Tips and Tricks: Enormous Eyelashes

I love enormous, winged eyelashes but will be the first to admit they're a right bugger to wear. Obviously, they're always going to look un-natural (that's the point!) but here are a few pointers to make sure you're getting the best out of them:

Orange and Black Lashes from KKcentreHK. I haven't worn them under UV yet :(

Application:

- If you have to trim your lashes to make them fit, them try and do it from the *outside.* The really long lashes like these are often curved, and if you trim them the inside the curve won't be as smooth
-Make sure you put plenty of glue on the corners as they can be heavy
-If you're not as confident with wearing falsies, try and choose ones with a thin lash band:

Even though they're enormous, this style of lash is normally on a 'string' style lash band which is quite easy to move around when it's on the eye before the glue has dried...

...as opposed to this monstrosity which has a really thick and rigid band.

Matching with makeup:

-Make sure you're 100% happy with your eye makeup before you apply the crazy lashes as you're not going to able to get a brush around them easily afterwards!

-Even if your mascara doesn't match the colour of your lashes, it's better to curl your lashes and just do a light coat of mascara to help your natural lashes blend in with the enormous ones. Even if you wouldn't do this with regular falsies, these big false ones have an enormous curve!

-The more dramatic your make up, in my opinion, the better:

I much prefer the stronger brow and harsher lines - not for every day, obviously but it pulls the look together.

Posin':

-Naturally, your lashes should make a 'fan' shape, whereas lashes like these all point in one direction. Because the shape is really extreme, if you look at your eye from the side, like below, the curve of the lashes looks really odd:

See where the angle of the lashes on my left eye looks really blunt as it comes away from my inner corner? Not flattering... a bit wierd.

-Also, where your lashes are huge, they can overwhelm your eye, making them look smaller or closed:

Where is mah eyeball?!

I know this sounds really vain and silly, but if you're wearing these, you're probably on a night out or doing a really dramatic blog look and want your photos to look cool! I try and discourage models on shoots from wearing enormous lashes for the above reasons (not that they listen to me! ;) ) Best thing to do is to look straight at the camera and look up from under your lashes slightly - you know, emo kid/MySpace style - your lashes won't hang over your eye and you'll see them in their full gloriousness!

Edit: Beware headbanging.

Hope that all made sense and that it was helpful to someone out there!

Do you wear crazy falsies?



Lashes were provided for review by KKCentreHK.com. Sorry for being a sell out, but they had some awesome stuff I couldn't say no to!