Hey Girliez ..
You're probably wonderin' how to get that perfect smokey eye in the picture above, well today i'm going to show you how to do it, well not show you, but tell you! .. I will make sure that it's easy, and very followable (is that even a word?) , anyway .. lemme tell you about the products you need, or what kinda shadows would fit perfectly for a smokey eye!! ..
I personaly love to use the YSL 5 colour smokey eye pallete, which looks exactly like this :
As you can see from the picture, it come with a small eye angled brush, and a normal eye shadow brush, with two ends, one which is pointed, and one that is rounded. These three types of brushes are pretty much enough to create a good smokey eye, you may need a blender brush to kinda get all the coloures evened out and great!..
Usualy, a smokey eye has a dark colour base of either really really black, or really dark brown. Carbon by mac would be a great start of a smokey eye, which i believe is equivelant to the black section on the YSL smokey eye pallet above. Carbon may be a bit darker.
Ok, lets get in to the how to ..!!
Before starting doing you eyeshadow, you need to make sure that your foundation is perfectly done, along with concealing any dark circles under your eyes, or any red spots on your skin. You may use a liquid foundation or a face primer as a base to prevent your powder foundation from creasing, which will save your look for much more time! ..
The Eyes!
1) Make Sure that you have applied a primer before staring, to prevent creasing, and make sure that your primer has been applied all the way to the brow bone. FY ... Eye primer by benefit is really good for this. It looks just like this :
Don't forget to even out your eye afterwards, to make sure that all of your eye has the same colour (all the way from the lid to the crease). In order to do this you can use a concealer, or any cream shadow which is very close to your skin tone. I personaly use Mac studio finish concealer :
This concealer works for everything. I'm not sure about under eye area though, coz it does not seem to last long enough, but for other purposes such as concealing red areas, or evening out your lid, it's great! ..
2) You need to grab a large fluffy eye brush such as this one :
You can use the mac 213, as it looks good enough for the job, and it is able to add the colour in wide areas, and you need that for a smokey eye. You will have to add black/dark brown (whatever you choose, usually the darkest shade of colour) into this brush and you much slowly add it into the entire of your eye lid and up to the crease, don't go any further, because you will need to blend the other colours there.
