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"  The all-time most popular, most-applied makeup shade isn&amp;#039;t a classic crimson or a workaday beige. It&amp;#039;s black, in all its chic-to-grunge glory. Long before smoky shadow and liner were as ubiquitous on the red carpet as Ryan Seacrest, Egyptian queens Nefertiti and Cleopatra elaborately decorated their lids with a homemade glossy kohl pigment\u2014pulverized copper, iron, or lead mixed with oil and painted on with a wood, bone, or ivory stick (the first eyeliner brush). Even the Kama Sutra features a recipe for homemade mascara (a seductive combo of lamp oil and burnt crepe-ginger leaves). &amp;quot;There isn&amp;#039;t a shade that works with every skin tone and eye color as well as black,&amp;quot; says Collier Strong, a L&amp;#039;Or\u00E9al makeup artist. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s the most universally flattering makeup shade\u2014ever.&amp;quot; But not all noirs are equal. Of the small handful of black pigments available for use in cosmetics, the absolute darkest shade is D&amp;amp;amp;C Black #2, made from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon gas. Also listed as &amp;quot;carbon black&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;black 2&amp;quot; on ingredient labels, it creates the blackest of eyeliners, mascaras, and shadows because it absorbs more visible light\u2014as quantified by a spectrometer, a device that measures light reflection\u2014than any other pigment, explains Ni&amp;#039;Kita Wilson, a cosmetic chemist at New Jersey&amp;#039;s Englewood Labs. &amp;quot;Other types of black pigments may be blended with trace amounts of other shades, so they&amp;#039;ll still reflect certain wavelengths.&amp;quot; Because carbon black&amp;#039;s texture is so fine, it requires waxy additives to stay evenly dispersed in a formula, so developing a supersaturated shade that goes on smoothly has been a challenge: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a battle in the lab to find the perfect blend of pigments to make a pencil or shadow the darkest it can be while also being nice to use. But once you get the formula right, you don&amp;#039;t have to layer very much to get rich color payoff,&amp;quot; says Wende Zomnir, founder of Urban Decay. &amp;quot;The shade does the work for you. The woman with the sexy, outlined dark eye\u2014she&amp;#039;s the one that gets noticed across the room.&amp;quot; Consider yourself warned. Click here for the latest and greatest black eye makeup! Three Ways to Wear It           Shiny Lids: Even with advanced formulas on the market, many pros still prefer the DIY mixology long employed by Debbie Harry types in backstage bathrooms. To create model Daria Werbowy&amp;#039;s liquid-look, onyx smoky eyes, De Mey, Lanc\u00F4me&amp;#039;s artistic director, blended a black pencil with lip balm on the back of his hand &amp;quot;until I got the perfect intensity of noir,&amp;quot; then he dabbed the concoction onto lids &amp;quot;with a very light touch.&amp;quot;  Spiky Lashes: De Mey tight-lined (makeup artist speak for a microthin application of color along the lash line) Werbowy&amp;#039;s upper lids with black liner, then loaded them with the new Lanc\u00F4me Hypn\u00F4se Doll Lashes mascara.  Winged Liner: De Mey drew a graphic Sophia Loren\u2013inspired cat eye with precise strokes of Lanc\u00F4me Artliner liquid liner. Create the shape using a gray pencil, then trace over with a slanted brush and matte black gel or liquid liner. Finish with a Q-tip dipped in Lanc\u00F4me G\u00E9nifique serum to clean the undereye and prep for concealer. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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