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What's your favorite feature to play up?


What’s your favorite feature to play up? What do you do to enhance it?

I like my eyes the best, and I always like doing lots and lots of mascara!

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Nadia Avatar

I like to play up my eyes by using eyeshadow colors that I am skilled at applying (mostly neutrals), using a great pencil eyeliner, curling my lashes, and using a volumizing mascara.

xmissxandristx Avatar

eyes mostly.. but i was blessed with fairly decent features (nothing’s fantastic, but nothing’s awful! lol) so i do my lips sometimes too depending on my mood

CeeBee Avatar

I love to do my eyes, I do full eyemakeup almost every day but no one really sees it behind my glasses…

I think my absolute favourite is a statement lip colour. I keep the rest of my makeup really simple – perfect base & powder, a little blush, a swipe of Stila Kitten eyeshadow, curled lashes with a coat of mascara and a KA-POW! lipstick.
I think it always looks fresh and pretty.

Heather Avatar

My lips or my eyelashes (not my whole eyes)- I haven’t gone a day without lipgloss/liner or lipstick/lipgloss in about 15 years 😉 (I’m 29 lol) Even if I’m sick, I swipe some on… Same with mascara- I use 3 coats and I’ll put it on even if I skip foundation.

anonymous Avatar

Lips! Eyes get hidden by glasses & cheeks aren’t as defined as I’d like but I lucked out on lips. I love lipliner so I can wear dark shades with a nice defined edge & no bleeding. Also a dot of gloss in the center of the lower lip to emphasize pout.

Wendy M. Avatar

My eyes, definitely.
They’re not a pretty color like yours Christine, but I have nice lashes and a Godiva dark chocolate truffle color (or so I like to tell myself since they’re just a blah dark brown and not some amazing/interesting color lol).
If not, lips.
I have pretty shapely(?) lips, I’d like to think.
I love using bright colors. 🙂

Julia Minamata Avatar

Lips! I have no visible eyelids(the ol’ Asian eye) but luckily decently plump lips with good natural pigmentation. So I’m always looking for pretty colours of lipsticks with formulations that offer good coverage.

Love your reviews and love how your lip beauty mark offers a decent barometer of the opacity of the lipsticks you review!

Angelcat47 Avatar

Nothin’ wrong with that,GF…flaunt it if you’ve got it!! I wish I’d learned that as a young woman,so I just thought I’d pass it on to any of you that think it’s wrong.It’s all about confidence.

Jasmine Avatar

I guess it would be my eyes, cos my entire eyelid is visible when I open them, so playing with eyeshadows is fun and doing my crease work is easy. I have a decent lip shape but they are always so dry so I don’t usually draw attention to them 🙁

Natalie Avatar

My lips or eyes! I have very full, big lips & large, almond-shaped doe eyes with really long lashes, so I pick something based on how I feel. I have to be careful though or I can look like too “dolly” or “cartoonish” because I’m very skinny with very exaggerated, pronounced features like above (with a teeny nose & sharp cheekbones too! I got the hang of it all around age 17 haha)

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