As the standing lash shame is that the incontrovertible fact that I had never mastered the art of applying false lashes before. I've done lash extensions and lash lifts, but as for false lash strips, my skill involves a full halt. I can carve a cat-eye like Picasso and contour like Bob Ross, but dropping tiny wigs on top of my lash line (which is quite what they're, no?) is like building tiny dollhouse furniture (another thing I even have absolutely no talent for). It always sounds and appears easy in theory, but all my attempts so far had been decidedly rookie.
As a beauty editor, I just can't accept janky-looking falsies — I simply won't. I really like the design of long, feathery lashes, but extensions are tedious, and expensive and lash lifts also are expensive, albeit less tedious. I just want to measure a luxury lash lifestyle on a never-not-flying-coach-with-a-carry-on budget. Is that so hard to ask?
1. First, trim each of the eyelash strips.
First of all, start with some inexpensive lashes with this one because you'll have an attack after purchasing some silky mink sets — then here I'm, commanding you to sever them. A kiss makes some really great-looking cheap strip lashes. I'm using Lash Couture Triple Push-Up Lashes in Teddy ($7) — an equivalent ones Cardi B wore to the Met Gala this year — because I'm worthwhile.
Measure the strip against your actual eyelid and trim off the surplus (not while it's against your eye, good lord). you'll use the additional bit to later stack upon the lash strip at your eye's outer corners for extra VA VA voom if you would like, otherwise, you can use it once you just need a bit more emphasis on top of your natural outer lashes, sort of a dress's train.
2. Apply your lash glue strategically
Meaning, don't just glob it on and immediately stick it to your eyelid. you've to attend and let that goo dry a touch — but not an excessive amount of. About 30 seconds should roll in the hay, Simkin recommends, enough to go away it feeling tacky but not wet. During that 30 seconds, she showed me a touch trick she does, where she bends the strip to form the ends kiss, better distributing the adhesive onto the ends in order that they don't lift while you're wearing them. So simple, so innovative.
3. Look downwards into a mirror, not straight ahead.
OK, game time. the toughest part on behalf of me is really plopping the strip onto my lash line close enough in order that its right top but not knotted up in my lashes. Simkin told me that if you place a mirror under your face nearly to a perpendicular angle and appearance down, your eyelid will extend, almost like you're closing your eyes, but you will be better ready to see exactly where to put the strip. this tiny tip changed my world. It really is such a lot easier than trying to try to to this staring into a vertical mirror and poking myself into the eyes while my head is tilted back at wildly uncomfortable angles.
applying the false lash strip to eye with tweezers
Don't close your eyes when applying, Simkin stresses because it changes your eye shape. this is often quite difficult to try to initially, but you will get it. I think in you. she will place lash strips together with her fingers but I find that using tweezers helps me. at some point I'll graduate to tool-free application. Until then, I remain a tweezer devotee.
4. Use eyeliner and mascara to camouflage the strip's band.
Now that you've got your lashes on, here's an important step to form your strip lashes look less obviously like you're wearing strip lashes. Take your trusty liquid liner (or gel liner with an angled eyeliner brush, if you prefer) and draw a line extending the band from where it begins to the inner corner of your eye and other coat of mascara. you'll also flick out the top if you would like a winged effect, but this is often mostly just to blend the road of the band to your lash line.
without liner with liner false lash strip
Subtle, right?
5. Go forth and admire how good your lashes look.
Now you're able to enter the planet with newly affixed luxurious eyeball visors. Seriously, having a row of strip lashes on top of my very own desire their own individual sun hats — it's great. Not only that, but I really like the way false lashes amp up a glance from zero to doe-eyed death trap in...however long it takes me to attach these suckers on. I'm getting the hang of it and with enough practice, it won't take long. Simkin says she will plop them on within the mornings in two minutes and that I aspire thereto level.
The lashes I'm using here are a touch dramatic — this Kiss collection has triple-layered lashes that diffuse in several directions for a very voluminous albeit "natural"-looking set.
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