It is the reflection of the soul. The look has a fundamental place in a beauty routine. For a guaranteed “false eyelashes” effect, the star makeup artist and founder of La Loge Beauté, Mélinda Noël, shares her secrets with us.
More intense and assertive! These are the most meaningful words to describe our eyes, once realized the technique of “Cils à la Méli”, and its “false eyelashes” effect guaranteed. And you will have understood: “Méli” for Mélinda Noël! celebrity makeup artist of television, music or cinema for 25 years, and founder of The Beauty Lodge, I rub shoulders with personalities on a daily basis in the dressing rooms. Between doubts and giggles, I beautify, reassure and provide valuable personalized advice.
I am delighted today to share them on aufeminin because we have common values around women. Through my background and the woman that I am, I wish to give you some accessible, useful and authentic beauty tips. There’s nothing like highlighting the part of the face through which these words resonate in all sincerity: the eyes.
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The beauty tip that stars love
A few days before the opening of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, I wanted to focus on the look… Quite a program! If it marks our singularity on the red carpet, it is just as precious in everyday life. With my experience on the sets, for more than twenty years, I have seen how much the artists were attached and demanding the famous “Cils à la Méli”!
What is very funny is that they still pass the word between them. When preparing them, that’s often what they talk to me about immediately: getting that natural “false eyelashes” effect with just a few strokes of mascara. Over the years, it has become the favorite gesture and it has always remained so.
Tips for a guaranteed “false eyelashes” effect
The result of “Cils à la Méli” is this guaranteed “false eyelashes” effect, just with a mascara. Nothing could be simpler, you tell me! It all comes down to layering, drying and fingering.
- First, close your eye and apply mascara to the top lashes. Then, open your eye and apply a layer of mascara, as usual.
- let it dry. This is an important step because this first layer laid will be a gripping base and will make it possible to thicken and lengthen each time more.
- For the second coat, close your eye and, with the brush, grab the bottom and top lashes at the same time. Apply the mascara by making small zigzags, from the root of the eyelash upwards. Repeat this step several times before letting it dry again. The volume is already clearly visible with very beautiful doll eyelashes!
- Repeat a third layer and even a fourth, depending on your desire for amplitude for your eyelashes.
Depth, material and thickness will be there. To your mascaras!