Hide the evidence with a matte shadow smudged to perfection.
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Mine's all smudged up after a little bit of use.
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Lev Ivanov's choreography for Odette has been smudged, adjusted, diluted.
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In other pictures, untreated, the light sky is smudged irregularly.
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Although, the line between the two is a bit smudged.
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She is untethered, a blurry presence smudged across a dense atmosphere.
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It's been burnt here, as though the room has been smudged.
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The giveaway was the fake zebras' floppy ears and smudged stripes.
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It was smudged and dog-eared and lumpy in odd places.
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Eventually, 3,600 copies were returned, some of them stained and smudged.
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Just like that, your perfectly polished ring finger is a smudged mess.
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Thus, I'd seen conflagrations reflected in the smudged lenses of Joe's glasses.
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They'll fix lighting and smudged makeup, but extreme retouching isn't their game.
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I really no longer have an excuse for dehydration or smudged glasses.
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"It struck me as a masterpiece obscured by smudged glass," he writes.
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The lines between where the game ended and reality began sometimes smudged.
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She adorns herself in a layer of cheap jewelry and wears smudged eyeliner.
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She arranged the leeks over smudged mascarpone and lemon zest, keeping it simple.
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Cut back to Amber holding the royal baby, her makeup not even smudged.
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Maybe we'll attempt an "artfully smudged" look, if we're feeling informal and kinda pouty.
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Some papers have been eaten away by silverfish; others have gotten wet and smudged.
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Rimmel Exaggerate Eye Definer Waterproof Pencil is the best for getting a smudged look.
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Like other botanical drawings from the 353s, the drawing is smudged, smoky and sensual.
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I'm tired, I look tired, my makeup has smudged, but she's still Pamela Anderson.
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She opened a drawer and got out a notebook—yellowed pages, smudged blue ink.
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She posted the photo of herself with messy hair and smudged mascara on Twitter.
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Your words and images are seared into me, dripping with ink, smudged and blurred.
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Epstein is a very hard client to represent without getting smudged in that way.
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A commercial building with smudged doors and missing handles signals that something is wrong.
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She's bringing star power to the people, one perfectly smudged cat-eye at a time.
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The walls are dirty concrete smudged and there's one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling.
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I smudged the details in the really poignant stories to protect the privacy of folks.
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"Lost in Konglish" is a black-and-white, artfully smudged zine by designer Ran Park.
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This gets oil smudged on my lenses, and I have to wash my glasses constantly.
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It looks like the entire display has been smudged up when holographic mode kicks in.
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A handwritten sheet of paper, ideally smudged by contrite teardrops, used to do the trick.
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Faces are perpetually smudged with the stuff, and corpses tend to be drenched in it.
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Hard to tell—it's dark in there, and this car's windows are scratched and smudged.
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The roads were slippery and wet and grey tones smudged the horizon like volcanic ash.
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Once we were all smudged and back in our circle, Little Owl dimmed the lights.
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And her house, she says, is regularly smudged with dirt blowing in from the street.
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He's a "ditto" sheet that's been run through too many times; dull, smudged, often inscrutable.
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They can be smudged, or only partially left on the edge of a doorknob or countertop.
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Gray or black, colorful or muted, there's no wrong way to wear a smudged, defined eye.
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Strangely, my mascara has smudged under one eye, but the lipstick is as vivid as ever.
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Because really, if there's one thing that always ends up smudged post-coitus, it's this shit.
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Here, she smudged the liner and diffused it outward, giving it that not-so-perfect appearance.
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It was a bit darker than my already fairly dark brows and also smudged very easily.
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So what seemed super-cool to me was having a smudged black mess around my eyes.
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Roberto Carlos Lange, the Floridian musician who performs as Helado Negro, makes invitingly smudged synth-pop.
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"Several pages smudged and unable to read," one buyer said in 153, posting photos as proof.
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The sides of "Le Smoking" seem smudged with soot, as if handled by a chimney sweep.
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A city I knew and loved, it struck me as a masterpiece obscured by smudged glass.
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The European fine smudged what was another quarter of consistent earnings from Alphabet's core Google business.
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She arrives swaddled in black, her eyes smudged with kohl, bright and smiling and wired on coffee.
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Two small feet, smudged with what looked like soot, stuck out from underneath one of the blankets.
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It's similar in size to the AirPods, but cheaper feeling with its quickly smudged soft-touch finish.
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On "In Cedars," Lattimore plays a crisp, bright melody, which Baird shadows with brooding, smudged guitar sounds.
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Some are smudged with chocolate; some have sesame seeds; all bear the marks of the baker's hands.
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At the time, her hair appeared smudged with a warmer shade of sandy blonde at the roots.
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The gentle, black and white "Untitled" (22020) reflects this development, consisting primarily of smudged and effaced marks.
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For example, she applied color-changing lip gloss to her eyelids, and smudged orange eyeliner across her lips.
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After a night of dancing and sweating, our liner is smudged and our lipstick is on our teeth.
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There once was an anti-highlighter that looked like smudged charcoal when smoothed over lips, eyes, and cheeks.
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When the details of a recorded history are smudged, the form and method of remembering must be reconsidered.
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Another, his face smudged with oil, wears a cycling jacket and looks like he might be a courier.
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So does a drawing of the whole composition, now so smudged it looks like a puff of smoke.
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While they chatted, the students removed their chocolate-smudged aprons to eat vegetarian risotto in the conference room.
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Her dark, brunette hair, which was dyed blonde with smudged roots and worn in a sharp center part.
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Paglia's petitions grow fuzzier with each iteration, as if they were documents smudged from being photocopied 300 times.
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As for the makeup, Ashley smudged Sisley's Phyto Eye Twist Pencil in waterproof with Steel and Black Diamond shades.
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As she reeled the deflated gum back into her mouth, Angel saw the black lipstick smudged on the gum.
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They sweep onto the lids with opacity, yet can be sheered and smudged out for a more subtle effect.
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In a framed family portrait on the wall behind everyone, Frank's face turned black, as if smudged with charcoal.
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Wiping her lens's UV filter with gloves resulted in this iceberg appearing—quite appropriately—like it's being smudged out.
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Case in point: this look, which pairs a diffused, smudged eye with a rich wine lip and looks unreal.
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I came home late, didn't wash my face, and woke up on Sundays with a headache and smudged eyeliner.
