How to choose the best lashes for your eyes

okay i'm having a weird hair day my neighbors are being loud there's construction happening outside it's really fun hello so today we are going to be talking about lashes a lot of you recently have been asking number one what my favorite lashes are number two how to choose the right lashes for your eye or eye shape so hopefully i can shed a little bit of light on this if you feel like you're having a really hard time finding lashes that fit your eye shape my first question for you would be what kind of band do the lashes that you have been using have are they thick is it black is it very stiff because those are the lashes that i try to avoid because no matter what no matter your eye shape they're very difficult to use like they can be really difficult to apply so my first tip would be to go for something that has a very flexible clear band my current absolute favorite lashes and you've seen me use these in a couple of videos now are house of lashes collaboration with patrick taught and they're called it's a look so these lashes have a clear band they're flared at the ends they're super flexible very natural looking uh not too too long but you can definitely like dress them up if you want to i obviously have like decent sized eyes right house of lashes um i don't pretty much ever have to trim them they fit my eye shape perfectly so if you happen to have like quite large eyes like i mean they're not my eyes aren't gigantic i would say katie formerly known as lustrelux has bigger eyes than me but they are you know like i always talk about how light i have a decent i have a decent amount of real estate up here but house of lashes lashes i never have to trim them so you can probably see it's got a clear i mean i've got some glue on it now because i have been using them but it's got a clear band they're super duper flexible super flexible you can rough them up bend them around you know that is the mark right there of a nice flexible lightweight lash these have become my absolute favorite lashes and i feel like they go with absolutely everything house of lashes just have some of my absolute favorites i would say that a lot of their like classic brands uh brands lash styles i guess like for instance iconic the style is literally iconic like it has a beautiful flair they're not super duper curls they're very glam they're a little bit thicker the band is a little bit thicker and a little bit more stiff then they came out with their light series so house of lashes light has a slightly more flexible band i think i believe it's clear they're sort of the same idea but they're not quite as thick uh those are some of my absolute favorites and as far as length you know like length of the actual eyelash line eyeline eyelash line the lash line uh they're very similar to this one of the lash styles that i would say i would avoid overall are these guys by flutter lashes a lot of like velour lashes flutter lashes they have beautiful styles but they do have thicker bands this is in the style serenity so right off the bat you can see this lash is pretty dramatic very long they do flare on the ends and they have a very thick black band a little less flexible i mean you can manipulate it but it's going to be a lot less oh stop doing that it's just gonna be a lot less forgiving this is also a little bit long for my eye so if i hold it up to my eye it's just like so long so what i would suggest doing actually the um length of the actual like lashes or look really pretty so always test it first never just like apply the lash the way it is and if you are going to trim them you do want to make sure that you are trimming the outer corner of the lash not the inner corner this lash style is like a little bit dramatic and it's probably not something that i would go for on the regular maybe for like super duper glam maybe going to an event or something but i would absolutely have to trim it now one of the reasons that you trim the outer part is because it's typically longer so you can see these lashes flare outward at the ends so if i trim the inner part then it's just going to end up making the inner part of the lashes longer so you want to make sure that this area is the shortest of course so trimming that off is actually going to shorten the length of the lashes as well because this is going to be the longest the longest end so if you feel like these are a little bit too long for you anyway or like the full lash is but you have to trim it to fit your eye shape it might work for you because it is going to in turn like make these a little bit shorter by trimming off that end if that makes any sense now if you have pretty large eyes and you pretty much always wear like a winged liner you don't really have to worry about it because you're going to be going straight onto that black liner with like a thicker band so typically if i'm wearing a winged liner black winged liner and it's covering like my whole eyeline then i will usually go for something that has a little bit thicker of a band because it ends up just looking super seamless uh so don't feel like you can't wear it all of these lashes that i'm talking about will look beautiful with a winged liner but i would suggest if you are going to be like if you fall in love with a style that happens to have a thick black band you might want to consider wearing that when you're wearing like a winged liner another style is a house of lashes noir faux mink oh i guess that's the style nor faux mink i think they have a noir style so these are foam ink they are like double lined i don't know how you guys can see that they kind of like flare up they've got like double layers at the ends and they do have a thick black band um so that's one of the things that i love about house of lashes they have like a bunch of different styles so you can find black bands if you prefer those like they do provide a little bit more of a base for the glue so sometimes if you are using for instance one of my