Easy Smoky Eye for BeginnersShow Video Details ↓ [music] … … …Woman: Getting that smoky eye technique can be really challenging especially if you're just starting out in make up. I've gotten a lot of you asking on how to get that easy smoky eye, something that doesn't take too long and that is inexpensive. So, I'm going to show you an easy, natural smoky eye that doesn't break your bank. So, to start off this look you always need an eye shadow primer. It doesn't matter what kind of shadow you use, Mac, Urban Decay, Nix, Coastal Scent, any kind of shadow, you know, Revlon, L'Oreal, drugstore brand. You need a good primer and what I'm going to suggest is Two Face Shadow Insurance or Urban Decay's Primer Potion. I like the Two Face better because of the packaging. They both work exactly the same. I haven't seen any different between the two. I use this one because I can actually get the product out and it's just faster for me to use. So that's my preference so I'm going to use that today. Just take a little spot on your ring finger, just like that, and you're going to dab this all over your lid up to your brow bone. This is a really fast process. Once you get it down and do the couple of times you can do this in no time at all. Take a bit more and do the other eye. Save up and get that good primer. I promise you'll thank me later for it. It'll make a hundred times difference in the outcome of your eye shadow look. It will last longer, it won't fade, the colors a few more vivid, really get a primer. OK, I'm going to take a flat brush, it doesn't matter what kind. Just pick a fine one. I'll just use this one. I don't even know what kind, it's just a generic flat brush. I'm going to take Nix's platinum pink just because I look good in pink and that's just the color I really like. It doesn't matter what color you put on your lid it could be blue, green white, brown, black, however you want to do it. I'm just going to show you the technique for the smoky eye. So take your flat brush and the eye shadow of your choice and you're going to pat this on the lid, staying under the crease. [silence] And just kind of brush it up above the crease just a little bit. But as far as getting that color on your lid, you need to pat it. As soon as you start swiping it the color is going to lose its intensity and it's going to fall out all over the place and that's why you want to pat it over that base. That base is there to get shadows to stick to it. So that's what you want. Now comes the smoky part. Actually let's do this. I'll do my highlight first. Using the color highlight by Nix you want something that close to your skin tone. So since I'm fair, this color matches pretty closely. It's a little more yellow but still works. You're going to dab a little bit of this under the brow bone just to lighten it up a bit. So go ahead and do that after you do your light color. And again just use a flat shader brush. OK. Take a fluffy brush or a dome shaped brush. You can use this one, this is a Sonny Casio's dome brush, or if you want a more stronger, feathered-in smoky eye, use a stiff link this MAC 217. I know you're tired of hearing this but guys if you save up for anything at all, next to your eye shadow primer, save up for a MAC 217 brush. I promise I'm not a Max snob. I just know this brush works really well and it will really give you good results for a smoky eye. So I'm going to use that today, MAC 217 and Nix's dark brown eye shadow, something nice and neutral. If you want something more dramatic for night time, just do black. Pick it up on that brush. You can flick the excess off if you want. Start out here in the outer groove of your eye where you kinda feel it, it's where that crease is and at the outer point of your eyeball you're going to get that brush right in there, kinda do a circle motion and then you're going to sweep it in like this and then sweep it up. This is going to give you that smoky kind of effect. Flick it off, so don't get too much color. And then to get that smoky part you wiggle your brush in small circle motions going up and in. Just like that. And see how it's already well blended just because I've got that nice good brush and I'm doing small circles and then to sweep it in you can do a windshield wiper motion and that's really all there is to it. If you can see how that smoked out a bit and it's just a little sloppy because I'm trying to just be quick about it. So, you guys can see it's not so hard to do and that's pretty much the smoky effect. If you want to intensify the lid color a bit more and define it, you can always go back in with that flat shader brush and pat some of that color back over the lid. Kind of even it out. If you have a fluffy dome brush you can always blend it out even more. And that's honestly it for smoky eye. Do you see how easy it was? To supply your lid color, wipe off the brush with a flat shader brush, put on your highlight under the brow bone and then take your stiff dome brush and just put that color in the outer part, do small circles and sweep it in and then feather it in like this. Just small little strokes OK? Now let's do the liner and I'm going to use Coastal Scents gel liner in brown and the other tool that I really like is the angle brush. Liner brush... Can't talk. Angle liner brush, Gel liner, perfect combo. So go ahead and dip that in and just do a thin even line against the upper lashes. So just start here and do a stroke out and work your way in. You can stop where your lashes stop, it's up to you, or you can go all the way to your tear duct. Little more product. And if you want to give your eye kind of a unique shape like this, all you need to do is just kinda flick it out like that. Now, I want you guys to focus on the technique and not necessarily the colors. Mix it up however you want. If you want to keep it day-time appropriate but still add a little funk in there, maybe put light green shadow on the lid or a light purple or, you know, just put a color on there and then put a neutral on the crease to cut it down so doesn't look so bright. It'll be perfect. So let me zoom out so you guys can see the full effect. And easy smoky eye. So, hopefully that was helpful for you guys. Make sure to get good tools. Again get the MAC 217 and then some sort of flat shader brush but the main key is you need that stiff dome brush to get a really good smoky eye there. So, anyways if you guys have questions you know how to reach me. 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