Random Tip Lucky Dip Giver:
Cherie, Chanel.
Tip 1. Pat, don't rub concealer under your eyes, and only apply it where the skin is dark and needs evening out. (Doing it all the way out from the nose to the edge of your eye is a bit silly, because it’s not dark there, and the concealer will just settle into your fine lines, thus making you look way less hydrated and older than it says you are on your licence, or, y’know, however old you lie and say you are to people at dinner parties when someone inappropriate asks your age.) That is, in the inner corner of the eye, both under and above the eyeball, and at the outer V, where the eye creases/crinkles which is also usually dark.
Tip 2. If you bodge your mascara mid-way through your application, don't get all cranky and frustratey because you were supposed to be out the door 3 minutes-ago from now, just wait til your mascara has completely dried, then take a cotton tip and lightly ‘scratch off the naughty mascara from your eyelid, under eye, elbow.
In other news...
This morning, I went to the delicious new Chanel training facility (kind of like being in a huge eyeshadow quad crossed with a Chanel catwalk and a space station) to learn about their Precision range. Which is excellent. I love their products. Especially the Hydramax serum. It makes my skin plumper than Jess Simpson's lips.
But what I mainly learned was that Chanel's NSW Promotions executive, whose name is Cherie Kiss, I kid you not (do you know how many burlesque dancers would kill for a name like that? That would be funny if the statistics of burlesque dancers committing homicide wasn't so high. Apparently one burlesque dancer killed her boyfriend because he borrowed her felt tip pen and innocently nibbled on the lid) is a stellar find for Genius Makeup Tips. She did my eyes magnificently. (I’d show you but I’m desperately shy.)
Also, see that mirror behind her?
Not your average bear.
Mirror, mirror, I meant mirror.
So.
Cool.
It's called the Chanel Mirroir Lumiére, and it has specific light settings for daylight, sunset, inside-nasty-fluoro lights, candlelight and so on.
Meaning your make-up artist can demonstrate how your foundation will appear in varying light conditions from daylight to evening.
And you don't look like a chump when you walk outside thinking you look Barely There and you really look like a burlesque dancer. Only with less nipple tassels and red lace and giant champagne glasses full of bubbles that you can use as a seat in the absence of any other chairs on stage, or simply hide your machete in.
