00:10Today I'm facing my fear of fake eyelashes, it's really terrifying.
00:15I think faux lashes are a great way to elevate any look to make a look more polished or more
00:20elegant and I would love to show you a few easy steps that you can do even every day
00:25to make faux lashes a part of your makeup wardrobe.
00:28How does that sound?
00:29It sounds good.
00:30Okay.
00:30The first step is choosing the right lash.
00:33The goal of a faux lash is to make it look real.
00:36So we're going to choose a lash that's going to look more natural on you.
00:39We're choosing something soft and witty.
00:41Once we get our lash off, we want to kind of get rid of the shape that it's taken in
00:47the
00:47packaging.
00:47So what I like to do is take one of my brushes and just wrap it right around the brush.
00:53And what that will do is give it a little malleability so that we can really make it fit to
00:58your eyes.
00:59Once we do that for a few moments, then we're going to go back, measure that right up against
01:04the eye.
01:05This is a pretty big strip.
01:06So what I'm going to need to do is to cut off some of the strip.
01:10When I trim my lash, I then take what was the middle and I bring that to my outer corner.
01:18Once we have our lash to the proper length, I'm just going to cut my other lash so that
01:23we know they are exactly where we want them to be.
01:26Okay.
01:27Now we're going to talk about glue.
01:30Okay.
01:31With any faux lash, you want to use a glue that is safe for every eye.
01:37I like to use Duo Adhesive, it's a surgical adhesive, it's great, it's very gentle but
01:42long lasting and it's easy to remove.
01:45What most professionals would do now is to take that lash and get some glue right there
01:50on the band.
01:52If you don't feel comfortable with that, you can always use a little brush and just apply
01:58glue right along the band.
02:01Now my other little trick is take a little liner brush and I'm just going to line right
02:07along the lash line where we want that lash to stay.
02:11So now that gives you a guide and something to kind of anchor that lash into place.
02:17Does that make sense?
02:18So now we just let our lash dry for a second, we bring it right in and we're just going
02:23glue
02:23against glue and then just press in at the corners of your fingers and there we go.
02:31It looks way more natural than you thought it would.
02:33You've got a beautiful eye and this is a really great way to open it up and really show people
02:38the color and the shape that exists there.
02:40I've got your lash prepared for you and I just want you to paint right along that top of the
02:48band.
02:49You're going to take your same liner brush and just line right along your lash line right
02:55as close to the lash as you can.
02:57Now one trick is that a lot of women look into the mirror and they look down which closes their
03:04lid up where if you look up, you see how now you can see exactly where you need to line.
03:10Now we're going to pick our lash back up and now you're just going to put glue with glue.
03:15Place it down right where your glue guide is and press it right through.
03:21Oh wow.
03:22See the difference?
03:23Yeah.
03:23So putting on fake eyelashes was way less scary than I thought it would be.
03:27I knew it would be.
03:28And glue is totally not gross.
03:32So thank you so much for showing me how to do it.
03:34You're welcome.
03:35And thank you for watching Refinery29.
