When doing eye make up, recently I find myself going a bit overboard and sometimes I do find myself looking like I have just been punched- let me assure you this is not a good look. I find that there's is a fine line between the overdramatic smokey eye look and the crack whore look. I am tryi to find a balance somewhere nicely in the middle. So if you, much like me, find yourself beginning to resemble the black swan, it's time to come up with a new eye look. So with the help of my trusty naked 2 pallette here's a quick little tutorial on eye make up.
Ah autumn. The season of leaf crunching, brisk walks, dark mornings, ugg boots and pumpkin flavoured EVERYTHING. A time when collars and jumpers re-surface, I'm almost weak at the knees just thinking of it. Autumn also means the return of my favourite combination- over the top eyes and bold lips. Oh yes, autumn is a time when plum lipstick is smeared across every mouth, and copper eye shadows dabbled over every eye lid. I find myself part of this cliqué, an elite following of autumnal lovers.
To achieve this highly over the top but always acceptable look, I first applied a highlighting concealer all over my eyelid and undereye. This is a nice way of hiding my undereye bags that just scream sleep deprivation.
Oh, I don't slack on that concealer. Just an FYI this was before I blended it, I wasn't intending on the phantom of the opera look.
Next, using my front cover crease brush, I applied the shade tease to the outer half of my lid.
Then using the shade snakebite and my teeny tiny real techniques brush, I lined my eye in a cleopatra-esque flick. That is if cleopatra were a big fan of brown glitter.
Now for my favourite shade. Half baked (insert multiple heart eye emojis here). Urban decay have unlocked the key to my heart with this shade. It is pure gold pigmentation heaven. I applied this to my inner eyelid Again using my crease brush, and blended out with a blending brush. Dreamy.
Now, I felt the tiniest bit of blackout, blended across my crease, was most necessary.
I also used a detailer brush to line my lash line in blackout as false eyelash prep.
This is it as far as eye shadow is concerned. Next I cleaned up my brow bone and under eye using concealer and applied my red cherry lashes. The emotions run high when it comes to these eyelashes, I have nothing but praise for them, they are so easy to apply and really great quality. I'm actually getting a bit emotional just talking about them. For £2.89 (eBay), they are such good value.
Now, after tearing up over half baked eyeshadow and red cherry lashes, I filled in my eyebrows with the seventeen brow box and highlighted my brow bone with the shade foxy.
After I applied the rest of my makeup,
This was the finished result:
I was more than pleased with this eye makeup, for me this is a good solution to my eye makeup woe.
Hopefully this helps anyone else struggling to define and eye look between kim kardashian and a black eye.
Emma x
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