Lining your waterline closes in the eye and makes it look smaller. The whole point of liner is to enhance the eyes and make them look larger, so that technique is counterproductive. It increases the risk of infection for everyone, not just post-op, and it’s just not a great practice. We’ve all got makeup habits we developed in our youth we cling to despite them not doing us any favors, but you have an excuse to treat yourself to a makeover! If it’s in the budget, or even if you have to save up a bit, schedule a 60 or 90 minute session with a well recommended MUA in your area. Talk to them about how you want to look, what image you want to project, what features you want to play up and what things you want to play down. They can help recommend products too, as the ones we love can stop loving us as our skin changes and age alters the texture and composition of our skin. If that’s just not possible, try the counter at Sephora or similar and get some suggestions. There are makeup subs too, but I’ll tell you, Zoomers have discovered waterlining like they invented it, and everyone younger than GenX thinks a winged liner is mandatory, not merely one of many fun tools in the eyeliner arsenal but some kind of religion. I’ve never looked, but there’s probably a sub for more mature makeup wearers, ‘cause there’s a sub for everything.

Btw, my sympathies on the loss of your eyelashes. Mine are far more sparse and shorter than they used to be, they used to be fantastic but at least I still have something. It’s my eyebrows that have left the building. I have all of like three hairs on one side, and maybe six in the other. I don’t have a thyroid, so between forty and fifty they just kind of… disappeared. Now I have to draw the, on like an old lady (which I now am, thanks) or my forehead looks like a plucked chicken. I suppose that goes with the poultry theme I have going, what with the glorious turkey neck and all. My Gram said getting old is hell, but she didn’t warn me about this shit.