messy hair and smudged black liner is what I like to call “The supreme Bada$$ Look”, LOL!
If you knew me in real life, you’d know that I smile a lot and, many of the time, have a pretty friendly face.
Like, for instance, I’m one of those people who always get asked for directions in the street. I even got asked for directions in Copenhagen, even though I don’t exactly look like your common Danish girl, right?
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But if you knew me really well, then you’d also know that I’m not always that easy to approach… I mean, if I don’t want to be approached, I know how to make sure no one does it.
Like, at my old job, I was pals (or at least friendly) with many of my colleagues, but there were a couple of fake, toxic people I really couldn’t stand.
Whenever I wanted to be 100% sure they wouldn’t bother me, I’d make my “I’ll-take-no-sh*t” face, and they wouldn’t even dare come near me.
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Basically, I’d never take my eyes off the computer screen, and just look like I was very, very pissed off. I promise it always worked.
A L W A Y S.
In case the “I’ll-take-no-sh*t” face sounds like something you may want to try, let me suggest the ideal makeup to choose it…
Well, it’s the smudged liner look! strictly in black.
Listen to me — if you ever need a little help with your “don’t-you-dare-come-near-me” face, put your black kohl to good use, and you’ll quickly feel much more bada$$, I promise!
You don’t wanna mess with me!
Here’s what I do to make sure I get a perfectly imperfect smudged liner look.
First of all, I get a black kohl pencil, an unscented lip balm (or Vaseline, or even clear gloss), a couple of Q-tips, and a pencil brush.
I use a black pencil from KIKO, but any will do as long as it’s not too stiff
Then, I take a tiny bit of lip balm with my finger, rub my thumb and finger together, and twist the Q-tip in between. The Q-tip doesn’t have to be very greasy, but just a little slippery. It’s a trick I learnt from an old Lisa Eldridge tutorial, and it makes smudging the liner pretty effortless.
I start by lining my lower water- and lashline and smudging the line with the Q-tip (I work on one eye at a time to make sure the pencil doesn’t set before I get to smudge it). Sometimes, I repeat the process if I feel like I need it.
Then, I line the upper waterline and, after tracing a thick line along the lashline, I smudge it with the pencil brush, making sure I drag some of the pencil up towards the crease. On my upper lashline I choose using a pencil brush instead of a Q-tip, but it’s really up to you what you want to use.
Using a pencil brush on the upper lashline gives me much more control over the gradient I want to achieve
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To create even much more of a gradient, I trace a thin line very close to the lashes and soften it with the brush without overblending.
When I do this look on the eyes, I like to leave the rest of my face pretty bare
And there you have it — the perfectly imperfect smudged liner look!
Are you a smudged liner kinda gal? and how do you make sure people leave you alone if for some reason you don’t want to be approached?