Makeup-Of-Mine: Fake eyelash tutorial and review of MAC fake eyelashes number 4!

Price I Paid

The lashes retail at £10. This is much more expensive than most lashes but they do last longer as well as I have managed to use these 7 or 8 times already and they still look great! Just make sure you carefully pick off the glue when you are done with them. Many people say to use tweezers for this but in my opinion that often ends up ruining the lashes so just pick off the huge bits of glue and leave the smaller bits. It makes application easier if there is a bit of glue left on from last time actually, as gross as that sounds. Also I normally leave this job till the morning after my night out as it isn't worth the stress after a few drinks. It is a bit disappointing that these lashes from MAC don't come with any glue especially at this price, but any eyelash glue will work with these lashes.

Design

I like lashes that are quite wispy rather than ones that have thick lashes clumped together. I think these MAC number 4 lashes look really natural, they enhance your natural lashes rather than make it look like you have the often named "caterpillars" stuck to your eyes!

Colour

The lashes are pure black and blend in well once my natural lashes are coated in mascara at the end of the application process.

Application

I find it easiest to apply lashes using the method below although people apply them using many different techniques.

1. Put on your eyeshadow first.

2. Peel the lashes carefully off the plastic base they come up. Then cut the eyelashes (with nail scissors if you have them but any scissors will do) to the length suitable for your eyes. You can do this by holding them against your own lashline and just judging what looks right, make them shorter by cutting them lash by lash as you can't go back once you have chopped a bit off. I prefer to cut bits off the outer side of the lash as if you cut it from the inside you will cut off the graduating little lashes that make it look natural.

2. Apply a thick line of black eyeliner, I prefer to use my Chanel Waterproof pencil for this as it has good lasting power, don't use a pencil that smudges easily as the eyelash glue might smear it. Don't use coloured eyeliner for this because the lash band (the strip that all the lashes are attached to) will be black and the aim is to hide this. If you really want to use coloured eyeliner use it when you have finished applying the lashes on top of the black line.
Click here for a link to the glue that I used

3. Apply eyelash glue to the lashes in the quantity shown in the photo below. It should be a thick white line of glue just along the lash band of the lashes. Try not to let the glue run onto the actual lashes as it will make them stick together, while the lashes are drying you can rest them with the glue downwards, but not touching, the plastic they came on.

4. Wait for the glue to dry. On most packages of glue this states that it needs 30 seconds to dry, I always find it needs a minute. Don't apply the lashes until most of the glue has dried or you will find that it sticks to your real eyelashes and this hurts to remove. The semi-dried glue should look like the second glue picture below.

5. Apply the lashes to just above your natural eyelashes. I find it easiest to wink so I can still see rather than doing it without looking (or maybe i just like to wink at myself?) and tilt my head towards the floor while using a mirror positioned higher than me to see where the lashes are going on. I think it is easiest to apply the lashes from the inside corner first to make sure it is all lined up properly. Make sure you do not apply them right into the corner of your eye as when you blink you will feel them, apply them half a centimeter from the inside corner.

6. Wait for the glue to dry completely. This takes about 5 more mins so go get dressed while you wait!

7. Once the glue has dried go over the glue line with a black eyeliner. I just use my pencil eyeliner over it but as my friends always tell me it probably is better to use a liquid eyeliner but I don't have a waterproof liquid eyeliner at the moment so I just make do. The aim of this step is to cover the shiny glue to make it blend in with the rest of your eyeliner.

8. Use your eyeliner to line your bottom lashes, it is best to put a line inside the waterline of your eye but if you find that uncomfortable just do it however you normally would. Make this quite a bold line as your top lashes will be quite bold so you want to even the look out.

9. Use a mascara that has not gone clumpy and put one thin coat over all of your real and fake lashes. This is to bind them together a bit so you do not look like you have two layers of lashes. I really recommend using the newest mascara possible for this as clumps in fake eyelashes looks awful! Also make sure that when you coat your bottom lashes in mascara you do not get clumps as you want them to look as wispy and spread out as your top lashes.

That is it - off you go!

10. Remove the lashes by just peeling them off from the corner. If you have any excess glue you will need an oil based eye makeup remover to get rid of them, Lancôme's Bi-Facil eye makeup remover is amazing for this.

Overall Reaction

I love these lashes by MAC they last really well and look very natural (compared to most other lashes) and I would definitely re-purchase them!

10/10