How to get your perfect smokey eye makeup
Having the same look daily on your face sounds quite boring, it shows how limited effort you put into yourself to look different and unique. Makeup is one such thing that makes you look different, when you look different every day, you become more noticeable to the people around you and you are able to drag their attention towards you. Believe it or not, but when it comes to makeup, it has numerous benefits that are life-changing. You appear confident in front of people and most importantly you feel beautiful from within, which is enough to transform your life.
Your makeup is incomplete without perfect eye makeup, as it is the most noticed part of your face. Hence, it is essential that you give your eyes a glamorous look, to complete your makeup. One of the funkiest ways to play with your eye makeup is giving your eyes a smokey touch. Smokey eye makeup has been trending for a long a time now, and people can’t get over it due to its versatility. It makes your eyes appear sharp, expert artists says, women have more color variation around their eyes, and eye makeup enhances those colors and make them look more attractive. And this is what exactly we do, to have smokey eye effect. In order to know more about it, here we have highlighted some of the essentials for having smokey eyes.
Product selection
Whenever you are planning to apply makeup, always remember to go ahead with quality products. Products are available at various prices, but compromising quality for cheap prices will eventually result in damaging your skin. Hence, quality products are necessary and has uncountable benefits, like they are long-lasting, easy to blend and feel light on your face and most importantly they don’t harm you even if you put them on your face for longer. Thus, your initial eye makeup process starts with proper product selection. Which includes a quality base, liner and brushes. Once you collect all of them you are set to go ahead with smokey eye makeup. To gain more information, you can check out different brands to see their features and components or to better understand you can watch product review tutorials on YouTube. This will help you to get the best fit product as online reviews are mostly trustable.
Pre-makeup preparations
Applying makeup is not an instant proper, and you don’t apply main products directly, as there are few essentials that are mandatory to do before starting. Having a perfect base for makeup is essential. A perfect base gives you a smooth surface for makeup, which makes the process effortless. Moreover, the base is responsible for highlighting your makeup, thus start with putting a liquid base all over your eyelid. You can go with neutral shade or something that matches your skin tone. However, you can even apply a concealer matching your skin tone in place of liquid base. Many people tend to skip this process, and end up having faulty eye makeup which is tough to remove. So, if you are a beginner here is your kick start for perfect smokey eye makeup.
Apply dark tone shadow to outer corner
Apply a matte dark tone shadow, start from covering your lash line and then smoothly blend upward and outward. When doing this, remember to use a fluffy brush. The thin brush will not blend the shadow properly, it will consume time and can even cause irritation in the eyes, as thin brushes have pointed tips. On the flipside, using a fluffy brush is safer, it gives a perfect blend and feels soft on eyes, move them around your eyelid slowly to finish the step. You can watch YouTube tutorials to gather information about different brushes and which one is perfect to use. Moreover, keep your hands free and light otherwise you will end up removing the base that you applied previously. When you do this properly, you get a natural eye makeup look as both base and shadow are now complimenting each other.
Use pencil eyeliner
After applying the dark shadow tone, the next step is to use pencil eyeliner. Using pencil eyeliner is specific for perfection, avoid using liquid eyeliner as it has high chances of spilling out from its original place, this may ruin your makeup and you need to start from the beginning. The eyeliner that you are applying could be a thick or thin line, it will not be going to make a difference anyway. After applying eyeliner, start blending from the top edge liner with a pencil brush to smoke it out.
Finish with light shimmer
This step is not mandatory to follow, you can even stop after putting a liner. But if you want a glimmer look then you can go ahead with applying shimmer glitter on it. Don’t apply it fully on your eyelid, otherwise you will end up hiding everything. Apply on edges and corners to give the outline. And if you want a full-glam look, slowly press glitter on your eyes, just one tap and you will have enough of glitter. Finally finish this with mascara to pull the look all together, you can also use artificial eye lashes to complete your smokey eye look.
Conclusion
To do perfect eye makeup requires a lot of patience and practice, especially if you are a beginner. Hence, before proceeding with anything it is good to gather knowledge about it so that you avoid making mistakes later. With this approach we have tried to cover the essentials of doing perfect smokey eye makeup for beginners. In addition, you can get help from YouTube tutorials, explaining how to do smokey eye makeup and what are the best products for it. Using a high quality and branded product is always suggested, as a good quality product promises perfection in makeup. Having smokey eyes is a feminine way to enhance your eyes and it is perfect for night-time parties and occasions.
