Makeup & Beauty

Makeup & Beauty

How-To: Reverse Wing Eyeliner

Well, this is a new one.

The "Reverse Wing Liner" is inspired by the look shown on the models at the Nicholas K Spring 2015 runway show…and I like it. I've been getting more into the dark-undereye-liner thing over the past few months - it feels fun and rocker-y and sexy - but mostly I've been doing a smudgier, more imperfect look…so this is a cool, fresh twist. And it's a) totally wearable, even during the day, provided you keep that line nice and thin(ish), and b) not nearly as tricky to do as it looks.

Let's talk how-to:

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The Sleeping Beauty Cleanse

Good news: this cleanse does not involve not-eating.

Which makes it my kind of cleanse.

It's not a "cleanse" in the traditional sense…but rather a way to shed yourself of the day's detritus, ridding your body and mind of everything from unwanted stressors to makeup residue. And while the steps themselves are each relaxing and lovely on their own, what's most important here is consistency: if you keep your wind-down ritual the same from evening to evening, your body will start recognizing cues that sleep is on the way, and respond accordingly. (I learned this from my son, who really does sleep better when we follow his pre-bedtime ritual to the letter…and apparently it works for grownups too.)

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Jordan’s Magical Concealer Spots

What are "magical concealer spots," you ask? Tiny little areas of your face that you would probably never think to put concealer on…but that immediately make you look infinitely more wide-awake.

It's magic. (Hence the wand I'm waving around in this video.)

(Click here for lots more of my Allure segments, including how to make your own beach hair spray, how to make your summer tan stick around, and bloopers aplenty.)

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The Pregnancy Hair

I've gotten a whole bunch of questions these past couple of weeks along the lines of "What are you doing to your hair lately? Did you get extensions?"

And as much as I'd like to say either "I am a hairstyling genius" or "Oh, just #blessed"…the truth? I'm doing nothing. (Or at least nothing out of the ordinary; I've been using the same products as I usually do and curling it using this technique.) And if you get pregnant, you will also have to do nothing: you will just all of a sudden discover that your hair is PHENOMENAL. Why? Because your hair doesn't fall out nearly as much when you're pregnant, so you end up with about six times the amount of hair you're used to, and it's all shiny and thick and lovely from the prenatal vitamins. It's so much fun.

And then, just as you've started to settle in and get all "oh, this old thing?" about your phenomenal hair...

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I’ll Take Some Fried Eggs On My Nails, Please

I just - like, last week - wrote a post about how I'm so glad that, as a society, we appear to have moved on from the crazy nail art thing that filled up my Pinterest feed with photographs of tiny little Tiffany boxes and twee cartoon characters painted onto fingertips.

Mostly because the idea of a time-and-labor-intensive beauty procedure that will immediately chip makes me sad.

But these designs - created by the manicurists at yesterday's (and today's) event at Grand Central, who are apparently Instagram stars thanks to their handiwork - are something else entirely. I mean...


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