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BLACK SMOKEY EYE TUTORIAL 2022 FOR BEGINNERS DARK SKIN AFFORDABLE DRUGSTORE MenaAdubea
Dec 13, 2023
I hope that you find this smokey eyeshadow tutorial helpful. NOTE - add more eyeshadow to the crease. My crease did "crease" at the the end of the night, so just a note on that for ya! But this is still a fun, quick way to get a smokey eye.
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What up, it's your girl Mina
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In this video, I'm gonna teach you a real simple way to get a black, smoky eye
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So if you wanna learn how to do that with a one-two punch, if you will, keep on watching
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In the meantime, text me, and also follow me on Instagram. Let's go ahead and get started. ♪♪♪ -♪♪♪ -♪♪♪ -♪♪��
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Now, I'm gonna use one of my favorite eyeliners from Revlon. This is the So Fierce Vinyl Eyeliner
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and the color is Midnight Mystery. I love this a lot. I use this all of the time in my waterline
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It gives a satin finish. You're gonna find eyeliners that are gonna give you a matte finish
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I don't like them, they're boring. I love the satin finish to this. This is also very creamy
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I can't stand when eyeliners require you to do a lot of tugging and pulling. It's just too much for me
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It requires too much. It's irritating, okay? So I wanted to show you how to do a quick, smoky eye
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with this. Honestly, when you see me do this, you're gonna be like
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oh, I don't even need to put powder on top. You really don't. But I like to because it helps the longevity of it
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But let me just show you, okay? Very creamy, nice and dark. Linking everything below, of course
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Now, this is obviously a product that I can use as an eyeliner for the top of my eye
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in my waterline, like I said. And then I like to use it as a base
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for my smoky eye, baby. So go easy with it. This is very dark
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We are sticking right here where the eyelid is. No need to go so far
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because what we're gonna do is take your finger. I like to go with a ring finger because it just makes the most sense
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It's like more gentle. Okay, now let's begin to blend this. Now, it's sticky, which I like, okay
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And that helps when you apply your black eyeshadow on top for it to actually adhere to your eye
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Now let's use this to bring the color up into the crease a little bit more
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Going easy with this because it's black. So if you get this on your face
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as you can see, I've done my face already, then it's a wrap, baby
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You're done for, okay? Bringing this into the crease little by little
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This is so tacky. Now I'm taking a little bit, even when I bent my eye, it's sticking
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Now I'm gonna take a little bit more and go into the crease because it's not moving as much as I need it to
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This doesn't need to be so perfect, just enough to get it there. And then use your finger to blot
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So you're pressing, moving, press, move, press, move, so that you're putting it where you want it to go, okay
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Now I'm gonna move quickly because like, you know, just go quickly. Now you're gonna see some spots
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That's okay because you're gonna put an eyeshadow on top of this
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Say you have a small eyelid and you did this real quick and easy. Maybe you won't feel like you need to put something on top
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but I like to go on top because this is sticky. When I open my eyes and close it, it sticks a little bit
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So I don't want all that, you know, during the day. So here we go
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Same on this side. Let's do it. Now, of course, we'll make sure that there are no harsh lines
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Get inside here where the tear duct is. Get it into your crease area
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but don't worry too much about that because in the crease, we're gonna put transition colors
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We've gone over the transition colors and why we need them in our eyeshadow tutorial
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step-by-step video if you watched that. All right, now let's just leave this
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because to me, this is good right here. Now to set all of it because like I said
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it's real sticky. Any black eyeshadow will do, honestly. I'm just taking this one from Maven Beauty
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It's a quad palette, the black one right here. I obviously use this a lot. Gonna be looking down because my face is done
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I don't wanna mess this up, okay? Now let's pat the black onto the eye
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and let it adhere to this sticky eyeliner. Do you see that
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And when it adheres, this is gonna go from looking dewy to being matte
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Now, if you don't already know, if you wanted to take any eyeshadow color
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and make it darker than it actually is, a black base is still called for
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If you wanted to make sure that your eyeshadow color pops, it's bright
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then you wanna use a white eyeshadow base, okay? So look at that, a nice matte black eyeshadow
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Now make sure you mattify all of it. I'm gonna make sure I get right close to my waterline
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to make sure all of it is covered. All of the eyeliner that we use
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we want all of it to be covered, okay? Okay, now the other side
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Okay, now I am the kind of person that likes to bring my smoky eye into the front of my brow, okay
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That's just a technique that I love. Makeup artists love to do it, baby, okay? That's just what we do
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Now we have the black down. It looks a little crazy, but let's bring it all in together
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We need to get our transition colors. So let me grab a drugstore palette, you know
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It'll still help us get what we need, hi. I'm gonna use the Milani Ungilded Most Loves Matte Palette
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And we're looking down to blend all of this out, okay? I'm gonna use Cinnamon Spice first
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The kind of brush that I'm using is this shape because we don't want it to spread too wide
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but we want it to be enough to cover a wide area quickly. Right, we're not gonna use a small brush
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and be here all day. So Cinnamon Spice right here. And now very lightly
