Tips on How to Remove Your Eye Makeup
May 20, 2010 by calicoaster
Published in Makeup
How many times it has happened that you have come home after a long working day, a client meeting, or even a party, and spend around 10 minutes just removing your eye make up? Most of the times it happens that when you think you have put on enough efforts in removing all the eye make-up, you realize that your eyes look awful and skunk.
Removing eye make-up can be a typically difficult task, since the delicate sections around your eyes, the curves and small turnings make it hard to clean your eyes thoroughly from every angle. Eye make-up if not removed appropriately can cause the blackening of skin over time on the affected areas, followed by inducing wrinkles.
The best way to proceed in removing eye make-up is to do it before you use any face cleanser for cleaning your face.
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Below are some simple steps, which can make the whole eye make-up removal process quite easy, simple and effective.
Step 1: Take a cotton ball and apply a few drops of eye makeup remover on it. If you don’t have an eye makeup remover, you can use olive oil or any petroleum jelly like Vaseline, which are quite efficient as well.
Step 2: Add few drops of water to the cotton ball to make it a bit moist, so that the water and your eye makeup remover can gel well. Don’t drench the cotton ball completely to let the make-up remover drip down. You just need to make it moist and saturated enough to let your skin take the mixture.
Step 3: Now, close one eye and apply the cotton ball on your eye lids and lashes. Just work on one eye at a time to get the effective results.
Step 4: Let your skin and layers of make up, absorb the mixture. Just wait for a minute to let the application settle there.
Step 5: After waiting for a minute, gently cleanse your eyes with the cotton ball from lids to lashes to assure that the make comes off properly.
Step 6: Once, you are sure your eye has got cleansed over the lashes and lid, open your eye and clean any residual makeup below the lashes.
Step 7: Repeat the same process for the other eye.
Hot Tips
- Avoid using soaps to clean your eyes, they are not that effective and may cause harm to your eyes if gone inside.
- Make the choice of a make up remover, according to what suits your skin.
- Never use the same cotton ball for both the eyes. If unknowingly you’ve got any infection in one eye, it may get transmitted to the other one.
- Baby oil can work as a cheap alternative for your eyes and face make-up removal.
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