Make up for the older eye

And other catch ups

It was about fifteen years ago that I realised I needed to radically rethink my approach to eye make up.

Getting ready to go out, I’d done my usual thing shading the crease, with careful blending of greige powder shadow, but when I opened my eye all my work disappeared into the deep crevasses that have slowly formed over the millennia of my life.

It was one of those sucker punch realisation-of-aging moments that just spring up on you, when you realise something you’ve always taken for granted has gone forever.

I was shook. So I asked two eminent make up artist pals for their advice.

My adored friend, Aussie MUA Christian McCulloch (we shared the Elizabeth Bay flat that the Darlinghurst fire crew regularly came to, which you can read about here) had a great suggestion.

He said: ‘Put it on with your eyes open’. Which is what I’ve been doing ever since.

Then I asked another dear pal Val Garland, who you might know as one of the judges from the TV series Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make Up Star (wh…