By BR Tabatha
Don’t you hate it when your lipstick feathers out onto your skin, making your lips look hot mess rather than just hot. Or when your eyeliner quits lining your eyes and decides to line your face instead. Makeup smearing is a cosmetic loving girl’s nightmare. It takes your look from en pointe to straight out ‘OMG take it off!’ So what’s a girl to do if this is a regular problem? Sandbagging.
Sandbagging was brought into the mainstream by Kimmy K’s makeup artist, Mario Dedivanovic, and it’s surprisingly simple to do…
After you’ve applied foundation and concealer you take a loose powder and a wedge sponge and press the powder into the areas that need to be free from the curse of the slide and smudge – so around your lips and right up tight under your eyes. You then go about doing the rest of your makeup while it sets and sucks up grease and moisture, effectively creating a dam. Once you’re finished gussying yourself up, you dust off the powder and you’re done.
If things do what they’re meant to do, and the sandbagging is successful, you’ll be able to swan around looking gorgeous all day knowing that your eyeliner will stay around your eyes and your lipstick won’t end up looking Joker-esque.
Want to see how easy sandbagging is? Check out this video from our fav YouTube beauty guru, Wayne Goss.
So does your eye makeup and lippy have a tendency to travel? Have you tried the sandbagging technique? Did it stop the slide? Is this something you’re keen to try to stop yourself looking like you’ve been out all night when in fact you’ve had a solid eight hours and feel as fresh as a daisy?
Get chatting my pretties ….
It never ceases to amaze me all the new makeup techniques coming out.