You beauty! Smashbox Always Sharp Waterproof Kohl liner

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Annabel Rivkin9 August 2013

I love make-up tricks and I’m going to give you one. As a present. Nude eyeliner needs to enter your make-up bag and nestle there silently because one day — probably just before a date, an unavoidable photo opportunity or one of those scary, life-changing meetings — you will need it. Life will balls up slightly and you will have got spannered the night before, or cried through to the wee hours over some good-for-nothing tool, or had a vicious attack of hayfever and, as the sun rises, you will look in the mirror and you will hear ‘Carmina Burana’. It will be your eyes, you see. And it will be bad. Red rims look simultaneously victim-y and allergic and I find that if I see blasted little peepers in the mirror then self-pity kicks in and I howl all over again.

But when this Gothic morn dawns, you’ll be absolutely fine because you’ll fish out your Smashbox Always Sharp Waterproof Kohl liner in Bare (it self-sharpens every time you twist the cap off because it knows you will one day be too traumatised to delve for a sharpener, bless it) and you will line your inner lower lid with this precise and long-lasting nude and all will be well. Bright eyes burning like fire.

So arm yourselves, sisters (and brothers?). The secret of best face forward isn’t rocket science. It’s just this: be prepared.

Smashbox Always Sharp Waterproof Kohl liner in Bare, £16 (smashbox.co.uk)

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