I love the look of shiny eyelids. It’s such a simple, yet highly effective way to makeup your eyes. Depending on how reflective you want your lids to look, use a salve like Eight Hour Cream, or for a high shine I use lip gloss.

Neither product requires a large amount to get the look. Using your ring finger tap a small amount of product onto bare eyelids. Remember it’s gloss–don’t expect it to stay put and not crease, but it’s all part of the look.

Paperself eyelashes was one of the vendors I checked out at LFW last month. The designs are super intricate and delicate. I can’t see myself wearing them on a daily basis, but for a costume party or photo shoot they’d be quite amazing. You can buy the lashes all over the world including here in Vancouver at Noir Lash Lounge.

When it comes to mascara on myself I’m not into anything natural. I like thick, long, notice-me lashes. That’s exactly what you get with the Ellis Faas mascara. The brush is standard size and so I thought, especially with it being a new tube, I wouldn’t get my desired effect without a lot of coats. Actually the brush loads up with product with the first application. I was able to get big lashes with just one coat. The black is rich and dark for added drama but it also comes in brown too. If you are looking for something subtle, this is probably not the mascara for you.

When shading the crease area of the eye, apply shadow under the orbital bone rather the shading eyeball. This will open up the eyes so they appear bigger.

Lots of looks from the Fall 2010 collections showed eyeshadow that was wrapped around the eye. This is a really easy look and can be done with any colour that is medium to dark. Here’s a few tips to create this diffused, soft smoky look:

1. Use a flat shader brush to apply the eye shadow to the eyelids from lash line to crease.

2. Use the same colour and blend along the lower lash line.

3. Blend out the edges to keep the look soft.

4. For extra definition take a slightly darker colour and blend through the socket line, or add dark pencil to the water line.

As I was looking at Laurent Darmon’s website, I noticed that he had quite a collection of beauty photography that features eye makeup. For the most part stick to my tried and true neutrals but I thought some of these images with bright colours were quite pretty and work well with this season’s bright trend.

Darmon is a beauty and fashion photographer that works out of Paris, London and New York. He has had his photos published in many notable advertising campaigns as well as some of the most prestigious publications worldwide.

I’m obsessed with bleached eyebrows. I’ve been intrigued by them for awhile, and would actually like to lighten my own a couple of shades. I realize the majority of people are not going to go to such extremes, but it happens to be a fixture on the runway this season and last. So I recommend keeping your brows soft rather than heavily defining with shadow or brow pencil. Basically you only need to fill in the gaps in your brows. If you have dark hair try using a brow gel that’s tinted lighter than your natural brow colour.

Remember taking away the brows draws more attention to your eyes, so make sure to play them up.