How To Do Grown-Up Eye Makeup, Even If You’re Not A Grown Up Yet

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How To Fake Perfect (Grown Up) Eye Makeup

by Daisy Buchanan |
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Wipe your finger under your eye. Is there eyeliner on it? Yes, we thought so. We know your pain. We too have tried to emulate our smokey eye icons only to end up resembling a picture of Marilyn Manson that has just been put in the microwave. We could spend the rest of our lives practising and we’re still not sure we’d master the perfect flick - and we don’t want to spend the rest of our lives practising.

Enter Clinique. Their new Pretty Easy Liquid Eyelining Pen will make you a master of the winged flick on your first attempt. The Chubby Lash Fattening Mascara will make your peepers feel as full as you do after a double helping of avocado toast - you can ditch the falsies forever and you never need worry about gluing your eyelashes together again. The Skinny Sticks will define your eyes and instantly ramp up the smoulder factor. Great eyes need great eyebrows like Taylor needs her girl posse, so you can finish the look with the fabulous Just Browsing Brush-On Styling Mousse, bringing old school arched Hollywood glamour to your eyebrows.

Now you can accentuate your eyes any way you like! Go all out at the weekend, go grown up for a job interview, or go subtly sexy when you’re buying chips and you fancy the person who operates the deep fat fryer.

Clinique’s ‘The Natural’ look is great for grown up dinners and any occasion where you’re serious about making an impression.

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  • Step 1: Glide Chubby Stick™ Shadow Tint For Eyes in Bountiful Beige over your eyelids.

  • Step 2: Apply New Clinique Skinny Stick™ in Slimming Black along your top lashes.

  • Step 3: Add Clinique Skinny Stick™ Demi-Grape above the black line to soften the look with a little colour

  • Step 4: Brush on a lash-enhancing coat of New Chubby Lash™ Fattening Mascara in Jumbo Jet.

  • Step 5: For soft, full brows, apply Superfine Liner For Brows in light, short strokes, starting gently and building up as required.

Want to go full-on grown up? Simply add the following three steps onto your existing look to create 'The Sophisticate.'

  • Step 6: Apply Chubby Stick™ Shadow Tint For Eyes in Whopping Willow to the crease.

  • Step 7: For further definition New Clinique Skinny Stick™ in Slimming Black along the bottom lashline.

  • Step 8: Finish the look with glowing cheeks and natural lips: Chubby Stick™ Cheek Colour Balm in Amp’d up Apple and Chubby Stick™ Moisturizing Lip Colour Balm in Heaping Hazelnut.

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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.

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