Posts Tagged ‘shadow’

AN EYE FOR GLITTER

photos + sponsored post by amy nadine, graphic design by eunice chun

It’s hard to walk the line with glitter… it’s way too fun to pass up, but we don’t want to end up looking like Vegas showgirls when we’re just going out to dinner! Here’s the perfect balance to dress up your eyes in a chic + effortless fashion. (more…)

MISMATCHED EYES: OUI OU NON?

photo: mateusz stankiewicz

From afar it looks like a fun use of Spring color! Look a bit longer and you’ll notice she’s wearing two different colors on her eyelids. And somehow she pulls it off! Very interesting… We’re on the fence about this daring look. If you keep it in the same family, like a teal and an aquamarine, it’s doable, but what’s the message? That you love breaking the rules and march to the beat of your own drum? I can respect and admire that. Anything is better than vanilla or cookie cutter I guess… but would my clients think I’ve lost my mind if I suggested it for the red carpet?! Most of them! What do you all think?

WIDEN UP! CLOSE-SET EYE FOCUS

photos: hasse nielsen, philippe salomon/design: eunice chun

Today we’re focusing on our lovely readers that are blessed with eyes that are close together {revisit our IDENTIF{EYE} story if you haven’t classified which of the eight eye shapes you have!}. Technically close-set eyes have less than the width of an eye between them and are quite beautiful in their own right. But if every now and then you want to make them appear further apart, try The Corner Stretch! It’s actually a very effective illusion created by a really simple technique: concentrate your darker shades on the outer corners, from the center of your lid out past your lash line, all the way to the ends of your brows. Here’s how:

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SHOP TIL YOU DROP 2011

photo by kristin ess, post designed by kristin ess

We’re getting pretty flooded with emails about your upcoming holiday wish lists. We thought we’d help out by making a long list with some of our personal favorites. We’ve also saved you the time of hunting by including the links. Hopefully this will come in very handy for this week of heavy shopping! Or perhaps you should just accidentally leave this list lying around for a particular someone to stumble upon… xo

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