Smokey Eye

In this blog post I want to show you how to do a smokey eye. The smokey eye look is a dramatic look so if you like to look dramatic you may want to try this. Personally I don't do the smokey eye look, well first of all I don't even wear makeup, and this is one of the popular looks in makeup so I would try it.

What you will need...

To start with, grab a primer. I recommend the primer but it's ok if you don't have any. Then an eyeliner. It doesn't matter what kind but I would not recommend liquid eyeliner. Of course you will need eye shadow, preferably a dark colour like grey or black. I would use grey or black but what you could do is use a shade that matches your eyes. If you have blue eyes you should stay away from blue and stick with more earthy shades like browns with a slight purple base, taupe, and slate coloured Gray's. For brown, you can basically get away with anything. Maybe try green and pink. For green and hazel eyes, go with lots of purple to be dramatic but if you want a calmer colour use mocha.

To prepare:

For makeup there isn't really much to prepare for. All I would say for preparing. Basically I’ll show you what brush to use for applying primer and I would teach you how to apply it but I'm sure you already know how. The brush is a 187. Don't worry if you don't know what it looks like I will post a picture and hopefully that helps. The second thing might just simply be you don't want to go buy a brush or if your too lazy to get one or something. So if that's the case then you may use your finger.

- #187 makeup brush

Now I think we should be ready to start. First is the eye liner. I find that purple eyeliner makes a gorgeous smokey eye. and you also want to make the liner thicker through the middle. After applying eyeliner on your bottom lashes with a pencil liner, take your finger and smudge it to give the full smokey eye affect. Now apply a base coat. Make sure the base coat is a lighter shade than your shadow. Apply it over your lids to the brow bone.

Now that you have the base it’s time to get the smoky eye look. Take a darker color and blend them together. Note to make sure that the darker color stays below the crease. The next step is small but is greatly needed. Double check both eyes, make sure they are evenly blended and look the same. Then finally finish with overall coats of mascara. You want you’re lashes to look thick and full. Then curl with and eye lash curler, and your good to go.

I hope you like this look and I hope I’m doing a good job with these tutorials. All I would like to say is please remember to leave comments and suggestions on a tutorial you may want me to do. And I think that all so thank you for reading and you’re suggestions. BI!

Curling Your Hair with a Straightening Iron

For my third blog I want to try and teach you how to curl your hair with a flat iron. I personally love doing this for many, many different reasons. For one I say it works far better than a curling iron. It also takes less time. I'm not sure if it's really easy but I found it easy after I've gotten used to it. If you don't get it I will make sure to post a video on how to do it.

What you will need...

The tools you must have to do this is a flat iron of course. People say that you need a certain kind but you don't. I prefer one from the salon but they do cost allot more money, around 100$-300$. If you don't have one from the salon that's ok too. the next thing you must have is a clip like one that can hold allot of your hair.

You will need a comb or brush. The things you could use for best results would be hairspray which you would be applying at the very end. Next I'd get bobby pins and heat protection spray then your good to go.

Ok Now we prepare. To prepare you would grab your heat protection spray and sprat it all over your hair. I like to spray it in layers so you could do that too. I don't like to spray too much though because i find that if you do the iron sticks to your hair and it doesn't slide very well through the iron so therefore your hair wont turn out. Then make sure your iron is plugged in and set on the highest heat. While you wait for that, take half of your hair and clip it at the top of your head, that way you get 2 layers of full curled hair.

Finally we can start. this may be hard to explain since I am writing and not actually showing it to you so I'm sorry if you don't get it but I will make sure to post the "how to" video. So the first step you will want to take a small strand of your hair and close the iron at the top of the strand of hair. Then twist the iron so the hair is wrapped in it. After that then you just pull it through the iron and it should turn out to be a nice curl.

Finish up the rest of your head then I like to bobby pin some of my hair down if its sticking up and that works really well. Then I would put in a little bit of hairspray to make it stay. Then you just listen to the compliments. I hope you liked my 2nd tutorial and learnt some great techniques. Then I will be back soon to teach you more.