00:00The other thing that women do when they line their eyes is they open their mouth.
00:07Alright James, so there's one makeup look that I love, but it is terrifying to me, is liquid eyeliner.
00:13I don't know how to do it, I mess up, I want to look like sexy and kind of retro,
00:17and I just look like Alice Cooper and it's not cute.
00:20I love Alice Cooper, but liquid eyeliner is one of those really daunting things that overwhelms a lot of women
00:25who are not alone.
00:26I want to show you how you can take it and own it and make it really easy.
00:30The thing you want to remember with eyeliner is placement is super important.
00:34A darker color is going to recess something or make something smaller or deeper.
00:37If you have very close set eyes, you want to bring the darker color to the outer corners.
00:41If you have very wide set eyes, you want to bring the darkest part and the boldest part to the
00:45inner corner.
00:46That's going to give you balance.
00:48My first trick that I love to do is I will take a very soft taupe eyeshadow or neutral eyeshadow
00:55on a small angle brush or a liner brush and just draw in my line.
01:02The nice thing about taupe eyeshadow is it always looks like a natural shadow, so no one's ever going to
01:07read it.
01:07You can make any mistake getting your shape with the taupe.
01:11If I had a different skin tone for someone who has medium or dark skin, would it still be taupe?
01:16Taupe. From the lightest to the darkest skin, taupe is going to look like a natural shadow.
01:20Okay.
01:20Next I'm going to go in with my favorite black liner.
01:24And you could use a cream liner or a gel liner with a brush or something like a pen liner.
01:30I love a thicker, bolder pen because it's one swipe across the lash line.
01:34And then I just take it right along the lash line, tracing right over my eyeshadow line.
01:42And if you're worried that you don't have a perfect line, you can just go back in with your liner
01:47brush and just smooth it right out.
01:51Now I'm going to try to do this myself.
01:53This is where my anxiety comes in because I feel like I start out, I do little lines, and then
01:59it just all falls apart.
02:01It's much easier to go in and just draw it across than it is to do those small strokes.
02:06Because doing those small, skippy strokes can really make the liner kind of catch.
02:11Alright, so now it's my turn.
02:13Right to the mirror.
02:14Okay.
02:15I'm going to do my best.
02:16I know you will.
02:17I don't know why I'm so nervous, but I'm going to do this.
02:21Oh, see now I'm messing up.
02:23Nope, just keep going.
02:24We're going to go back in with the brush and fix it up.
02:26So all I'm going to do is just help you a little bit and build up the inner corner of
02:31the eyes so they're more even.
02:34Oh, that looks a lot better.
02:37You need to just let go of the fear and really practice makes perfect when it comes to eyeliner.
02:41It's a very easy look, but a lot of women get so overwhelmed by it they're afraid to experiment.
02:46James, I'm going to be honest.
02:48I'm still a little scared, but you have shown me a lot of easy tips that I know if I
02:54practice, I'm going to get this and I am going to conquer my fear of liquid liner.
02:58I know you will.
02:59And really it's just understanding those little tricks that make it easy every time.
03:04All right.
03:04It can be done.
03:05So thank you.
03:06Thanks for watching Refinery29.
