Classic Smokey Eyes for the Weekend

Since I'm to have had a smokey eye week I wanted to finish up with a classic dark grey look.

I generally find that greys can look a bit dull on me as I have dark hair and brows so I thought I'd try starting the look with a purple base to add a bit of warmth. I coloured the whole of my lids in with a soft purple eye pencil as purple brings out the brown in my eyes. From there I used my Mon Smokey palette by Lancome which I've used in every look this week and I think they all look pretty different, don't you think?

A smokey eye means that the darkest colour is at the base of the eye and, as it reaches the crease it smokes out to gradually lighter shades.

Over the purple pencil I applied the mid grey over the entire lid and blended it up over my brow bone. I then applied the black to the lash line, blended it upwards and applied the glittery black all over the lids. I mirrored the look under my bottom lashes and applied the lightest grey from the palette to the inner corners of my eyes.
I then lined my inner rims heavily with black eyeliner. Finally, I ran the lighter colour just under my brow bone, curled my lashes, applied false lashes and then mascara.

I think this look really needs a well groomed and strong brow (eek, mine are due for a wax this weekend so had to stop myself from plucking!) and not much else so that the focus stays on the eyes.

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A Quick Smokey Eye

I had decided to give myself the day off today. I've been working in the evenings and weekends on wedding trials as well as my blog everyday and was feeling a bit make up'd out. But after a little retail therapy this morning where I brought two gorgeous eye shadow palettes by Lancome & some pressed mineral foundation by Bare Minerals I was feeling better and more inspired.

Amazing what a bit of shopping can do for you hey?!

The Lancome eye shadows are both Hypnose Drama palettes. One is different shades of sparkley blue (Bain De Minuit) and the other is five smokey, sparkley greys & blacks with a pretty pink thrown in too (Mon Smokey).

Using mainly the black/ grey palette I used the shades dry. Taking the pink all over the eye, I blended the darker shades over the top, lining the black around my eyes with the sparkly black on the other corners. To lift the look I finished my washing a bit of the midnight, sparkly blue from the other palette over the lids and underneath as this added just a little warmth to the grey.

I paired the eyes with pink cheeks and pink glossy lips. I think tomorrow I'll use the same palettes and create more of a dramatic look by using a wet brush as today I used dry brushes as I wanted quite a soft look.

What do you think?

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