Faster Better Makeup 3 : Eyeshadow

April 7, 2010

Makeup that you can control is better than runaway colour and fluff. This is one reason I never buy loose powder makeup. The frosted kind is worse because it will get away from you and that speck of shine on your chin will be the only thing people see all day.

Eyeshadow can often go all over, even when you begin with a pressed powder type. If the brush happens to flick, you have a puff that lands in the inner corner of the eye or some other undesirable spot.

Wet a piece of tissue a bit. Just damp. If you can wring out a drop, it’s way too wet and the eyeshadow will get muddy. The texture should go on exactly the same as without the tissue, just stick to the brush better. I just touch the tissue to a drop of water in the sink.

Run your eyehadow brush over the tissue once or twice first, just enough to barely moisten the bristles. Now pick up the eyeshadow in the pan and the usual way, and apply your eyeshadow as usual.

Eyeshadow goes on with the same colour and consistency but behaves itself. Simple, fast, clean, and precise. Makes a surprising difference.

The idea of applying eyeshadow as wet or dry always seemed messy to me. It’s not real-world advice that I can figure out. How do you wet the stuff? in the pan? on your hand? with the brush, which makes a goopy mess of the container? and then goes on all smeary? does someone have time for this?

Here, the pan stays intact, the application is clean, the product sticks to the brush, and it takes 3 seconds or less. There are no random roaming clouds to mess up the real estate and take 5 extra minutes to clean up.

Posted by Christine Scaman | Filed Under Makeup