Smoke it out.

This week for our Fashion make-up class we learned the art of the smokey eye and how to make sure your client doesn't end up looking like a raccoon or panda.

Our lovely teacher Branka instructed us to do was the following,

• Begin by preparing the skin, Branka used moisturizer on the skin and buffed it into the skin using a buffing brush. 
• Time to begin the smokey eye process, first you want to add a gel liner or cream liner to the eyes, never going above the crease and quickly blend out the edges using a domed shape brush, again do not blend above the crease.
• To soften out the black and add dimension to eyes add a taupe or neutral  brown color at the crease and blend the crease line to help the black soften but also to get the smokey effect,
• Add more black onto the lid to intensify the color and the look,
• Add black liner to the waterline and underneath the bottom lashes, using a small smudger brush blend using a little more black to create a soft smoky look underneath the lashes,
• Add mascara,
• Fill in the brows with powder or any other type of brow filling product. and set using brow gel.
• For the foundation, contour and highlight Branka went for something a little different using a shade 2 shades lighter then her models skin tone for highlight, matched her normal skin color with a foundation and placed that next to the highlight and finally a foundation 2 shades darker then her models skin to create the contour. It sounds crazy but it actually works.

     

• Blend the highlighter first then the skin color and finally the contour. Finish off with some loose powder.
• To complete this look use either a nude or a deep red or plum shade to intensify the look.

My final look,

Conclusion 

I believe my look came out well though I wasn't entirely happy with the overall look of the eyes, I also found the skin to be very shiny even after powdering, I believe this to be a problem of the foundations (MAC Full coverage foundation) as it seems to have a very oily texture to it. I'm also not a huge fan of  the MAC Gel liner I found it dried too quickly not giving me a lot of time to work with it and also even though I was using the black shade it wasn't very black it came across very blue toned which I didn't like.