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You can see the area where Homer's head and arms roughly matches the smudged area in the tweeted photo.
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How smudged are the lines between your own identity and identity of the act that you're paying tribute to?
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It will be remembered as the season that some of the Spurs' mystique was, at the very least, smudged.
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The canvas, smudged with purple, conveys an uneasy mood, but its key feature is a wild splattering of red.
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One seems to depict food packaging; the other is a field of random letters, beautifully smudged and au courant.
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On the production side of things Standard Nature delivers smudged, mildewy sound design that underscores its solemn emotional feel.
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What we're looking at are smudged pencil drawings, from a notebook, portraying monstrous naked men and women and their genitalia.
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Maybe it's the smudged eyeliner, black hair extensions, and assless chaps of her "Dirrty" days that first come to mind.
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Scali winged out Kendrick's liner but added some edge with a gray smoky shadow smudged beneath her lower lash line.
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He sat there for two years—tongue out, eyeblack smudged, swing just starting—before I bothered with the plastic sleeve.
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Champion takes up the B-side, "Disparate," working smudged samples in painterly strokes across a freeform bass-and-percussion landscape.
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The only flaw is his recent embrace of Instagram, allowing museumgoers to lazily flick through images on MoMA's smudged iPads.
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Small, with smudged walls, it has tin sheets for a roof and a tiny window that barely lets in light.
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It's not your fault if your perception of the world has been a little smudged or tinged with confusion lately.
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Leal recommends thinking of traditional highlights as having less dimension throughout the shaft and slightly smudged roots (if any at all).
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Then we fill in her eyebrows a bit darker, throw on a smudged eyeliner, and maybe even play with a lip.
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Coster-Waldau started out filming himself watching the screen, before doing a cheeky little camera flip to his smudged laptop screen.
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They both faced the mirror, which was an eight-foot ordeal leaned against the wall in all its hand-smudged glory.
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Not only do they last without creasing, but they're easy to remove and won't leave your eyes smudged like a raccoon's.
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It wouldn't be the first time that the Russia drama has smudged out White House efforts to promote Trump's global agenda.
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The blades were turning slowly overhead as ashes drifted in the air and made the whole landscape look smudged and blurry.
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And then on top, because I like a black eye with a smudged look, I use a Chanel or Sisley liner.
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Oh, no, I got some smudged on the other side, so that&aposs not what&aposs gonna be on my eye.
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Rimmel Exaggerate Eye Definer Waterproof Pencil gives you the perfect smudged-out line that you can blend with an attached sponge.
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Nikitjaev was able to read the badly smudged text by taking multi-spectral recordings of the document at various optical wavelengths.
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At the party, Burton's fake tattoo smudged off onto her dress, and she dabbed out the stain with a wet napkin.
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His warmly lighted, softly smudged images convey a world becoming slowly less distinct, as if being viewed through increasingly distanced eyes.
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I'd squint at the smudged stamps strewn across its pages, remembering where I had been and imagining where I was headed.
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In their camps along the railway tracks, they wear smudged camouflage and tattered winter coats, like hobos with a geopolitical agenda.
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When my eyes have fully adjusted, I also notice a couple of VR headsets hanging on walls smudged with black handprints.
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My hippie roommate fed me a lot of New Age rituals that I never bought into — until she smudged our new house.
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Princess Eugenie has never been afraid to experiment with her beauty looks, whether it's wearing a bold red lip or smudged eyeliner.
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She's known to take risks when it comes to her beauty routine, dabbling in bold lipstick, smudged liner, and even nail art.
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She even tinted her pigtails with red and blue paint and smudged matching colorful eyeshadow over her eyes to get into character.
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Braised-beef ravioli had good flavor, but they were blanketed with a gummy sauce on a plate with a heavily smudged rim.
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The Pamela Anderson that comes up when I google her name, all smudged eyeliner and wild chemical blonde, feels like another woman.
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The intricate designs were chiseled into the skin using a tool called an uhi; ink was then smudged into the carved lines.
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There are orchestras that play with more precision: Here and there an entrance was frayed, an ornament rendered with subtly smudged contours.
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Is it possible your computer screen is smudged and the Flames have ten fewer wins and 20 fewer points than you think?
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The first photo is a sea of chromatic noise, smudged up by noise reduction blur working overtime to produce a somewhat reasonable image.
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Our beauty resolution for 2019 is to perfect smudged makeup — and we're going to do it without so much as touching an eyeliner.
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In some cases there may not be enough DNA for a sample, or only a partial or smudged fingerprint at a crime scene.
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Blonde tresses curl down her back; she is smudged with dirt and dressed in thigh-high patent boots and a short, white dress.
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A man with a fedora sipped something brown on the rocks; a woman left smudged lipstick on what looked like a wine spritzer.
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The precipitous ridges that are her knuckles rise and fall as she grips the silver smudged tongs, swiftly and adroitly rotating her wrist.
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Her tone lacked steady warmth; rapid runs were smudged here and there; one or two high notes were on the verge of cracking.
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It was in bright, smudged color and began on an ocean liner, with people dressed up and walking around, talking to one another.
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For an extra zing, he smudged a "fluo-orange" dot in the center of the lips, using a theatrical paint mixed with water.
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In a series of photo negatives, his features are smudged by a pair of tights over his head, his throat cinched with armor.
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The gym's log-in book is brimming with years' worth of scrawled names in smudged pencil and smeary ink—some signatures, others autographs.
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Far more often, all we have left are memories, smudged and indistinct, like a painting marred by an untimely brush of a hand.
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Spot checks by executives and the company's auditing team found used napkins left on tables, smudged windows and doors, and messy condiment stations.
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By the time we arrived at the beach, the sky was smudged, a seventies-eyeshadow palette, bruised mauve to midnight blue to ochre.
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Outside a Roman Catholic church in Manila, women wore masks smudged with fake blood to call for an end to violence against women.
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Another thing I noticed was that Schjerfbeck repeatedly accentuated women's mouths, often with a smudged brushstroke of gaudy red in an otherwise muted painting.
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It's also right near the camera lens (which has the same flatness and smooth texture), so the lens gets smudged 2929% of the time.
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"It's very unfinished in application, and almost smudged into the lip line — not ultra defined and done by using a lip pencil," Sesnek says.
