The truth about eyelashes

[flexagon]

Heh, thanks everyone for the compliments on my legs. :) I've been interested lately in a few things that are, well, visual, which probably tied in to my photography choices. So let's keep it superficial here -- I want to ask about your eyelashes.

[Poll #1534801]

See, I have chaotic lashes. With that plus my light skin, I could never wear eyeliner -- I used to try, but it would make a dark line about 2mm away from the edge of my very pale eyelid and just look retarded. Then I learned a fantastic tip from someone over on silentq's blog... it's possible to use a tiny little angled brush, and dark powder, to tap color all the way down into the lash line. I accosted two very light blondes who wear a lot of eye makeup (not strangers, but not my bestest friends either) and dorkily asked them if they knew the secret of the angled brush, and they both said YES. So I got an angled brush last week and started practicing, and the results were very pleasing. When I've used the brush (and how accurate the term "face painting" suddenly seems), it looks a lot like I'm wearing mascara but is a lot less messy.

Still, all the eyeliner tutorials on YouTube refer to "the lash line". And they all show the angled brush brushing sideways above the tops of the lashes, which on me results only in That Dorky Look. The only way I've gotten this to work is to tap upwards with the brush, from under the lashes, where I can tap the powder past at least the lowest line of the thicket. None of this is important, but it does make me wonder if my lashes are remotely normal... luckily for me, LJ polls know everything. So vote, please.

Comments

[nevers.livejournal.com]

huh, i really can't tell! it seems like my lashes are more than one lash deep, maybe 2-3? but it's so dense that i can't figure out how to get a peek inside. however, i wouldn't call it chaotic. it's like the grass that would grow in a 1" sidewalk crack, scaled way down. i have never had any trouble with eyeliner. i also can't quite understand this tapping up business. but i guess i don't need to.

[flexagon]

Your analogy is a good one and makes me wonder if I asked the wrong question in my poll. Maybe the problem I have is more of having a wide "sidewalk crack" with pretty sparse growth in it, and uneven edges, rather than the number of rows of hairs there are.

Anyway, if you can use regular eyeliner on your upper lids with no problem, you win. And I win too, I just wish I had learned all this about 15 years ago.