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6 BEAUTY

CURL FRIENDS WING IT
Curling your lashes can make “The skin on your upper
all the diference. It may seem eyelids tends to crinkle
unnecessary, but once you start as you age, and many try
doing it correctly, it’s hard to working around this by
believe you ever neglected pulling the eye back so the
this vital step. Simply skin is taut during application,
capture at the base of the causing your make-up to look
lash and squeeze for 30 uneven,” says Lyndsey Bates,
seconds while gently tipping from ZAO Essence of Nature. “Using
your wrist up. This will begin to a liquid eyeliner with a felt tip is much
shape the curl at the root, elongating your inal easier to control and apply, with less tugging
lash look. Gently remove the pressure then of the skin. When it comes to lining a mature
lit up and release the lash, this will ensure eye, less is certainly more, but if you prefer a thicker
you don’t interfere with the volume. Finish by line, blur the edges with a blending brush before it dries.
luing the lashes with your index inger, then This gives a fuzzier outline that’s more lattering on older
follow up with your favorite mascara. And skin.” Tip: when you’re applying eyeliner to the top line,
voilà! See those curly lashes? The Body Shop look straight ahead in the mirror, with your chin
Eyelash Curlers, £5, thebodyshop.com tilted up. Zao Reillable Felt Tip Eyeliner,
£18.95, zaoessenceofnature.co.uk 10
BRUSH IT NATURAL BROWS
OFF For eyebrows to be lattering you need to
“Make-up 7 determine your face shape. The oval face shape
brushes are allows you to experiment, but a sot angled style SMUDGEPROOF
is your best bet. If your face is long, a straighter,
2 kit,” says, the So Eco team. Square faces beneit from a more curved or applying your
EYESHADOW
an essential
elongated brow will give the illusion of width.
part of any beauty
Do you ind yourself
arched brow as it creates a pretty contrast to
“Whether you’re illing
eyeshadow perfectly
the strong angles of the face and adds a
in your brows, bronzing
each morning, only to
soter, more feminine inish. Round faces
your cheeks, or applying
notice your lawlessly
can pull of a shorter brow length and
eyeshadow, using the right
tools make all the diference.
migrated around your
dimension and add length to the face.
Try So Eco’s Eye Brush Duo adding a clearly deined arch will give blended colour has
lids by midday? Gently
Set (£7.50, soinvogue.com) – Mádara Natural Brow Pomade, £20, patted around the
the perfect, small and compact madaracosmetics.co.uk eyes, primer absorbs
set for any make-up bag. The oils, sotens ine
irst duo is a lat eyeshadow LIGHTEN UP lines, and counteracts
brush with lufy light bristles 9 With age, both collagen and oil uneven tones. Simply
and a compact head, making production slows down, so you sweep as little as a
it great for applying washes have to be strategic on where you place grain of rice across
of pigment across the lid as particular products, such as highlighter. both eyes. Then,
well as adding deinition to Powders are less forgiving as they can seep using your
the corners and the brow into the lines and creases. Instead, gravitate ingers or a small
bone. On the other end, the towards liquid formulas – they add radiance brush, apply a
angled eyeliner brush ensures without amplifying the appearance of wrinkles. thin layer from
your liner is applied with ease Placing a dot of highlighter in the inner corner the lash line up
while deining the eyes. The of both eyes, will make the area look to your brows, working
second set is both a rounded much brighter. Then gently press it into the creases, allowing
and blending brush, allowing the pigment onto the brow bone it to dry before continuing
you to efortlessly smoke with your inger. This will enhance with eyeshadow, eyeliner, and
out eyeshadow while your natural features without looking too ‘made mascara. Ilia Beauty Natural
buing, difusing and up’. Inika Certiied Organic Light Relect Brightening Eye Primer, £22,
sotening harsh lines. ” Cream, £20.50, inikaorganic.com spacenk.com

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