COLOURED EYE LINER

NOTHING BEATS eyeliner for waking your face, and there’s more choice than ever, with softer pencils and smoother textures to make application easy. And you don’t have to stick to black.

Leading make-up artist Ruby Hammer advises warm brown, slate greys and aubergine shades for a softer look that’s very now. ‘Apply a soft textured eyeliner pencil as close to lash roots as possible, the trick is to blur the line with a straight brush for a more youthful effect,” she says.

Get the look with Jillian Dempsey Khol Eyeliner in Burgundy (£18.50, thisis

beautymart.com), Kryolan Contour Pencil in Brown (£7.20, kryolan.com) or try Marc Jacobs Beauty Fineliner Ultra-Skinny Eye Gel Crayon Eyeliner (£20, Harvey Nichols). With five new shades, including the ultraflattering Dove Affair, glide this along the lashes or the waterline to make your eyes stand out.