How to apply mascara

How to apply mascara, step by step:
1 Open the mascara. Rub the end of the mascara applicator on the inside rim of the mascara tube to get excess off.
2 Position yourself comfortably in front of a mirror. Lean your dominant elbow on a firm surface. With a steady hand, place the mascara wand at the root of your eyelashes. Gently pull the wand up to the end of your lashes, slightly jarring the wand back and forth to separate the lashes and prevent clumps. Repeat across your eyelashes, making sure to get every lash.
3 Use a lash comb. Place the comb at the lash roots, and gently pull up through the lashes. Do this before the mascara has had a chance to dry, otherwise the mascara will flake off into your eyes and down your cheek.
4 Hold the mascara wand vertically. Lightly run it along your upper and lower eyelashes to add slight color to them.
5 Remove any mascara smudges with makeup remover. Place a cotton bud on the top of the smudge, and gently rotate in place until it comes off. User your finger to blend your eyeshadow back in.

Back Ground On Mascara.

Mascara is one the most ancient types of makeup known. It was used in 4000bc by the Egyptians. They use to call it kohl and would use it to darken there eyelashes, eyebrows and there eyelids. They assume the Egyptians kohl (mascara)was made out of galena or lead sulfate, malachite and charcoal or soot. The Ancient Greeks also used mascara and the later Romans in Europe stopped using the Cosmetic after the fall out in Rome. Eye cosmetics were still imported though, as the Arabs still liked and used it. During the Renaissance Europe started to use mascara.

From the early time of Mascara in the modern times, mascara was very cakey. It was applied to the eyelashes using a wet brush. Mascara was made from black pigment and soap.

Ingredients of Mascara

Typical ingredients included in mascara are usually a carbon black or iron oxide pigment to darken the lashes; a polymer to form a film that coats the lashes; a preservative; and thickening waxes or oils such as lanolin, mineral oil, paraffin, petrolatum, Castor oil, Catawba wax, and Cadillac wax.

There are two normal choices: formula's with no water, or emulsions of water and oil. The no water formula's tent to be waterproof. They are also less likely to smudge or flake away, but they are very hard to remove. Emulsions are easier on the lashes but they tend to flake away easier and smudge easier. Emulsions are easier on lashes but may flake or smudge.

In the 1930's, lash darkeners contained ingredients such as turpentine, lead-containing kohl, and aniline, a hair-dye ingredient,all of which left more then one women blind. Now a days its regulations strictly limit the ingredients to what ingredients can be used in the eye area, safely, but you should be on the lookout for thimerosal, a preservative that can cause conjunctivitis and eyelid dermatitis (a rash). Thimerosal is still used in some mascaras.

What is Mascara

Mascara is a type of cosmetic that is applied to the eyelashes. It has several effects to the eyelashes such as thickening, darkening defining and curl them. It is normally sold as a liquid in a tube and usally applied by a round brush known as a wand. There is also different types available such as a cream or cake version.

HOW MASCARA IS MADE

There is two types of way to make mascara, they are both manufactured ways. One way is Anhydrous this contains no water. The other way of making mascara is known as the Emulsion method, this contains a location base.
Anhydrous Method In the anhydrous method, which is also known as waterproof mascara, all the ingredients are put together and mixed in a kettle and it usually makes around ten tubes of waterproof mascara.
The Emulsion Method, in this method they mix several thickeners and water together. The waxes and Emulsoifiers are mixed and heated separetely. Pigments are then added into both the mixtures before they are all added together. After that the lotion and wax is finally mixed together. They do this by using a machine called the Homogenizer, this machine mixes the ingredients at a high speed, this is so that no air gets in so it cant evaporate.

Introduction

Hello my name is Faye-Louise Brennan, I am sixteen years old and I got to Wesley college. This is the first blog i have ever written and it is about the geography of mascara and other relevance's to mascara.