Besame Cosmetics How-To: Smoky Eyes
Here’s a great expert tip from Besame Cosmetics owner, Gabriela Hernandez on how to get that smoky eye look. She always offers great tips and expert advice in her newsletter!
Things you’ll need:
Foundation or primer for your lids
Loose powder to set
Light shimmer shadow
Dark grey shadow
Black liner
Black mascara
* False lashes
Step One: Begin by applying your foundation. Spread foundation to your eyelids to provide a good base for your shadows.
Step Two: Dust your face with translucent powder
Step Three: Apply a light shade of shadow to the entire lid to highlight the brow bone. (They used shimmer beige from base of lashes to eyebrows.)
Step Four: With a small shadow brush, find your eye crease and apply dark shadow. The photo shows Black Pearl applied to the entire lid and under the lash.
Step Five: Add black pencil on top and bottom of eyes and smudge as needed to blend edges. Use the beige side of the Besame pencil to line the inner eye area for more definition and a wide-eye look.
* Step Six: For added drama, add a set of thin false lashes to the top and a shorter row on the bottom of the lash.
Step Seven: Finish with black mascara
* I see this as optional, especially if you have a really rockin mascara.
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6 opinions for Besame Cosmetics How-To: Smoky Eyes
Debbie
Feb 29, 2008 at 4:26 pm
This is a great tutorial. I’ve tried this smoky looks a couple of time, but always just end up looking like i got punched out, lol. Hopefully her tips will give me the perfect smoky eyes.
Kristen
Feb 29, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I really should try that, I always overdo a smokey eye and end up wiping it all off before I go out. It’s easy to go overboard when you’re blond and have very fair skin….I think the grey suggested would work well though.
Ashley Samantha
Feb 29, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I’m going to have to try this technique asap (tonight), it’s so gentle and pretty. I’ve always gone the liquid liner-on-the-lid route but this looks so much easier.
Julie
Mar 1, 2008 at 12:00 am
Thanks for the step-by-step breakdown. The photo accompanying the tutorial is subtle and alluring. I’m going dancing tomorrow night, will definitely follow Gabriela’s suggestions.
yoyosushi3 (thu)
Mar 1, 2008 at 12:09 am
That tutorial seems to be right on the money. Before i started reading all these how-to blogs, I would always do the smokey eye look with only dark colors. I never knew how important a good base and light higlighting colors were!
A tip I would add is to put extra powder underneath your eyes to catch all the excess powder that will come from the black shadow. This way you can brush it off when your done and you’ll be left with a nice, lightly powdered face!
Trisha
Mar 1, 2008 at 2:34 am
great tutorial! good advice yoyosushi3, another option if you are worried about powder making your undereyes look more wrinkly (like me ;-) ) you can also do your eyes first, remove any smudges underneath & then conceal. it works wonders for me.
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