To make their eyes more expressive and their gaze deeper, many girls resort to a certain type of makeup - Smokey eyes. This method dates back to the distant past, when there was black and white cinema. Smoky makeup gave the actresses charm and seductiveness. Now anyone can use this method at any time.
Skillfully applied makeup will be appropriate during the daytime. But it looks best in the evening light, so it would be ideal for going to a club or restaurant. How to do smoky eye makeup so that it looks beautiful and emphasizes the expressiveness of your eyes? We will tell you about this and other tricks now.
Features of applying smoky makeup for different eye colors
Before you start doing this type of makeup at home, let's look at which color scheme is best suited for a certain eye color. For smoky makeup, it is typical to use shadows of the same color palette. But in order for them to give the eyes the necessary expressiveness, you should know for which eye color which shades suit best.
Brown eyes
The ideal colors for emphasizing the depth of the look are dark gray and brown shades. You can combine it with beige, cream or coffee. More festive makeup can be done using golden shadows - light shades are applied on the inner corner of the eye, and dark ones on the outer corner. It is better to use white shadows under the eyebrows.
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The darker the eye color, the larger the shadow palette is suitable for the girl. Owners of dark brown eyes can use almost all shades of eyeshadow.
Blue and gray eyes
For this color, use gray and silver shades. Apply lilac or purple shadows under the eyebrows. Give preference to cool shades - bronze, brown. But it is better to avoid blue and dark blue colors, as they weigh down the look and make it look unnatural.
Green eyes
A blue and green palette is not recommended for those with green eyes.
It is best to use gray and brown shadows. The entire gray range from white to black is ideal for light green eyes for fair-haired and black-haired girls. For owners of red hair and brown-haired women, you can use brown shades, sand and terracotta color of shadows or pencil.
Features of smokey eyes for blue eyes
For girls with blue eyes, the main thing is not to overdo it with color. It's better to do it less intensely than vulgarly. Suitable colors for smoky makeup are beige-gold, soft pink and lavender tones. In evening style, purple and dark blue shades are acceptable, but they also need to be used with caution. If you are afraid of experimenting with color, add a black pencil to your daytime makeup and blend thoroughly. This makeup is universally suitable for all occasions.
Basic rules for applying smoky makeup
Now let’s look at applying smoky makeup step by step.
For this we need only 5 things:
- The basis. It can be any light shadow.
- Black pencil.
- The shades of your chosen range are 2-3 shades.
- Mascara.
- A brush for applying and blending eye shadow and a pencil.
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So, let's begin.
Step #1
Apply a light-colored foundation to the entire upper eyelid. This way your makeup will be longer lasting and brighter.
Step #2
Use a black pencil to outline the eye along the line above the eyelashes. Then, using a brush or applicator, blend the line well so that it has a smoother transition.
Step #3
Let's use shadows. If you have chosen 2 shadow options, then apply a light color to the inner corner of the upper eyelid, and dark shadows to the outer corner. Then blend out any harsh transitions. Pay special attention to the middle of the eyelid, where the two colors mix. Transitions should be smooth, as shown in the photo below.
When using three shades of eyeshadow, also apply the lightest and darkest to the corners of the eyelid, and paint the middle of the eyelid with a medium-bright color. And blend everything with a brush.
Step #4
To enhance the effect on the lower eyelid along the lash line, apply a black pencil and lightly blend. Then apply dark shadows from one corner to the other. But near the inner corner the line should be thin, and as it approaches the outer edge it should thicken by approximately 1.5-2 mm. All transitions must also be smooth.
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Step #5
Applying mascara is an equally important moment in smoky makeup. It needs to be applied several times to get the effect of very long eyelashes. To prevent eyelashes from sticking together, comb them after each layer with a special brush.
Step #6
Now all that remains is to give the correct shape to your eyebrows using an eyebrow pencil or dark shadows and a brush. Comb your eyebrows and the look is ready.
Just don't forget the lipstick. Since the eyes are painted very expressively, the shade of the lips should not be too bright. It is better to take lipstick of a natural color.
