Girls that wear glasses

it does get quite annoying

Another option is to apply your makeup in sunlight or right next to a sunny window with a magnifying mirror. I find natural light helps me to see much better.

Simonja, I can understand where you’re coming from – I’m very short-sighted and it’s tough doing any makeup to be honest – as I apply all products minus my glasses, bar my lip products, I often find I need to re-blend my foundation in areas, or have uneven eyeshadow ie one eye has more pigment than the other for the eyeshadow

I too find night time application of makeup a definite challenge too.

What I find does work well for me, oddly enough, is applying my makeup in my car driver seat – the visor for my seat has a good size, built in mirror, and I can line myself up so I’m applying my makeup very close to the mirror, without needing to bend down, or hold a mirror. Looking up, I can easily see if I’ve missed any lashes with my mascara, or if I’ve not blended my foundation properly and so on.

I find looking up to do my makeup / check it, gives me a much better result than doing it in my bathroom or near my bedroom vanity or bending over a magnifying mirror. I’d suggest seeing if that works for you, because I can get so close to the mirror, and am looking up at it, it seems to work well for me.

Night time though, definitely no good in the car – I’m talking about when I apply makeup in daylight, sunny hours. At night the car isn’t good ie lighting insufficient – and I too would love to know how other short-sighted beauties successfully apply night time makeup

You can buy magnifying makeup glasses – just do a google search for these clever designs. They are cheap on ebay, less than $5 with choices of magnification. Simply flip the lens over to do each eye.

I believe that there are specialty shops that sell 5x 10x 20x 30x magnification mirrors. Maybe even check online.

I’m really fortunate that my eyes aren’t so bad that a magnifying mirror doesn’t help, but honestly? I found one look that worked really well for me and I did it over, and over, and over again until I could pretty much do it with my eyes closed. Once I had that look down pat, I learned a new one, and did the same thing. It really is all about practice, practice, practice for me.
I also have a tendency to rock a bold lip or glowing cheeks rather than bold eye makeup, because those are things I can do without taking my glasses off.