Smoky Olive Eyes Tutorial

Here is the tutorial that I had promised!  A fast and simple daytime smokey look using only two eyeshadow colors and very minimal blending!!  

First apply some eyeshadow primer of your choice (I used UDPP) to the lids:

Blend it evenly, oh and I also filled in my brows during this time. 

Take a creamy and smudgeable pencil such as the UD 24/7 Liner, you can use whatever liner you want in whatever color you want, as long as the formula is more creamy rather than waxy.  This would put to good use all those liners that you found to be too smudgey!  Paint pots can also work, but if you’re like me and don’t already own them, why not just use the tools that you already have?  Mostly everyone has a couple of different colored eyeliners.  

The color I used is Stash, a dark shimmery olive.  

Now pretend it’s a crayon and color in your lids, making sure to not color past your natural eye crease:

That’s why you should use a creamy liner so that it glides on easier.

What it should look like:  see how the color doens’t go past my crease? 

Now take a brush and blend the outer edge of color just a little bit so the line is not so harsh, you can also use your finger or a Q-tip to blend:

Result:

Now take a medium fluffy shadow brush and dip it in an olive green color (I used MAC Sumptuous Olive).  This shadow color should be similar to the color of your chosen liner in the previous step, like if you used a dark purple liner you can choose a purple or pink shadow, a black liner would look great layered with a shimmery gold, etc. Whatever you like!

Gently PAT, do not blend the shadow onto your lids on top of the base color, you can go a little past your crease if you wish, but don’t do it too much.  

Result:

 As you can see the color closer to my lashline is obviously more intense due to the extra layer of base color, so if you just apply the eyeshadow color a little bit past where you applied the base color, you automatically get a sheerer color due to the lack of base color, so it’s like achieving the blended fading effect without having to blend!   The fading effect is vertical rather than horizontal, which I believe is much more flattering to the Asian eye, especially if you do not have deep set creases like me.  

Now take some highlighting color, I used MAC Vanilla pigment in pressed form:

Take a wide fluffy brush and apply to your browbone.  You can also slightly blend the highlighter into the shadow color below to create a more seamless line, but there shouldn’t be much blending required at all. 

Result:

Just a little bit of green peeking out when you open your eyes, the effect is very subtle but yet still defines the crease:

Now take your original eyeliner that you used as base color and line the bottom lashline.  Here I used UD Stash again:

Result:

If the eyeliner you chose was already a pretty dark color, like black or gunmetal or something, then use the same liner and line your upper lashline to define it more, since UD Stash is not dark enough to show up against itself, I used a black eyeliner (UD Zero) to line the upper lashline.  

Result:

Don’t forget to finish up by curling your lashes and apply mascara! I used Shu lash curler and CoverGirl’s LashBlast mascara:

Result:

Now for the rest of the face, I already applied concealer and foundation prior to this, so an angled fluff brush and some bronzer, I used NARS Laguna Bronzer, my fave:

Suck in cheeks and contour

Take blush brush and a shimmery peachy/pink blush, I used the gorgeous NARS Madly:

Apply to apples of cheeks:

Result:

Then apply some shimmery lipgloss of your choice, I used Revlon SuperLustrous in Glossy Rose (go get this it’s awesome!!), and the final result:  

Gotta have one with flash…it’s like automatic airbrushing.

And that’s it! Hope this tutorial was easy to follow, let me know if you have any questions.  

LIst of products used:

Face:
- Besame Souffle Foundation in Yellow Cameo
- Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil powder

Cheeks:
- NARS Laguna bronzer
- NARS Madly Blush

Eyes:
- UDPP
- Shiseido Brow duo
- MUFE Lift Concealer #3
- UD 24/7 Liner in Stash
- MAC Sumptuous Olive e/s
- MAC Vanilla pigment 
- UD 24/7 Liner in Zero
- CoverGirl LashBlast mascara

Lips:
- Revlon SuperLustrous lipgloss in Glossy Rose