Beautiful Misuse: Tom Ford Cream Color for Eyes, Great on Cheekbones

Remember when we launched Beauty for Dummies in the summer of 2013? The series would follow me on a journey as I experimented with products, using them against their intended purposes and passively assuming the misuse on you. I used an eyeliner as a brow pencil (and still do), a red lipstick as blush (I broke out), baby powder as dry shampoo (I think I lost hair) and in one instance, I pulled a Nicole Kidman and eschewed concealer for white eyeshadow.

In a beauty PSA that was supposed to go live right now, I anticipated waxing poetic on the most wonderful, thick, liquid shimmer I have been using on my cheeks since last month. I planned to list its benefits: the natural-looking glint that hits me exactly where it’s supposed to — between my eyes and my cheeks when I move my face, the fact that the product makes me look vaguely suntanned and the absolutely applicable though not entirely un-hypocritical no-makeup makeup approach it champions.

But then, as I set out to research the product and found that no Google search word cocktail would come up with a viable result, I consulted the powers that be at TomFord.com and lo and behold: I am truly, truly a dummy. To think, all this time I’ve been faux-contouring my face with a cream color for EYES that has no place populating my cheeks.

Of course, though, that’s never stopped me before so here I am, here we are, specifying the multifarious uses for Tom Ford eyeshadow. I’d show you a picture but I’m too ashamed.