The answers below are suggestions based on personal opinion.  Each individual must decide for herself what is best.

It is easy to injure your eye if you are aiming the point of the pencil at your eye because depth perception is difficult to judge in this situation.

Use a magnifying mirror and hold your eye liner pencil horizontally. Apply the eyeliner under the eyelashes using the side of the pencil not the tip.

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TIP Use a mascara brush to separate lashes and remove clumps

Both eyes are finished

Eyes with mascara on the left side, without mascara on the right

12 Choose a lipstick shade a little darker than your natural lip color.  Follow your natural lip lines an fill in the lips

IMPORTANT: Your mouth may look too wide if you cover all of it with lipstick.  I narrow the lipstick line as I approach the corners and stop before I reach the tip.

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3 Add a light color under eyes to reduce dark circles

4 Even out your complexion with foundation. Apply foundation by patting it on and blending it with a make-up sponge for a  smooth look.

2 Cover black or blue skin in beard area with a red/orange make-up, cover red blemishes with green & cover brown spots with a color 2 shades lighter than your skin

5 Apply a soft color such as taupe or light brown directly under the lower eyelashes.  Stay as close to the lashes as possible. Hold the eye pencil horizontal to the eye and create your line from the nose out to the corner of the eye.

For blue eyes try a shade of blue, for brown eyes try purple or green and for hazel eyes experiment with all of these colors for different effects. 

6 Repeat the step above on the eye lid as close as possible to the lashes. Black liner is very dramatic and recommended for evenings. Black is also nice on olive or brown skin

9 Apply white shadow in the corner of each eye and under the eye brows from the nose outward. IMPORTANT: blend, blend, blend with a  small soft bristle brush

7 For bright colored eyes add your main color (pink) over most of the lid leaving room under the eyebrow.