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24.3.10 Dramatic Double Winged Smokey Eye This look is definitely not for the timid! Probably not something you'd wear to school lol, but it's great for a night out. And I think it looks great with an updo. You definitely don't need double eyelids for this look! Hope you enjoy (: Products used (in order in which I used them): . NYX jumbo eye pencil in Milk . some random cheap black eyeliner . 120 eyeshadow palette (light silver, black, and light brown); got from ebay . L'oreal Voluminous Mascara . MAC Liquidlast Eyeliner 1. Start with a clean canvas. Prep with primer if you need it. 2. LOL! I know this looks totally scary...Take a white cream shadow (I'm using NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk) and put that on the 1st half of your eye. Take a black cream shadow (I'm using random eyeliner pencil) and put that on the outer half of your eye. 3. Of course, now we gotta blend out that base! Either use your fingers, or a synthetic brush to blend. I find it kind of hard using my fingers because it's really easy to muddy the colors up if you're not being careful and you'll have to repeatedly stop to clean off your fingers. It's easier to do soft circular blending motion with a rounded blending brush. 4. Take a light silvery eyeshadow and pat it on top of the white base, at the 1st half of your eye. 5. Take a matte black eyeshadow and place that over the black base, on the 2nd half or your eye. Lol, at this point, I realized I forgot to put on my mascara, so I put some on (I usually like to put mascara on before I start). 6. Use a clean fluffy, dome shaped brush and blend!! Blend the top of your eyeshadow, so it's seamless with your skin. And don't forget to blend the two colors together on your lid as well. TIP FOR WHENEVER YOU'RE BLENDING: It's better to blend using windshield wiper motions on the 1st half of your eye, then switching to small circular motions when you're at the 2nd half of your eye. 7. This step is subtle, but it makes a huge difference! Using a clean blending brush, lightly dip it into a matte, light brown eyeshadow. Put the color right at your crease and blend to further diffuse the edge between your skin and the black eyeshadow. This will add depth to your eyes and make them seem deeper. 8. Ok, time for eyeliner! This is probably the hardest part because you'll want to make the lines for both eyes relatively even. It's impossible to make them completely perfect and identical to each other though, so don't stress out too much over it. I used liquid liner with a VERY thin brush (MAC's Liquidlast). For the top liner: Line your eyes like you would normally do, but wing out the line. You can wing it out as much as you're comfortable with. For the bottom liner: Start in the middle of your lower lashline. Bring the liner out towards the outer half of your eye. Extend the line so that it is parallel to the wing from your upper lid. Then, make sure you wipe off any clumps or excess liner on your brush, because you want to be able to make a very fine line. Start at the middle of your lower lashline again, but this time, carefully bring your liner towards the inner of corner of your eye, but stop where your lashes start to end. From there, make that diagonal line (Sorry, I don't know a better way to explain this part lol). Make sure the ends of those diagonal lines are even with both eyes, or else your eyes will look really off (one will look larger/smaller or droopier than the other if you aren't relatively accurate). 9. Using a small angled brush, put a shimmery white eyeshadow in your inner corner. Because of that little diagonal line, imagine that your inner corner has enlarged, so don't put the shimmery white eyeshadow just at your normal inner corner--you gotta put it on your whole exaggerated 'inner corner'! Blend that; you don't want your highlight to be so obvious, that's ugly. Then, take your matte black eyeshadow and go over the wings at your outer corner to soften them up a bit. 10. Finish off the look by rimming your water line with a white eyeliner. Curl your lashes, add a few more coats of mascara (false lashes are must if you have them on hand!), and you're done! Labels: eyeliner, tutorials leave a note | 5 notes(s)