Eye For An Eye
Fat Mu's Natasha Nischol and Virginia Holmes share three do-it-yourself eye looks, from a 60s graphic liner to smokey eyes, with the products used.
Natasha Nischol And Virginia Holmes, Co-Owners And Co-Founders Of Fat Mu, spills the beans on how to achieve three Do-it-yourself trendsetting eye-makeup looks that you can flaunt with aplomb. So arm yourself with these tools and traits and speak to the world with your eyes.
Style Type: 60s Graphic liner
Fashion diktat: Prada Spring Summer 15.
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Tools Kit
Any business card.
Angled brush Mac 263.
Liner brush Mac 210.
Eye lash curler Shu Uemura.
Makeup Musts
Maybelline Gel liner.
Benefit they're real mascara.
Bobbi Brown brow set.
Lancôme bi facil eye makeup remover.
- Take a business card and place it on the edge of your outer eye corner and angle the card slanting upwards. Use the gel liner with a liner brush and draw a line with the help of the card's edge. You could also use Bobbi Brown Ink Liner to create the look.
- Now draw a line starting from the end of the line dragging in a straight line to the centre of the lash line. You create an outline for your liner.
- Next fill in with the gel liner. Be careful not to go outside the lines created.
- If the line is not crisp enough, take an angled brush soak it in eye makeup remover and swipe in a neat line to get a crisp line.
- Curl your lashes with an eye lash curler and coat them with mascara. - Fill your brows and set them with brow gel. You could create the same look in vibrant colours using Make Up For Ever aquamatic waterproof glide on eyeshadow for a fun summer look!
Style Type: Smokey eyes-
Fashion diktat: Tom Ford Spring Summer 15
Tools Kit:
Blending Brush Mac 217.
Pencil Brush Mac 219.
Eyeshadow Brush Mac 239.
Eye lash curler Shu Uemura.
Makeup Musts:
Mac Paint pot in Black ground.
Benefit they're real mascara.
Mac Smolder eye pencil.
Bobbi Brown Brow set.
- Dip a blending brush in the paint pot and quickly apply on the centre of the eyelids in circular motions. Cover the eyelid only up to the crease line. Soften the edge of the shadow with the blending brush to get the softness.
- Use the eye pencil on the upper lash line as well as the lower lash line and smudge it with a pencil brush.
- Curl the lashes with eye lash curler and coat them with mascara.
- Fill the brows with brow pencil and set with brow gel. You could also intensify the look by adding Mac Blue brown pigment on the centre of the eyelid using a flat eye shadow brush. For different shadows you can also try various pigments from Mac and Giorgio Armani eyes to kill.
Style Type: Coloured smokey eyes-
Fashion diktat: Max Mara Spring Summer 15
Tools Kit:
Any business card.
Angled brush Mac 263.
Flat eye shadow brush Mac 242.
Eye lash curler Shu Uemura.
Makeup Musts:
Benefit they're real mascara.
Bobbi Brown Brow set.
Make Up For Ever Aqua cream waterproof cream colour in any vibrant shade.
- Place the business card in a straight horizontal line. Dip the angled brush in the cream shadow and draw a line starting from the outer corner of the eye till parallel to the brow.
- Draw a line from the crease to the outer line. Fill the outline and the eye with the cream shadow with an angled brush. Make sure to not exceed the crease line.
- Curl the lashes with eye lash curler and coat with mascara.
- Groom the eyebrows and set with brow gel. You can also try the cream shadows by Shiseido.
Make-up trends are huge for this season-
Sculpted artistic beauty
Focus on minimal dewy/ bronzed sculpted skin…
Graphic eyelines,
Coloured smoky eyes,
Nude make-up with poppy lips
Fluttery lashes
60s eyelines in fun summery colours
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