Readers’ Tips On Makeup

• If you have short or light eyelashes you can make them appear longer! Apply brown mascara on your eyelashes and then just at the very tips apply black. This will give the illusion that they are longer.
  …Jolene via email, Jun 2004

• To make your makeup bag last longer put two or three cotton balls in it. The cotton balls will attract all of the loose powder, etc in the bag. The result is a much cleaner makeup bag.
  …Desiree via email, Mar 2004

• To keep your eyebrows neatly combed, use a pump hairspray and spray once or twice onto the palm of your hand. Then, rub your eyebrow brush in the hairspray. Finally, comb your brows. The hairspray will help your brows hold the shape and neatness created by the comb. Be careful not to use too much hairspray or your eyebrows may look shiny and hard. Make sure you wash your brush afterwards.
  …Kristin via email, Jan 2004

• This tip is especially meant for stage makeup. To make your eyes look bigger, do not connect the eyeliner at the outside corner of your eye. Instead, draw the top line a little out and past your eye. This keeps from making your eyes look small especially underneath those bright lights.
  …Amy via email, Nov 2003

• When applying eyeliner I find I can only get the best line when I put the tip of my finger on the edge of my eye and pull to the side. It allows you to draw your a perfect line right next to your eyelid. It is so easy to vary the thickness of the line you draw and it is extremely simple to change colors!
  …Poodle Johnson via email

• To keep your lipstick on your lips and off your teeth, insert index finger in mouth and gently press lips around finger. Pull finger out, the excess lipstick on your finger is lipstick that would have been on your pearly whites. This also keeps lipstick on the outside of lips and not inside your mouth!
  …Danica via email

• If you wish to have an intense look that can still be fun use a black eye liner such as Wet n Wild to line your eyes. Skip outlining about half a centimeter nearest to your eye on the top and bottom lash. (If your lower lashline tends to smear or smudge, right before you line your upper eye, keep your eye almost closed but stay along the upper lash line with your eye liner. That way it will mostly line the top lash while allowing the bottom lash to catch a little of the eye liner. It is less likely to smudge this way.) After this is done take a white or silver colored eyeliner such as Lancome Lombre in City Ice and simply outline the small part that you skipped with the black eyeliner. This way if you smile it looks cool and pleasing and if you are not smiling it looks intense and alluring.
  …Lauren via email

  If you do not cover your whole face with power, 100% of the time your face will turn out blotchy.
  …Jennifer via email

  If you use a slightly darker foundation on your cheek bones they will be more prominent. If you use a darker foundation on you jawline your face will appear thinner but be careful to blend it very well.
  …Catherine E. Perry via email

• Instead of using tissue to blot lipstick, use coffee filters. The result: no fuzz on your lips.
  …Robert Klimowski via email

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