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The Easiest Trick to Prevent Eyeliner from Smudging

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Look, the perfect cat-eye is hard enough to come by. So we’re not letting anything mess with our winged masterpiece when we finally nail it—including our slippery eyelids. Here’s what we mean.

Next time you decide to go for the Adele special, draw the initial line with an eyeliner pencil first to lay down a nice base. Then, trace over it with a liquid or gel liner. It works because the pencil gives wetter formulas something to grab onto instead of sitting loosely on top of your skin, so your artful cat-eye won’t smudge or transfer to your eye crease the second you blink.

Now for the real question: Where has this trick been all our lives?

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