Smokey eye look, no one can deny its lasting trend. Though smokey eye look has been popular since quite a long time ago, many celebrities are still using smokey eye look for formal and grand events. You can notice celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightley and Jessica Alba, they all wear smokey eyes! What does this imply? It means smokey eye is a must to learn and to apply!

One of the well known key to beautiful smokey eye look is the skill for blending the different color eye shadow. This is definitely true. But to have a matte look or the original smokey eye look, you may wish to choose the matte eye shadow instead of the shimmer one.

Three eye shadows with similar colors are the basic tools for your smokey eyes. The three eye shadows are acting the highlight, mid-tone and contour functions. Highlight is for highlight purpose and usually people will choose a shimmer one. Mid-tone is the main color of the smokey eye and usually it is black or grey and matte. You can choose either shimmer or matte ones depending on the look you want. For the very originally one, matte one is suggested.

Start to have your smokey eyes by doing the all the foundation work first. You should clean your eyes and apply eye base, foundation and concealer. After that, you can use eyeliner with color similar to your overall tone to draw the upper and lower eye lines.

After the foundation work, you can first apply the highlight eye shadow to the whole upper lid. Then it comes to the mid-tone eye shadow. Apply the mid-tone only from lash line to the crease, not the whole upper lid. Blend well the joint line for the two eye shadows. After blending well, add on the contour from the lash line to the crease again and blend and smudge well. Make sure the two eyes look the same.

To have a really smokey eyes look, eye shadow does 85% of the job. And the remaining relies a lot on mascara. Remember to apply the black and volume-enhancing mascara to match the whole tone.

People always use black and grey colors for smokey eyes. Not to be so boring, you can also have very good effect for using other dark colors like dark green, dark blue, brown, etc. The key is to match the colors with your skin tone, eye color and hair color. Generally, dark blue is suitable blue eye and brown is suitable for brown eye.

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