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>I have this same problem all the time! I’ll see a great make-up job in a magazine and I usually head over to my local MAC counter and leave with wonderfully glamourous eyes and ALL the products needed to replicate my new look…but alas, I can rarely ever duplicate it. Only after spending hours, sometimes days practicing can I get it right.
>Of course, it helps that you don’t look mopey in your ice cream-eating shot.But WOW, you look HOT with that smokey eye look! I’d post my name, but being a married man, it’s hard to not be looked down on by other women, even when you just want to compliment someone other than your wife (whom I am deeply attracted to), without sounding like you’re hitting on them.
>Haha. It took me a long long long time to ‘perfect’ my smokey eye look. One tip, put a TON of loose powder right underneath your eye…anything that falls off your brush, will fall onto the powder, and that just brushes right off. I also use baby wipes like insane. And I always do my eye makeup before any face makeup, cause I end up wiping so much off with the baby wipes. Haha.
>I can never:1. Replicate anything done at a makeup counter; or2. Replicate anything done at the beauty salon.I am one big mess!You, however, look fab!
>She did a fantastic job. I usually hate what people do to my eyes when I have gotten my makeup done, and then wonder why I can’t have that fab smokey eye myself. I think I’m just afraid to use that much/ dramatic makeup. I also do a version of it myself every day. I recently complimented a girl on her eye makeup and said I couldn’t do it that dramatic because of the shape of my eyes. She said, on the contrary, I could get away with more than she could, for examply, using black all over the lid! Oh my! Like you, I reserve black shadow as a liner! I’m afraid to try that – I think my friends would all laugh at me.
>That’s so sweet of you to let your little girl (and maybe your boy?) help you put on your makeup. That’s the story behind this picture, right? Wait, let me read the link…Oh. Well, it’s not like you need makeup anyway. And it’s not like this pic is likely to show up on that site featuring celebrity mug shots….wait…
>You know, if you use a really good no smudge eyeliner instead of eyeshadow on your lower eye, it works better. A good one to try is Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Pencil in Zero. This eyeliner, without a doubt, does NOT BUDGE until you use eye makeup remover at night. To help keep in place even more, you could try Urban Decay’s Eyeshadow Primer Potion. Both are available at Sephora stores, or at Sephora.com, and are about 16 dollars each, but last a long time.
>good ideas, succubusangel. I just put Trish McEvoy’s Bare Eye Essentials on my Xmas wish list (I think that’s what it’s called). I got a sample of it with an order and it’s AMAZING. Now I can’t live without it.
>I clicked on the tutorial link, and that is WAY too much work!But your picture looked great, it’s hard to believe that when it is done correctly, it can look good!
>hahahhahahahI can SO relate because I can’t put on any eye makeup without looking like a raccoon. Mostly, I try to find a decent mascara that doesn’t smudge and that’s about all I can handle. I’ve learned (after years of practice) to take care of my hair pretty well for that salon look, but the makeup skills still elude me.
>SuefromNC, my husband actually told me I look really bad in my ice-cream-eating smoky eyes photo, so without a doubt, anonymous is not him! Hmph to Hubs.
>I have that great smokey eye look almost every morning. It’s called failure to to use eye makeup remover the night before. It’s just so glamorous.
>I have this same problem all the time! I’ll see a great make-up job in a magazine and I usually head over to my local MAC counter and leave with wonderfully glamourous eyes and ALL the products needed to replicate my new look…but alas, I can rarely ever duplicate it. Only after spending hours, sometimes days practicing can I get it right.
>Of course, it helps that you don’t look mopey in your ice cream-eating shot.But WOW, you look HOT with that smokey eye look! I’d post my name, but being a married man, it’s hard to not be looked down on by other women, even when you just want to compliment someone other than your wife (whom I am deeply attracted to), without sounding like you’re hitting on them.
>Hilarious…it’s like getting your hair done in the salon and getting home and you have no idea how to make it look like they did.Love it!
>Haha. It took me a long long long time to ‘perfect’ my smokey eye look. One tip, put a TON of loose powder right underneath your eye…anything that falls off your brush, will fall onto the powder, and that just brushes right off. I also use baby wipes like insane. And I always do my eye makeup before any face makeup, cause I end up wiping so much off with the baby wipes. Haha.
>You looked beautiful with the smokey eyes!!
>GEEBUS! You scared the ell out of me…heheeIs anon your hubs? heheheheYou did look very nice 🙂
>You look HOT with smokey eyes…I just look like a coked-out whore. *sigh*
>I can never:1. Replicate anything done at a makeup counter; or2. Replicate anything done at the beauty salon.I am one big mess!You, however, look fab!
>She did a fantastic job. I usually hate what people do to my eyes when I have gotten my makeup done, and then wonder why I can’t have that fab smokey eye myself. I think I’m just afraid to use that much/ dramatic makeup. I also do a version of it myself every day. I recently complimented a girl on her eye makeup and said I couldn’t do it that dramatic because of the shape of my eyes. She said, on the contrary, I could get away with more than she could, for examply, using black all over the lid! Oh my! Like you, I reserve black shadow as a liner! I’m afraid to try that – I think my friends would all laugh at me.
>That’s so sweet of you to let your little girl (and maybe your boy?) help you put on your makeup. That’s the story behind this picture, right? Wait, let me read the link…Oh. Well, it’s not like you need makeup anyway. And it’s not like this pic is likely to show up on that site featuring celebrity mug shots….wait…
>You know, if you use a really good no smudge eyeliner instead of eyeshadow on your lower eye, it works better. A good one to try is Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Pencil in Zero. This eyeliner, without a doubt, does NOT BUDGE until you use eye makeup remover at night. To help keep in place even more, you could try Urban Decay’s Eyeshadow Primer Potion. Both are available at Sephora stores, or at Sephora.com, and are about 16 dollars each, but last a long time.
>good ideas, succubusangel. I just put Trish McEvoy’s Bare Eye Essentials on my Xmas wish list (I think that’s what it’s called). I got a sample of it with an order and it’s AMAZING. Now I can’t live without it.
>Yawp…I tend to agree with the other male observations hyar: you are HOT with the smoky eye look.
>That’s how I look WITHOUT eye makeup, thanks to my dark circles which are hereditary!
>I clicked on the tutorial link, and that is WAY too much work!But your picture looked great, it’s hard to believe that when it is done correctly, it can look good!
>hahahhahahahI can SO relate because I can’t put on any eye makeup without looking like a raccoon. Mostly, I try to find a decent mascara that doesn’t smudge and that’s about all I can handle. I’ve learned (after years of practice) to take care of my hair pretty well for that salon look, but the makeup skills still elude me.
>SuefromNC, my husband actually told me I look really bad in my ice-cream-eating smoky eyes photo, so without a doubt, anonymous is not him! Hmph to Hubs.