Posts with tag eyeliner

After hearing endless rave reviews about Urban Decay's Primer Potion, we were a wee bit skeptical. The Potion, which one would apply to eyelids as a foundation layer, promises to make eye make-up more vibrant, longer lasting, and un-crease-able (that's a word now, by the way). Could this tiny little wand and strange, beige liquid really keep make-up on our eyes longer than usual? As it turns out, yeah. Yeah, it totally can. And we think we're in love.

Continuing our quest to bring you the very best makeup and skincare finds, I once again braved the department store makeup counters (this time at Bloomingdale's) to find out what's going on at Bobbi Brown.

At right is the "After" picture; that's me all made-up by adorable Bobbi Brown Beauty Advisor Houston Puryear. She's from Austin.

Read on for the hideous "Before" picture, and for information on how to get the look.

We consider reading Us Weekly "getting up to date on the news" and "part of our job." However, we don't usually take our fashion cues from the gossip magazine. This week we are experiencing an odd about face, and find ourselves agreeing that green eyeliner is absolutely appealing and necessary.

During the spring and summer we were all about the vivid neon blues and teals. Now that there is a crispness to the air, we're ready to do something a little different with our makeup, but we want to keep the fun of all that color. Green eyeliner seems to be the magic bullet.

You know as well as we do that the only good way to pick a new eyeliner is to actually go to Sephora and draw on your hand with at least 18 different pencils. That said, in the gallery are a few of our favorites as a place for you to start your journey to an emerald eye.

(Hayden Panetierre at the 2008 Emmy Awards)

As a professional beauty junkie (and former Beauty Editor at Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar), I've tried every product to come down the pike in the last decade. So I've discovered what works:

Here's a trick to applying eyeliner that lasts. The secret: layering your products. Once you do it a few times it takes two minutes flat.

1. Apply liquid eyeliner, like Dior Style Liner across the tops of lashlines. Don't worry if the line isn't perfect; it doesn't matter. Your goal is to create a dark line, not a precise one.

2. Apply a kohl pencil liner OVER the line, and on lower lashline. The key is to use the right product. The best, most pigmented and easily smudgable is Tarte Eyeliner.

3. With a small, fluffy makeup brush, dust a sheer light brown, gray, silver, or gold shadow (offers great options) over the top line, smudging and blending as you go. Use this color to "shape" the intensity of the color as you move up toward the crease. Keep blending until your eyes pop to your satisfaction. Extra Credit: Dampen the brush before applying the shadow; it sets the color even further.

4. Finish with mascara. Curl lashes.

Do you remember Hard Candy? The beauty line that every blue-blooded pre-tween had some interaction with during such sadistic childhood rituals like school dances and first day of school appearances.

Well, they kind of don't want to make make-up anymore. We know, weird. As of late, the brand has been practically giving all of its glitter eye shadow and coal eyeliner away for free, offering up to 50% off on most items at the brand's site.

Don't call them Mother Theresa just yet, though. There's a method to this oh so cheap madness. The company is trying to phase out its beauty line, most likely because of slagging sells, so it can focus on "new strategies."

In the meantime, the Hard Candy fragrance that launched last fall is still going strong. The fruity scent will be accompanied with a shower gel and a body lotion in the near future.

[via WWD]

It's rare that you'll hear a bad word about black eyeliner from us. We consider it a staple, as vital to have on hand as sugar, coffee and toilet paper.

Naturally, as black eyeliner afficionados, we were intrigued by the Sephora alert about this new Tarte EmphasEYES High Definition Eye Pencil. It is black! It has a cool applicator! It's extra skinny, allowing you to make very very precise little black lines!

The novelty factor was high, and on our next (embarrassingly frequent) trip to Sephora, it was the top item on our list for checking out. Sadly, this turned out to be impossible.

Did you know that most makeup tips try to work the eye into an almond shape? It's true. The shape is considered the most flattering and extremely exotic. However, the tips often don't take into consideration those with deep set, wide set, small eyes, round eyes, or heavily hooded eyes. And if you wear glasses? Puh-lease, you'll never find info for that! Except for here that is.

Most of us love the summertime – the sun, the beach, the warmth, the runny makeup... okay, so maybe we don't love all of it. When the weather is hot and you're sweating your face off literally, it is time to readjust your makeup routine so you don't look like a hot mess for the next three months.

The nice folks at Stila sent us some samples so we could try their products first hand. We spread the bounty across two bloggers, Kristen Seymour and Cat Lincoln, who will share their reactions with you this week.

We are heavy eyeliner users, both figuratively and literally, so we've experienced the full gamut of textures: waxy, smudgy, crumbling and smooth. Based on this broad experience, we feel confident in our definitive pronouncement that Stila Kajal Eyeliner is the silkiest pencil we've ever used.

Now before you think we're a pushover for free stuff, let us say that super silky can be a good and bad thing.

As women, we want our mascara to be a macho man -- thick, long, long-lasting, conditioning and waterproof. Okay, maybe that was the wrong metaphor but regardless, we expect a lot out of our mascara but we might not be doing our part in meeting our partner half way.

Here are a few helpful hints to get the best show out of your favorite mascara.

Reese Witherspoon caught our eye in the ads for Avon's new Pro-to-Go lipstick. We thought, that's nice but a bit surprising to see someone so A-list shilling for Avon. Still, a single mom's gotta do what she's gotta do, right?

Then we noticed the incredibly nifty lipstick applicator and all thoughts of Reese flew out of our head. It's designed so that you can flick it open, apply, and flick it closed with just one hand. So cool!

Many of us gals have been the victim of expired cosmetics. Here's the scenario. After seeing pics of that smokin' gloss we used to wear in high school, we rush to our beauty closet only to open the tube to a rank stank that we don't understand. Most beauty products do not have any smell, or if they do, it is very faint. If you start noticing some product BO, it's because that favorite gloss is dying a slow, bacteria-invested death in that dark, tightly sealed tube. Once the product has peaked, it can cause some pretty gross irritations or infections if used. To avoid all of the above, follow these general toss time guidelines.

At first we felt a little, well, superior. After all, we have mad make-up skillz, earned through years of clown faced experiments. And the first item in the gallery was that Sally Hansen nail pen we posted about a month ago. Um, yawn.

But then we were very pleasantly surprised by the rest of the products. Not just easy to use, they are also cool!

The Stylelist Spring Beauty: Blue Eyeliner post made us pull out the makeup kit, ready to go to town. But to our disappointment, we only found old black, grey and brown liners in there.

Clearly we need to upgrade from the neutrals. We're craving some color!

Eyeliner is one of the easiest, fastest and most versatile ways to brighten up your face and be daring. Go bright, dark, sparkling or smoky. Blue can do it all!

Five great blue liners in the gallery give you a flavor of this sizzling seasonal trend. Let us know if you get the fever for some blue!

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have just proved my hypothesis -- the couple that does their makeup together stays together.

Obviously standing in the bathroom mirror putting on matching eyeliner is a bonding experience for the couple. They've been dressing and doing their makeup alike for a few years now and they've finally decided to make things official. Those two crazy kids announced their engagement last week.