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Simple and Easy Intense Black Smokey Eye Makeup

I love Smokey eyes. That is a fact which you guys already know right. Here is my all time favorite intense smokey eye look in black. This is like let’s say the mother of smokey eyes. My mom used to tell how in childhood she used to just apply kajal on eye lids, smudge it and powder it for simple smokey eyes. This is a look best suited on fair, medium fair, to medium dark tones. Of course any one can try this look. This look is completely black with few other tones mixed. I tried to create 2 different looks here as well.

Products used:

Lakme perfecting foundation
Lakme radiance compact
My home made kajal
A brown eye liquid liner used as a mascara
A eye pencil in black
Eye shadows from my favorite BR eye shadow palette.

Steps:

1. Prime and prep your eyes. Fill in your brows with a grey pencil or eye brow powder. You can use brown too. Choose depending on your eye colour. I used grey here.

2. Using a pencil fill your 3/4th of the lid with black eye shadow or pencil. Blend well. Extend towards the outer v. If you wish you can make a wing like mine here or leave it.

3. Fill the next 1/4th with eye shadow No 1 in the picture. It is so soft grey. This will help in perfect blend and hooded eyes will look great with this trick than complete black.

4. Fill the tear duct are with eye shadow 2. It is a nude brown and will help blend the look into your skin so that it won’t look sharp.

5. Now using shadow No 3 blend your black eye shadow in the crease. Using the same eye pencil line your lower lash line. Blend with eye shadow 3.

I applied brown mascara here to pop my eyes out. Otherwise you can use your favourite mascara. Use any other coloured mascara to give slight tint and edge to this look. Blue works great actually. Fill in your water line with kajal.

Tada.. simple and easy!

Extras: You can use any colour other than the brown I used in the crease to give the corresponding tint. Like if you are wearing a blue dress and want this look, try blending with sapphire or navy blue in the crease, lower lash line and use a light blue in the tear duct area. The second look is lavender based one. You can use purple as well. I personally prefer green actually! 🙂

Elle 18 Eye Sparklers Blue Blast Review and Swatches

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Hello Everyone!

Today I am going to review the Elle 18 Eye Sparklers. These are one of the best affordable eye makeup products available in India.

Price and Quantity:

Rs.85 for 1.5 g

My Take:

A stout fat crayon pencil is the typical look of Elle 18 eye sparklera. The body of the pencil is black in color. It has a transparent plastic cap to shut close the crayon pencil tip.

If you remember the camlin blue ink we used once upon a time in our high school, I don’t have to explain the blue further. It is the same blue inky shade with a little sheen in look.

The texture is creamy and glides well on the eyelids. It does not get clumpy or streaky while applying. It defines a thick line along the line of swiping. Looks very creamy and attractive. It is easily smudgable too in case you want to form a blue eye shadow layer on eyelid.

Read: Maybelline Vivid and Smooth Eyeliner Metallic Silver Review

When drawn as a stiff line to form a thick broad eyeliner, there is nothing to complain about. It stays on amazingly without smudging or getting creased. But when used as a eye shadow spreading across entire eyelid, it smudges. It is good for about 2 hours after application. Then on it creases too. And the creasing is just clearly visible.

So, I always go for a blue eyeliner look on the upper lash line with this Elle 18 eye sparkler.

Overall, for the rate it is available at, it is definitely worth praising. For all the eye color beginners this is a product that will give confidence in using more sophisticated product later on.

PROS:

Chubby crayon pencil packaging.
Creamy texture.
Glides neatly without clumping and streaking.
Bright shades fit for fun loving people.
Very cheap at price.
Excellent pigmentation.
Makes a very good colored eyeliner.

CONS:

When used as an eye shadow, it creases heavily and smudges too.

Rating: 3.5/5

My Recommendation:

I highly recommend these Elle 18 chubbies! What better do you get at the rate of these Sparklers?

Would I Repurchase?:

Yes! I want the green shade.

Triple Copper Eye Makeup Tutorial – EOTD

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I like coppers in all form. Nail paints, eye shadows, lipsticks, liquid eyeliners, pencil eyeliners; in all of these categories copper is the shade that suits all skin tones. On fairer skin copper stands out bright and on dusky skin copper blends in to the skin tone without any effort.

This post is all about combining different types and different shades of copper. I feel this type gives an elevation to the shade. (Ooops…excuse me I don’t know what I am talking. I just want to convey that I am so much in love with this type of look.)

I love to do the mixing of different greens, blues and browns too on my eyes nowadays. :-). This just damn simple. No blending is the main feature of this eye make up.

Tutorial: (7 Steps)

Step 1:

Prepare and prime your eyes the usual way you have been following so far for your eye make up. Below pic is the image of my bare eyes.

Step 2:

Fill your eyelid with a copper eye shadow. I have the NYX Trio Shimmer Peach Copper Eye shadow (my all time favorite!).

Step 3:

Now take a copper shade in the pencil form. I have used NYX Eye Pencil in Copper. Draw a pretty thick line near the upper lash line. Now, the eyes will look as in the below pic.

Step 4:

Also draw a line following the lower lash line from end to end.

Step 5:

Using your favorite Kajal, apply with very light hand in the middle of the lower lash line, over the copper line. Do not go on from one end to other end of the eye. A small line in the middle will do. (Sorry, I forgot to click before smudging)

Now run your ring finger over the small line of Kajal. It will make the black intense Kajal to mix up with the copper line. I did this to tone down the brightness of the NYX Copper Pencil around the lower lash line.