Academy 8 - Dollification 8 - Windows of your soul
Hi there!
Ok, I hope you’re ready to get started. Today we’re going to be talking about eye makeup.
Your face is a big patch of skin with a couple of “main” features on it, namely your mouth and your eyes. These are what people will mostly look at when they look at your face and so they are key areas for makeup.
We’ve covered your mouth already, lip liner, stick, gloss and so on (oh my, I’m starting to feel rather faint!) and I imagine almost everyone reading this can imagine vivid lips (usually red!) and it makes you tingle.
It’s trickier to apply makeup around your eyes then on your lips, but it’s just as important.
The reason for the trickiness is that, well simply put no one likes putting things near their eyes. If you wear contact lenses you may well remember the first few times you tried to put them in and would get close and then stop, or maybe your eye blinked and you jerked away?
With makeup, it can be worse because your fingers aren’t just around your eyes but brushes and other implements!
You will get used to it (again, contact lens wearers will know that after a few times, your body becomes used to it and you can pop them in without a thought) but it can take a little time.
For this reason, when you start applying eye makeup, go slowly and carefully and be mindful. Limit distractions as much as you can, you don’t want to ruin your look because your phone rang and startled you.
Eyeshadow
A good general rule is that as a sissy you’ll want something at least a little colourful. Girls will use nude or neutral shades but you want something a little more appealing to help give you a more feminine look.
You should have a fairly flat brush (if not, use your egg shaped sponge or cotton wool) and you brush the tip lightly against the eyeshadow you’re planning to apply. Then you tap it off a couple of times into something like a mug or a bowl that you have handy. This will get rid of the loose powder on the brush and make it more even when you apply it.
Then, take a deep breath and get painting. Close one eye but keep the other open and start to cover the top of your eyelid. Start at the crease (this is the area where your eyelid goes back into your head) and cover the area down to your lashes.
When you’re done, repeat on the other side and that’s it for the basics. You can paint under your eye too. This will help define your eye more and is almost always a much thinner layer.
Once you get the hang of this, you can start to push it more by blending similar colours of eyeshadow and creating a smokey eye effect, but remember to walk before you can run! Take some time and get comfortable with the basics before you start to move on to more advanced looks.
Eyeliner
This comes in either bottle form with a pointy tipped applicator or a more traditional pencil. Eyeliner will give your eyes a much more dramatic and stand out appearance. Black is the usual colour, but if you are going for a lighter colour (maybe a lovely pink!) and want your eyes to appear bigger, then white is a very good choice.
Liner is applied just above the lash line and can also be used on the waterline (this is the part of your eye between your lashes and your eyeball, so going slowly and carefully applies more so than with the eyeshadow. One jerk and you can jab yourself in the eye (which I don’t recommend) or draw a black line over your carefully applied shadow!
To begin with, just thinly line your eyes a little. More dramatic looks will come in time but you want to be really comfortable with the basic application before you try something a little more involved.
Mascara
Mascara can be applied as well as or in place of false eyelashes. It’s very easy, just take the applicator out of the bottle and gently run it up your lashes from the base to the tips. Give it a minute or two to dry and then apply a second coat. Mascara will give your lashes more body and colour and black is almost always the correct colour (students with very light coloured lashes may want to try brown).
False lashes can then be applied if you want, they are usually (loosely) glued on but magnetic versions are available too (and they are very fiddly!).
When everything is done, you can use a finishing or setting spray if you haven’t already and check to see if you need to apply a little powder anywhere to deal with spots of shininess.
Now you have the tools, go and find some videos of eye makeup application. Next time we’re going to delve into how to apply all of this and how you can start to take it further once you have the hang of the basics.
Stay pretty cutie!
