Makeup tutorial: Three expert ways to apply eyeliner

Beauty Blogger Emma CB demonstrates how to get the most our of your eyeliner, with three distinctive looks.


by Ellie Hooper |
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First look: Subtle, everyday eyeliner

Holding the eyelid taught, follow the lash line with a liquid eyeliner, creating a slight flick upwards at the end.

Emma tries the everyday look

Second look: Dramatic eyeliner

Use a pencil eyeliner to roughly line the upper and lower lash line. Smudge this slightly with a Q tip, and then use liquid liner to outline the top outer edge of the eye.

Use a Q Tip to smudge the eyeliner before applying liquid

Third look: Sixties siren

After lining the top lashes in the normal manner. Draw dashes on your bottom lash line, for that sixties mod look.

Dot on the lower lashline before elongating them into dashes
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