Metallic Navy Blue Smokey Eyes

1. Prime

As always, prime your lids with a primer (UD Primer Potion). You can skip this step if you're using a non creasing base for the lid.

2.  Highlight

Starting from the lighter colours, working down towards darker colours, this is a good way to apply eyeshadow for beginners. 

• with a flat shadow brush apply a light matte colour (Kinky from UD Smoked palette) under the brows.
• Using a small domed brush (Small blending brush or pencil brush) Apply a shimmery light shadow (Virgin from UD Naked palette) around the tear duct area.

3. Transition

With a fluffy blending brush sweep a warm tan colour (Texture by MAC) in to your crease area. Don't be afraid to blow it out, no need for neatness here. Just sweeping the shadow in a windscreen wiper motion, from inner to outer corner. Make sure to blend in to the highlight colour (overlapping).

4. Crease

• With a small blending brush sweep on a dark brown (Backdoor from UD Smoked palette) in to the crease.
• Now to further define the crease line take a black (Blackout from UD Smoked palette) in to the crease. Use a pencil brush for precision. Do not blend out, you're almost drawing a line in to the crease. If you have a very deep socket you don't need to do this step.

5. Lid

• Apply a base (Maybelline Colour Tattoo in Everlasting Navy) to the lid, all the way to the crease.
• Load a flat shadow brush with a metallic navy blue eyeshadow (Evidence from UD Smoked palette) and apply all over the lid up to the crease, covering that blue base. Use patting motion for best colour pay-off.
• Using that same pencil brush (used for the black) lightly blend the edges of the blue shadow, with no additional product on it.

As you can see, I have not rounded off the outer part as I normally would with smokey looks. There's almost a clean angle at the outer part of the lid. This is a good way to avoid getting that "panda eye" look. So a good practise for beginners. 

6. Lash line

This is an optional step. For smokey eye looks winged liner are not a must. For this look I have added a winged liner. Alternatively you may wish to just deepen the lash line by smudging on a soft kohl pencil.

7. Lower Lash Line

• Line the lash line with a black pencil, then smudge.
• Apply the blue eyeshadow (Evidence) on top of that eyeliner.
• Blend out the edges of the blue using the warm brown shadow (used for the transition), on a pencil brush.

8. Water line

Apply a very black eyeliner (Black Stila Smudge Pot) to the upper and lower water lines. This step pulls the whole look together. 

9. Lashes

As always apply mascara and lashes of your choice.

All done!

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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!

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