Best and Worst: Eye Make-Up Remover

If you’re love a smokey eye or blackest black mascara, then, like me, you know what hell it is to get it off at night… or sometimes the next morning. I have favorites and I guess what you would call “hateorits” in the eye make-up remover department. Starting with: 

• Best:

Klorane Soothing Eye Make-Up Remover With Cornflower Extract

Pros: Gets it off. Gets it all off. Gentle and completely non-oily. 

Cons: Currently not available in the US (you can order it on drugstore.com). Gets the “funny eye make-up remover” smell eventually

   

  

 

      

 Vichy Thermal Spa Water Eye-Make-Up Remover

Pros: Gets most of it off, gentle, non-oily, no funny smell, and totally available at CVS.   Cons: Gets most of it off.   

• Worst 

 M.A.C.  Pro Eye Make-Up Remover

Pros: If you are a stage performer or drag queen, this will take everything off… including glue.   Cons: Feels like you washed your face in an oil slick, and will continue to feel that way for days. Plus you’d have to be a pro to but this product at $17.00

   

 

And last, and unfortunately least, I must say something that pains me… because the absolute worst eye make-up remover award goes to my beloved: Neutrogena. Unfortunately their eye make-up remover doesn’t stand the test of time like their skin products. Oh well, no one can be perfect.  I don’t know how they can call this “oil-free” eye make-up remover when in fact it feels like “nothing but oil.”

(* In a pinch: use lotion or cream as eye make-up remover when you have none!)

 

How to: Have Flawless Cheekbones

Do you ever feel like your blush or your bronzer won’t blend all the way, leaving a line or blotchy areas? It’s a problem I used to have all of the time, especially with dry winter skin, which sucks because I am a big fan of blush for a little freshness. 

 When I discovered Smashbox Soft Lights  I knew that I would never have to do the “am I even” mirror dance under the halogen light ever again.  The color I recommend for most skin types is called “Tint” and has a light peachy pinky hue. Sweep it over your cheekbones as a last step (can be used instead of powder to set) and watch the lines magically blend away. You’ll note that your cheekbones now look perfectly sunkissed and blended in every way without being sparkly. Yes!