Smokey!

Hello, beauties! 

 What better way to (re)start if not the most basic and requested look? Smokey eye! That’s usually the main request I get in the classes. Prepare your hands for blending, let’s do it! You are going to need 3 colours : a really pale one (white, silver...), black and medium brown. And a lot of patience. 
Probably you will see a lot of difference between this make up and some other ones during my post, so to avoid some 'what the heck is going on?', this was one of my first posts 3 years ago, and my technique changed a lot  in the last few years. I'll re-post some of my old favorites sometimes.

Tip of the day #1: when you are working with black shadow (or other dark pigments), leave your skin for last. Black eye shadows tends to do a biiiiiiig mess under your eyes. 

 After applying your primer, apply the lightest colour you are using all over the lid until near your brows.

Tip of the day #2: it’s much easier to blend the black shadow on top of another powder than it is on top of your primer. The black won’t stick and will go wherever you push it during the blending process. 

 Start applying the black close to the lashes and wing out.

Using what you still have on your brush (or a tiny little bit more), draw a V shape a bit lower than the shape you want as final result. Don’t worry, it will get higher during the blending process.

Now that you have a rough shape to work with, you can start to bring a bit of black in, covering around half of your mobile lid.

With a blending brush, apply a little of your transition colour (some brown close to your skin colour) to blend from the edge of the black into your skin. Shall the blending begin!

Keep blending until you get the gradual effect, you can keep applying the transition colour (in tiny amounts!) to help the black to fade into the skin. If you think that it's getting to light, you can apply the tiniest amount of the black in the hollow of your eye, and blend it up. With the brush you used to apply the black, apply just the rest under your eyes (close to the lash line) and softly blend it.

Highlight the inner corner and under the eyebrow.

Add mascara and do your face makeup (soon a tutorial on that) , finish with a lipgloss or a nude lipstick. And that’s it! You can always go for brown tones if you want to rock a smokey eye during 

the day time. Now go and have some fun!

Hope you enjoy it! See you next time in the same bat-channel.