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How to Achieve the Modern Day Smokey Eye Look


hi I’m Lisa sim for some minerals and
you’re watching watchmojo.com I’m here
with my lovely Christina and we’re going
to show you all about smokey eyes a very
modern adaptation going to have for quad
here I have candlelight I have pink abou
I have barked and I have onyx we’re
going to start with a deluxe oval fluff
brush and we’re going to pick up
candlelight I’m going to fill in the
entire lid from lash line all the way up
to the brow I’m going to extend your
candle light out into the temple and
just along the top of the cheekbone and
also on the inner corner of the eye what
we’re going to switch to now is called a
crease brush some people call it a
pencil brush it really is just a short
dense nubby kind of brush it’s perfect
for applying color right into the crease
so we’re going to start with the pink
abou outer corner of the eye small tight
circles in the crease dragging it
towards the middle of the eye for the
next color we’re going to go into bark
so that’s our dark brown so the bark is
great because we can use it in your brow
we can use it as a liner and also to
like add depth to the crease we can stay
with the same crease brush outer corner
we’ll just dab a little bit so I’m
actually just going a little bit below
the crease so this is kind of like the
first step you can leave like that or we
can keep going keep adding a little bit
more so it gives it a real smoky
appearance I’m always going to have a
fan brush around just to brush away the
excess so now what I’m going to use is
the kolinsky tapered ankle do you have
one of these really important me to give
you this one afterwards we’re going to
go back to the light shade called ping
kapoor and what you looking up you can
feel that I’m not trying to do a line
I’m pressing it on the inner corner
towards the middle of the eye then I’m
going to go to bart the same one but now
in the outer corner
I’m going to do the same thing with eyes
closed pressing it along the lash line
you can go really wide with this if you
want to so now we’re going to go into
the block we have onyx and to make sure
that the color is a really strong color
we’re going to take a little bit of the
eyeliner sealer so we’ll take a drop of
eyeliner sealer I’m actually just going
to put it on the palette itself gives me
some room to just pick that up and they
pick up the block like a wide line no
worries there doesn’t have to be perfect
what I do recommend is that we want to
elongate the eye when it comes to doing
a smoky eye so the pointed tip the
longer tip of the tapered angle
exaggerated just go past your lash line
and make sure that you get corner to
corner now we can put onyx outside
corner of the lash line and we could
always now fill in the lid the rest
builded with a bit of black so this was
the double ended brush that we had used
earlier I’m going to take a little bit
of the bark and now i’m just going to
tap it all on the lower lid so what’s
nice is that I don’t know if you realize
that black and white they’re not colors
those are called values so they don’t
reflect light take something that’s as
close to black as possible so i’m using
like a really dark brown right now you
can use dark dark dark purples you can
do dark navies you can use dark greens
something that’s still going to reflect
a little bit of light but still add a
lot of depth to the eye okay Christina
so the next step for really getting that
smokey eye is whining now we have two
liners here one of them is a wood pencil
liner the ones that you can just show up
on your own and then we also have an
automatic pencils grid for like
sensitive eyes there is no wood you’re
not going to get a splinter in your eye
so big important step here now looking
up and we’re going to do the waterline
and let’s just reinforce that black
liner that we did before now we’re going
to do a sandwich effect this is going to
really prevent it from doubling up or
moving away or drowning down so you’re
going to seal in that waxy layer by
adding another layer of eyeshadow so
this is how you’re going to seal the
color in and this pretty much works for
whether you’re doing smoky eyes or you
just really want a nice concentrated
liner that’s not going to go anywhere
that’s not going to
up finishing for this for blending all
together go back into the pink and we’re
going to apply this on the brow bone
starting at the crease the finishing
touch go back to candlelight we’re going
to just lift our to the brow and
redeposit the lightest color because
sometimes that gets washed away and then
this just brings that color back to life
and in contrast really does make the
smoky parts of the I look more intense
and how you finish the look is lots and
lots and lots of mascara like the more
the merrier if ever you make a mistake
just roll a little bit of loose powder
onto your q-tip and twist away your
problems all right thanks a lot
Christina for being my modern smoky eye
I’m Lisa sim for sim minerals and you’re
watching watchmojo.com
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