I’ve been going through a short phase of wearing very little eye makeup. It’s an age-related thing: once my giant winged liner stopped looking how I wanted it to due to eyelid droop and general crepiness, I swerved liner altogether. I know there are lots of ways of making it work on what we must call The Older Eye, but those ways weren’t for me, I thought. It’s funny how you get fixated on “your” look — once I’d established the flicky liner no longer worked, I banished all liners and just stuck to mascara. I’ve never liked liner all around the eye, top and bottom. It looks wonderful on lots of people but on me it looks incredibly basic, harsh, unless I smudge it to oblivion, and not especially flattering.
But then about a month ago my eyes started annoying me. They looked all lost and small. There isn’t another facial feature that I am particularly keen to emphasize — if you’re going to draw deliberate attention to something, it really might as well be your eyes. I have a vast collection of eye pencils — I mean vast — and I got them all out and started playing with them. The solution to my eye problem presented itself immediately: draw a wing, but start it in the center of the eye, not at the inner corner.
