Friday, September 4, 2009

Another Cut the Crease for Work

This is actually my Eye of the Day from Thursday the 3rd.

Another attempt at "cutting the crease." This time I tried to do something a bit more defined yet still wearable to work. Last time I did this I think it was more subtle and definitely less defined which is why I called it quick and dirty. I've seen a ton of amazing videos on how to do this and frankly some intimidate me. Not because they look hard so much as I'm afraid I'll be disappointed in how it looks on me which is partially why I'm starting out slowly in this process, that and 98% of my looks are worn to work so while I'm all about dramatic I still need to remember that I work in a fairly conservative environment.


I started out with UDPP as always then added Mac Soft Ochre Paint Pot to my lid and just slightly above.
I then used my Stila Grey Look quad. Of course I don't remember the names of any of the colors but I used the "bone/cream" color on top of the Soft Ochre to create a clean matte look. Mac Vanilla or Bobbie Brown's Bone would work just as well.
Then I grabbed my 214 and the black color from the Stila quad and lightly drew a line above my natural crease and then lightly kept tracing over and over so that it was defined yet not too harsh.
Then I grabbed more black on my 36 (similar to the 226) and lightly blended out and up towards the brow bone.
After that I decided that the contrast was too much so I grabbed my 239 and Global Goddess Aishwarya from my BeautyFix 2 kit and lightly blended that just under the black line but making sure not to get it on the lid.
I added Dazzlelight as a highlight
Blinc black liquid liner
Brun to fill in my brows
Then used my 214 again and added some of the black to my outer lower lash line and brought it out to meet the wing of the upper lash line.
Mascara, face and done!


Open which is where my eye just eats up any detail, damn "hooded eyes."

Nothing too crazy but still a fun look for work. Let me know if you have any questions.

3 comments:

  1. I think I may give this a try for work. :)

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  2. I like this look of cutting the crease. What does that really mean? I like the eye liner. I always wear that and wing it out. Is there a video that you do so I can see exactly what it is? Love the look.

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  3. @Lucy
    I trued to find some background on this but was unsuccessful. Basically my understanding is that you create a new crease which in turn makes your lid look bigger and gives you a more defined crease look. O believe this was very popular in the 60s and I've even seen old 50's pinup images with it done but it was more subtle. I'm sure they had a different name back then. I'm still going to do some research though and hopefully be able to share that on here. I didn't make a video with this look since I was just playing around but I can make one.

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