How to Use a White Makeup Pencil

Not just an eye pencil

If you find yourself in a bind after forgetting to repurchase certain makeup essentials, don't panic. The white pencil in your makeup box has a purpose that goes beyond decorative. In fact, it has several uses other than just lining your eyes. When restocking your makeup kit in the future, make sure to purchase the all-purpose white pencil in a creamy formulation. This ensures you won't tug or pull on skin in places other than the eye area in case you need it for an emergency fix.

Instructions

1. Widen up your eyes. Gently run the pencil along the rims of your lower lash lines for an eye-opening effect. The whites of your eyes look larger when you do this, so this is the perfect remedy for someone with small, hooded or droopy eyes.

2. Brighten up your eyes. If you are out of concealer, use the pencil underneath your eyes to camouflage dark circles. Fade away any evident lines of product that get in the creases. Stipple foundation over undereye area so that the color is a mere notch or two lighter than your skin tone.

3. Give eyeshadow a base to stick to by gliding over upper eyelids with the pencil. Softly pat away any imperfections in your application for a smooth surface. This makes eyeshadow color pop when you are out of eyeshadow base or flesh tone eyeshadow you use as base. Use a stippling motion to apply eyeshadow over eyelids for more opaque coverage.

4. Highlight browbones with the pencil. If your pencil happens to have subtle shimmer, all the better for this purpose. This is good to know in case you have the white pencil right in front of you and are in a hurry, but can't find your highlighter in the jumble of makeup. Along the same lines, the white pencil can also be used on the inner corners of eyes for a doe-eyed effect. Remember to blend away any evident edges for a professional finish.

5. Soften lines around the mouth by lightly coloring over them with the pencil. The white deflects light away from smile lines. Just make sure any obvious lines in your application are blended out, as usual. The tip of the ring finger is said to be the best blending tool when you have only a small concentrated area to work on. If necessary, stipple foundation over the area where you used the pencil. This eradicates any chalkiness if you have a medium to dark skin tone.

Tips & Warnings

• When stippling foundation over your white pencil application, do not blend. This will erase the first layer of product you've applied.

Resources

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