Eyes are the window of the Soul

Happy New Year to all my readers!!  A decade in to the 21st Century, and makeup comes full circle with many looks from the 60's on through to the looks that are considered au courant.  When you watch the movie "NINE", you will see the Bardot style eye on Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren's famously made up eyes with crease defined and eyeliner as well as lashes.  The actresses all look so very gorgeous, and makeup was, and is, such fun, and there were so many looks to try---those mentioned as well as Twiggy's eyes with three sets of full lashes layered one on top of another, and drawn lashes below or individual lashes glued on the lower lash line.  Don't forget, experimentation allows you to see yourself in other lights, find your best look(s), create new visions of yourself, and it washes off!!  What easier way to reinvent yourself than to try new colors and looks?  This is a subject I will keep expounding upon in following posts, as well as some explanation of the bridal eye seen on my first bride (two photos) that is very Audrey Hepburn-like...see the image below of a very beautiful lined eye balanced with a gorgeous red lip, although we could have made this look much more 60's with a pale lip a la Brigette Bardot.  Either way, it is one of my favorite looks to do.  You must practice lining your eyes with a sharpenend pencil (Revlon has a great waterproof one in their Colorstay line that comes with a tiny sharpener at the end...Eve Pearl has her Black Pearl liquid liner with felt tip that is waterproof and a fantastic base to layer shadow(s) over to change the color of your eyeline, and it is very well priced and flows beautifully (see http://evepearl.com/ ).   Lastly I also love the black liquid liner pen from Le Metier de Beaute, which is priced a bit higher, but also stays on so well, and you can layer over it as well.  Le Metier is sold at Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Fred Segal's as well as the John Barrett Salon in New York's Bergdorf Goodman store at Fifth Ave. & 57th Street.  So from recessionista priced liners to higher end priced liner, practice makes perfect.  The line should be started by the inner corner of your lash line, graduates thin to fuller and lifts on the outer end with the wing.  You would draw the line in to the inner corner depending upon whether your eyes are wide set or normal distance apart, and the wing should give your eyes a beautiful lift.  Do not forget to buy yourself the cosmetic Q tips with at least one pointy end, which you can dip in some non-oily eyemakeup remover (Klorane is the most gentle, I find) and correct any mistakes.  Your Q tips are an artist's friend!  In the photo below, I also added beautiful individual eyelashes in the inimitable way I like to do them, and they stay on so well, I have clients who wear them for days to a week, sometimes more.  I will post more on the eyes, as clients and other artists always tell me that I am all about the eyes, but that is because they are the window of the soul, take the most time and dictate the rest of the look to me.

I hope this first day of 2010 has been a blissful and peaceful one for you all.