Love Adele’s makeup? Get the look from her very own makeup artist, Michael Ashton. He created her look and has worked with her for 9 years, right from the start of her career.

Michael’s tutorial is sheer genius. We love how he does the cat-eye — take notes, ladies — and learned the magical things you can do just with cotton buds. And can we just say that his trick for defining the bottom eyelashes is a total game-changer. Why didn’t we think of that?

Watch the video, featured on Lisa Eldridge’s makeup channel.