How did your magnificence “factor” grow to be your magnificence “factor”? That’s the query we’re posing to celebrities in our new sequence, Just One Thing. In fact, journalists that we’re, we’re additionally taking the chance to ask in regards to the one magnificence product that helps maintain their factor… thing-ing. On this installment, comic (her new standup particular, Come For Me, drops this fall) and actor (she seems within the new season of Hulu’s Solely Murders within the Constructing, out August twenty seventh) Catherine Cohen tells us about her long-time obsession with winged eyeliner.
I bear in mind so vividly being within the sixth grade and watching the seventh graders begin to put on make-up. I feel it was a rule that you simply couldn’t put on make-up till seventh grade at my college. And I bear in mind impulsively all the ladies have been doing tight waterline black eyeliner daily. And I used to be like, ‘That’s the coolest factor you might ever do.’ I couldn’t wait till I used to be within the seventh grade and I may experiment with eyeliner.
Till the top of faculty, I used to be doing simply black tight strains on the highest and backside lid. I used to be actually giving that pic of Miley Cyrus the place she’s smiling with these loopy eyes. That was me. After I moved to New York, I used to be uncovered to so many fabulous, cool individuals, and I’d see women strolling round Williamsburg with their wing eyeliner, and I used to be like, ‘I’ve to strive that.’
I requested a buddy who was sporting it, like, ‘How did you draw that on?’ And she or he confirmed me that principally, you draw the little point and then you definitely join it. You draw a bit triangle. [Today] I do a joke about how taking place on a lady is placing eyeliner on another person. However I used to be a pure at mine, I’ve to say. And I’ve been doing it ever since.
I do at all times really feel like if I am nervous for an occasion, then I battle to attract it on. And if it is just a few random day, it’s at all times an ideal wing. When I’ve a present or a efficiency, I do a very intense, lengthy line. An on a regular basis look is extra of just a bit flip. I really actually just like the Amy Winehouse approach. The up and out—the best way it form of pulls [the eye up] up. I like that look.
I do not know when it began, however for a few years I’ve simply been utilizing the Maybelline New York Master Precise Liquid Eyeliner. It’s the very best one. I really feel like fancier individuals will use a pot and draw it on [with a brush], however I discover it simpler to do the marker. I’ve spent extra on [brands like] KVD and Stila however there’s no level; the Maybelline one does the job. It simply stays on.
