Mascara Application Tips
How to curl, tint, and lengthen your eyelashes.
Wearing mascara is a necessary evil. With a few tips, applying mascara will transform your stubby eyelashes to long, lush beauties, just like the rest of you.
If you weren't blessed with long dark lashes, you probably rely on your mascara as much as some people do their glasses. All the shadow and lipstick in the world won't make you look awake until you apply mascara.
It is also one of the weirdest makeup products because it's sort of like brushing on tar. I'm still waiting for the day when a cosmetic company figures out how to make lash paint that doesn't look and feel like dried glue. As you can tell, I'm one of the girls who has pale stubby lashes and has to deal with mascara on a daily basis. It's a love-hate relationship.
I've found a few tricks over the years to make applying mascara a more tolerable experience:
- Use a lash curler first. It'll make the process a lot faster, and you won't have to use as much.
- Avoid colored mascara unless you're going for a techno look.
- Blot the end of the wand on a tissue (not the tube) to clean off excess. This helps keep clumps off your lashes.
- Apply to the upper lashes of one eye from base to end repeatedly, building on the ends, until you've got the right look. Then recoat the wand and switch to the other eye. Do the bottom lashes last holding your wand in a vertical position.
- Use waterproof if there's any chance of a shower, swim or tearful moment in your immediate future. Nothing worse than raccoon eyes.
- Remove every night (and I mean every night) with a proper makeup remover.
That's about it. Of course, you'll have to try every mascara made before you find one you like. When you do, please tell me.
