The 1 Minute Winged Liner

Hi Makeup Geeks!

I know there’s many days when you’re rushing out the door for work, but still want to look polished and have at least a little makeup on. Winged liner has been trendy for a few years now, so I wanted to give you a trick for doing it in 1 minute.  That’s right, just one minute! Nobody wants to skip their trip to Starbucks to do a 10 minute makeup look when you can do it quicker AND have your coffee 😉

Products Needed:

  • Black or Brown Gel Liner – Makeup Geek Gel Liner in “Immortal” or “Mobster”   (Makeup Geek Store)
  • Bent Eyeliner Brush    (Makeup Geek Store)
  • Scotch Tape

Simply place the scotch tape along the outer part of your eye- use your lower lash line as a guideline.  Take your bent liner brush or any super small makeup brush and apply the eyeliner along the tape, connecting it to your upper lash line.  You want to fill it in to form a triangle shape- this is what gives the illusion of winged liner.

If you have an extra minute, you can turn your winged liner into a softly smudged cat eye that works great for daytime.  All you need are 2 more products:

  • Dark Brown Eyeshadow – Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in “Bada Bing”    (Makeup Geek Store)
  • Pencil Smudge or Eye Smudging Brush    (Makeup Geek Store)

Take a pencil brush and smudge a dark brown eyeshadow (or any color for that matter) on top of your gel liner.  Start to smudge it upwards to smoke out the liner, staying close to your lash line as well as the tape you placed on earlier.  All you’re doing is turning the winged liner into a smudged out cat eye shape by “smoking out” the eyeshadow.

I hope this helps you all in your makeup looks when you’re in a hurry! Makeup doesn’t have to take a long time- it’s all about the technique and tools.

Thanks to Joanna (maxineczka) for providing the example picture for this look!  Check her out on Makeup Geek, Instagram, or Youtube

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Whopping Shopping Offer at Space NK

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Space NK are killing it this year with their goody bags and shopping offers; the latest one has a pricey minimum spend threshold at £200 but is well worth it in terms of what you get in return. For a start, eligible customers receive a £50 gift voucher to spend instore and online (so you could look at it as a 25% discount, in a perverse way) and then there’s a bag filled with Space NK’s bestsellers and favourites, nearly all of them full size. I’ll run through the contents below, but know that if you want to shop instore at the #wishuponastar event then you’ll need to book a ticket which is £15 redeemable against purchases; if you want to shop online it’s free (obviously!) but there are a limited number of bags.

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Inside the Wish Upon a Star gift, as well as the hot pink £50 gift card, there’s a full size Erborian BB Creme (£35), Space NK Daily Fix foot cream (£15), Sei Seaweed Bath Soak (£32), Rodial Lip Balm (£12), Living Proof Style Extender (£18), Lipstick Queen Liquid Lips (£22), REN Emollient Rescue Cream (£19), Kevyn Aucoin eye pencil (£21), and a little box of bestselling Aromatherapy Associates bath oils worth £26. There’s also a little Cowshed hand cream worth £8, a mini 30ml pot of Eve Lom cleanser worth around £15-£20 (depending on which larger size you base the price-per-ml on!) and a small, but not miniature-sized, Diptyque candle worth £20. I make the total worth of the products in this goody bag to be around £240, and then there’s the £50 gift card, of course, taking the overall value up to nearly £300.

A very tempting offer if you’re thinking of getting your Christmas shopping done – something for them and then LOTS of stuff for you! If you are shopping online then the bag will automatically be added when you get to the checkout. If no bag is added, it probably means that there aren’t any left. Early bird catches the worm, and all that… You can shop online or find your nearest Space NK store here. (Offer is for today (19th November) only and  I’m sorry, but I don’t think this offer is available in the US as Space NK run their own events there.)

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