Shimmery Smokey Eyes

Here's a shimmery smokey eye look with a slight bit of definition, almost a wet look. This look is best for those with hooded, mono lid or those with a fuller eyelids (like myself). When doing a smokey look its best to start from the top and end at the lash line.

1. Prime / Base

Prime the eyelid all the way to the brows with a base (MACs Soft Ochre Paint Pot)

2. Highlight

It is best to do the highlight first for any smokey look. Smokey looks require a lot of blending, therefore, the darker shadows can affect the "highlight" areas. By applying the highlight first you'd be setting the base, so the darker shadows do not cling to those areas, which will create a nice halo like transition.

• With a flat shadow brush apply a matte white/ cream/ beige shadow under the brow.
• Highlight the inner corner of the eyes (tear duct area) using the same brush and shadow.

3. Transition

Yes, you've guessed it....Load a blending brush with a tan eyeshadow (one or two shade darker than your skin tone) and sweep it in to the crease (the deep socket area). You do not need to be neat with this step, and can take it all the way up to the highlight (overlapping it a little).

4. Depth/ Dimension 

With smokey looks you really don't need to do this step, especially if you have a very deep socket (well defined crease). But for those of us with little to no depth to our socket area, we can benefit from this step. In this step we will darken the crease line and the inner and outer corners of the lid, creating a 3D look.

• With a small flat shadow brush apply a dark brown shadow to the inner and outer corners, leaving the centre of the lid bare.
• Using a small blending brush or a pencil brush take some of that brown in to the crease (almost drawing on a line through the crease) and lightly blend out.

5. Lid

Using a flat shadow brush apply the main colour all over the lid, overlapping the dark brown, and blend at the crease area.

For this look I used a Makeup Geek pigment (Insomnia). It is identical to the MAC's Blue Brown pigment. There are many dupes available for this colour.

6. Top Lash Line

• Roughly draw on a soft eyeliner to the upper lash line and smudge it out using a pencil brush.
• Apply lashes

7. Lower Lash Line

• Line the water line using a soft black eyeliner pencil
• Line the lash line with the same eyeliner
• Load the pencil brush with some of the pigment (Insomnia) and smudge out the eyeliner.

All done!

Any questions? Please feel free to contact me and I will reply.

Again, thank you so much for stopping by, and have a wonderful day. Mwah x

**I am not affiliated with any of the brands mentioned on this post. These are products I have purchased myself and enjoy using**