How To - Smokey Eyes

Smokey eye make up is one of the easiest looks to create, but gives the most impact.

You don't have to be precise with how you apply, in fact the more smudged the better. My most useful tool is a smokey eye brush. These have short round bristles that blend your eyeliner to you eyeshadow.

To create my smokey eye's below I used the following eye shadows from Urban Decays 'Naked' palette, first blogged about here.

• 'Virgin' on the inner corner and brow bone. This is the lightest shade and great for creating highlights to contrast with the dark shades.
• 'Sidecar' applied across the eyelid, giving a mid colour base with some subtle sparkle.
• 'Gunmetal' on the out corner of the eyelid and blended into the socket and up to the brow line. A big soft eye shadow brushes helps blend this dark shade in the socket.
• 'Creep' on the socket crease and blended on the lower lash line with a smokey eye brush. This is the darkest shade in the palette and gives great depth to the eye. I used No 7's. I repeated this after apply a line of thick black eyeliner. The eyeliner gives definition but blending eyeshadow back over the eyeliner blurs creates the smokey tone.

I then applied a line of Bobbi Brown Long Wear Gel Eyeliner in Black, here is my post giving a bit more information on the product. As the gel was drying I used the smokey eye brush again and blended the line into the eye shadow, especially on the out corners. This was to leave some defintion of the eyeliner but blurring where the eyeliner finsihes and the eyeshadow starts.

To finish the look you need some high impact lashes, so I applied a coat of YSL's Luxurious Mascara Shocking Volume.

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