other favorite lashes the ardell faux mink demi wispies the band is very very thin which is nice because it's easy to manipulate it's a lot more flexible but it also doesn't hold quite as much glue obviously there's less surface area there so you want to make sure that you're really allowing like applying enough glue i actually do have a video on how i apply false lashes which i'll link down below because it's my the biggest trick is like how much glue you apply and how long you let it set our dell lashes are uh another brand that typically i don't have to trim which is really nice so here you can see they have a flexible clear band and another nice thing about the ardell demi wispy faux minks first of all they look super duper natural like they just flare out they're tapered on they flare out and the actual lashes are tapered on the ends so they have a very natural look they're also a lot smaller and much shorter so if you feel like a lot of the lashes out there like the iconics or iconic lights like they're just a little bit too long for you our dell dummy wispies are great for first of all they're a drugstore so they're very affordable they usually come in two packs i personally think they look good with absolutely everything they kind of like amp up the glam a little bit but they're not too big they're very very obviously demi wispies hello like they're og if you're like yeah but even ardell dummy wispies are way too long for me ardell does carry ardell and kiss they both carry like tiny lashes like tiny little barely their lashes speaking of barely there if you feel like smaller lashes just aren't glam enough for you but all the other glam lashes that i've been showing you are just like way too big for your eyes there are two by velour that are really really beautiful and i actually love using them as well they're just like enough you know um and they are actually like trim free that's like the point of them no trim you don't have to trim them they're not too long we have barely there and would i lie so barely there and would i lie and these are nice and short they're basically like pre-trimmed so you can just like pop them on the outer part of your eye if your eye is a little bit too big or if your eyes are smaller they should fit pretty well and they're not super long they are a little bit more dense so they're going to look more glam now again i will link that video like how i apply false lashes down below because it really goes into depth about like how to actually apply them but if you feel like strip lashes are just like way too difficult for you individuals are a lot easier than they than they seem so i have a couple different kinds here i have ardell soft touch right here which are a little bit more readily available obviously there are dell you can get them at ulta they're like little clusters so they have varying sizes they have from short to long and they're clusters of three so you can build them up and make them look like a more glam lash but it's a lot easier to apply in kind of like sections so that you don't have to deal with that whole band getting that whole band in the exact right place obviously regular like individual lashes like very individual those are great as well it can be a little bit more time consuming so the clusters are really nice another pack of clusters that i love are by a brand that is amazing they're called swede lashes this is a collaboration with nikki makeup not nikkietutorials but nikki underscore makeup on instagram she's a professional makeup artist and her work is absolutely stunning and i highly recommend that you check her out but same deal they have some like tiny little individuals they're clusters and these are actually a little bit less dense maybe than the ardell's they look a little like slightly more fine so overall my advice to everyone would be if you are a beginner i would start oh my god i just almost knocked over my green smoothie what was i saying if you are a beginner start off with something a little bit smaller look for clear flexible bands and if you are like unsure of what glue to use i have been loving this one from duo this is the uh brush on adhesive with vitamins uh so it comes in like a white and green package i believe but it has a brush so you can use the brush to actually like brush it onto the band of the lash or what you could do is concentrate a tiny amount on the end of the glue uh what brush and then dot it on your eye line your eye lower lash line wow if you find that like applying the glue directly to the band and then applying the lash is really really difficult for you rather than like sweeping it all along your lash line just apply like tiny dots so little one on the outer corner inner corner and then maybe like a few like that give it a couple seconds and then apply your lashes and if you feel like you're having a really hard time applying your lashes like really close to your lash line that should help you just want to make sure that you're applying enough glue so that it's actually going to hold on you might have to experiment a little bit but it's a good way to start alright guys that's it uh i just shared with you some of my favorite lashes so those are basically the styles that i go for i can also just like link down below obviously everything that i talked about but other options as well if you want to check out like what some of my favorite lashes are i do have a coupon code for velour which is down below i want to say i have one for house of lashes but i don't think i do um but yeah that's it please let me know what your favorite lashes are down below and particularly if you feel like most lashes are way too big for you but you found some that work really well with your eyes let me know what those are and hopefully it'll help other people in the comments um i'm gonna go now bye

Channel: Alexandra Anele

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Length: 12min 3sec (723 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 12 2020