I am seeing too many girls go all out when doing the "smokey eye" although there's no limitations to make-up there's certain guidelines that can make the look appear clean and proffessional. However if you miss the guidelines it can look dirty, messy and cheap.
My top tips to get that pro smokey eye.
1 - Smokey eye DOES NOT mean just black or grey. You can create a smokey eye with any colour as long as you graduate into a darker shade.
2 - Keep it clean! Its all about the eyes so don't pile on the powder, foundation, blusher, highlighter and loads of gloss. It tinkers on the side of cheap. It looks pretty against clean fresh looking skin and a soft lip. You can even have a little bit of a brighter lip as long as the skin looks simple.
3- Do you foundation last if you use very dark colours or loose pigment.
4 - A smokey eye shouldn't need tonnes of products. I used 2 colours on the eye and an eyeliner!
Products used
Eyes
- Dior 5 colour palette in Navy
- MAC carbon eyeshadow
- Maxfactor liquid effect pencil in black
- Maxfactor false lash effect mascara
- Nars Barberella
- Jemma Kidd glosstick in Turtle Bay
- Myface cosmetics foundation in Medium
- MAC Studio fix NW25
Enjoy!
P.S I had so many comments and emails to catch up on just so you didnt think I wasn't replying to my lovely comments anymore x
loved the look :D
ReplyDeletehi, love the look, i will try tomorrow :). Do you think that this max factor mascara is better than the avon supershock one? i would like to know before buying thanks
ReplyDeleteVery nice! I have a question, when you do the smoky eye look, and what if you do use highlighter and blush and a lot of lip gloss, you think this would look too heavy or could it be more as a night look?
ReplyDeleteThanks xoxo! I love your videos!
this looks fab. i'm chinese so have very small eyes and find it hard to do a smoky look because there's such little eyelid space to work with lol! xx
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