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Magnetic eyeliner
Jan. 27th, 2024 06:06 pmMy eyebrows are ghosts of their former selves, and I'm debating whether or not to tweeze some of the hairs that are outside even the generous lines of where I want my eyebrows to be.
My eyelashes look like I was interrupted in the act of putting on fake ones, with a few clumps here and there.
So yesterday when we went out for errands, I put on the dollar store magnetic eyelashes that I'd bought for just such an occasion.
You put on at least two layers of the magnetic eyeliner. Then, while it's still sticky, you put on the eyelashes. The result being that the eyelashes are both slightly stuck with the tackiness and continue to be stuck with the magnets.
I am not great at putting on eyeliner unless the applicator is made to help compensate for my shortcomings. This applicator is very much not. So I had to take some alcohol wipes to the situation to erase where I'd blinked and gotten quite a lot of eyeliner well above where it should have been, and the place where I'd sort of made a vertical line with no good reason to have it there.
But the eyelashes held all through errands, though I did feel the little rectangular magnet on one of my eyes because I'd placed it imperfectly. Belovedest said that if you didn't know what you were looking for, you probably couldn't tell. Also the dramatic eyeliner rather distracts from the eyelashes. If we were going somewhere that we wouldn't be wearing masks, I'd have worn lipstick. Normally my eyebrows are loud enough to shout down nearly everything else on my face, but I'm considering whether it's time to break out the temporary eyebrow tattoos to compensate.
My eyelashes look like I was interrupted in the act of putting on fake ones, with a few clumps here and there.
So yesterday when we went out for errands, I put on the dollar store magnetic eyelashes that I'd bought for just such an occasion.
You put on at least two layers of the magnetic eyeliner. Then, while it's still sticky, you put on the eyelashes. The result being that the eyelashes are both slightly stuck with the tackiness and continue to be stuck with the magnets.
I am not great at putting on eyeliner unless the applicator is made to help compensate for my shortcomings. This applicator is very much not. So I had to take some alcohol wipes to the situation to erase where I'd blinked and gotten quite a lot of eyeliner well above where it should have been, and the place where I'd sort of made a vertical line with no good reason to have it there.
But the eyelashes held all through errands, though I did feel the little rectangular magnet on one of my eyes because I'd placed it imperfectly. Belovedest said that if you didn't know what you were looking for, you probably couldn't tell. Also the dramatic eyeliner rather distracts from the eyelashes. If we were going somewhere that we wouldn't be wearing masks, I'd have worn lipstick. Normally my eyebrows are loud enough to shout down nearly everything else on my face, but I'm considering whether it's time to break out the temporary eyebrow tattoos to compensate.
