Simple winged liner

[erine1881]

Only because you guys asked for it! Please forgive the lack of makeup. I did this at 1:30am. This is my first pictorial, so please be kind! :wink:

1. Line your eye as usual using any pencil, liquid, gel or shadow. Here i used Blacktrack with a 266 brush. 2. Add an angled line of your desired length (this will determine how extreme your wing is). This line is generally at the same angle as if your bottle lashline continued up and out. Don't worry, it doesn't need to be perfect. We will fix this in a later step. 3. Looking down into a mirror (not forward-this is very important!), connect the tip of the angle line with the inner corner of your lashline. This line should be a straight "ski slope" line. Looking down into a mirror helps achieve this straight line. Looking straight ahead makes this difficult, as the shape of your eye changes when you're looking in different directions. 4. Fill in your wing. 5. This step varies slightly depending on how you do the rest of your makeup. If you: Use liquid foundation, use your foundation with a flat-edge brush. Use powder, use fast response (like i did here), mac matte or monistat gel and a flat-edge brush. Do your face last, use a wipe or liquid makeup remover and a qtip. Apply a little product on both sides of the brush so that the tip of the brush is chiseled to a fine point. 6. Line up the edge of the brush with the bottom edge of your wing. Carefully drag the brush along the edge to clean up (see, i told you we'd clean this up later) any mistakes. This also drags some product out to the tip to create the faded look so the liner doesn't just stop at the end, like it does in step 4. 7. Continue until you have the desired look you want. If you want a thicker line, just make the entire line fatter from inner corner to wing tip. 8. Add mascara to top and bottom lashes. Add false lashes if you want. 9. Done!

 

[MsKb]

thanks for this..never really did step 3 looking down so will def do that now. your winged liner is out of this world!!!

 

[erine1881]

Thanks doll! Lemme know how it works for you!

 

[MaitaiFluff]

Awes. Thank you for the step by step. I'd be lucky (and quite content) if my wing comes out 1/4 as good as yours.

 

[miss0annette]

Erine!! This is super awesome! I love your clear directions and tips. I may have to try this for tomorrow night's makeup. Thank you for posting this!

 

[erine1881]

Awes. Thank you for the step by step. I'd be lucky (and quite content) if my wing comes out 1/4 as good as yours.

You're such a sweetheart! It takes a lot of practice, just like putting on lashes! But once you get the hang of it you'll wanna wear wings every day!

 

[erine1881]

Erine!! This is super awesome! I love your clear directions and tips. I may have to try this for tomorrow night's makeup. Thank you for posting this!

So glad my first pictorial wasn't crap! :lol:

 

[miss0annette]

So glad my first pictorial wasn't crap! :lol:

Not at all! :wink:

 

[erine1881]

Not at all! :wink:

:hug:

 

[KrystalAnne]

Thanks, Erine! Do you tug on your eye skin (i know it's not recommended) when doing your liner?

 

[MACina]

Thank you sooooooooooooo much, Erin

Your tutorial is very helpful

 

[IHughes]

Brilliant!! Very very helpful!!

 

[erine1881]

Thanks, Erine! Do you tug on your eye skin (i know it's not recommended) when doing your liner?

Never! It distorts the line. If you were, when you let go, the line is in a different position. I do, however, hold the skin in place where it naturally lays, so that when i do step 3 the brush doesn't pull the skin, creating "bumps in the road". This would cause gaps in the line that you'd have to then go back and fix. Does that make sense?

Thank you sooooooooooooo much, Erin :bouquet: Your tutorial is very helpful :bigthumb:

Brilliant!! Very very helpful!!

Thanks ladies!

 

[BuickMackane]

Thanks, Erine! Do you tug on your eye skin (i know it's not recommended) when doing your liner?


Quote: Originally Posted by erine1881


Never! It distorts the line. If you were, when you let go, the line is in a different position. I do, however, hold the skin in place where it naturally lays, so that when i do step 3 the brush doesn't pull the skin, creating "bumps in the road". This would cause gaps in the line that you'd have to then go back and fix. Does that make sense?

Thanks ladies!

Ah, I think this may be where I'm going wrong. That, or I simply don't have the eye shape for a winged liner

 

[blushAHOLIC]

Thanks will have to try this .i love your liner it's so matte and crisp

 

[erine1881]

Ah, I think this may be where I'm going wrong. That, or I simply don't have the eye shape for a winged liner :headbang:

Everyone can do a wing! Sometimes different eye shapes prevent one from taking the wing more up than out. In that situation, the wing may have to go more out than up. Which is why in step 2 i mentioned that the angled line is generally the certain angle, but this is usually the exception (other than purposefully wanting the different shape). Some of these eye shapes that can cause this can be a hooded lid, prominent brow bone, low brow bone, descending eye (which greatly benefits from a winged liner by the way!), aging skin, small lid, etc. In these cases just work with the liner and tweak it until you can get it to work with your eye shape. :wink:

Thanks will have to try this .i love your liner it's so matte and crisp

Thanks. I've always used Blacktrack with no problems. The key is to make sure that anytime my brush is not in the jar, the jar is flipped upside down so air isn't drying the product out. This keeps it nice and fresh and black!

 

[NaomiH]

Thank you so much for this, Erine!

 

[deadSAVVY]

Yass! Thank you [@]erine1881[/@] you rock like no other!! I guess I wasn't storing my blacktrack properly because it dried out super fast. I will try again though with the 266!

 

[erine1881]

Thank you so much for this, Erine! :bouquet:

:wink:

Yass! Thank you [@]erine1881[/@] you rock like no other!! I guess I wasn't storing my blacktrack properly because it dried out super fast. I will try again though with the 266!

Dip and flip. Dip and flip!

 

[BuickMackane]

Some of these eye shapes that can cause this can be a hooded lid, prominent brow bone, low brow bone, descending eye (which greatly benefits from a winged liner by the way!), aging skin, small lid, etc. In these cases just work with the liner and tweak it until you can get it to work with your eye shape.

Hooded lids here! I hold those suckers wholly responsible for the ghastly zig-zag shaped excuse for a winged liner I end up with 90% of the time I attempt one. I'm going to follow your suggestion and just hold the skin in place instead of stretching it the next time I try a wing. And take the line out instead of up. I actually get pretty decent results when I take the line out with a pencil (UD Perversion FTW!!!) and smudge some shadow over it. Smudged shadow hides a myriad of sins!