As any of my students could attest, I’m a BIG fan of practice-makes-perfect. This was never more true than in the case of liquid eyeliner, which has caused me more I-didn’t-know-at-the-time embarrassing moments than any other item of make-up: There was the plain old drawn-badly/eyes not matching timeS, the annoying brands that don’t set properly when dry so at some point after leaving the house – and unknown to you – leave a mirror reflection on your upper eyelids, causing you to look like a demented clown when you look down or blink…Or my favourite, the time I was applying the eyeliner and was interrupted by a phone call, after which I shrieked “oh my god look at the time!”, grabbed my bag and left the house, not realising for 3 hours that I had one winged eye and one blank. Yes that’s right – I dare you to maintain dignity in that situation..
My point being that by the time I did this lovely bunch of eye illustrations for L’Oreal Paris, I had the technique damn near sorted… You can find this page in the latest issue of Elle magazine.
