Just a warning: I dont find the pictures particularly helpful for this one simply because I feel like the colours aren't showing up as much as I'd like them to. Sorry about that! Also, the colours used for this look will vary from person to person depending on your skintone so rather than just naming shades, I've tried to explain what kind of a colour you should be using too! Enjoy ;)
1. Start off with a cleansed, moisturized eye and apply your eyeshadow base all over the lid till the browbone.
2. Taking a big fluffy brush, apply a matte eyeshadow all over your lid that is one or two shades darker than your own skintone, preferably from the reddish-brown family. Im an NC30 in MAC Foundations and I used Soft Brown eyeshadow by MAC.
3. Should end up looking like this... extremely subtle but you can just see a hint of colour.
4. Dust off the same brush you used and and use it again. Pick up a matte eyeshadow that is exactly your skintone or maybe one shade lighter and lightly dust it all over your browbone area. Ive used Malt eyeshadow by MAC.
5. Then take a slightly smaller, stiff blending brush or a crease brush, and pick up some matte dark brown eyeshadow. It should be dark enough to show up on your skintone. If you're dark skinned, use black eyeshadow instead. Ive used Handwritten by MAC.
Just PRESS the tip of the brush into the outer corner of your eye as shown below - so we're just literally depositing the colour there at this stage...
6. So now you have a nice unblended blob of brown on your outer corner... like this....
7. Dust the same brush off, and use it to feather this colour in towards the lid. What does "feathering" mean? It basically means use LIGHT, SHORT brush strokes which start from the brown and move inwards towards your lid. This is a very quick movement so no long strokes. Once youve done this for a bit, you should find that your darker colour has blended into the lid colour. Dont over blend, you dont want to lose the dark brown completely. It should look somewhat like this...
8. Using a dark brown or black gel or liquid eyeliner, apply a VERY thin line to your upper lash line. It should barely show! Ive used Blacktrack Fluidline by MAC.
(pencils can be rather messy and this look is all about subtlety so I wouldnt recommend pencils unless you're super-adept at using them!)
9. And this is your finished look! Its subtle but it really defines your eye. And it shows up more in real life than in these pictures, I promise!
Here's a clear picture! FINALLY!
Im going to show you the products I used down below...
Soft Brown Eyeshadow...
Big fluffy brush, smaller crease brush and bent eyeliner brush...
I hope you enjoyed this! Dark brown smokey eye coming up this weekend! :)
x
9. And this is your finished look! Its subtle but it really defines your eye. And it shows up more in real life than in these pictures, I promise!
Here's a clear picture! FINALLY! 
This is my favorite neutral look... super easy to do and it looks so effortlessly pretty.
Im going to show you the products I used down below...
Malt Eyeshadow...
Soft Brown Eyeshadow...
Handwritten Eyeshadow...
Blacktrack Fluidline...
Big fluffy brush, smaller crease brush and bent eyeliner brush...
I hope you enjoyed this! Dark brown smokey eye coming up this weekend! :)
x
4 comments:
never knew skin tones need to be taken into account! can you do something with whitish eyeshadow? Also, do you know how the greenish look comes under the eyes?
Hi Sarah! Yeah ill do a look with white eyeshadow soon... Im not quite sure what you mean by the greenish look under the eyes? Could you elaborate on that pls?
Which eye shadow base did u use for eye makeup??????
I used Urban Decay Primer Potion! x
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