A Tame Smokey Eye

It's day 6 of blogmas and I haven't really done much on makeup. I've decided to show you my go-to easy smokey eye look. When my eye makeup is not very heavy, I tend to wear a lipstick that is 'more in your face' - basically not nude. My base makeup is not really heavy either. There's a slight amount of contouring, but nothing too serious. I have highlighted underneath the arch of my brows as it not only makes them stand out, but it makes the eyeshadow from the crease seem more defined; not harsh. As you can see from the image, I am not wearing any eyeliner - shock horror! I love having really long, extended lashes and if you've got eyeliner on with a smokey eye, it can get a bit too much. Therefore, the lashes looked super long without eyeliner.

So to get this eye look, I used a range of different products that I built up on. These include: Illamasqua - Wolf, MAC - Wedge, MAC Embark and Zoeva - Pure (part of the Naturally Yours palette).

This four eyeshadows combined can give you a very build-able brown smokey eye. As all the colours are similar in terms of texture, they're easy to blend. They're completely matte so they have no pigmentation.

To start with, I prime my eyes with the Urban Decay - Primer Potion. This is a long-lasting eyeshadow base - it certainly holds it for a good 10 hours! Also, for those that have a Sephora near you, their primer works wonders! To follow, I applied the shade pure in the corner of my eyes. As this is the coolest and lightest shade that I used, I helps create a gradual blend. I then went on to doing my crease. I really didn't want this look to be dramatically heavy so I applied the tiniest amount of product on to a MAC 217 - Blending Brush and built it up. I used both Wolf and Embark to do this. To finish with, I applied Wedge all over the lid. Blending it into the crease and inner corner - next to the tear duct.

As I said before, I love my lashes to be super long so I used the mascaras: Chanel - Le Volume, MAC - Black Extreme and Clinque - Bottom Lash Mascara.