 In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create this super easy smokey eye and how to adjust it to work for you and your skin tone as well, along with lots of other tips and tricks along the way. Now I actually got inspired to create this look because of my previous video so in my previous video I showed you how to create this very basic look and what I wanted to do was to create a very different look but using exactly the same products. I had some feedback from people who recreated the look which I love hearing, it just makes my day but it also helps me figure out the best way I can continue teaching so I'm going to work on some of the feedback that you guys let me know about along with making it so much easier for you to create different looks but using very similar products. Now if you're new to the makeup chair channel then I might suggest hitting the subscribe button below, it's totally free and if you were already subscribed then thank you and welcome back. Now let's get started in creating this look. So here are the four eyeshadows that we use to create this look. We have three eyeshadows and a blush that we use as an eye shadow. Now these are all working for my skin tone but I'm going to show you how you can make it work for your skin tone and the best way to find those shades. So the very first one is our lightest shade. This should be at least one shade lighter than your skin tone. It can be a few shades lighter but at least one shade lighter to kind of brighten up the skin tone. The next shade should be at least one shade darker than your skin tone so think of your bronzers, your contours, those type of shades. They're going to work perfectly for your skin tone so at least one shade darker and then we have our darkest shade so this should be at least two shades darker than your skin tone but can be anywhere as dark as possible. If you want to go all the way to a black tone or something with a little bit more warmth it's totally up to you and what you prefer to use. And then the last shade is whatever blush that you like to use. If I'm using a matte blush on my cheeks then I will use it on my eyes. This is a great way to bring the entire look together. However for people with sensitive eyes you might want to make sure you test this out to make sure it doesn't cause any irritation. I also like to make sure that it's a matte blush or something maybe satin so that it doesn't add too much kind of glittery or shine to the eyes. It's all about just bringing the entire look together. So those are the four shades that we use to create both of these looks. Obviously just adapt them to work for you. Now let's get started on applying them. So as always I start by applying an eyeshadow primer all over the lid. This is going to give our eyeshadows something to hold on to while also helping them last longer and because mine is slightly tinted it also creates a blank canvas for us to work on because the eyelids are very thin. We might have natural discoloration on the eyes so applying an eyeshadow primer definitely creates a good base for us. I also use a damp sponge to apply my eyeshadow primer. This is something I had started to do recently. I much prefer the even finish that I get from applying it with my sponge rather than using my fingertips. Also because we're going to be doing a smoky eye this applies a little bit damp and it's going to grab hold of the shadows for us. The first shadows that we're actually going to be using are nice and dark and so this is just going to prevent too much fallout. Now in my previous video I got a question about eyeshadow primer so HP asked should I be putting eyeshadow primer under the lower lash line too? Love your videos each one is always so good informative and doable thank you. Thank you so much for that I really appreciate it. Now this is a really good question and I don't think it's something I've ever covered before so there's a couple of reasons why you wouldn't or you would. So basically the job of an eyeshadow primer is to create a barrier between the skin and the makeup. Now the area around the eyes is very thin and we tend to have some oiliness there to almost hydrate and protect the eye particularly across the lid and the job of an eyeshadow primer is to stop those oils from disturbing the makeup. Now underneath the eye it's kind of similar in a way but for a lot of people it tends to be a little drier so when you apply an eyeshadow primer that's designed for controlling oils underneath the eye you might find that it kind of creates like a cakey finish. Now there's a couple of reasons why you you can still apply an eyeshadow primer and there's a lot of eyeshadow primers that can be used all around the eyes so if you're doing like a really blown-out look and you're applying eyeshadow underneath you can apply a little bit of primer maybe using a damp sponge just apply that underneath and it will add that grip or if you find that your mascara tends to smudge and move around a lot a little bit of eyeshadow primer can really help prevent that from happening. What I don't want you to do is to apply the primer all around the eye and then have areas where it grips hold of your foundation or your concealer and looks a little cakey so hopefully that answers your question you can but you don't necessarily have to. Now let's move on to applying eyeshadow. So the very first shade that we're going to be applying is our deeper shade. Now for beginners I tend to say let's apply a little bit of powder all over our primer just to set it in place but I don't want to do it this time. I'm going to show you how you can have a slightly damp base but still make it work for you. So we're going to take a flat brush and I'm only coating one side of the brush this is a very important step only coat one side of a small dense flat brush. Now what I want you to do is I want you to almost cut the eyelid into two parts so a lower part and an upper part. What we want to do is we want to focus this dark shadow on the lower part and I really want you to get really close to the lashes to begin with and slowly build this up. So take your brush and pat it along the lash line now what I like to do is I like to look down in a mirror keep my eyebrow slightly raised so I can see what I'm doing and pat all the way across the lash line to begin with. Don't worry about bringing it up too high keep it nice and low and