BEAUTIFUL EYEBROWS AND EYELASHES
If your eyes are a beautiful picture, your eyebrows are a frame to add to their beauty.
SHAPE
Very few women have the right shape of the eyebrows. Your face can be twice attractive by giving proper and artistic shape to the eyebrows. By neglecting them beauty of eyes diminishes.
Never make eyebrows and lips more noticeable with more makeup nor let your face look lustreless by neglecting them.
Don’t make your eyebrows more upwards because it will give you a dazed look. Same way if they more downwards, it might show angry expressions and straight eyebrows will show ferocity.
So make them sharp looking and this is the best shape. Make both the eyebrows in the same shape and length. The curve of the eyebrows is most important which only increases their beauty.
The eyebrows and hair on eyelids grow thick and become shiny by using almond oil on them.
Remove hair from the centre of the eyebrows first, then from the lower part. Keep them longer than eyes, they will look natural. Shaping eyebrows once a week is proper but it depends on the growth of the hair.
Don’t pull hair from the upper and outer part, otherwise it will be deshaped. Once they are deshaped you will have to go to the beautician otherwise they will remain deshaped forever.
Thereafter, you may start giving shape to them again. You will look prettier if you attire your eyebrows with your face.
• The U-shaped for the round face.
• Bowshaped for square face.
• A bit straight on long face.
• Long on a thin face.
The shape of eyebrows depends upon its natural line. It can’t be changed, so the shape is to be adjusted accordingly. Brush them everyday with maskara brush. They will be soft and shapely.
EYEBROW PENCIL
It is a capped pencil available in black and brown. You have already given a desired shape to the eyebrows, matching your face. Now comes the turn of the eyebrow pencil to make them dark. Make a sharp tip on the pencil, it will give you desired results. Always use two pencil to give eyebrows a natural shape, one golden brown and light brown or else light brown and dark brown. Use dark one first and then the light one.
Move eyebrow pencil once and apply a little powder, and again move the pencil.
Move the pencil lightly so that the lines made look like soft hair.
EYELASHES
Just above our eyes, the eyelashes too add to the beauty of eyes.
MASCARA
It is a cosmetic available is black, blue and brown cake. It is applied on eye lashes with a wet brush so as to look bigger.
Brushes are available with maskara. They are of two types— one round and the other like a tooth brush. Dip the brush in hot water, it makes applying maskara easy. Move brushes upwards on the upper eyelash and downward on the lower one. Apply once and let it dry, once more now. Eyelashes look thick and dense this way. Whisk them when they get dry. Extra maskara will be removed this way and all hair will look separate and beautiful.
It looks better to put two light coating of maskara instead of a heavy one.
EYELINER
This cosmetic is available in blue, black and brown colours in the forms of cake and liquid, giving eyes a beautiful shape. Don’t make thick lines lest they will look unnatural.
Start moving eyeliner from inner corner, keep moving outwards and end at the corner. Make it a bit thicker in the middle. Applying liquid eyeliner, with an artist brush, will give better shape. Pull the eyelids while applying it, turn the outer corner upwards at the end.
It is generally applied on the eyelashes. You can apply it around eyes, too, if you have small eyes and want to look them big. Eyebrow pencil can also be used instead of eyeliner. Make thin lines on small eyes and thick once on the big eyes. Don’t use eyeliner on the sunken eyes, otherwise they will look more sunken.
ARTIFICIAL EYELASHES
Small, thin and spreaded eyelashes become a problem. You may get readymade eyelashes now-a-days, which can be fixed and you can hide the deficiency. They can be pasted. White paste is available separately. Move eyeliner on the eyelids if the paste appears.
How to use it : Brush your eyelashes with a brush first. Now start sticking them from the inner corner. Apply maskara now, from below upwards, after you have stuck them. Keep the eyes open to give them a natural shape.
Remove them with a finger and thumb by pulling them outwards.
Artificial eyelashes can be curled very easily. Keep them in a paper, fold the paper on a pencil and tie it with a rubber band a day before. You will find them curled, the next day.
You have to remove the artificial eyelashes every evening, otherwise they can be deshaped while you are asleep. Put them on in the make-up for the evening as far as possible. They are easily noticeable during the day.
EYE SHADOW
This not only effects the colour of the eyes but gives them naturality and a nice turn to the expressions. It changes shapes of eyes completly.
Remove blots from the eyelids with moisturizer and face powder and apply eyeshadow. Apply moisturizer on the eyelids, having wrinkles. A light make up of eyeshadow leaves deep impact.
A method of applying this is to draw a line on the upper eyelid, touching the roots of eyelashes and turn it a little upward at the outer corner. You can use lipbrush for this.
Another method of applying shadow is to put it on the upper eyelid and spread it outwards with a brush. Pull the eyelid a bit outward, or make up will not be proper and have less cleanliness.
Earlier, green, blue and brown eye shadows were in vogue but now it is grey and black. White eyeshadow is available in a tube. It is very useful. You can buy it in powder form too. Its application hides black spots below the eyes.
Applying white shadow, between eyebrows and eyelids, can make the eyebrows look raised. Apply eyeshadow upwards and outwards, but never downwards.
Creamy and liquid eyeshadows can be applied with the tips of fingers and a painting brush.
The brush is available with powder shadow. Make-up of the eyeshadow should become light at upper portion so that it looks more attractive.
Young ladies should put a light coating of eye shadow and elder ones a little thick. Dark shades on young women will show maturity on the face.
Grey and brown eyeshadow will suit if you have have small eyelids.
Light green and light brown colours looks nice on eyes of every woman. Never choose light shades of eyeshadow if you put on spectacles. A shadow, matching the frame of your spectacles, will look excellent.
SOOT
It is completely an Indian cosmetic. Fashionable ladies call it old fashion, but soot applied with deft hands, in the make-up for the evening, can work wonders.
Soot is applied on the lower portion of the eyes. Apply it when using eyeliner. Using both of these will make the eyes look big and provocative.
Always prepare soot at home. Buy a good quality product from the market, if you have to. Cover it after use, otherwise dirt and dust entered in it can harm your eyes. Apply soot with the tips of finger lightly.
REMOVING MAKE-UP
• Remove artificial eyelashes first.
• Put eye make-up remover on the flock and move it upon the eyes.
• Close one of your eyes and move a flock upon the eye from outer corner to inside. Do it many times and move a new flock below the eyes.
• Wash the eyes and wipe them with a soft towel.
• Remove make-up daily before going to bed. This way the skin remains smooth.
Soot (kajal) looks good on children and surma on ladies. Use a thick needle of silver or zinc to put surma in the eyes. Wash and dry it, dip it in surma powder and put the needle in the eyes parallel and move it round, so that it is applied thoroughly and lovely. Pull it towards the ears gently, so that a line of surma is made on the corncers of the eyes and they look more sharp.
Burn a little desi ghee or mustard oil in an earthern lamp and cover it with a small bronze bowl, so that all the soot settles in the small bowl, providing the soot with some smoke of camphor too. Add a little desi ghee and collect it and keep it in a small box.
Apply this soot in both the eyes equally. Spreading it to the temples makes it look odd.
ALLERGY
A lot of ladies get allergy from the make-up of eyes, and face. Don’t choose scented cosmetics as far as possible. Buy a good quality product. If the eyes itch and become red, stop using the cosmetics at once and consult an eye specialist. If the doctor suggests not to use particular cosmetics, never mind stopping use of it.