As you can see, it’s very easy to do smoky makeup yourself, and it looks impressive. Moreover, this style suits absolutely everyone, so you can safely do this makeup for yourself. You can watch the video below for more detailed instructions on how to apply smokey eye.
“Smoky look”: how to use “smoky eyes” makeup correctly?
Even the most “malicious” metrosexual, showing off in front of the mirror, is unlikely to open his pencil case with shadows and pick up a cosmetic eyeliner. Men! It’s enough for them to “make their lady happy” with fresh socks, a tie to match the shirt and a not too strong cologne. But women of all countries and peoples must work hard to earn the favorable glance of the stronger half of humanity.
Sometimes they need the help of major specialists in the “beauty industry” - plastic surgeons, nail artists, hairdressers. And ladies can do a lot on their own. I wish I knew how? However, here one instruction, even a step-by-step one, is sometimes not enough. What suits (literally) a teenage girl can sometimes do a disservice to a mature lady. And vice versa. Some types of makeup have, using medical terminology, clear indications.
So the natural beauty of youth is its great advantage. When a cleanly washed face plus a little blush on the cheekbones makes the image of a fragile maiden simply irresistible. And forced “naturalness” is the prerogative of the “age of withering”: an elderly lady “in war paint” looks, at least, ridiculous (if not pitiful). Therefore, the “nude” (“natural”, “invisible”) style is good specifically for these groups of women.
The right smoky eyes will suit both a mature lady and a young girl Photo: Depositphotos
Another thing is makeup with the tempting name “smoky eyes”. Here, quite rightly, such concepts as “vamp woman”, “evening makeup”, “call of the flesh”, “beauty reception”, “dream date”, “collective unconscious” immediately come to mind.
Benefits of smoky eyes:
- allows you to get by with simple tools (powder, eye shadow in three shades, pencil, mascara, sponges, brushes);
- disguises fine wrinkles;
- makes even small eyes bright and expressive;
- allows you to correct the shape of your eyes;
- visually raises the corners of the lower eyelids (outer edges);
- makes the eye line more “defined”;
- uses a wide range of colors (from black and gray to pink and turquoise);
- “raises” the upper (fixed) eyelid;
- creates the image of a “fatal seductress.”
After clarifying the desired age of the “model” for smoky eye makeup and the advantages of the “smoky look,” we can briefly dwell on the actual makeup technique of this type.
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It is divided into several stages:
1. Apply first day cream, and then foundation.
2. Concealing circles under the eyes with a corrector.
3. Outline them (almost along the contour, close to the eyelashes) with a soft pencil.
4. Applying shadows according to the principle:
- move from dark shades to light ones;
- gradually move from the outer corners of the eyes to the inner ones;
- carefully shade (both the shadows and the pencil line).
5. Placement of accents (pointed pearlescent shadows - either near the nose or closer to the temples, depending on the type of face).
6. Mascara - on eyelashes (thick, dark, lengthening).
7. Tidying up your eyebrows (make sure they are not brighter than your eye makeup).
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Make up “smoky” for many years has helped women’s eyes become “mysterious”, “magical”, “languid”, “enveloping”. And now everything is the same. If a lady uses smoky eyes, she can be sure: at a party she will be guaranteed success with men and the envy of her friends.
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What shadows do you need for smoky eye makeup?
In order to do smoky eye makeup yourself, you need to prepare the shadows of the shades that you like most, black mascara and eyeliner. Mandatory assistants in this procedure will be sponges or cotton swabs.
Shades for smoky makeup can be of two types or three. If you take gray shadows, then you can use light gray and dark gray shades and then it will be very easy to achieve the effect of smoky makeup. Use a pencil to highlight the upper and lower eyelids, if desired. This technique will visually enlarge your eyes.
Three main steps of the “smoky” classics
Smoky makeup, which never loses its relevance, owes its appearance to silent black and white cinema. Smoky Eyes gained cult status thanks to the legendary Brigitte Bardot, who began to be imitated by millions of women around the world who want to transform themselves into sophisticated, mysterious and fatal persons with a deep and mysterious look. And now he is again at the peak of popularity and is not going to give up his position in the near future. You are great at putting smoke in your eyes, but you are completely clueless in the art of creating charming smoky eyes?! Then we go to you!
