the eyes are naturally moist, and moisture along with laughing, blinking, sneezing and rubbing our eyes ruins make-up! But here are some tips to help it smudge less:

Avoid using too much moisturiser around the eye; it will convert liner into mush – not a bad look if you’re going to add to it chunky silver jewellery, a large red bindi and spout Marxist theories, but that’s probably not the look you want. Try an eye gel in lieu of eye cream. Be sure to give it a couple of minutes to absorb before applying make-up. Keep eyeliner in place with this three layer trick:

Use an ear bud to trace a line of neutral-coloured matte powder or eye shadow around the circumference of the eye as a base on which you’ll run the eyeliner. Use a pencil liner and dot along the lash line, crating your desired shape.

Now, use a fine-pointed brush and an eye shadow in the same shade as the pencil you used, trace over the pencil liner.

Clear Out

Here are five steps to a more organised dressing table: Go through all your make-up. You know it’s time to toss it if:

(a) the consistency, colour and/or odour has changed.

(b) if you haven’t worn it in the past six months, or

(c) the expiry date on it has passed.

Replace your mascara every three months, even if it’s not empty. You continually move the wand from your eye into the make-up and back again, you’re potentially spreading bacteria.

If you really want to minimise, put aside all the make-up that you would take with you on a business trip or vacation. Dump everything else. For special occasions, go to a salon to do your face. Sometimes it’s cheaper to have a professional to do it than to buy lots of different products and do it yourself.

Remember to look at your foundation, concealer and powder shades regularly. Your skin tone changes with exposure to the sun. Plus creamy formula sometimes don’t last very long. It’s best to change them every six to eight months.

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