Modern Smokey Eye Look for Hooded Lids

Hi, today I’ll be guiding you through how I created the smokey eye for hooded eyes I showed you in the previous post. This is how I created this specific smokey eye look for Rita’s eye shape.

Let’s get started!

An extremely important step for any makeup really is to prime. This is a specially important step for people with hooded eye lids. Since they are hooded, the makeup will most likely move around and transfer to the other lid. If you prime the eyes, you’ll find that it won’t move as much and will stay put longer than if you weren’t to use an eye primer.

Since I decided to go for a black smokey look, I put down a cream base in a V shape on the outermost part of the lid. This is the place where most of the black will be focused on so this base will help giving it depth. You can use a cream shadow or even gel eyeliner like I did.

Before it dried, I blended the gel eyeliner with a pencil brush. I used a pencil brush mostly because I wanted to blend the edges and keep the V shape very black still.You want to blend it but not too much so it won’t interfere with the rest of the lid. You want to keep that part blank.

To further darken the V shape, I used a black eyeshadow.

You obviously want to blend that black eyeshadow out, it’s a smokey eye.
Blend the black eyeshadow out up to the brow bone, leaving no harsh lines of black there. You do not need to blend the eyeshadow in into the lid because you will be placing another colour there anyway that will be covering that blending job you did, so it’s useless.

After you have placed the black and blended it, it is time to fill in that lid that we had left blank. I decided to use a light silver pigment, it is up to you what you use in this step. I applied it all over the lid that still didn’t have any eyeshadow on and also on the inner corner of the eye.

If you desire you can go back in and place some more black on the outer V you created previously and also place some more pigment if it seems to be overwhelmingly black. At this stage you want to perfect what you have already created, blend more, apply more, perfect it.

Moving onto the lower lash line, I also used some of that black eyeshadow on the outer third of the eye and applied silver pigment on the rest of the lower lid.

To finish it I used black gel eyeliner and liner the top lash line and the water line, as well as applied some mascara onto Rita’s lashes to further blacken the eye look.

And you’re supposed to have something that looks like the photos above.

I hope you have enjoyed this post.

Quick fun trivia: This post was written on the plane to London.
I will be doing a post about London in the future, just not sure if it will be the next one or the one after that.

This is it for this week’s post.
If I don’t post before that, have a great Easter and, if you’re on Spring break, have a fantastic one.

Love,
Anna