Health and Beauty
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How To Create
Beautiful Smoky Cat Eyes
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How To Create
Beautiful Smoky Cat Eyes
By Joanne Elliott
It is easier than you
might think to create professional looking, ‘sex kitten’, smoky eyes.
This vamp look can be as subtle or dramatic as you wish. The tips below
will create a more powerful look in black, but to achieve a more
understated look simply select light grey, burgundy or dark khakis
instead. Remember, a lot depends on your skin tone and hair color, so
why not try a few different tones to see which suits you best?
Ingredients for
powerfully sexy eye makeup:
* Black eyeliner - pencil.
Ensure that it is sharp.
* Black eyeliner - brush. The thinner the liquid eyeliner is the better.
* Eye shadow brush. Thin stumpy bristles are best to maintain control.
* Dark eye shadow. Iridescent rather than flat matt (too hard), or shiny
(too messy).
* Highlight shimmer for under the eyebrow. Avoid garish looking ‘high
glitter’.
* A good eyebrow pencil. Try to select the most natural shade for you as
possible.
* Eyelash curlers.
* Black mascara. Obviously choose a quality brand to avoid clumping and
‘spider eyes’.
Step-by-step
instructions for smoky cat eyes:
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Apply your foundation,
under eye concealed and powder.
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Using your black
eyeliner pencil, start from the front corner of your eyelid. Draw a
soft smudge line to the end of your lash line.
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Use your eye shadow
brush to apply the dark eye shadow over the top of the smudged line
for a soft smoky look. Ensure that the edges are neatly blended.
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Then take the brush
eyeliner and apply as close to your lashes as you can on the top lid
only. Make the line as thick and pronounced as you wish, but make sure
that the line is thickest at the outer corner, and thinner as you go
inward.
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Apply another smoky coat
of eye shadow with the brush to blend the harsh edges.
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Subtly blend your darker
eye shadow up from your lashes to your eye crease. Then apply a
shimmer highlight in white or cream under the outside corner of your
eyebrow.
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Use your eyebrow pencil
to make your eyebrow curve more pronounced.
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Curl your eyelashes,
then apply thin coats of mascara, building the layers up gradually to
avoid clumping.
Congratulations!
You have achieved guaranteed show stopping impact! You go girl!
Joanne Elliott is an
international freelance writer and illustrator involved in several
different areas.