O’Callaghan admitted she gets her make-up done every Tuesday before she presents Prime Time, and leaves the “eyelashes, eye shadow, everything” on until the following Tuesday
Aisling Bonner, who co-presents 2FM Breakfast alongside Roz Purcell and Carl Mullan, has decided to take on the unusual challenge and document her progress after O’Callaghan shocked fans by admitting she leaves her eye makeup on for seven days at a time.
“I’m here in the RTÉ makeup department, and I’m conducting an experiment,” Bonner said in a video shared on 2FM’s Instagram.
“You could call it ‘the Miriam experiment’, inspired by Miriam O’Callaghan, who said this week on a podcast that on a Tuesday, she gets her makeup done here in RTÉ and she keeps the same eye makeup for the following seven days.
“This is science people, the eyes that are put on me today will be on me for seven days.”
O’Callaghan revealed on RTÉ’s A Beautiful Breakdown podcast how she leaves her eye makeup on for a full seven days.
“I do something very unusual,” she said. “Normally RTÉ makeup will put on my eye makeup on a Tuesday before I present Prime Time.
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“I do not touch my eye makeup for a week. I sleep in it, I wake up and no, my pillow is perfect. I know it’s the worst advice, you should always take your makeup off every night, to mind your skin.
“I leave my eye makeup, full eyelashes, eye shadow, everything, for one week. It’s the best. I don’t touch it.”
Her co-host, Sarah McInerney, responded in the comment section: “I can attest that this is true. Miriam shows up to the makeup department every Tuesday before Prime Time wearing the previous week’s makeup and still looking perfect.”
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Bonner is now on day two of her “experiment”, and O’Callaghan herself called into 2FM Breakfast this morning to offer a bit of advice.
“One, I use the individual lashes, not a strip, I think that helps them stay on,” she told the programme.
“Two, I take the mascara off on my bottom lashes every night, just to make sure I can cleanse, and moisturise, and put all my anti-ageing creams on my actual face.
“And thirdly, you can’t have a shower with water on your head, obviously, so it suits me because I’ve got a fringe and I just wash my fringe every morning with the handheld shower part of my shower, and I get a blowdry once a week.
“So that’s it really. Let me know how you get on.”
In a follow-up on 2FM’s Instagram, Bonner said there have been “a couple of challenges” so far, but “this is what happens when you do science”.