How To: Smokey Eye

Ok so I'm going to attempt a step by step tutorial for smoke eyes. Keep in mind even though I will be using blacks and other dark colors you don’t have to. For example if you want to do say a Brown smokey eye all you would do is pick colors that are of the same intensity. Just for better detail: when I'm using black, this is when you go for the darkest brown. You usually always want to use white though because it widens and brightens the eye. If you don’t want to do white try a skin toned color.

Lets get started! =)

This is the look we are going for:

Step 1: Always prime your eye before applying eye shadow.

Step 2: Use a black eye liner and line your top lid. This can be messy because we are going to smudge it out.

Step 3: Grab your black eye shadow and apply all over the lid. Do this From the lash line to the crease of your eye.

 

I tried to find pictures matching where you should be putting the make up. F or step three make sure your darkest color is applied like her black is.

Step 4:Using the same black color you want to apply to the lower lash line so you don’t have the appearance of harsh eye liner. This will really soften the look.

Step 5: Now we are going to do the crease color. You want to go with a lighter color such as grey.  Apply this to the crease and just a tad above the crease.

Step 6: Highlight! This is the most important part in my opinion. Not only does it tie everything together but it brightens and reflects light. So this will bring a lot of attentions to your eye. For this you can use a shimmery white or pearly color. You want to apply this to the underbrow and the inside corner of the eye.

Ok I forgot to mention you definitely need to blend blend blend. We don’t want any harsh lines in this look or it wouldn’t be a smokey eye. To blend just move your brush in circular motions from the black to the grey. Clean your brush and do the same but this time from the grey to the white color. Then you want to Blend the white in the inside corner in to the black. You don’t want to blend the black into the white because it would take over the white.

Step 7: Curl your lashes!

Last but not least

Step 8:Apply Mascara

And your done! =) you should have something along the lines of this

Last thing I would like to mentions ladies, don’t for get to groom your eye brows. This is really important to achieving beautiful eye make up. You always want to fill in the brows and make sure the are always nicely groomed.  I will be working on providing my own pictures for this blog but it will take me a while since im a full time college student and barley have time to write these. In the mean time I did steal these pictures from Google images.