the brush is basically in front of me as I pat along the lash line and I'm using the side that has the shadow pressing this all along now our base is slightly damp this is going to give us a lot more grip so we'll end up with less fallout. Now as we slowly build this up you'll notice that we're dispersing some of that shadow on the brush so as we work our way upwards we're going to start to flip the brush over and back. So using the clean side and then using the side with a little bit of eyeshadow. I haven't picked up anything more I'm just using what I picked up originally. Working this upwards flipping the brush over and back as we get a little bit higher this will apply and blend for us but we're going to make sure that the depth is still really close to those lashes. This will actually coat your application time down so much by only coating one side because you're going to apply and blend apply and blend as you work upwards. So I've gone a little bit beyond the halfway point but I'm still keeping it nice and low. Next I'm going to take my mid-tone so this is one shade darker than my skin tone. I like to call this my mid-tone because it's kind of a midway tone between the light and the dark but some people like to refer to it as a transition shade and I'm going to be applying this with a fluffy brush and I'm going to keep my hand nice and high almost working horizontally across the lid. We're going to start on the outer edge and work our way in. This is above the darker shade. We don't want to go into the darker shade we're going above it. Now in my previous smoky eyes I tend to start with this shade and add the darker one. It's a very easy way for beginners to apply a smoky eye but because we have that damp base I wanted to take advantage of that and really press the darker shade on and then use our medium one. So that's why we're doing it in this order this time. Once we get a little bit of product on there I'm then going to change how I'm holding the brush. So this time it's going to be lower down so changing the way you hold the brush from holding it high to holding it low will actually change how you apply the shadow. Keeping my hand low creates more of a vertical higher blend so the lower the hand the higher the blend the higher the hand the lower the blend. Always make sure it's a very soft blend as it gets upwards towards the brows though we don't want anything too heavy around the brow area. And you want to very slowly build this up over time. Now here is my favorite step is to take my blush and apply a very small amount of this right in the crease. What this does is it creates a very soft gentle blurring fading effect. So I'm taking this on a blending brush the same one that we've already been using and this time it's going to go deeper into the socket. This is going to create a beautiful fade for you and I'm keeping my hand kind of halfway it's kind of not too high or not too low it's getting right in there and I'm again keeping my eyes slightly open and looking down in a mirror. When there's not too much on the brush I like to go a little bit higher just to kind of blur and blend this out. Now it's all about building with smoky eyes they don't look good at the beginning. You're going to slowly build this up and then once you clean up at the end and apply mascara it's all going to come together. Speaking of concealer and cleaning up something that I like to do recently is to take my brush dip it in a little bit of concealer and then line this up with my nose, eye and brow to create the perfect angle. So the nose, eye and brow creates this kind of lifted effect bringing the eyes upwards and really complimenting the overall face shape. So I stamp this on there and then I just take my sponge and blend it out and I get a really nice clean line while also creating the right angle for my face shape. Now moving on I'm going to take the lighter shade and I'm only using this really because I wanted to show you that we're using all of the same shades from before but I'm just going to use my lip brush and apply this to the inner corner and underneath the brow. See the thing about smoky eye is sometimes you can just create more depth by having everything else around it kind of brighter so if you brighten up your brow bone area the eyelid is going to look darker. It's the same when you do your brows if you brighten around your brows your brows are going to look a lot deeper and have more depth to them. It's creating that contrast basically. It's like turning the contrast up on a photograph and then you should end up with something that looks like this and then when I had and applied some mascara and some falsies and here I have another tip for you. I notice whenever I use my setting spray everything looks so much more intense and with a smoky eye that really helps you out. Now if you have sensitive eyes you might not want to do this but what I like to do is I like to close my eyes and just spritz my face and honestly it makes the smoky eye stand out so much more it creates more of a contrast I guess because of the way that the setting spray sits on the skin especially if you have kind of a powdery smoky eye that's just not looking quite right the setting spray kind of turns up that volume of contrast. I'm also going to go in with a pencil liner and line the upper and lower waterline so the tight line and the lower rim of the eye. I'm using a deep brown. I'm kind of moving away from using black. I like using the deep browns because I feel like they're a little bit softer and they kind of complement my eye a little bit more. Also because this is like a warm smoky eye I feel like it complements it so much more than a blackwood. The final step is to take a little bit of the espresso shade on that flat brush or use whatever's left over on the brush even and just kind of smudge this underneath the eye. A little lower on the outer corner and then sweeping upwards to the inner corner. And then there you go that is the finished look. I really hope that you will try this one out if you do let me know how it goes. I love getting your feedback. If you have any questions definitely let me know and I'll try and cover them in a video really soon. And I will be doing a video on invisible liner because I did notice that there were some comments about that. As always my friends be kind to yourself, be kind to others and I will see you in the next one.