I did my eye makeup with just an eyeliner.
Your fun fact for the day about eggplant: While typically thought of as a vegetable in cooking circles, eggplant (also known as aubergine), is technically a fruit — specifically, a berry.
And now you’re ready to conquer the botany stage on your next trivia night! (Lucky you.)
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I’ve got aubergine on my mind because one thing that Santa so kindly brought me for Christmas is the aubergine-colored Athleta workout top I’m wearing in these pics, so I did this combo the other day with aubergine eyes and berry lips.
When you want to do easy eye makeup, pencil liner is your BFF.
For the eye makeup, I used one of my favorite quickie techniques. I grabbed a long-wearing pencil eyeliner (ESUM Aubergine), applied a layer on my lids, and then buffed out the edges to imitate the effect of eyeshadow. I did this a few times to build up the color in the areas where I wanted much more depth — the lash line and outer third — so that my hooded eyes would look much more deeply set. Then, I lined my upper and lower waterlines and smudged the liner along my lower lash line to balance out the heaviness on the lids.
Finish with a couple coats of mascara on your lashes, and you’re done!
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What you’ll need to look for in your liner
Ideally, you’ll want a liner that’s soft enough to blend with a brush, but you don’t want one that’s too smudgy, because then it’ll just relocation around on your bare lids and disappear. On the opposite end of the spectrum, you don’t want one that dries too quickly, because then you won’t have enough playtime to blend.
On top of all that, it also has to stick to your waterlines (and feel comfortable on there, too).
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For this technique, I really the MAC Eye Kohls in Powersurge and Teddy (Costa Riche is a good one, too, but I’ve discovered that it tends to relocation a lot unless I set it with a powder). The Laura Mercier Kohls are excellent, too. try the stormy Grey shade!
Key products worn in this look: ESUM Aubergine liner, Clinique Plum Pop blush and NARS Vivien lipstick
Your friendly neighborhood charm addict,
Karen