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Girls is as much about sex in a woman's '20s as it is about maintaining jobs, living in Brooklyn and stalker ex boyfriends getting hit by cars in a women's '20s. And so the HBO show's makeup artist, Marianne Harris, has been charged with getting that authentic after-sex beauty look down. Don't be fooled—there are no tips to a "dewy afterglow" ahead. But you will know how to look like you give no effs, no effs at all. Harris told Into the Gloss:
Really, really smudge the eyeliner with a Q-tip or a sponge. Sometimes I get lucky and we didn't get all the makeup off from the night before and I can incorporate that into my work. That makes it look really real because mascara travels, and it will, in some places, be totally off. After sex, people get a bit sweaty, so that eyeliner or mascara can travel quite a bit!Voila! You're a satisfied mess!If I paint on the liner, I paint it on really sloppy, more like sketching or watercolors. There's a lot of distressing, a lot of taking things down.
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