How To Do Smoky Eyes Make Up

Smoky eyes have been a big style for quite awhile and there's no sign this particular trend is dying. Here i show you step-by-step instructions on how to get the perfect smoky eye.

The key to the perfect smoky eye is proper blending. You want to make sure colors are blended together flawlessly. Also, it's important to pair light base colors with rich dark colors. Nice mixes include: deep black with light gray shimmering on top, soft gold base with deep purple on top, champagne base with bright blue and peach base with green hue.

What You Need:

• Eye primer (you don't need it, but it's great for keeping shadow in place)
• 3 Eye Shadows: Lighter Shade, Medium Shade and Darker Shades
  
• Pencil Eyeliner
• Makeup brushes
• Mascara
• Fake Lashes (optional)

Tips For Smokey Eyes Make Up

• Remember to keep lips bare and nude. When applying strong makeup (like smoky eyes or red lips) put the focus on either eyes or lips, never both! If dramatic smokey on eyes, lips must be tone down with bare and nude color.
• For a bit of dramatic effects, try to fix fake lashes after mascaras. It will make your eyes open and full.
• Liner doesn't have to come in pencil form. Makeup experts know eye shadows make some of the best eyeliners. To do this take an eyeliner brush, damp it a bit with water ( i normally sprayed face mist at tip of the brush), then dab wet brush into the dark shadow. This allows for a deep, precise line. You can also use the dark shadows without wetting brush first. Either way, eyeliner is necessary for smoky eye.

Smokey Eyes Make Up Steps

• Start with applying eye base all over both eye lids then, use black eye liner pencil and apply half of your eye lids area. Then I used my flat eye shadow brush, damped a bit with water ( i normally sprayed face mist at tip of the brush) smudge it a bit upwards to lower borw bone lane and then dab on some silver or gray eye shadow. Press the brush flat against your lid, starting from the inside, and slowly making sweeping arches going just past your crease all the way to your outer corner. Go lightly when it’s above your crease, make it sort of heavy towards your lash line and fade as you get to your crease.

It should like the photo above.

And… like this one! See, the silver color comes a little above your lid.

• Using flat eye shadow shadow brush flat against outer lid, I add Deep Black Eye Shadow and gently tap the color onto the lid. Do not blend or drag it, but dab the eye shadow gently on to eye lids.

• It should get just a little darker on the outer lid. If the line is too harsh, gently fan the Deep Black Eye Shadow inwards towards the center of your lid with slow, sweeping strokes with the brush held sideways.

• Using the same brush, take some more Deep Black Eye Shadow and gently press it into the middle of your crease. Slowly bring the brush from the middle to the left, and then middle to the right parts of your crease.

• I used the Blender Eye Shadow Brush to pick up and blend lighters color and pressing it flat against the area above my crease, sideways, on the outer portion, I slowly dragged the color across towards just above my inner crease. You want to apply the color similarly to how you applied the Silver Eye Shadow earlier. Bring it just to the brow bone. And, see, harsh line!

• Using Eye Shadow Blender Brush and apply it against the harsh line and gently dragging color upwards so that the gray/black colors are gradually fading into the neutral color.

• Then use Flat Eye Shadow Brush again and get some light gray on it and press it just above my crease to help soften that harsh line.

• Using the Eye Liner Brush, I dip it into Silver Eye Shadow (dry, not wet) and use it to brush a line of silver underneath my waterline.

See, now it’s coming together.

Then apply super black eyeliner, but whatever your preference will do just fine here.

• Now used Flat Eye Shadow Brush to soften the eyeliner

And there you have it! The photos below are just my typical open/closed/side/full shots of tonight’s smokey eyes attempt.