This pic is from Good Housekeeping. Even Good Housekeeping is more up to date than I am
I was reading the other day in a newspaper an interview with big make-up lady Trish McEvoy and she was talking about a “triangle of light” which is an inverted triangle that you draw with your concealer under your eye to hide dark circles and generally brighten the area. I tried it and it works far better than drawing a great semicircle directly under the eye. I don’t know why I haven’t heard of this before! I consider myself to be quite good at putting on make-up! Christ.
You probably all bloody know about it and have been doing it for years and meet up in cafes going “If only Esther knew about the triangle of light trick she wouldn’t look so awful.”
Had not a clue about this!!! Off to apply make-up and transform myself (!)
it really works!!!
Love this….. I have read this somewhere recently (the Pool; make up tutorial on YouTube??) but it didn’t show picture and how far the pointy bit on the triangle goes down, so thanks!
I think I need help finding a good concealer – because whenever I put some on I end up looking like Caprice c. 1997 -when she’d just discovered Touche Eclat.
Emily that made me laugh! Try Urban Decay Naked Skin – but do definitely try and get to a concession stand because guessing at a good colour match never ends well
That’s so gratifying! You have made me laugh so many times, I’m glad to reciprocate just slightly. Thanks for the tip.
It does work!!! I look marginally less of an old bag than I did before.
That makes sense, it looks like it would blend in much better. I wonder how many of my make-up practices would reside on the right hand side of a good housekeeping illustration, a big Family Fortunes X by each one.
The other day I’d been at home with a sick child and had that pale, haunted look only such a day can produce, so I desperately put on some lipstick before the school run, which I never usually wear, just to do *something*. And you know, I looked a lot better instantly. So my tip, that even the Egyptians had down, is lipstick works.
*ancient Egyptians, obv
So would thus work with touché eclat or should I upgrade?
Yes I don’t see why that wouldn’t work
I will try tomorrow in preparation for my 7am meeting – expectations high!