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His memory was smudged around the edges, but he recalled his years of literary glory, a quarter of a century ago, with sparkling clarity.
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The entire interior of the hotel's glass, mirrors, chrome in the hallways of the hotel were dirty, smudged and elevators, was overdue for cleaning.
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Weather permitting, well-placed observers who look carefully Wednesday morning should be able to see the moon's lower portions take on a smudged appearance.
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You didn't sense any underrehearsal at the concert on Saturday, a smudged passage or two being par for most courses, even at this level.
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Where bar-coded tags fall short is if the tag is wrinkled, smudged or torn, or not in line of sight of the scanner.
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Twombly's sensually smudged form and sinuous line compress sight, smell, and touch, and join it with the act of reading — the sound of words.
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Endless blue skies and stretches of open freeway, the edges smudged with orange poppies and wild buckwheat and tumbles of pink and purple bougainvillea.
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I dutifully erased the rectangle marked "BAR" and made it smaller, but now it was smudged, and more of a focal point than ever.
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The Broncos later tweeted a photo of the silver, finger-smudged trophy in a much more secure location: the hands of their coach, Gary Kubiak.
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Sadly, Grandad will never know the delights of scrolling a butter-smudged finger across your phone screen, absorbing recipe ideas and saliva as you go.
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Adorable, yes, but fans quickly called out something not so cute: the fact that Grande's eye was smudged with what looked like leftover black makeup.
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Celebrity colorist Justin Anderson touched up the actress' color with seemingly smudged roots and revived highlights — a recipe for summer perfection, if you ask us.
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The paint used on Cardi's body was so waterproof, not one bit of the body art smudged as the star got down in the ocean.
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He lined Mitchell's top lids with a brown kohl liner to add depth, then smudged it out with a brush for a soft smokey effect.
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With added help, his eyebrows are painted a thick black with mascara, and then a "J" and "R" are smudged upon each cheek with lipstick.
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Built from a collage of vocal lines—sometimes layered, sometimes not—against sparse, smudged guitar, the song sounds like how looking at a kaleidoscope feels.
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On an adjacent wall is a polaroid of a skull smudged with black paint, appearing to have been wiped over the bones like finger paint.
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Since dawn, Gertrude and I have been waiting outside the house, leaning against the windowsill, the sleeves and fronts of our dresses smudged with whitewash.
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As in "Untitled (To Sappho)," Twombly compresses the visual (the mirror), the tactile (the opulent layer of paint), and the olfactory senses (the smudged flowers).
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Shot (by Sean Price Williams) in a blemish-enhancing palette of smudged makeup and unflattering light, the movie barely leaves its title to the imagination.
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Getting to Chengdu, our next stop, required more nights on a train, which plunged through drenching darkness, smudged occasionally with firelight from clusters of dwellings.
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He smudged them proudly onto a marker on Lower Broadway commemorating the city's ticker-tape parade for the Mets after their 1969 World Series victory.
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The fingerprint sensor is a bit too close to the cameras; I smudged the lower lens all the time while navigating my finger to the sensor.
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Besides my Sharpie-smudged steering wheel, my 2006 Toyota Corolla had piles of papers with various destinations on them littered on the floor in the backseat.
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Park's observations inspired her latest art project, a zine filled with artfully smudged definitions of English words that have burrowed their way into the Korean language.
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A diffused wash of color tends to adorn her top lid while a thick, yet smudged, line of classic black color always lines her bottom lashes.
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Once when I was wearing red lipstick, I came off stage to find it had smudged, and I had this big red dot on my chin.
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As for Delevingne's makeup, celebrity makeup artist Molly R. Stern gave the star a "sexy casual" look with softly smudged liner and a vibrant red lip.
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"I love lollipop lips, where lipstick is smudged beyond the lip line so it's totally blurry and it looks like you've just snogged someone," she says.
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The film titles printed in smudged, white chalk on black walls at CAAM are part of artist Gary Simmons's large-scale installation entitled Fade to Black.
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Because their beauty game has been pretty consistent lately (air-dried hair, beige lips, smudged brown liner), it's easy to think they've always looked this way.
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But by the time the detectives got the video and found the S.U.V., the prints were smudged and a dozen other hands could have left theirs.
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At my beach, there's only the smudged horizon, a gray blurring of sea and sky, and the winter-gold sea grasses that bend toward the sand.
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The line between truth and fiction, reality and hyperreality, what's real and what the powerful want you to believe is real, has never felt more smudged.
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LADIES FIRST More smudged charcoal is at the booth of Marc Selwyn Fine Art, from Beverly Hills, filled with drawings by the American master Lee Bontecou.
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For example, in "Masquerade" (2015), paint squirted and smudged on the frame and the canvas gives perspective and depth to the uneven surface of the painting.
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As we get in, Saoudi sits crumpled, a pile of skin and sweat, with the red lipstick smudged into a blur from all the crowd's groping hands.
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The fingerprint scanner is still a little difficult to reach with your finger, but I almost never accidentally smudged the cameras like I did on the S8.
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It's impossible to understand her life without understanding where she came from, a place and time where the line between black and white could not be smudged.
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Much of that space is reserved for moral clarity, a highly defined sense of right and wrong not yet smudged by the disappointments and ambiguities of adulthood.
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Maybe you just got the grapefruit — half-cold, half-scorched — along with lukewarm coffee and a smudged card from the kids, delivered to you in bed. Nice.
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On the spring/summer 2017 runways, a handful of models had dark-rimmed eyes so smudged that the phrase "next-day makeup" didn't do the look justice.
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Short notes scribbled by each schoolboy on smudged, yellowish paper showed both humor and homesickness as they sought to reassure their relatives they were in good spirits.
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A fresh coat of paint on walls that have become smudged over the years will immediately renew a room, and a change of color can transform it.
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It'll actually suggest taking another shot if you or someone blinked, or if there's image blur, or if the lens is smudged up and needs to be wiped.
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We opted for a bright purple swipe in the crease, a bit of the blue smudged under the eye, and a wash of the neutral over the lid.
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The photo is blurry like the camera is smudged, all the detail is lost from the cat's fur, and parts of the image are totally blown out. Yikes.
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A visit with the world's most helpful clerk confirms that the estate's title was passed from Jamie to his nephew, thanks to a document bearing Claire's smudged signature.
