As you can tell, I wear HUGE, thick, pretty nerdy glasses. I am blind as a bat. As those of you who have ever had your face graced with spectacles will know, wearing makeup and glasses at the same time is sometimes (read almost always) a precise, albeit awkward, balancing act between that fun eyeshadow you really wanted to wear and not wanting to draw attention to your plate-glass thick eyewear. Here are five beauty products that will draw attention to your eyes and not your eyeglasses.
1. A soft, matte shade of eyeshadow: I suggest a soft matte brown lightly applied to the lid that won’t look dirty or grimy behind your glasses. The last thing you want is to draw attention to poorly applied or blended eyeshadow or eyeshadow that’s just too much. I suggest NYX Naturals palette ($7.49 USD, Ulta Beauty). It’s versatile and goes great behind glasses for a fresh and clean look.
2. A quality mascara: A mascara that takes your lashes up and away from your eyes will help them appear bigger behind glasses that might make your eyes look smaller. I use ELF 3-in-1 Mascara ($3 USD, Target). It has a big, kind of oddly shaped brush, but it does the job of three different mascaras all in one. It makes my lashes look full and long behind my glasses.
3. A quality eyelash curler: For the same reason as number 2, a good eyelash curler is a necessity for every girl who wears glasses. I suggest one by ELF ($1 USD, Target). It curls nicely and brings your eyelashes up and out, making your eyes seem bigger and brighter.
4. A nude eyeliner pencil: A pencil like the NYX WonderPencil ($4.49 USD, Ulta Beauty) used along your bottom waterline will make your eyes appear bigger and less restricted than lining the waterline with black liner. This soft nude pencil has a creamy consistency and comes in three shades to (sort-of) match your skin tone. It’s a versatile pencil that can be used not only as an eyeliner, but as a concealer, a universal lip liner, or a brow highlighter.
5. A good brow filler: Whatever consistency you prefer (I like brow pencils), filling in your brows and making sure they’re neat and well-groomed is incredibly important. Because glasses draw attention to the top of your face, i.e. your eyes and eyebrows, they draw attention to what is out of place. I use the Sephora retractable eyebrow pencil ($12 USD, Sephora) to fill in my brows and make them look good before putting on my glasses and heading out the door.
Those are five of my must-have beauty products for girls with glasses! As always, if you have questions, want to see a tutorial, or have a suggestion for the next post, leave it in the comments of this post!
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