Makeup Monday BB Bits For Your Eyes

 Happy Monday Lovelies’!   

To start off the week, I’m going to share with you some 

short but sweet makeup tips to achieve a glamorous eye.

BB Bit 1: For The Smokey, Eye Look:  To get the best  smokey eye, it is important to prime both your eyelid and lower lash line, basically all areas that you will place your makeup, you should also place primer.

BB Bit 2: Ensuring Your Fake Eye Lashes Are The Right Size:  To get the best look, you want to make sure that your fake eyelashes are the correct size prior to applying glue.  You can do this by placing the eyelash on your lash line starting from the outside in.  If the eyelash is too long, you want to cut it from the outer corner (the longer area), to the appropriate size.

BB Bit 3: You Don’t Have To Be Perfect:  I bet you’re glad to read that, aren’t you?  As I’m sure a lot of women would agree, one of the most difficult things to accomplish when using fake eyelashes is making sure they are perfectly in place.  This is hard, especially if you only use lashes occasionally.   However, I have a great tip for you:  Prior to positioning your lashes, you want to put eyeliner on your eye, as close to the lash line as possible. By doing this you will help to hide any imperfections.  For example, you’ve applied your eyelash and there is a small gap between the fake eyelashes and your real ones, where you can see skin or shadow.  But, if you’ve placed eyeliner here prior, you will see the black, hence camouflaging your mistake.  I would also suggest, after your lashes are applied, to go back over with more liquid liner, covering any glue or additional gaps.

BB Bit 4: When To Apply Your Lashes:   After you have situated the eyelash glue, whether on your lash line or on the fake eyelash itself, it is imperative that you wait for the glue to dry a bit before arranging the lash.  The glue should be tacky, as wet glue will not stick as easy, causing your lashes to move around.

BB Bit 5: Ensuring Your Eyelashes Will Stay in Place:  To do this you want to apply more glue to the ends of your fake eyelashes, as this is where it seems to lift most. 

Until next time!

How To Properly Use A Bobby Pin

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I’ve always been envious every time I go to the hair salon and see these girls leave with wonderful hair, whether a full up-do, or partial, which is all created by good ole bobby pins.  Yes, bobby pins; they've been around forever and a day! Therefore, I decided to ask my stylist, how you can do that with just bobby pins; they never seem to work for me.  Well, what she told me was so simple, and yet myself, and according to her most women she has dealt with, have been using them incorrectly. 

The correct way to use a bobby pin is to insert it into your hair with the wavy side down.  What, that is all it took?  Why didn’t I not know this; I mean I have a plethora of information, but yet this. I had no clue!  According to my stylist, the wavy side is designed so it will grab your hair and situate it properly.  The flat side, which because it was longer, I always thought was to go down, pushes the hair into the groove, holding it in place. So there, you have it, simple yet powerful.

Some Other Bits I Learned:

• When used properly they are great for adding volume to your hair.
• Make sure to use pins that are close to the color of your hair. 
• Don’t cheap out when purchasing your bobby pins, especially if you have long hair, buy thicker ones. Otherwise, they can fall out.
• X marks the spot for a stronger hold. What does this mean? Well, when inserting the pins, you want to try to cross them over each other, creating an x for extra hold.

Lastly, I wondered why we call these hair pins, bobby pins.  Well according to Fun Trivia, in the 1920’s it became trendy for women to cut their hair short and set it tightly against the head in a wavy pattern called bobbed hair. By the end of the decade, 90% of North American women adopted this new fashion trend, and the number of beauty salons in the United States had increased from 5,000 to 23,000 to keep up with demand. Until then, most people cut and set their hair at home. The bobby pin, a small flexible metal clip to keep bobbed hair in place, was invented in the early 1920s. Bobby pins were so inexpensive that everyone could afford to buy them. They were tinted to match one's hair color so that they could be camouflaged within the hairstyle.

So hair there you go, simple yet a world of possibilities!    

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Proper Mascara Care:

Another Lashing Out Series

BB Bit 1: When applying your mascara, it is important that you do not pump your mascara wand up and down in the bottle as it as it can create bacteria.  Instead, roll the tube back and forth, with lid closed between your hands, creating heat; this will soften the mascara, adding to easier application. 

BB Bit 2: How long should you keep your mascara?  This all depends on how often you use it, but I say if you haven’t used most of your mascara by three months, toss it.   Furthermore, if it gets really dried out or worse yet stinks, get rid of it!  Bad mascara can damage your eye's lashes, and even cause serious irritation to your eyes.

BB Bit 3: How to revive dried-out mascara.  First, you need to make sure it does not fall into one of the bits mentioned in BB Bit 2.  If all is good to go, then you can add some bits of eye drops to your mascara to loosen it up, and viola it applies like new!

"Blink, Blink"...Until Next Time!