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And I'm just so hungover that I keep nodding and smiling and my smudged mascara rings bloodshot eyes and my fake eyelashes are hanging on by a thread.
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The princess, who told Harpers Bazaar that she often does her own makeup in cars, has mastered her signature combination of auburn waves, smudged eyeliner, and rosy cheeks.
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Droves of tourists flood into the city and crowd around finger-smudged glass to catch a glimpse of the glamour, storytelling, and tradition all synonymous with holiday windows.
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While looking at sample versions of the Conspiracy and Mini-Controversy eye-shadow palettes, I noticed that many of the shades were smudged by customers who'd tested them.
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The Chatty Cathies also include Thor's sister, Hela (a vamping Cate Blanchett), an overgrown Goth Girl with smudged eye makeup and killer dominatrix looks who plays very hard.
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Three of these casts brought a happy development: The restoration of a moment, late in the adagio, that has been smudged away by most other dancers this century.
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Hoops emerged in 21970 with low-fi recordings drawing on similar sources, smudged with the seemingly modest but determined do-it-yourself aesthetic of vintage collegiate indie-rock.
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Both the front and rear cameras on the Tab S3 are a functional but muddy mess — pretty much every photo I've taken looks like it's been softened and smudged.
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This is where she tends to talk directly to the camera ("This has been one of the best days ever") in a husky tone and with her makeup smudged.
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He paints both his characters and landscapes without hesitation, producing melancholy narratives that allow the spectator to play detective and carefully decipher the stories he has smudged onto canvas.
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She's the coolest person the Derry girls have ever met, a dark force of a woman who has mastered making her midnight black eyeliner look both smudged and winged.
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Aside from some unexplained red balloons on the floor when the show begins, the room's main decorative accents are wall-filling, smudged scribbles and drawings of half-formed faces.
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It's a narrative progression that at certain moments is echoed by the actual animation, as when the smudged, watercolorlike landscapes movingly overwhelm the cartoonish forms of Mitsuha and Taki.
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From their origins a century ago, in the era of John Buchan and Somerset Maugham, British spy novels have held up a cracked and smudged mirror to their times.
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For non-celebs, expect to head into the salon every two months (about 10 to 12 weeks) for a touch-up to maintain the vibrancy and get your roots smudged.
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By the end of the course, I had an entire notebook smudged with bits of lipstick and filled with the face-changing knowledge of Jung Saem Mool's top makeup artist.
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A hot, druggy, wildly charismatic lightning bolt, ready to tell you exactly how she perfected her artfully smudged eyeliner and what kind of pills she took while she did it.
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Maybelline makeup artist Erin Parsons and her team could have slapped on some bronzer, smudged on some black liner, and tapped on clear lip gloss and called it a day.
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For something we use for hours every day, when's the last time you did more than just wipe off your smartphone's screen when it was too smudged to see through?
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I remember the ritual of racing to the shop, sitting on the wall outside, wildly leafing though the ink-smudged pages searching for news of one of my favorite artists.
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My mouth and nose are covered by a dust mask; my jeans are smudged with pipe dope, and my hands are blackened with the grime of a hard day's work.
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Bangkok Journal BANGKOK — The thick white walls of the little fort are smudged and streaked with mold, doing little to keep out the racket and heavy fumes of passing traffic.
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We&aposre bringin&apos y&aposall THREE brand new eyeshadow brushes that define and blend your eyeshadow flawlessly for all-over and smudged application with the best color pay off!
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — John Calipari, residue from that morning's Ash Wednesday service smudged on his forehead, unbound his iPad's leather case and showed a visiting reporter its gleaming sky-blue desktop.
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In the more melodic passages he produced a lovely plangent sound and elegant phrasing, but in virtuosic showpieces like his Act 2 aria, ornaments often came out smudged and colorless.
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Emerging from layers of graphite, smudged all to hell into an almost luminous haze, the characters in artist Nathan Reidt's recent drawings peer out at the viewer in a trance.
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What does feel innovative is the Note 9's flaw detection feature that can detect when a picture is blurry, backlit or messed up because someone blinked or smudged the lens.
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As the Chinook's two enormous rotor blades started to spin, blasting hot vapor smudged the monochrome stripes of pavement, desert floor, mountain ridge, and sky above NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center.
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She loved that Jaime and the girl hadn't even bothered to clean the glass that day, as if there was no point to cleaning a surface that would be smudged again.
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The woman's arm, inked with a skull, is a (literally and physically) painful reminder of death, while the skull is a momento mori similarly smudged with the fingerprints of an artist.
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My grandmother made the yogurt herself and pressed it in muslin between newspaper, changing out the sections as they became smudged and soaked through with whey, the cloudy protein-rich liquid.
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As hundreds of locations shutter, some franchisees say that they're being forced out by development agents and Subway's corporate office for minor infractions such as smudged glass or poorly chopped vegetables.
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During an emotional scene with Weber, eagle-eyed fans spotted a new piece of script smudged across the back of Prewett's hand — which, unsurprisingly, led to plenty of Bachelor Nation theories.
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If the explosive was contained in a pipe, then the inside walls of that pipe, even in tiny fragments, will be smudged with residue from the explosive it held, experts say.
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There was also something entirely transformational about the heavily lined smudged cat-eyes at Max Mara, which held their own against strong fashion elements like animal prints, fringe and black leather.
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Even the exact nature of the historic achievement is smudged; I didn't understand, until I read about it later in her 1996 obituary, that Stone played professionally for only two seasons.
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I found my way to it last year at Paowalla in Manhattan — an egg with a warm, tender yolk under a fat blanket of melted cheese, smudged with bright green chutney.
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The first signs are the cycle-pushing foot-soldiers, such as Ravi Kumar, a 26-year-old whose yellow shirt and grey turban are as coal-smudged as his face and hands.
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"Nothing is uniform," Ms. Schmidt said during an earlier visit, pointing to the hand-dipped chocolates stacked on smudged, wax-paper-lined cardboard trays that filled the store's Prohibition-era display cases.
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Glam metal, by '80s definition, is the sector of rock in which leather studs, teased hair, and smudged eyeliner are as embedded into the music as distorted guitar riffs and catchy hooks.
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Whenever I leaned against the window screen to check the US point of entry, which ran right below our house, my face would be smudged with dust from the rows of cars.
