They say never ask a girl with winged eyeliner why she is late. The winged eye-liner is totally gives you a sexy, sultry look to kill! If you have never tried it, here are the steps to learn for yourself:-
1. Apply pencil eyeliner to your upper lash line. Use a light pencil eyeliner to draw a thin line as close to your upper lash line as possible. The line should be as thin as possible, as well.
Start from the inner corner of your eye and work toward the outer corner.
The line does not need to be especially neat at this point, even though it should be thin. You will end up going over the line again, so a little roughness will not make much difference at this point.
Keep your eyelid as flat as possible while doing this. If necessary, tilt your head back and just barely keep your eye cracked open as you apply the liner.
2. Measure how far out the wing should go. Hold your eyeliner pencil at the end point of your bottom lash line. Point it upward diagonally so that it practically looks like a continuation of your lower lash line.
The line will extend diagonally up and out.
Note, however, that if you have a hooded eyelid, you may need to angle the wing more outward than upward to avoid the hooded part of the lid.
3. Draw a thin diagonal line out to the end of the wing. This line should roughly match the guideline you visualized when holding the liner pencil against your eyelid. In other words, it should almost look like an extension of your lower lash line.
Begin at the very tip of the eyeliner line drawn above your upper lash line.
Draw a diagonal line roughly 45 degrees out and up. The line should be heading in the general direction of the end of your eyebrow.
The length of the wing is up to you. A more subtle winged eyeliner look should have a short line at this point, but a more dramatic one can extend up to just below your brow bone. Never extend it all the way up to the eyebrow itself, though.
4. Make a straight line from the tip to the middle of your eyelid. With your eyelid as flat and taut as possible, draw a straight diagonal line from the very tip o the wing down to the middle of your upper lash line
Keep the eye closed as you do this. Watch with the eye you are not currently working on.
Put the pointer finger of your non-dominant hand on your brow bone. Pull the upper lid slightly upward to keep it taut.
Draw the wing lines using your dominant hand.
5. Fill in the outline. Use your pencil eyeliner to fill in the winged outline you just created until all the skin between the line is covered.
This does not have to be especially thorough if you plan on tracing over the pencil eyeliner with liquid liner later on.
Fill in the eyeliner as close to the eyelashes as possible to avoid gaps of skin peeking through. The idea is to blend your eyelashes into the eyeliner.
6. Thicken the line at the inner eyelid. To make it appear as though the wing is getting thinner naturally as it goes into the eye, you should use short strokes of your eyeliner pencil to smooth out the corner between the end of your wing and the liner on the upper lash line.
The eyeliner should be its thinnest at the innermost corner, but it should appear as though it is gradually getting thinner in this direction.
Finalizing the Look:
1. Take a step back. Blink, walk around for a couple of minutes, and chase the look of your face from the freshest place in your mind before examining how your eyeliner looks. Make a judgment on your success or failure only after stepping away to give yourself fresh perspective.
As you examine the way the eyes look, you should also compare the way that both eyes look in relation to one another. The wings should be fairly even.
2. Clean uneven edges or mistakes. If the pencil liner appears jagged or uneven at certain places, you can carefully clean it up by dipping an angled eyeliner or eye shadow brush into a bit of makeup remover and tracing over those edges.[5]In a pinch, you could also use a cotton swab to erase mistakes. This will work even better if the cotton swab is pointed, but a round swab will work, as well.
Similarly, if you do not have any makeup remover, you could dip the tool into a small amount of concealer and gently apply the concealer over the mistake to mask it.
3. Trace the pencil liner with liquid liner.Darken the winged eyeliner outline by tracing over it with liquid eyeliner. Fill in the entire outline with this liquid liner.
By double-layering the eyeliner like this, you allow yourself more control over the shape and give yourself the ability to create a darker, more convincing wing shape.
Rest the elbow of your working hand on the table or counter. Doing this will help steady your hands as you apply the liner.
Make sure that you press the eyeliner wand or pen as close to the lash line as absolutely possible to prevent gaps between the eyelashes and eyeliner.
4. Clean any additional edges or mistakes. If you made a mistake with the liquid liner, you can “erase” it using the same trick you used on pencil liner. Dip an angled eyeliner brush into makeup remover and trace over the offending edge or imperfection.
If you do not have an angled brush, you could use a cotton swab to erase mistakes, instead. A pointed, angled cotton swab will work best, but a round swab will work, as well.
If you do not have any makeup remover, the brush into a small amount of your best concealer and gently apply the concealer over the mistake to mask it.
5. Let dry for 10 to 15 seconds. After applying the liquid liner, you need to let it dry briefly before you should blink. If you blink immediately after applying it, the eyeliner could smear.
If you do accidentally smudge a little of the liner, however, you can simply clean up the smear with a cotton swap soaked in makeup remover.
-MISBAAH MANSURI
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