nogoodforme superlatives: Favorite Ways To Pretty Up Our Eyes

This is kind of rip-off-ish of Sassy's "Beauty Product I Cannot Live Without" feature - we're all about grabbing that torch and running with it.

NARS Single Eyeshadow in Nightclubbing
I consider myself at the intermediate level in terms of eye makeup, mostly 'cause I'm Asian and everytime I tried to follow the eye makeup instructions in 'TEEN or YM, I'd freak out whenever they'd say "Apply this color to the eyelid" and I was all like, "WHAT EYELID?!!" Way to make me feel like an alien, 'TEEN and YM. But luckily I've learned to work around the lack of discernible, hooded eyelids and have crafted a whole eye makeup concept that has taken me far in life, or at least to nearly every rock show I've gone to since 2005. The center of the shebang is actually not an eyeliner, but the use of a dark shadow to create the mythic smoky-eye effect -- and the most genius dark shadow to use is NARS in Nightclubbing. (And yes, it is way advisable to use a proper eye makeup brush with this -- it helps you control the application a lot more precisely.) Not only is Nightclubbing named after an Iggy Pop song, but it also has small flecks of gold to pretty up your peepers with. You can get very Cleopatra-like with it, or go for a lighter touch. Be careful with storage, though, 'cause it can get everywhere -- but really, if your eye shadow ain't gonna get around, are you? (Kat)

Fresh Supernova Mascara
As much as Fresh Cosmetics is on my shit list right now for discontinuing Tobacco Caramel (my fragrance!) and thus condemning me to become one of those scorned women who spend all their free time searching eBay for old perfume samples, the existence of their Supernova mascara has increased the quality of my daily life infinity-fold since I discovered it about a year ago. I have a really good relationship with this one employee at the Union Square Fresh store, even though I'm angry at her right now for trying to convince me that I'll like Cannabis Rose as much as good old T.C. when I know full-well I WON'T. Anyway, it was she who turned me on to the near-mystical properties of Supernova one fateful afternoon: I walked into the store, and she hollered, "Oh my God, you're a big-eyelashes person, aren't you!?" I said "Yes," because I am. I bought two tubes that day and there was no going back. Fresh Supernova is not for the faint of heart. If you don't want your hardcore faux sixties-style lashes to be visible to an old lady with cataracts standing ten miles away, you should probably avoid this product at all costs. Fresh Supernova mascara and a little bit of concealer are the only make-up I ever bother wearing at all- there are very few arenas in which I qualify as being low-maintenance, so I'm proud of that. Thanks for listening. (Laura)

L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara (in Blackest Black)
Man, I really wish I could tell you about some supersexy eyeliner, but sadly I'm totally dumb about eyeliner. So instead I give you this old drugstore standby, one of the few makeup goods I've long been fanatically brand-loyal about. The deal with me is that leaving my lashes bare tends to make me look soooo sleeeeepy, for some reason. But Voluminous sort of makes my eyes come alive, and no other more glamorous/exciting alternative has ever been able to compare. I'm in it for life. (Liz)

Posted by Kat, Liz and Laura in Superlatives
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