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Aside from her waves and a pair of glittery pumps, there's one thing SJP is rarely seen without: eye liner smudged around her eyes in the most effortless-yet-perfect way possible.
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I cleaned my room thoroughly, making sure all of my body oils and sex toys were on display, that I had plenty of clean towels, and that I'd smudged with Palo Santo.
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His early promise to curtail tax breaks for hedge-fund billionaires ("getting away with murder") seems to have been smudged over in a tax plan that resembles Mr. Ryan's supply-side blueprint.
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At Bob Evans later that morning, with my hair matted and eyeliner smudged, I told my friend Claire over a buttery biscuit that I was sure I would be seeing him again.
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It's popular (and more upscale) in some parts of the world, but its United States properties often feature various shades of brown, smudged fake brass in the elevators and nicked wooden furniture.
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We decided to break into our safe-drop container, open the old rigs, and swab out the brown residue smudged across the ends, dropped along the plunger, and pooled at the tips.
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That is because for decades, Flint officials relied on handwritten maps with details of houses and pipes — many written in easily smudged pencil — that were kept in file cabinets at a city office.
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So in honor of Markle becoming a new mom to a baby boy, we've rounded up the 5 most essential parts of her beauty look, from that smudged eyeliner to that everlasting glow.
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I would advise against trying to shoot any zoomed photos with this phone, you're just not going to like or want to keep any of the smudged-up imagery it produces when zoomed.
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In another life, he was Caesar's pet, perhaps a gift from Cleopatra When she returned to Rome Her hair salty and sapphired From bathing, the winged kohl around her eyes smudged From heat.
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Specifically, we discovered that detailed lines often trigger the sense of something being depicted for you, so we smudged and faded and shadowed until we felt the right balance of detail and suggestion.
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In addition to the written line, Twombly has drawn a smudged violet stain in wax crayon in one of the two drawings titled "Untitled (To Sappho)," and a blue stain in the other.
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You: The sky is gray and the leaves are ombré; the wind whips hard against your face, and the matte white lid of your PSL is smudged with the kiss of your lips.
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As Simon Wheatcroft walked onto the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to start the New York City Marathon, he could sense other runners moving around him but could see them only as one smudged shape.
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On your palm, a boat filled with refugees seems to hang by a thread leading to your smudged fingertips, a reminder of the fingerprint identity control that Europe now enforces on all migrants.
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While we wait for more info on notes and the exact launch date, you can find us admiring this visual of the actress, featuring her signature smudged smoky eye and pre-buzzcut tousled waves.
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To add dimension, Soleimani rimmed more of the Blackest Black along the lash line, the crease of the eye and on the inner rim and then smudged underneath to create a messy, unkempt effect.
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Grande's eagle-eyed fans noticed the skincare faux pas when the "7 Rings" singer posted a selfie this past weekend as she was waking up with smudged black eye makeup still on her face.
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"Usually there are mattresses everywhere," she said on a recent Thursday as she walked through the house, urging an adult daughter to wipe down mirrors smudged with child-sized handprints and years of wear.
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Sentinel for the bare-shouldered, the cutoff-clad and sugar- smudged, for tall boys trampled and the greased-up mustard pumps, for men threshing against a particularly elusive curveball (brutal, the Bay's sure fog).
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It's an inviting landscape smudged with soft color, but as she stares at the signs with furrowed intensity, she chews on a fingernail so ferociously she seems on the verge of tearing it off.
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Faces created with AI can have smudged or out-of-place hair, facial asymmetry, misaligned or strangely-sized teeth, differences of color around the edge of a face, and generally painterly or surreal details.
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Kikuchi (2-1) drew some scrutiny from the Yankees when Manager Aaron Boone said he was aware that cameras showed a dark substance — perhaps pine tar — smudged under the brim of the rookie's cap.
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These numbers cannot be fudged, smudged, selectively chosen, or subject to alternate views, because there is only one reality: America is a nation at war despite America's indifference to the fights waged in its name.
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In the distance, where the ground flattened out, there was the wide plain of the Vega de Granada, smudged here and there with plumes of smoke and dotted with the skeletal remains of siege engines.
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To finish the look, Henao swipes a shimmery gunmetal eyeshadow (he's using Estée Lauder Pure Color Envy Eyeshadow in Ominous) from the lash line up to the crease, blending it in with the smudged liner.
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When I crawled over to face my new adult self in the mirror, I was greeted with melted foundation, flakey mascara, liner smudged by my temples — and the pang of makeup shame struck me hard.
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While there are so many selfie trends to pick from, this is the only one that can hide smudged lipstick and make it appear like you were trained by Tyra Banks on America's Next Top Model.
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While my identify feels slightly smudged by the proliferation of identity categories, a part of me also hopes they represent an opening for a better future for all of us, however flawed and elliptical the path.
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Products Used: Foundation #290; Eclipse glitter liner in "Alien Bae" smudged up on lids and blended with Killawatt highlighter in "Mega Moon;" Cosmic Gloss in "Spacesuit" on lips and Killawatt highlighter in "Moscow Mule" on cheeks.
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Then there were the posters, standard Donald J. Trump head shots except for a touch of artistic interpretation: a tilak, the red dot symbolic of the spiritual third eye in Hindu culture, smudged on his forehead.
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"This is one of the secrets of how you can create new businesses in Cleveland," he said, walking past rows of hydraulic presses, some still smudged with oil from their previous life in a now-defunct factory.
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"Before I shot the Burberry Liquid Lip Velvet campaign, I usually refrained from using lip colours because I struggled to get a neat finish and well-shaped, so it would often end up looking smudged," she said.
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Björk collaborator Arca is one of N O I S E's most notable contributors; although his work regularly bears traces of smudged distortion, on "Bussy" he veers all the way into power electronics territory at certain moments.
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We waited in line for students in sad cardboard mouse ears and smudged face paint to dole out cheese, which tasted somewhere between grocery store "cheddar" and that shrink-wrapped plasticky stuff you sometimes get on flights.
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One at a time, we went into the front room to be smudged with sage on the wrestling mats by a woman in her sixties with the silver hair and beatific smile of a Latina Mrs. Claus.
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The Shelby family's wealth and status speak both to pulling oneself up — albeit crookedly — by the bootstraps, and to an archaic opulence that feels like Downton Abbey under stormy skies, smudged with blood and dusted in cocaine.
