hey guys it's jen and today i wanted to share with you a really in-depth focused micro tutorial on
just the lashes how i get my little short downward pointing asian lashes to be up and stay up all day
stay super super curled and to just get as long as possible which can be kind of challenging
if you do have lashes that are really resistant to being curled and staying up so i really hope
this is helpful for you who are especially like monolidded have hooded lids have just not curly
lashes to begin with or if you have short lashes like me this is definitely your video if you want
to see these tips keep watching hello welcome to the close-up of my face we are up close very tight
to be close enough so that you can really get a good idea of what we're doing right now i have my
lash curler with me this is my best buddy i've had this exact curler probably for more than 10 years
it doesn't have any springs or anything so there aren't really any pieces to break but i do have
to replace these little pads pretty often this is shiseido even though i might recommend the
shiseido curler if it doesn't work out for you there are a lot of different curlers out there
on the market so honestly you just have to do some trial and error and find one that fits your
eyes really well but i do find just as a broad statement a lot of the asian brands tend to work
better if you have flatter eyes like i do so a lot of um asians they don't have as like concave of an
eye socket they need a flatter curve right here so in my experience shiseido is great i've also
tried shumura that one's really great and even drugstore level ones that are japanese or korean
i've actually come across ones that are pretty stellar that are really inexpensive as well so
i would recommend checking those out if you have a similar eye shape to mine so that's the first and
foremost most important thing even on days that i don't even wear mascara sometimes i'll just curl
my lashes because it really opens up the eyes if i'm just looking straight forward you don't
really see any lashes because they kind of hang down in front of my eyeballs a little bit so our
goal is to try to get them pointed up but not in a way that looks really awkward if that makes sense
so what we are aiming for is having a little bit of a natural curl type of shape the first thing i
do i'm going to open this up and i almost kind of push this top bar right here against my top
eyelid but don't go too high up because you don't want it to accidentally pinch your eyelids skin at
all and i'm concentrating on this inner corner so the inner corner right here on the actual curler
you want it to meet the innermost corner of your eye even if the rest of the curler isn't hitting
all of your lashes perfectly we're going to just start with this inner corner so i do this push it
against that skin and you can see it kind of pulls up the lashes just a little bit when i do that
i'm going to pinch it so that it brings this bottom one up to meet that line
so i'm going as far close to the base of the lash line as i can and i'm just pumping this
curler and then i'm just going to pull the lashes out a teensy bit like that
grab it almost sort of in the middle and then we're going to do a few more pumps again
and then we're going to go up to the tips grab it again and then pump a few more
times we're going to try that again i'm going to the base squeezing a few times
going to the middle squeezing a few times and going to the tips
and see how much more you can see that curl already another method you can try doing
is instead of doing three different sections as you go you can actually just go to the base
and with each little squeeze you pull it up a little bit more but i feel like that has
more of a tendency to potentially pull out any lashes so i prefer the three-step process but
you can do it either way so now that we've really enhanced that inner half of the eye we're going
to do the same thing but focusing on that outer corner so now we're going to go in this point
to meet up with this point right here to just get those teensy outer lashes right there
the squeeze at the bottom in the middle at the top so here you can see the difference
of the before and the after i feel like it's a pretty dramatic difference and this is without
any mascara to begin with so i'm going to go ahead and do that to the other side
sometimes i also like to angle the lash curler as i'm going up so that i have more of a dramatic and
natural curl so at the base i go like this and then as i go up i kind of tilt my hand upward
okay now we're going to move on to mascara the most important thing you want to keep in mind
especially if you have really downward pointing lashes is you want to find a really dry formula
probably going to be a waterproof mascara and even better if you can find one that is specifically
holds a curl really really really well like a good japanese mascara like this one this is from
heroine make long and curl mascara super waterproof it's a little more frustrating to
remove syllabaries if you use an oil cleanser which i always do but this is going to be the
magic sauce to hold up those curls so i'm going to take this little mascara guard because we have
pushed our lashes up to the point where they are practically touching our eyelid skin so if i were
to just put the mascara on it's definitely going to get all over my eyelid i'm going to be putting
this guard right up against that inner corner and i'm just going to wiggle the mascara side to side
i also really want to make sure it gets to this bottom area so that it holds those lashes up
so just like what i did before the first part i'm aiming the mascara at these inner corners with the
guard sort of tilting this so it's right under there and then i'm using the outer edge to get
these little babies out here and usually after the first coat with the guard i can just use a regular
coat of mascara on top for a second layer just to get the lashes a little more thick and voluminous
and again i just do a really light side to side motion my sister once made fun of me because i
was shaking my head as i was putting on mascara but you know what it doesn't matter if you look
silly or if your mouth hangs open while you're putting on the mascara whatever gets the job done
is the right way to do it sometimes that's the hardest thing about doing a video is like
this scenario with a camera in front of my face is not how i would be doing my makeup every day but
hopefully it's close enough that you guys can still get a good idea of how to do it at home
all right so now you can see a pretty dramatic difference with mascara without the mascara and
then we are going to do the lower lashes so the difference here is that i'm not going to start
off by curling the lashes i'm going to go straight in with the actual mascara so for the lower lashes
i usually like to tilt my head down so that the lashes are sticking
out more because if i tilt my head back the lashes kind of hit my skin a little bit more
so for the top lashes i tilt my head back and apply it for the bottom lashes i tilt my head
down and then i just try to do a little bit of a shaking back and forth motion like that
next i'm going to be using one of my favorite little tools this is a heated lash curler i
don't use this every day but when i really want to get very perfect lashes i do pull this out and
i use it as a secondary step so i don't use it on the first pass to get the lashes up this is
after i have my mascara on mine is from panasonic i'm just gonna turn it on right here
and then i just wait for the little coloring sensor in the back to turn pink instead of purple
that's how you know it's heated up all the way i probably should have done that at the beginning
so that it would be heated up enough i will say if you naturally have super long slightly
curled lashes you can actually get away with just using the heated curler without manually curling
your lashes first but if you have lashes like mine where they naturally point straight down
and they're very kind of stubborn at holding a curl this isn't going to do it for you like
it doesn't matter what kind of mascara you put on first or second or whatever if you only try
to use the heated lash curler it's not going to do anything however it does make a nice little
difference if you do this after the mascara so while this is heating up i'm going to go ahead and
put mascara on my other eye and then we'll get to the heated part okay my heated curler is now pink
so i'm going to be using this on my lower lashes i like to start at the inner half and i just tilt
my head down so that my lashes are sticking out the most and then i just push this down
like i said if you're starting from ground zero it's not going to get it all the way up
but once your lashes are pointed up it can just help fine tune things a little bit
so i don't know if you can tell too much from looking at it straightforward but this is after
i used the heated lash curler on my lower lashes they're just a little more lower and fanned out
and then this is without they look a little bit shorter because they're sticking out instead of
going down you do want to be a little bit careful because these do get quite hot so try not to have
this actually touch your skin we're just gonna push it against the hairs so that it just kind of
presses it down a little bit so this is the final look for my lashes you can see they're nice and
lifted up but they're very high they're just about as high as i can make them
without using false eyelashes so this is what it looks like from the front and from the side
lifted and gifted my eyes look so much bigger than they did before and it's
just a really fresh bright look that i really love if you have lashes that are just sad and
droopy like mine are i hope you found some of these tips helpful if you did i would love if
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