TikTok Says Eyeliner Is Useless. Catherine Cohen Doesn’t Assume So

How did your magnificence “factor” turn out to be your magnificence “factor”? That’s the query we’re posing to celebrities in our new sequence, Simply One Factor. In fact, journalists that we’re, we’re additionally taking the chance to ask concerning the one magnificence product that helps preserve 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 believe it was a rule that you just couldn’t put on make-up till seventh grade at my faculty. And I bear in mind unexpectedly all the women had been doing tight waterline black eyeliner daily. And I used to be like, ‘That’s the coolest factor you may ever do.’ I couldn’t wait till I used to be within the seventh grade and I might experiment with eyeliner.

Till the tip of school, 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 folks, and I might see ladies strolling round Williamsburg with their wing eyeliner, and I used to be like, ‘I’ve to strive that.’

I requested a good friend who was sporting it, like, ‘How did you draw that on?’ And she or he confirmed me that mainly, you draw the little level and then you definately join it. You draw a bit triangle. [Today] I do a joke about how happening on a woman 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 wrestle 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 truly actually just like the Amy Winehouse method. The up and out—the way in which 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 Grasp Exact Liquid Eyeliner. It’s the very best one. I really feel like fancier folks 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.