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All of the works in the exhibition consist almost entirely of found or reused materials, including the smudged and faded papers (some of which are over half a century old) on which the artist draws and paints.
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Silence fell once more as the elderly artist crouched down and began to fill a 6-metre (20-foot) strip of paper with a zigzagging pencil line: what the hand drew, the feet smudged as he edged forward.
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In "Slippage / Spillage," Breiding has collected personal photographs and found images: fragments of bodies, family photographs, and odd details, like handprints on the hull of a ship or a smudged portrait of René Descartes, presented out of context.
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So, by all means, cut any corner possible when it comes to makeup and hair — sport as much dry shampoo, smudged liner, and BB cream as you need to get you from point A to point B quickly.
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Both are characterised by their touch-sensitive squidgy material covering, which isn't hit (as you would a normal piano or keyboard) as much as it is pressed, smudged and tapped in order to create and bend different sounds.
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He is a restaurateur to the titans of finance and a raconteur whose own wanton conduct — a sexual abuse case that ended in a misdemeanor plea — makes him something of a smudged window into an otherwise opaque world.
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But one untruth we just can't get over is when an adult film actress performs oral sex for an extended period of time, and then when she's done, she appears with her lipstick not even slightly faded or smudged.
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Watching it was bizarre; the line between legitimate fuck-up, a spot planned to look like a fuck-up, and a good idea on the drawing board but disastrous in practice is forever a smudged one in pro wrestling.
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Later, as her personal and professional lives go awry (her lover leaves and ratings plummet), more subtle, smudged colors appear in the form of dark green, wide-leg pants bought online from Theory a week before the first preview.
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He is a restaurateur to the titans of finance and a raconteur whose own wanton conduct — a sexual abuse case that ended in a misdemeanor plea — makes him something of a smudged window into an otherwise an opaque world.
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Page finished with a light application of brown eye shadow to just the lid — and coffee-brown eyeliner along the upper and lower lash lines, which he blended with an oil-based product to create a subtle smudged effect.
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A low-concept, low-bar romantic comedy whose conundrums are as familiar as love itself, "In a Relationship" has a smudged tenderness and almost nostalgic sweetness, as if we're watching these characters painfully learn everything that we already know.
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The part of any Republican debate where Ben Carson is asked a question about the rest of the world is often the most entertaining—Carson talks about the world as if he's reading from a smudged statement written on his hand.
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Maybe the biggest switch-up overall is the fidelity; the early GAS records were enjoyable to live inside for awhile because everything was slightly smudged together, and so took a bit of digging around to prise out what was going on.
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After cutting her hair again into an even shorter bob in 2017, Conrad settled into one of the biggest trends of the season: boho blonde with smudged brunette roots, which she wore until changing it up with this bright, summery shade.
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Her long hair twisted into a bun, wearing tight jeans and a white T-shirt smudged across the stomach from the chains she wore on the deportation flight, she said she had no option but to return to her house.
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The balm is non-greasy and proves the perfect base for the powder (we recommend using blotting papers to remove any excess product), which can be dabbed on with the provided brush or smudged on for a more lived-in effect.
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Far from the perfectly curated feeds of your favorite celebrities that feature sexy photo after sexy photo in a series of perfectly lit and angled and filtered selfies, Britney's living through Instagram as her realest self, smudged mascara and all.
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The oil painting look, which iPhones and Galaxy devices are just as guilty of, can sneak in on P30 Pro shots: when photographing crowds, I often end up with people's faces looking like they were deliberately smudged to protect their identities.
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It's a nifty way to suggest that the lines between what we want and what we don't can be smudged so, so easily — and that once they are, it's our collective responsibility to stop what's happening and comfort the afflicted.
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Appearances by Luvvy, with its smudged makeup and cheese-grater voice, became common on Pseudo radio and TV shows and at parties where clients were present—and as Josh must have known, were a gift to his critics and doubters.
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I never wear eye makeup because it always melts off my face, but I recently tried Urban Decay Perversion I wore the liner and mascara during 90-degree heat and 80% humidity, and neither one of them budged or smudged.
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Fronted by Jessicka Addams—with her jet black hair, permanently smudged lipstick and a voice that code-switches between childlike innocence and pants-shitting horror in seconds—Jack Off Jill encapsulated pretty much everything about being miserable, furious, and female.
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It's a kid's cake that gets grown-ups remembering their own childhoods — noisy birthday parties with silly decorations and games, the cold milk that always came with the cake and the inevitability of leaving the table with chocolate-smudged lips.
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Next door, in Petzel's booth, the take-no-prisoners artist Joyce Pensato shows monstrous yet compelling portraits of other American figures: six paintings of a demented Bart Simpson, rendered in drippy enamel, and a dead-eyed Homer, in smudged charcoal.
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Elisabeth Moss may be best known for her chilling role as Offred in the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, but the actress recently ditched her white bonnet and red cape for smudged eyeliner and ironic tattoos in Her Smell.
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In Northern California this month, more than 5,000 firefighters and support staff gathered to fight the Kincade fire, turning the Sonoma County fairgrounds into base camp, a sea of white tents and dirt-smudged firefighters taking breaks from their 24-hour shifts.
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" Next she, "cut the crease with taupe using the Beauty Blender liner and the darkest grey in the Sisley palette with a wet slanted brush to create a very angled top liner and the lightest grey lightly smudged along the bottom lash line.
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Tiller used Sephora Collection Diamond Eyeliner in 02 Cushion Cut to create a black smudged wing, and then applied Sephora Collection's Uptown to Downtown Smoky palette on her inner corners and bottom lash lines to play off of the studs on her shoes.
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As Hyperallergic recently reported, the left thumbprint of Leonardo da Vinci was found a few months ago on a medical drawing held within Britain's Royal Collection, along with a smudged print from Da Vinci's left index finger on the reverse of the drawing.
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They didn't have to change much in terms of building heights to make every inch of the city traversable, either — but certain differences between boroughs, like Harlem's lower verticality in comparison to other parts of upper Manhattan's, had to be a bit smudged.
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Lars Niki/Corbis/Getty Back when Lo Bosworth spent her days at the beach and her nights at Area nightclub, her beauty M.O. was simple: She preferred her eyes slightly smudged with kohl liner and her strands sleek, straight and sun-kissed.