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I'm applying this between the black and my brow bone. I'm also tapping off the excess
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and wiping my brush onto my tissue in front of me to take off any product and further blend if needed
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So do this very softly to blend this out and see how I'm going into the front of the brow
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and then toward the outer part and then feathering it up that way, okay
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We're gonna build up the intensity here, but first I wanna lay down this color right here
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And honestly and truly, this looks so good that I don't even think I need to do any more
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but I want to intensify the black. I'm still seeing it shiny
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It doesn't bother me. The black is not so matte. So the fact that I had an eyeliner underneath all of this
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is making the eyeshadow look satin. And I actually like that. But let's go over it a little bit more just because, okay
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I'm gonna blur out this edge right here with some more of this Cinnamon Spice
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which is a reddish brown. Very lightly blending into that. Now let's do the same thing on the other side
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Wiping off the excess, grab more powder, because with wiping off the brush
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you're getting the black off to make sure that you're just putting that Cinnamon Spice in the crease
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Okay, so now I'm looking to make sure that it's all even. You know what I'm saying
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And you do wanna take some more of the black to go over the eyelid to make sure
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that it hasn't been wiped off. So just pat. How's it look
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Come here and let me know, girl. What you thinking about it? Let me know
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Now I'm gonna ombre the bottom of the eyelid. I'm gonna take the Cinnamon Spice color. Again, it's a reddish brown, underneath the eye first
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because we're gonna build up. I don't wanna go from black and then go backward
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Not underneath the eye. A little Cinnamon Spice first, right here. Always tapping off the excess
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And then I'm gonna start off by putting this eyeliner, the same one, inside my waterline first
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before I smudge it under my eye. I just sharpened it. And here I'm just isolating my inner eye
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to make the application a lot easier. This is a pair of tweezers that I'm using to do that
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Just a little trick that I love to do to make applying my eyeliner easier. Now, that is a simple way to apply your eyeliner
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but I want it to be smudged. So now that I've already gotten it inside my eye
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let's go on the skin some more. So now I'm underneath my eyelashes
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with some of this eyeliner. And we're gonna smudge all of that out, but right now it's just in place
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So first, in the waterline, black is so dark, but you could totally do this with a gray
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You could totally do this with a dark brown. If you wanna practice it out in the beginning
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but black, you gotta go really easy with and be careful because it's really dark
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and it can look real crazy real soon. That, I mean, I have been there
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So now with my flat liner brush, I'm gonna smudge all of this out. There's some gaps in the liner underneath my eye
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and you can only tell when you're looking close. I wanna fix it, meaning I can see my skin
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I need to fix that. And I could put eyeshadow underneath this, but I like the satin look of the eyeliner under my eye
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So I'm not gonna set this part with the black eyeshadow, but you could do that, of course, if you wanted it to look more matte and not satin
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And by satin, I mean shiny. It looks like shiny, okay? But I like that. Now, you know I always highlight
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That's a must for me. Using the Milani All-Inclusive Eye Cheek Face Palette
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I'm gonna highlight in my eye. I'm gonna use this gold color. It just goes with the brown and blacks
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that I have on right now. So right up in here, that's a must
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Wiping off the excess on my paper towel in front of me. And now I'm just blending into the black eyeshadow
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to make sure that there are no harsh lines, okay? Now, because I already have on a black, smokey eye
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there's no need for an eyeliner. It's not gonna show unless I were to be doing a wing
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but come on now. What's the science of you doing a wing? Girl, please. I can't do it
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There is no need, okay? So top lashes, I'm gonna do mascara from Maybelline
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This is a lash sensational one. You ain't gonna see this either
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but you are gonna see my lashes. And I always wear mascara before lashes
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That is muy importante. Now with this mascara, honestly, the older it is
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the thicker it gets, the thicker it makes the eyelashes look so I've grown to like this
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It's almost done. Okay, let me get my lashes. ♪♪♪ All right, let me know what you think about this look
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I think it was an easy way to do a black, smokey eye. You might think it was a lot because of the crease colors
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but honest to God, to me, okay? I used to be a makeup artist, okay
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You need to transition your eye, especially when you are working with a smokey eye
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Please, for the love of God, transition with some transition colors. I just used one, like I said, Cinnamon in that palette
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Sometimes I add some orange to give it a sunset, some burgundy
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It depends on how I'm feeling. I kept it simple to me in this look, but I want you to comment and let me know
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if you felt like it was easy to follow along with. Do you like doing smokey eyes
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When's the last time you did one? What colors do you normally use? Because honestly, you can do a smokey eye with a dark red
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a dark purple, a dark blue, a dark green, a black, and even a brown, okay
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I'm glad you watched the video. Make sure you follow me on Instagram. Subscribe here. Again, text me
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And stick around and watch two more videos that I have linked here for you because why not, okay
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So glad you're here. Thanks for watching. Bye. ♪♪♪♪ ♪♪♪��
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