Tightlining - when did this become a thing?

[Anonymous]

When did this become a thing? Why is everyone talking about it?

[Anonymous]

i've done it for years and it is awesome. makes your eyelashes look thicker and your eyes better defined.

[Anonymous]

I started in maybe college? Learned it from a class mate who worked at MAC, I had done waterline on on the bottom sometimes before, but never top until then. 2001ish?

[Anonymous]

I thought waterlining (on water line) is different than tightlining (at base of lashes)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought waterlining (on water line) is different than tightlining (at base of lashes)?

Yes, water and tightlining are different. Tightlining, iirc, is within the past five to ten years.

[Anonymous]

I thought you always put eyeliner right at the base of your lashes. It would seem I have no idea what tight lining is? Or I have no idea of what using eyeliner the regular way is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought you always put eyeliner right at the base of your lashes. It would seem I have no idea what tight lining is? Or I have no idea of what using eyeliner the regular way is?

Along lashes and also just above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought you always put eyeliner right at the base of your lashes. It would seem I have no idea what tight lining is? Or I have no idea of what using eyeliner the regular way is?

Along lashes and also just above.

[Anonymous]

People also do a cat eye with liner
http://m.bobbibrowncosmetics.com/makeup-lesson-party

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought you always put eyeliner right at the base of your lashes. It would seem I have no idea what tight lining is? Or I have no idea of what using eyeliner the regular way is?

Along lashes and also just above.

I think this is a better example of tightlining - the liner is literally pushed into the lash line to darken the lash line (no bare skin). This is not waterlining - the waterline is left unlined in this pic:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought you always put eyeliner right at the base of your lashes. It would seem I have no idea what tight lining is? Or I have no idea of what using eyeliner the regular way is?

Along lashes and also just above.

I think this is a better example of tightlining - the liner is literally pushed into the lash line to darken the lash line (no bare skin). This is not waterlining - the waterline is left unlined in this pic:

yes, I was trying to show an example of "regular" eyelining that also goes above the lash line. sorry if that wasn't clear. same for the cat eye - another example of how people line their eyes that isn't tightlining.

[Anonymous]

I've been doing this for 15 years so it's not something that's new. If you've been wearing eyeliner, most people have done it this way.

[Anonymous]

I figured out how to do this on my own, many years ago. If done well, it looks natural and gives the illusion of thicker lashes without having to glop on mascara. A thicker, non-droopy lash line looks younger.

It made a huge difference when I hit the age where the line of your eyelids just begins to droop under your lashes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been doing this for 15 years so it's not something that's new. If you've been wearing eyeliner, most people have done it this way.

really? most people I know typically put a line a little above the lash line, sometimes even a thicker line.

[Anonymous]

Tightlining is what I aim to do, and waterlining is what actually happens (do to speed and laziness). I didn't realize there were actually terms for this.