How to Use an Eye Pencil

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kelli. I'm an aesthetician and makeup artist at Ulta Salon and Cosmetics and I'm going to show you how to use an eye pencil. First thing you want to do when you're using your eye pencil, is you want to use the side of the pencil, versus the point of the pencil. You can see how you get a much easier softer line, it's not as harsh as when you use a point. Plus, you'll be able to blend it better. So if you'll close for me. What we're actually going to do is we're going to start in the center, using the side of the pencil, we're going to do light strokes and pull it out to the end of thee eye, and then work our way back in. We want to keep the line really thin, and open for me, really close to the lash line. Basically the whole purpose of eye liner is to make the lashes look thinner and fuller. So we just want to do a really thin look, unless we're doing a more dramatic look, but for daytime, we want to just keep the line really thin. Now if you want to do underneath, just look up for me, you're just going to take your pencil, go right under the lashes, as close to the lash line as you can get, and just do a little wiggling motion just to deposit color, and that's going to give you some really nice definition around the eye, and it's not going to look like you have a really thick line. You don't want to do liner too thick on the bottom. It's going to drag the eye down and give it more a tired appearance, so just by doing a really thin line all the way around can really define the eye. So that's how you would want to use an eye pencil."