Tips for Smokey Eyes
January 25th, 2010 | 
Author: Smokey eye has been a trend of makeup for quite some time, but it is still in fashion. The magic of smokey eyes is the power to transform you immediately from whatever into stylish and mysterious. Many people are not conformable with the smokey eye look for themselves as they do not know how to apply such makeup properly. Once you have put it on, you are going to love it more and more.
One of the well known key to beautiful smokey eye look is the skill for blending the different color eye shadow. This is definitely true. But to have a matte look or the original smokey eye look, you may wish to choose the matte eye shadow instead of the shimmer one.
Three eye shadows with similar colors are the basic tools for your smokey eyes. The three eye shadows are acting the highlight, mid-tone and contour functions. Highlight is for highlight purpose and usually people will choose a shimmer one. Mid-tone is the main color of the smokey eye and usually it is black or grey and matte. You can choose either shimmer or matte ones depending on the look you want. For the very originally one, matte one is suggested.
One thing to note is, before you have actually applied your eye shadow, you should have done all the foundation work. By that I mean, the cleaning, applying base, foundation and concealer. After that, you can start to draw the upper and lower eye lines and smudge.
Then you can start the smokey eyes by applying the highlight onto the whole upper eye lid first. Then you can apply the mid-tone one onto the upper lid also but not the whole lid. Mid-tone is only applied from the lash line to the crease. Blend well the line where the two colors joint. Apply the contour again from the lash line to crease. Blend well again. Finally, smudge the contour on the lower lash line.
A final step not to miss is to apply mascara. It is a must in order to balance out the whole look. To match with the dark and grey eye shadows, you should choose black and volume enhancing mascara.
People always use black and grey colors for smokey eyes. Not to be so boring, you can also have very good effect for using other dark colors like dark green, dark blue, brown, etc. The key is to match the colors with your skin tone, eye color and hair color. Generally, dark blue is suitable blue eye and brown is suitable for brown eye.
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