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Quick Makeup Tip: Let Your Liner Do All the Heavy Lifting

June 2nd, 2022 by Karen 5 Comments

urban decay light liner
Clockwise from the white on the upper left: Urban Decay Yeyo, Urban Decay Scorch, Urban Decay Goldmine, Urban Decay Heartless, Esum Rose and Urban Decay Cuff

When you’re pressed for time, use your eyeliner as your shadow! Pencil liner usually works best; I like pencils with a little bit of slip, but not too much, like the MAC liners — Powersurge and Teddy are two of my favorites.

I’m wearing Powersurge all over my lids in the pic below…

mac powersurge swatch

Oh, and try not to overthink it! Just sketch a rough shape on your lids with your pencil, then smudge and blend with either a finger or a fluffy domed shadow brush.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Quick Makeup Tip: Let Your Liner Do All the Heavy Lifting / Originally published June 2nd, 2022

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  1. Carina says

    June 2nd, 2022 at 2:25 pm

    Hi Karen,
    I do something similar, but vice versa.
    I use a cream eyeshadow stick as liner all the time.
    Take care,
    Carina

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    • Jan says

      June 2nd, 2022 at 2:45 pm

      Hi Carina, I do the same thing usually with Mally’s eye shadow sticks. They make great liners.
      Jan

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  2. Allison says

    June 2nd, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    I agree. Eye pencils and also Melt Gel Liners are great shadows. Love your partner in crime! She’s looking so grown up

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  3. CJ says

    June 2nd, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    What lip color(s) are you wearing in this picture? It looks BEAUtiful on you!

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  4. Anne says

    June 3rd, 2022 at 4:18 am

    Oh, I never tried that – I think most of my liners don’t smudge well enough though. I don’t have many pencils.

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