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Smokey eye look: quick and easy make-up

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The so-called "smokey eye look", in which colors flow from light to dark, is certainly one of the most seductive and beautiful. Some people avoid it, thinking that it requires a lot of makeup knowledge, but with practice and a few tries, everyone can succeed. We have prepared a way for you to achieve beautiful "smokey eyes" quickly and easily.

1. Choose a color

Speaking of smokey eyes, shades usually come to mind black, but we can create a beautiful smokey eye with other colors. You can choose them according to how you will be that day dressed up, how you feel or, most often, what yours is eye color.

Make-up artists advise that if your eyes green, look back at reddish undertones if you have blue eyes, you choose shades orange ones. What if you have brown eyes? They will shine the most at purple color or combination dark brown and gold. To make the colors last longer, we recommend that you start the look with foundation for the eyes.

Green eyes shine best with red shades Photo: Yunona Uritsky / Unsplash

2. Pencil instead of gel eyeliner

Smokey eyes can be created in several ways: you can use le eye shadows, but you can start it with eyeliner. When choosing an eyeliner, make-up artists suggest pencil instead of gel eyeliner, as it will make it easier to create an effect overflows color shades, and you will also add to the lids depth and thereby ensured that the color would have longer lasting effect.

3. Shading

We recommend starting with a shade shades, which is only slightly different from your skin tone and apply it to the eyelid and the area between the eyelid and the eyebrow. Then, dip the brush into an eyeshadow in a shade approx the middle between dark and light and you apply it above the lid and until the corner of the eye. Then darker apply the shade on eyelid, focusing on the lash line. Then the darkest apply the shade at lash line and then it with another brush "blush" with another color. Now apply the eyeliner next to the bottom and upper lash line, where the line should be as small as possible closer lash line. Then smudge the line a bit by going over it tap with a brush. Finally, apply more mascara and optional false eyelashes.

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