 Green is one of those shades that can be either really fun to celebrate St. Patrick's Day or a beautiful way to incorporate color without stepping too far away from neutrals. Green is an earth tone and most people will have a hint of green in their skin or their eyes and this can be used as a reference point for picking the right shade of green for you. Now if you can't see any green in your eyes have a look at the veins on your wrist. Match the tone of the veins. This will work with your eye color and your undertone and also make it really wearable. But if you only see blues then you can just use a blue-green because this tone will also work for you. But if you need more help figuring that out definitely let me know in the comments. Let me know your eye color and your skin tone. The first step in creating any eye makeup look is to prime the lids. This is going to create a barrier between your skin and the makeup that we're going to be applying. It's also very important when you're using color because it will create a blank canvas for the color to really show up but also prevent any staining that might occur on the lid. Though green isn't a big stainer for me I will still make sure that I'm priming my lids to help the green stand out. For this look we're going to start with a green liner. Now this looks a little bit more of a blue but when you compare it to blue liner you can actually see it is more on the green side and I always recommend starting in the middle of the lash line and then joining the outer edge to the center and the inner corner to the center. I find this so much better than trying to attempt doing one solid smooth line all the way across the lash line and that can be tricky for most people. I'd also recommend doing one eye at a time because once we apply eyeliner this setting time begins and as we want to smudge this out we need to work quite quickly so just do one eye at a time. I am taking a deep green on a flat brush next much deeper than the liner that we've already applied and you can start applying this from above by pressing and smudging upwards or you can bring your hand low in front of you use your pinky for support to steady your hand and just press lightly over the top of the liner. Once you cover the liner you can then start to slowly smudge this and what you want to do is slowly smudge this up to about the halfway point of the lid. You're going to rock your brush back and forth just doing little tiny strokes as you push upwards and you should end up with something that looks like this. Next, taking your favorite fluffy brush and an eyeshadow that's at least one shade darker than your skin tone or you can use your bronzer or your contour as long as they're matte you want to blend this above everything that we've already applied basically this is very similar to how your contour and your bronzer shape and frame your face this is what we're doing for our eyes we're basically creating a framework for that color on the lid to pop very similar to how you apply blush and then you have highlight above it and you have contour below it that's just to help that blush stand out and that's basically what we're doing here with this greeny blue we're creating some framework around it so it really shows up for an extra step i like using a fade shade this is basically a matte tone that works with the contour and adds that finishing step and because we're using green i'm going to be using a matte yellow mustard i really feel like this brings out those green tones and helps create kind of an olive finish for highlight i'm using my favorite highlighter you can use even your face highlighter and just applying this to the inner corner this is just going to make it a little bit more wearable a little bit more earthy it's going to work with my skin tone just that little bit more finish off with mascara and lashes and there you go you have a green smoky eye and i love this on mature skin because it's similar to purple it's just really flattering it is not too harsh it's a great way to add a little bit of color and it really brings out your eyes particularly for gray green hazel even black eyes it's a great way to add that little hint of something it's also very wearable at the same time and it's just going to add a little bit of color without being too harsh in yesterday's video i got this comment and i want to address it good instructions on application though the video title doesn't completely align with the content my interpretation of for your eye color is a specific eye color and how to choose the best shade of purple for instance because this was on my purple video a general comment to find the best shade of purple doesn't provide a whole lot of direction if seeking purple for the first time i forgot to say in my previous video that if my example is too broad and if you're struggling to find the best shade then you can just leave a comment with your eye color and your skin tone and either i or somebody else because i often see other people helping people in the comments will get back to you there are so many different eye color combinations it's hard to cater to everybody in a five minute video but once my ribs are healed i will go into a little bit more detail ever since i had my accident and bruised my ribs it's hard to take a deep breath which actually makes everything just a little difficult so i want to keep it kind of simple just at the moment but i do want to go into more detail on this series really soon and as always my friends be kind to yourself be kind to others and i will see you in the next one