When I was 9 years old, my grandmother called me in to her room and asked me to put her eye makeup on for her.  She couldn’t see what she was doing without her glasses and said she was “making a mess.”  I had no idea how to begin and followed her instructions closely.  Ultimately I’m not sure if my first attempt was any better than what she could have done, but she was happy.  Eventually I got better at it for her.

Today I saw a post from a young woman who wears glasses and wants to wear eye makeup but is unable to see well enough to do her eye makeup without them in place.  So far she’s been able to put on a little mascara, but has yet to venture further.  This got me thinking about the best way around the problem; my brain landed on cream shadows and smudged eye pencil.

The creams are easily applied with fingertips, and the pencil line doesn’t have to be perfectly straight.  This is the eye I did for the young woman in the posting.  I hope she likes it.

I kept it pretty natural so mistakes won’t matter as much, and because it’s her first real foray into eye shadow.

1.  Laura Mercier Platinum Creme Eye Colour all over, applied with finger tips.

2.  Laura Mercier Alloy Creme Eye Colour from the lash line blended up to the crease with finger tips.  Rose Gold from L.M. would work beautifully here for daytime as well.  Any deep tone cream color would be great in place of the Alloy for a more dramatic evening look.  Just make sure to use a darker colored liner (step 3) that’s  compatible.

3.  Urban Decay Glide on Pencil in Bourbon across top of the lashes.  Then smudged with either a smudge brush or finger tips.

4.  Maybelline Great Lash mascara in Blackest Black.

5.  Laura Mercier Blonde brow pencil.

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