The Gunk 'O Doom

[silverthorne]

So...last night when I went to sleep, my eyes apparently decided it was time to eject all the residual crap from the make-up I was using last week. Or something. Either way, I woke up with my eyes half swollen shut and gunk on my lashes.

Ten minutes and a warm washcloth later, I had gotten enough gunk out to...know I had gunk. The good news is that my eyes stayed clear and not red and gunky and stuff after I was done (so not conjunctavitis). And they definitely don't feel anywhere near as bad now.

Added plus--my right eye is almost completely back to normal. There's still a little blur on the really far away things, but overall, it seems to be fine now. I'm not even getting momentary blurs.

So, definitely avoiding the powdered stuff from now on. Which is a shame, because what I do have is all mostly unused (and pretty). :/

VS? On those creme shadows--how do you usually apply them? With your finger or something else? Inquiring minds would like to know.

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[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

You can still use the powders if you close your eyes very firmly while applying, use a decent blending brush from which you have tapped all the excess powder (or one of those spongy applicator thingies) and use them toward the outer corner of your eye and relatively high on the lid. I sometimes pat some powder shadow down over the creme.

The only real drawback to creme shadows is that they crease, but if you go have a look at your eyes during the day and re-blend with a fingertip that's fixable. I just use a fingertip to smooth them on, generally my right pinky or ring finger, which you can then also use to blend the colours together. Almost all creme shadows are frost rather than matte, so be aware of that when doing dark-into-light blends: frost shadows tend to go all disco-era if you try to do too many colours on one lid.

My basic eye design goes as follows: slather concealer on violet undereye circles I got from my dad's genes; determine if I can get away with pale shadow or if my eyes are too puffy from just waking up and need a dark colour to make them recede; apply charcoal-grey, mid-grey, brown, or khaki/olive cream shadow to the lid with the heaviest/darkest at the outside corner; blend with fingertip up over lid so the colour fades to nothing roughly at the crease; mascara the hell out of lashes, put glasses back on and observe. If I'm wearing contacts the procedure is similar, only I have to be about twice as careful not to get anything in the eyes. Sometimes I use a smudged line of charcoal pencil just along the lash lines, thicker on the top lid, beginning about an eighth of an inch out from the tearduct corner.

I'm still looking for a good mascara. Bah. I may just have to suck it up and go back to Lash Architect.