The Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Eyeliner
Ah, eyeliner. We love you so, but must you be so difficult? We give you all our time and patience, and yet you still rebel like an angry teen, wobbling and smudging and streaking to no end. To which we say enough. If we feel this way, we can only imagine what newbies must feel—which is why we’re taking things back to basics today and sharing 10 game-changing tips for the eyeliner inept (or just those who've never given it a chance). These are the very tips that have helped us overcome our own eyeliner frustrations and greatly improved our tracing, retracing, and flicking.
Scary pencil of doom Eyeliner ready? Let’s get started.
Keep scrolling for 10 game-changing eyeliner tips for beginners.
Pick Pencil
If you’re new to the eyeliner game, you might be overwhelmed by all your options. Pencil, gel, liquid, felt… The list goes on. We’ll give you our best advice: Pick pencil. Why? Because it’s the easiest and a great starting point for eyeliner beginners. A smooth pencil glides on easily, doesn’t tug, and is more forgiving with shaky hands than liquid or gel. But if you must intensify your line…
Layer Your Liners
Crave the inky-black, perfectly flicked look of liquid liner but lack the technique for a precise line?
Connect the DashesIf your lid always seems to tug when you apply liner, leaving you a panda-eyed mess, you might want to try a simpler route. Namely, drawing three dashes along your eye, then connecting them. You can blend the line together using an angled eyeliner brush, or simply clean up any unevenness with a cotton swab dipped in makeup remover (or lotion).
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