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Dalton Rapattoni, Plain White T's' "Hey There Delilah" I cannot stand this cheese-fest song and watching Dalton's skunk-like hair and intentionally smudged eyeliner up close as he turned it into what Keith Urban called "an electric barnyard" was almost excruciating.
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The panel was unpopular with some prosecutors and tough-on-crime proponents because it highlighted concerns over law enforcement techniques used to prosecute criminals, such as the use of bite marks to identify people and expert analysis of hair follicles and smudged fingerprints.
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One is not sure if the subjects are treated gently or cruelly, streaked as they are with stains and smears across the mouth, as though they had just indulged in a gluttonous meal or smudged excessive amounts of lipstick on their face.
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On the eyes, Pecheux applied black eyeliner smudged in with MAC Neon Studio Eye Gloss, a fleshy tone that warms up the black eyeliner so "it's not so aggressive" and doesn't look too pristine ("perfection is boring," he said, with Parisian insouciance).
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Investigators had to overcome scant physical evidence in Ms. White's murder: no bullet casings, no nicks on the walls or trees, and fingerprints on a car hood that were smudged by the time detectives found surveillance video and tracked down the car.
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Photo: GettyForensic science is only science-magic on shows like CSI, where blood drops quickly reveal the patterns of a killer and a fingerprint places someone at a crime scene, even if it's only half of one, and smudged off the side of a door.
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You'll know something is amiss in Denmark from the moment you open the book to a haunting watercolor illustration dominated by a dusky, rose-smudged sky, shadowy grasses traversed by a black cat, and a slanting old house with a watchful bird perched on top.
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It is a sequel of sorts to a 2013 installation for which she collected leftovers and food waste (milk at the bottom of a cereal bowl, grease smudged in a pan) from a year of meals she made for her husband and two sons.
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Two things happened when I placed a Samsung Gear virtual reality headset on my face at Facebook's New York City office last week: One, my glasses smudged (I hate when that happens), and two, the demo I was there to see didn't start properly.
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Supermodel Kaia Gerber, 17, dominated the runway in a pink floral embellished off-the-shoulder confection, complete with over-the-top feathered mass on the sleeves and hips, a '60s-inspired beehive hairdo with a matching floral barrettes, smudged smoky eye makeup and a bright red lip.
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The latter, led by the duo of singer/guitarist Charlie Ellis and bassist Emily Ibarra, hit the ground running when they broke out earlier this year with a lush post-punk sound and lofi aesthetic torn straight from the pages of a smudged Memphis School zine.
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Karim Mussilhy captured the distress of Grenfell survivors when he told of seeing the smudged fingerprints of children and adults on the walls of the building&aposs single narrow staircase when he was allowed to visit the top-floor apartment where his uncle Hesham Rahman died.
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Right now, the Note 9 can tell if a picture is blurry, the lens is smudged, the photo is backlit, or if someone blinked while taking the picture, and then alert you that you might want to try again to avoid ending up with an unsatisfactory pic.
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She had swigged some for good measure, then poured most of it down the drain in the master bathroom, the counter cluttered with her mother's makeup and perfumes, the mirror smudged in places as if her mother had pressed her face too close to the glass.
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Whether it's turning lazy smudged eyeliner into the rock 'n' roll makeup trend of the year, rocking an orange wig in tribute to the one and only David Bowie, or skipping the glam squad altogether and arriving in an oversized egg, she always brings the drama.
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The show they've been working on since forever is a hall of smudged mirrors, with a plot about putting on a show in which roommates of 40 years from the Upper West Side create a play about roommates of 40 years from the Upper West Side.
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Having spent the late fall rehearsing in Ramallah, a Palestinian city in the West Bank region, Mr. Zuabi and his cast were now stumbling through the play on the fifth floor of a building on Great Jones Street: creaking floors, tin ceilings, windows streaming smudged winter sunlight.
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In MoMA's galleries the books hang in midair, swinging from the ceiling, while the Instagram images are displayed on finger-smudged iPads, which visitors were flicking through with the same attention usually given to social-media imagery — that is to say, not much attention at all.
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If its 1.5-star Yelp rating is anything to go on, visitors felt let down by the ticket price, by the size of the installation—it was literally a room—and the fact that it was pretty much just a bunch of smudged-looking balloons and partially deflated inflatables.
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In just a couple of minutes, I had swiped and smudged up the brilliant screen, checked my teeth in the phone's iridescent casing, drafted an AR doodle for which I had no particular use, and waved a tiny wand in the air to control the phone's camera app.
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The Bieber cut-outs, covered in regurgitated Jager and smudged lipstick are on their last legs, wilting like dead plants on a window sill, and giving off the same kinda germs as an Oceana smooch-booth, and yet a group of girls violently fight over the last remaining ones.
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The peach-kissed pastels depicting the ballerinas may feel a world apart from the smudged inks and acid colors that define the sex workers, but as materials applied to a surface, each acts as a correlative for the surface theatricality, bedazzling or besmirched, that's being trotted out for display.
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The "Ladyland" women appear frequently in Cecily Brown's work, sometimes looming at its center, sometimes as a flash of memory in a tumult of other images; at moments their stares and smiles are rendered with eerie clarity, at others smeared and smudged so that their forms are barely recognizable.
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Page after page of huge, glossy photographs keep interrupting the recipes, many of which are printed on black or artistically smudged backgrounds that obscure the instructions; and there are so many unnumbered pages that it takes forever to locate a recipe you've just looked up in the index.
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He is steely eyed, often glancing upward, as to a higher goal, or resolutely ahead; dark, brush-cut hair just beginning to be smudged with gray; the squareness of his jawline matched only by the squareness of his shoulders, his 6-foot-8 frame often draped in layers of true blue.
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In the midst of it all, she's also managed to become an icon in the beauty world: From wearing a sheath made entirely of purple hair extensions and turning lazy smudged eyeliner into the rock 'n' roll makeup trend of the year, Gaga has never been afraid to take risks.
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With the perfect canvas prepped, Ashley then went to work on the eyes which featured, "a clean soft beige lid with a taupe cut in the crease and a severe black liner and smudged black plum on the lower line, both by Bobbi Brown and waterproof" (great for the aforementioned heat).
