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Fake Eyelashes: The Ultimate "Natural Look"
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
I recently had four people in one day ask me how my makeup looked so natural, what I used etc… Now this totally cracks me up because I’m the ultimate walking, talking example of artifice. You know what the secret is? Fake eyelashes. Yep. The ultimate fake-o is disarmingly natural if you don’t use anything else on your face.
Now by “don’t use anything else” I mean use concealer, MAC Studio Fix...
sunscreen and a neutral-but-pearly-y-goldy-pinky lip gloss. You know, the ‘natural look’.
False eyelashes can be a Sally Beauty Supply thing…
’Babies’ are the best, or they can be a drugstore thing…
Ardell, Revlon etc… But they need not be an expensive proposition.
If they are not the shorter version, I always suggest that you cut off the inner 1/3rd and choose the sparsest, simplest looking lashes you can find.
Begin by lining your upper lids with a thin line of liquid eyeliner…I like Milani...
follow with a coat or two of L’Oreal mascara...
Then apply the black glue — they carry it at Sally’s and the drugstores -- in a very thin line on the base of the fake lash and let it dry about 10 seconds. Stick the lashes just above your natural lash line. You may have to smoosh it around a bit to get the placement right the first few times.
False eyelashes take a little practice, but if you make a point of using them three days in a row, by the third day you will be sticking them on like a pro…and they are re-useable, just gently pull the glue build-up off the base every couple of days.
After you get them where you want them, draw another very thin line over the whole thing with the liquid eyeliner and add one more coat of mascara to blend the fake with the real.
In the interest of saving time -- and out of sheer curiosity -- I wanted to see if I could sleep in my fake eyelashes and if they would be the worse for it. I figure that you spend that extra time to put them on, you might save yourself a couple of minutes in the morning.
Now don’t attempt this if you have allergies, wear contacts or any of the other blah blah blah. I, however, do wear contacts and I was fine.
I took off all my eye makeup around, but not including, the lashes.
It worked spectacularly well on the nights that I didn’t sleep on my face.
Actually, this is probably a good way to train myself to refrain from sleeping face-down, which gives you wrinkles anyway.
I think of geisha and how they had to sleep on those wooden 'pillows' to save their elaborate coifs. That's the way I get motivated sometimes. What can I say...I'm weird.
So except for the night I buried my face in the pillow all night -- bad diva – I woke up looking very glam.
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