 In today's makeup lesson, I want to share with you all my favorite tips and tricks to wearing a smokey eye. Smokey eyes can be a little daunting, but I want to share with you all my tips and tricks to working the brows, working the base, contouring and sculpting the face. Basically I want you to feel so comfortable but also really confident wearing a smokey eye. But before we get into all of that, if you're new here to the makeup chair channel and you enjoy tutorials like this, then I might suggest hitting the subscribe button below. It's totally free and if you're already subscribed then thank you and welcome back. Now let's get started. So I've done my skincare and I've also applied a smokey eye because it's a good place to start. Now if you're not sure how to apply a smokey eye then you can check out last week's Monday makeup lesson. So I've just cleaned up any fallout because I always start with the eyes particularly when I'm doing a smokey eye look like this. So what I tend to do when I'm doing the eyes first is I work from the lash line up then I do the face makeup and then I can come back and finish off with the under part of the eyes. This just makes sure that I have a really clean base and I'm not trying to avoid any particular areas. So I want to start off by carving out my eyebrows. Now I do this for a few different reasons so just bear with me but firstly what I'm using is a combination of concealer and foundation mixed together. Now for most people you could probably just use foundation but for me the area around my brows it just doesn't hold makeup in the same way. So by mixing in just a little bit of concealer with the foundation this adds a slightly thicker texture and this will hold a lot better for me. So I'm using an angled brush to apply this mixture around my eyebrows. Now I do this before I apply anything to the brows. Now there's two main reasons that I do that. The first one is I want to be able to get really close to the brows. There is nothing worse when you have perfect brows than you try and do your base and you get that little gap because you're too afraid to get really close to those brows. The other reason I do this is because I get a really nice clean line and I can see the shape that I want to create with my eyebrows. Sometimes you don't need to add so much depth to your brows you just need to clean up around the brows and this will add in that contrast for you. So I've applied the concealer and then I'm going to go in with a damp sponge to blend it out just to make sure there's no harsh lines and I can also stamp over the brows so I'm getting kind of into the brows but what I'm left with is a really clean line and now I can fill in the brows. Now of course filling in your brows is really personal. Everybody has a preference of how deep or filled or defined they want them to be. However when you're wearing a smoky eye you do have to make a little bit of a consideration with making sure that you have some balance. One thing that people always tell me is when they're wearing a smoky eye they feel like they just have these two black holes in their face and that is because the shape is just getting lost with everything else that's going on and your brows are there to frame and shape your face and that's extra important when you're doing a smoky eye you need to add in a little bit of balance. So I want you to take just a little bit of powder, gel, pencil, whatever you like to use and I want you to fill in your brows just that little bit. This is just going to make sure that we're adding some framework to our smoky eye and they're not going to look like two black holes on your face. As you can see here with the before and after it makes such a difference. It frames the eyes and it actually brings out the smoky eye instead of the smoky eye getting lost on your face. If you would like some more details on how to fill in your brows definitely let me know but it's a very personal thing so I don't want to tell you what to do. Moving on to concealer. So we will be doing a brightening effect later in the application so I don't want you to pick up your light concealer right now. What I want you to focus on is actually correcting any tones that you might have on your skin which is really important with a smoky eye. Smoky eyes will highlight any blemish any uneven tone basically everything. So you do have to make sure that you are going in and correcting any discoloration that you have on your skin. You can do that using a corrector and a concealer or you can do what I do because I'm a little bit lazy and you can use a concealer with a slightly peach or pink or whatever tone that you need just choose a concealer with that undertone. This is a great alternative if you just don't have the time to apply a corrector and concealer and foundation. So I'm using a slightly peach tone concealer and just applying this underneath my eyes to kind of camouflage any darkness. And I always do this first so that when I apply my foundation everything will come together. Once I apply the concealer I always use a damp sponge just to blend out any harsh lines. Also I want full coverage but I don't want that full feel so that's why a damp sponge really helps. Now I don't have any blemishes at the moment so there's nothing I can really show you other than working underneath the eyes so we're going to move on to foundation. So I've concealed and corrected that's just how I like to do it and now I'm going to use my foundation. So we are going to go kind of slightly over the concealer corrector that we've already applied but this is just going to bring the entire look together. With a smoky eye you do need a little bit more of a fuller coverage. Now that doesn't mean that you have to apply a lot of foundation