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Reproductions of two pieces from the artist's "Untitled (Four Etchings)" (1992) fill the pages, featuring phrases from Zora Neale Hurston's 19013 essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" in black block letters that become increasingly smudged and hard to read as your eyes move towards the bottom of the page.
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The smoothing brush is essential for exfoliating the lips so that they're perfectly primed for color; the lining brush is a must-have for creating a defined outline; the fan brush is magic for cleaning up any smudged edges; and the old faithful lip brush makes applying your product of choice a breeze.
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The gold eye glitter, which lead Burberry makeup artist Wendy Rose describes as "eclectic," is an otherwise minimal makeup look with a dewy complexion, softly smudged smoky eye and a cluster of loose sparkles applied to the outer corner of the eye for an instant pop on a seemingly neutral beauty look.
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The brilliant thing about this series, which we first saw late last year, is how we ignore smudged make-up or douchey haircuts when we meet someone on the dancefloor because of the lighting, the music, and the pure joy of watching the fantastical spectacles like Wesley Snipes sticking a shotgun in an alien's mouth.
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And yet there's still a negotiation there, in the way that she presents as being a little bit of a wild woman, but not too wild, not wild in a way that would preclude her from being sexy, or, like, keeping her makeup intact, unless it was smudged in like a very erotic way.
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Softly smudged eyeliner and red lipstick blurred just over the contours of your lip line feel sexy in a low-maintenance, I-am-very-busy way, but the manicure we want to match — almond-shaped tips, topped with a glossy nude polish — generally requires a little more precision, not to mention a heavy-hitting base coat.
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Tejal thought about that, too, and now her Pickowicz-inspired recipe for a potato-and-radicchio tart (above) is absolutely on the docket for cooking this weekend, though I'll probably make a double batch of the pastry so that later in the week I can try Pickowicz's version with smudged mascarpone with braised leeks and lemon zest.
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Playing with memory — the characters' and our own — allows Mr. Boyle and his cinematographer, Anthony Dod Mantle, to conjure some of the movie's loveliest, most melancholy images: the smudged shape of Renton's dead mother sitting at her kitchen table; Spud detoxing on the floor of his crummy apartment, his anguished shadow looming, "Nosferatu"-like, above him.
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The most accomplished post–Ab Ex paintings (resembling a bit, Arshile Gorky's) are those that also engage with a haunting look of improvisational planned chance where chance operations are deliberately introduced into the creative process, such as the tantalizingly smudged "School of Athens" (21954), loopy and sensual "Dutch Interior" (22005) and the tasteful yet flamboyant "Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus" (24).
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In a subdued Paris on Tuesday, as Parisians and tourists gathered to stare at the smoke-smudged stones of what is left of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, relieved that the entire structure had not collapsed, there was talk of resurrection and reconstruction, but also of anger and shock at the possibility of what many considered official malfeasance and negligence.
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With its barely-there vocals and windswept guitar accents, closer "The Same Reply" recreates the emotional experience of finding a message in a bottle where the ink's irreparably smudged by saltwater; the message is there in the stains and smudges, and it's all the more poignant because you can't exactly what tell what the person who wrote it was trying to tell you.
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The works, while estimable, are only a reflection of his greater achievements in three dimensions, and the show allows you to see how the drawings fuel the sculpture: A 6463 drawing of an irregular oval, done in black Conté crayon and smudged at the edges, arises a glorious lattice of blond wood, completed 2646 years later and sitting proudly in the center of the gallery.
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The subjects all pose in front of carefully staged sets, and yet they betray details from the outside world (what could be called reality): a man poses in his still wet trenchcoat, a woman's lipstick is smudged in her close up, another man poses in front of a flower pot and the same backdrop of the Swiss Alps with his coat on his arm.
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Sometimes this circumspection is justified — the line between iconoclasm and narcissism is easily smudged — but often our reaction is more complicated: We can find ourselves unexpectedly invested in the maintenance of institutions of power, and while seeing someone willing to set those institutions aflame can inspire admiration, it can also engender envy (why can't I do that?), self-recrimination (why didn't I do that
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" And her review of Richard Ford's "Canada" sounds positively love-struck from the first paragraph on: "He cuts a transfixing figure for even an ordinary reader's curiosity: the book-jacket photographs with their silvery bronze patina suggesting a pale-eyed cattle rustler, his laser-blue gaze smudged simultaneously with apprehension and derring-do, a Tin Woodman tint evoking a man of metal and mettle, in sorrowful quest of his forgotten heart.
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Save for notable postmodern experiments with techniques of collage and wordplay, with historical sources and, recently, with hybridized writings like those of the late C. D. Wright, the flattening effect of "confessional" poetry has, for some critics, resulted in a domesticated literature: predictable in its language and narrow in its conception of the possibility of poetry to serve any function other than that of a smudged mirror to our personal and collective crises.
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But he seemed obsessed with Mr Khan's relationship with his co-religionists; devoting his giant op-ed in the last Mail on Sunday before the election not to any of the bread-and-butter problems affecting Londoners but to a garbled mess of an argument that smudged together Mr Corbyn's economic leftism, Labour's anti-Semitism problem (of which the party's candidate for the London mayoralty had been perhaps the foremost critic) and Mr Khan's background, faith and personal traits.
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Black music, in its broadest possible sweep, was a rallying cause for the core members of the Soulquarians: D'Angelo, an R&B singer and pianist oozing every sort of charisma; Questlove, a whip-smart drummer steeped in soul and hip-hop arcana; James Poyser, a thoughtful keyboardist well versed in gospel, funk and fusion; and J Dilla, a crate-digging producer with the wizardly ability to turn a simple backbeat into something tilted, woozy or smudged.
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Later, living elsewhere, I visited Madeline fairly often and began to notice that when we ate a meal together she used paper napkins instead of cloth, because, understandably, it was only her, just another solitary meal, or only her and me, which came to the same thing, except that after she set out a plate, a fork, and a knife next to the paper napkin she avoided using the napkin, paper or not, using a facial tissue sticking out of a nearby box, Kleenex Ultra Soft, ultra doux , to wipe her mouth or fingers, or walking over to the roll of paper towels in the rack above the kitchen sink and tearing off a segment of a single towel and wiping her mouth on it and then folding the segment over the smudged part and bringing it to the table to use again, leaving the paper napkin untouched.
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