Your eyes look smoking!

Haha, so ignore the cheesy title!

Something everyone seems to find desirable is smokey eyes! I hear so many people talking about how that girl looks awesome or this girl looks awesome but it wouldn't suit her.

This is total myth!!

Smokey eyes can be for everyone! It just depends on your skin tone and the colours you use!

Smokey eyes DOES NOT limit to just using black and browns. You can use a variety of colours! From pink to green, it's just different tones.

Here's a green example, I quite like this. It goes well with her cool skin tone, you can easily adapt looks to suit you, so for example the 'smokeyness' of this example is not that extreme, if you want it darker use more dark! It's really that simple! To create a good smokey eye always use more than one tone of a colour, or a colour with black/brown (becareful what you put with brown!). This one has no 'flick' it just follows the shape of her eye socket. It's up to you what you choose to do. I find this works well with people who don't have a downward tear duct!

There's a variety of smokey eye designs. You can have flicks or follow the eye socket as I have said. You can place shadow only on the eyelid or you can follow your bottom waterline (Cheryl Cole does this a lot to give an even darker effect).

If you use colour, for example if you are a cool skinned person and use peach and browns to get your smokey eye you can then line the lid with a brown eyeliner to give definition and consolidate the look.

Dark skinned people can get away with nearly every colour of the spectrum!! Experiment a little with the colours you didn't think would work, you might be pleasantly surprised!

As many tips as I give you, the best advice I can give is to experiment! Have a girly night in with a film and your make-up bag! Buy a packet of facial wipes so you can quickly take off and reapply! You don't need to bother with foundation etc if you don't want. If you're simply finding colours that suit you can do this without foundation it will still look good if it suits you and no one's going to see you!

If you're desperate for the black smokey eye I have tryed SO MANY different eyeshadows in black, I find some of them can be badly pigmented and no matter how many times you go over the same spot that black eyeshadow looks grey and cloudy at best! A few of my favourite black eyeshadows include:

SPLURGE!
MAC - Eye shadow in Black Tied - £11 or £9 for refill pan for pro palette

SAVE!
Rimmel - Colour Rush in Jet Black - Around £5

For smokey eyes you're going to be packing on the colour! I seriously advise getting an eye primer so that the colour can stick to it. For a long time I would put up with looking a bit worse for wear by the end of the night just so my eyes would look amazing at the beginning! I bought a shadestick from MAC (£13) and I've never looked back! It's amazing how much this really does help but it does. There are a variety of primers, the shadestick comes in a variety of colours but I use beige-ing so it works with all my looks! Urban decay also do a really good primer which a lot of people shout about. That's around £13 too. There are cheaper primers you can get, one I saw the other day is available from MeMeMe cosmetics (available at Superdrug stores) which was only £7. I don't know how good this one is though!

So I hope this helped! Ask any questions as always and I'll get back to you either privately or by posting it as a new entry on the blog! If you want it private please tell me or it could be published!!

As always, all pictures are credited to their original sources and the pictures in this post are NOT my own. They are used only, for illustrating my explanations and reuse of this picture is not permitted.