Hey Guys :)
So firstly it's been a long time since I've done anything on my blog, but I have been busy with my third year at university, but things are becoming a lot less busy and stressful, so I can start spending more time playing around with makeup again.
I noticed that one thing I have never done on this blog is a dark smokey eye using blacks and silvers, I usually stick to warmer colours like browns and golds, but I know this kind of smokey eye is very popular especially for nights out, the eye shadows I used all came from the Naked 2 palette.
First I primed my eyes with urban decay primer potion, it is so important when using dark colours like these to prime the eye, it keeps everything in place and stops everything smudging all over your face. Then on a fluffy brush I took the colour tease and blended it onto my crease, this doesn't have to be really neat because most of it will be covered up by darker colour later on, this is the transition colour and it just helps the dark colours blend better.
Next I packed on the colour pistol all over my lid, but it didn't look bold enough for this look so I dampened my brush did this again, and this time the colour came out much more pigmented and the shimmer in the colour really stood out.
Then I took a very small amount of black out, this is very pigmented so I barely touched the shadow as I wanted to the build up the black rather then going straight in with it super dark, now this part can take you a while but be patient, build up the black slowly onto the outer part of the crease and lid, take a small amount of black and blend it, then add more, take it slow.
You can leave the colours like this if you wanted a softer eye, but I went on to take a smaller brush and more of black out and darken up the outer v of my eye, at this point I also started to extend the colour further out into more of a winged shape ( don't worry if it isn't perfect just yet) , again build the colour up slowly it's easy to add more colour but hard to take it away.
Then take a makeup wipe and clean up the edge of your wing that you created making it really sharp and clean, after this step I used my urban decay pencil eyeliner in perversion to line my water line, I also cleaned up under my eyes, and put on my concealer and foundation, set it all with powder and filled in my brows before finishing off the eyes.
I then took a small pencil brush and mixed together foxy and booty call and highlighted under my brows.
I then used a small brush and the colour verve and blended this into my lower lash line, by using a light shimmery colour I feel it stops the eyes looking too heavy, but if you wanted to make this look even darker you could use black out smudged into the lower lashes to really smoke out the look and make it really dramatic.
Now for lashes, these Mille Mackintosh lashes have replaced my nearly all of my other fake lashes now, they are amazing and so light weight I even forget I am wearing them most of the time, the ones I used for this look are one of her most dramatic lashes and these are the soho lashes, when using fake lases don't forget to blend your natural lashes with the false ones using some mascara and cover up any clear glue you can see with some black eye shadow. I also added a generous amount of mascara to my bottom lashes using my new favourite mascara, which is the supercurl curling mascara from urban decay.
And that is look finished, it isn't a really hard smokey eye but the blending may take time and practise just remember to go slow and build up the colour, rather then going straight in with a load of black. Another thing to remember is when doing heavy dark eye looks like this you need to make sure you skin looks flawless and there is no redness or blemishes showing through, to do this I used my old favourite the collection 2000 concealer and then my chanel perfection lumiere. I also kept the lips very nude for this look so not to draw attention away from the eyes.
Becki x
