The stages of winged eyeliner application, abridged

1. Prime eyelids with eyeshadow.
2. Draw in the wings. Use a straightedge to help you.
3. Wing not sharp. Draw again.
4. Wing not symmetrical. Draw again.
5. Wonder if the wing you drew is too long or too flat.
6. Decide, "eh, whatever" and keep going.
7. Start drawing a thin line, tracing along your eyelid.
8. Build up along the line and fill in the wing.
9. Fill in a little too much on right side. Be forced to add a little more eyeliner on the left side.
10. Now you've filled in too much on the left side. Repeat with adding eyeliner on the right side.
11. Lament on how much eyeliner you have on now and wonder if you look like you have black bars on your eyes.
12. Put your glasses back on.
13. Realize after over half and hour of painstaking drawing, that your eyeliner has been totally asymmetrical all this goddamn time.
14. Ugh.
15. Fuck.
16. FUUUUUUUUUUU--
17. You have to leave in 5 minutes.
18. In a last ditch effort, wipe off the wing on the right eye with a Q-tip soaked in makeup remover. Feel anxiety over how much hard work you've just erased.
19. Redo the right eye wing.
20. It still looks asymmetrical.
21. Now you REALLY have to leave.
22. Gaslight yourself into believing that no one will notice or give a shit about your eyeliner being uneven.
23. Correct the eyeliner again.
24. Contemplate how you should have drawn it a little differently so it'll look cuter, but too late for that.
25. You haven't gaslit yourself enough.
26. Leave anyway because you're running late.
27. Nothing happens while you're out, and it's all fine in the end.
28. Return home and wipe it all off. You live to paint another day, soldier.

Comments

[Mica]

Does anyone on this site actually relate to this? Or is the stereotype true that all bronies live in their parents' basements full time

[Halira]

I long wgo gave up on trying to do anything beyond basic eyeliner application for the sake of my sanity.

[PresentPerfect]

in all seriousness, it doesn't have to be perfectly symmetrical, according to some Youtube short I saw last week :B

EDIT: Specifically this one! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SgWirP-ZFC0