Makeup is really hard! Like. I'm good at art. Therefore I should be good at makeup. But a combination of flinching when things are near my eye (going to the optometrist is fun for related reasons), unsteady hands, symmetry, and mirror images have made this a lifelong challenge.

You are right to start with eyeliner—if I wear nothing else, I wear eyeliner because it's the first thing people notice. Lipstick is pretty easy by comparison. And it's a proven fact that eyeliner improves the appearance of everyone except me because mine looks like it was drawn on by a five-year-old.