Listening to the Beauty and The Beast Soundtrack. Excited about Corey coming home tomorrow!
I have to apologize. I was going to post my August Five Faves and a Flop today, but honestly, I have not had time to put that post together. I had a ton of reading to do this week, and I had to deep clean the basement since Corey will be here tomorrow!!! So I decided I'll post my Faves and Flop on Saturday, the actual last day of the month, and y'all will get an extra post this week!
So. The smoky eye. Symbol of mysterious, smoldering seduction in the beauty world. But let's face it. Sometimes it's just a little too much for everyday wear. We all know how to wear it to a wedding or a night out on the town, but if you do it for your 8 am class, you look like you slept with your face in the dirt. You gotta tone it down for the daytime - here's how I do it!
- Prep your eyes. Use a thin layer of your favorite primer.
- Use a C-brush and a very pale golden tan on the inner half of your lids. Not too bright - the highlighting will come later.
- Use a medium taupe on the outer half with the same type brush. Not too dark, but also not lighter than the golden tan you already used. We're just adding a slight definition to the outer halves.
- Select a brownish-grey color, and using a crease brush, apply this to the crease and the outer-V.
- Using a fluffy blending brush, buff out the edges and blend the brownish-grey into the taupe. They keys to a wearable day-time smoky eye are careful layering and ensuring there are no defining lines between colors.
- Apply whatever's left on the blending brush along the outer half of your lower lids. Don't bring it all the way around like you may for a more dramatic nighttime looks. This is just a faint smoke.
- Select a dark brown - darker than the brownish-grey from the previous step 4 - and apply that directly to the crease a clean crease brush to really define it. Blend it out.
- Take a brown pencil eyeliner and apply that on the outer two-thirds of your lower lash line. Use the buffer on the other side of your pencil, or a dense smudge brush, and smudge it out, being sure to connect it with the color from your upper lids.
- Use a waterproof and smudge-proof black pencil liner and line your lower waterline. Don't bring the color all the way to the inner corner, though. Just to the inner edge of your lash line. This is another way to ensure that the look is not too intense to wear everyday.
- Apply a black gel eyeliner to your upper lash line. Keep the line thin and precise, and don't wing it out. The look is already intense enough without a wing.
- Take a C-brush and dust your favorite highlighter on your brow bone. Be sure to select a warm-toned highlighter like a peach or golden champagne as opposed to white so the contrast between the highlight and your smoky lids isn't too drastic.
- Use the same highlighter on your inner corners, meeting the inner edge of your lower lashes so that the highlighter illuminates the entire inner corner of your eye.
When will you be rocking this wearable daytime smoky eye?
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Products Used (in order of use)
- Maybelline 24-Hour Color Tattoo in Barely Branded
- Fifth shade from the top in the Physicians Formula Nude Classics Palette
- Third shade from the top in the Physicians Formula Nude Classics Palette
- e.l.f. Mineral Eye Shadow in Socialite
- Fourth shade from the bottom in the Physicians Formula Nude Classics Palette
- Covergirl Perfect Blend Pencil Crayon in Black Brown
- Rimmel Exaggerate Auto Waterproof Eye Definer in Noir
- e.l.f. Studio Cream Eye Liner in Black
- e.l.f. Mineral Eye Shadow in Elegant
- Maybelline Mega Plush Volum' Express Waterproof Mascara in Black
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