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She does half her makeup wrong on purpose

Dominique Sachse starts with a bare face, her hair parted down the middle and clipped back. "I feel like a 12-year-old here today," she says, and then she splits her face in two. more

One side will get makeup done the wrong way, the other the right way. Before she started, she laid out why. Many of us have downturned features, either from our genes or because as we age our features "tend to move downward and sag a little bit." She loves going without makeup, too. But with the right tools, she says, makeup can change shape and "create lift."

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Hair clipped back, Dominique gets ready to do each side of her face a different way.

Eyebrows come first. She had hers tattooed and microbladed about a week ago ("So thank you, Connie"), but she fills them in with pomade anyway to show the difference. On the wrong side she makes the tail longer and carries it down, the way many women do once their brows thin out: "This brow is going to be my droopy brow." On the other side the brow stops shorter, and her strokes go out and up.

Eye shadow comes from a cheap COVERGIRL palette that, she points out, really does smell of chocolate. The wrong side gets the usual light shade on the lid, which can make a heavy lid look heavier. The right side gets a warmer plum, with the crease line brought up higher and the color swept up and out to follow the brow. On the wrong side, the same plum just follows the natural rounded droop of her eye.

At the outer corner she admits she is "cheating a little bit." Instead of stopping where her eye really ends, she builds a new end point a little higher and blends it out toward the tail of the brow. Liner on the good side goes in from under the lashes, so the lid stays open. "We're basically doing the antithesis of heavy."

Then comes the big one. The worst habit for downturned eyes, she says, is something "you never ever see me do": rubbing a dark liner into the lower lash line. Shadow under the eye is fine, she says, as long as it stays light. Then she does the bad version anyway on the wrong side, in dark chocolate brown.

Now she looks at both halves. The wrong side has "a heavy blocky look that looks sort of sad and older." The other side is "much more lighter and more youthful." Much of it is the same plum and brown on both eyes. What changed is where the color goes, and how far up.

A middle-aged adult female wearing a dark-colored top, ring finger adorned with a visible ring and dark nail polish, in an indoor residential setting with a staircase, framed pictures, and decorative branches. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
Dominique Sachse starts with a bare face, her hair parted down the middle and clipped back.

She finishes with small magnetic lashes on the outer corner, then concealer, powder, blush and lipstick, keeping her contour just under the cheekbone and a little higher on the lifted side. By the end, the two halves of her face aren't the same shape. Plenty of women watching recognize the wrong side as their own usual makeup, and more than a few say they would happily settle for it.