or concealer or anything like that it's more about the actual product that you're choosing. Choose something that's slightly fuller coverage so you can actually use less. You like sometimes you can wear a foundation it just feels so heavy that you feel like you're wearing like a face mask. We don't want that even though we do want full coverage to work with our smoky eye it doesn't need to feel really heavy and full. This next step is something that I don't do for all of my makeup looks but it's just to enhance the smoky eye and it's brightening up underneath the eyes and kind of in the center of the face. Now this is a very thin texture light liquid. I don't want to call it concealer or foundation because it's kind of neither. Basically you want to choose something that is very very sheer but maybe about two shades lighter than your skin tone. That just means that you can apply this and have a brightening effect but you're not actually adding to the coverage. This is just going to enhance and bring out the smoky eye because it adds a little bit more contrast. Now if you are unsure of where to apply this definitely let me know. I'll go through face shapes and how to actually work with your face shape but once I apply it I then really blend it out. You just get that slightly lifted brightened appearance. Now as much as we want to lighten we also want to add some contour and some sculpting to the face. Now I'm not necessarily going to call this contour because it's kind of on the warm side. It's more of like a sculpting product so it's a basically it's a cream product that will just be placed on the outer edge of the face just to avoid our faces looking really flat. That smoky eyes can kind of draw the eyes so much inwards that the rest of the face can look really flat. That's why it's really important to make sure that we're lightening and we're sculpting. So this will just add a little bit more dimension around the sides and the edges of the face. Again if you want me to go through placement for your face shape definitely let me know. So so far I've been using all creams and now I'm going to move on to using some powders but before I do that I want to set everything in place. So you can do this in two ways. You can use a translucent powder which is what I'm doing or if you have very dry skin or you just hate powder you can use a setting spray at this point. Just make sure it has time to completely dry down before you continue and there's a few reasons why I'm doing this extra step. One it's going to help everything to last longer and two it's going to prevent the powders from gripping hold of certain areas. So you have to remember that we have like foundation, concealer and cream contour and sculpting products on there and they're all setting at different rates. So by applying a setting spray or a translucent powder it's going to create a really smooth base. It's going to make sure everything is set at the same point and then the next few steps are going to be so much easier. So sticking with the same brush that I applied that translucent powder I'm going to roll one side of the brush into a little bit of bronzer and I'm just going to work this over the same areas that I applied that cream kind of sculpting product already. This is going to add some depth and it's also going to help it last longer. Now sticking with that same brush I'm going to pick up a little bit of blush on the flat side of the brush. Now with a smoky eye it's really important that the blush is never too strong but we also don't want to skip it. One thing that I always say with a smoky eye is when it comes to blush you should never be looking for the blush or at the blush. So a little bit will go a long way and choose something that's a little bit more muted and the same goes with the lips. We want to make sure that the lips are defined but we also don't want to add too much attention to them which will then draw attention away from the eyes. So what I do is I mix in a little bit of my concealer with my favorite nude lipstick and that way it's more muted but it's not really light. I feel like that light foundation lips and black smoky eye is really gone and we're going for a more of a muted wearable lip with a dark smoky eye. This is more of like a modern approach to that look. I also use that same brush but just the other side. I rolled in a little bit of highlight and just apply this on the high points of the skin as well. And then once my base is done I can come back and finish off the eyes with liner and mascara but this way I keep that really clean base. Now if you have any more questions or if you'd like to share some tips and tricks on what you feel makes you more comfortable wearing a smoky eye or any particular look definitely let me know. I want you guys to feel comfortable and confident at the same time. And I also just want to give a shout out to the people that sent me really lovely good vibes and support in my previous video. I asked if we can just send some good vibes for everybody who's dealing with kind of a difficult time and as silly as it sounds I feel like it kind of worked because there was a lot of things that I was worried about. At least they weren't as bad as I thought they were going to be and I hope that it was the same for everybody else and I know to anyone who's new here they're probably wondering why we're talking about these things at the end of a makeup lesson. But that's just something that I like to do on this channel. I like to spread some love so I'm going to keep spreading that message but I just want to say thank you for joining in. I really appreciate you and come and join in if you're new here as well. Be kind to yourself my friends, be kind to others and I'll see you in a video really soon.