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Summary: Apply eyeliner as close to the lashes as possible, but do not extend beyond the last lash. Learn to apply eyeliner makeup for television in this free cosmetics video with Miss Michigan USA 2008.
Elisabeth Crawford has been in over nine pageants and has been to many top makeup artists and hairstylists. She has flown many miles and spent thousands of dollars to learn from the...read more
"What I'm going to go ahead and do next is the eyeliner. The type of eyeliner that I prefer is the one that comes in a little jar like this, and it's a little bit wet, and it's more of that tarry one that you want. And, you put it on with a brush that's special for eye lining. It's a very, very small end, very tight, and it's almost like the concealer/foundation brush but in a much smaller form the way the bristles are made. You want to make sure you that you get a good amount on the tip. Sometimes I like to use the back of my hand as a palette to get in on there nice and smoothly, because you do not want it clumpy neither. And, when you put it on, you want to put it as close to the hairline, the eyelash line, as you can possibly get it. And you want to try to get it in a very thin line, you don't want it too thick. You want to make it very natural looking. So you want to work your way from whatever area you prefer. I like to start in the center and work my way out. And then, where I end with it, is I end right where that last eyelash ends at the end of my eye. I do not like to go out, because when you pull your eyeliner out it only extends the eye and it closes it. When you want to make your eyes big and more noticeable, on TV, very important to do. This is one of the most important procedures to pop those eyes open. I'm getting it really good at the end and working in a way I'm getting it near that eyelash line all the way down to the corner of your eye, as thin as possible. And do the same exact to the opposite eye."