Thanks, Wynne Huerta, for reminding me about Michelle Phan, another YouTube how-to success. Michelle, a trained artist — as in paint and illustration — is such a success her tutorials have been hit more than 50 million times and, as of October 2009, she’s represented by prestigious NYC agency Jed Root, who reps makeup-artist superstars Dick Page and Laura Mercier. She also developed a skincare line called IQQU.
In the first of these two vids, not only does Michelle demo one of my favourite “I’m-alert-and-paying-attention” tricks with white liner, she maxes out her lashes by using a business card during her mascara application. (I’d first seen an ’80s supermodel — Kathy Ireland maybe? — do that trick with a Kleenex on the “Vicki Lawrence Show” some years back. The biz card is better.)
In this next vid, you get a great look at a fun false-lash application. I don’t know how she positions them with cotton swabs without ending up with white fuzzies stuck to her eyes.
Image courtesy of MichellePhan. Click here to check out her varied collection of tutorials, which includes “airplane makeup,” “double-winged liner,” quirky “animé eyes” and “Lady Gaga Poker Face.”
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Janine!! Thanks a million for the first vid! I might not have asian eyes, but mine sure are small so this video has given me a bunch of great ideas. I have to go to sephora today to pick up a new mascara anyway, so I think I”m going to get Benefit Eye-Bright pencil as well.
Thanks again!!
I love that you’ve been inspired, S! Take a new photo for your Facebook profile photo so I can see!
Thanks for the blog on Michelle Phan, love her vids…she’s so talented and creative! I’ve tried the bright eye look several times and my mom & sis said I looked “Japanese”. I took that as a compliment and assume they meant the makeup style is modern, fresh and youthful. She has a fan club on Facebook and she posts updates everyday about what she’s currently working on and often asks fans for feedback and what they would like to see in future tutorials. It will be interesting to see where her talents will take her in the future.
She has the most interesting range of tutorials, I must say, and so many entirely different looks. Good viewing times.
Fantastic. She is so talented. Makes me want to dig out that white eye pencil right now, (now where on earth did it go?)
I love how you remember seeing that tip on the Vicki Lawrence Show. And who said television wasn’t educational?
Oy, seems I’m a mental hoarder of weird information. *grin*
My favourite inner-rim liner is Clinique’s Cream Shaper for Eyes in Brightening Gold. Discontinued. Grrr.