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20.3.10
Brown Smoky Eyes  1. Start out with a clean canvas. Be sure to prep your eyes with concealer to even out your skin tone--especially focusing on the lids and outer eye corner. Blend all the way up to your brow bone.  2. You probably can't tell lol, but I've put on a base on my lid, making sure that it doesn't pass my crease. I used Jane Color Stick in 08 Sunkisses. Use your finger to blend it out evenly. (If you don't blend it enough, it will crease!) This adds a slight stickyness that allows the eyeshadow to stick on more.   3. I like to put on my eyeliner and mascara before I start putting on my eyeshadows. This way, I can easily fix any mistakes I make without worrying about messing up my eyeshadow. As you can see, I didn't worry too much about getting it exactly perfect. It's just basically going to be a guideline later for me when reapplying my liner. If you're wondering, I used Maybelline Colossal (for volume) and Clinique High Impact Mascara (for length). I don't curl my lashes before I put on mascara, because I find that it doesn't make that much of a difference for me, but I do curl them at the end, when my mascara has dried.   4. Take a light brown eyeshadow (I used MAC Charcoal Brown) and pat it onto your lid. It should go just a little past the crease.   5. Apply a darker brown to the outer corner, creating a V shape. Using a dome shaped brush is best for this step. Then, take a flatter angled brush and apply shadow to the bottom outer corner as well. It doesn't have to look perfect just yet...   6...because we're going to blend this sucker out! Yay, doesn't that look much better? Use a windshield wiper motion and blend the dark brown in towards your crease as well to create more depth to your eyes. Don't blend too much or else the colors will look muddy! You want it to look like two colors seamlessly blended together, not like one plain brown color lol.  7. Take a shimmery bronze color (I used ELF's $1 Bronzing Powder in Warm Tan) and put it on your lid, concentrating below the crease. You don't want it going over the crease! Bring it a little down towards your inner corner as well. If this doesn't highlight the inner corner enough for you, go ahead and take a lighter shimmery color and blend it in. Use one with golden tones though, instead of a white because white will not match with the pretty browns we're working with!  8. Alrighty, as you can see I've gone over my eyeliner and fixed it up. I ran out of liquid liner so I had to use Visine+black eyeshadow for this step lol.  9. Ok! This is what you should so far. If you're happy with this look, you can go ahead and stop here. I like my eyes to look a bit more dramatic though...   10. So all I do is rim my eyes with a dark black eyeliner, curl my lashes, and apply 1-2 more coats of mascara for extra volume and to clean up any fall out on the lashes)! And we're done! Labels: brown, smokey eyes, tutorials leave a note |
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