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!