Basic Smokey Eye Tutorial

Hey Guys!
I get a lot of requests to do tutorials on eye looks.. I wanted to get a better camera before I started doing them but I haven't yet so just bare with me and my low quality pictures! I promise I will do more tutorials once I get a better camera but for now this will have to do..

This is just a basic smokey eye look. I wanted to stick with using one palette so I used my Urban Decay Naked palette because I think it is pretty popular and if you don't have it the colors I used are easy to find and most people probably already have them in their collection.

First I primed my eyes with my primer potion from Urban Decay and then I applied Naked all over my lid up to my brow with a fluffy blending brush.. When doing looks like this I like to start with a base color all over my lid to cover up veins and just make a consistent base to work with.

Now I go in with Buck and apply it in my crease and on the outer corner of my eye using the same brush.

The next few steps I apply shadows right over where I put Buck and pretty much go a shade darker each time. Starting out light and going darker helps with blending, makes the shadows seamless and have no harsh lines, and if you start out dark but end up going too dark its hard to go back from there without removing all of your makeup. So next I apply Dark Horse in the crease and the outer corner of my eye, still using my blending brush.

So far this is what you should have..

 

Now I am using Creep and a more precise brush. This time I am keeping the color tighter in the crease and on the outer corner of my eye. I keep applying Creep until I get the darkness I want then I use my fluffy brush with no product on it and I just go back over everything and blend it out. You can keep doing this until you get the look you want.

Now that I have made a mess I use makeup remover cream and a Q-Tip to clean up my line..

 

Almost finished!

 

At this point if you want to add liner or a wing you can do that, I didn't this time. Now I am doing my lower lash line. First I apply Creep with a flat definer brush close to my lower lashes.

 

Then I using a pencil brush and Buck I smoke it out. Basically just going back and forth on the lash line and blending out Creep. You can skip this step and just use a black liner on your water line but I never leave my lower lash line blank, its just preference.

 

Last thing I do is add mascara and fill in my brows and I am done! This is the finished look.. I hope this helps and as usual if you have any question.. ASK! Side note.. If any of you got the new Urban Decay Smokey let me know what you think of it! Trying to decide if I need it or not!

xoxo

Magg