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Hey everybody, Gretta here.
So I am back stage at Rachael Ray
and I'm really excited to share today
a super easy and quick smokey eye.
The thing is people have an idea
that you actually have to either be
a pro makeup artist or you have to have this
take a lot of extra time to do,
and that's just not the case,
so I thought we'd kind of walk through it together
and make it really simple.
First of all, I wanna do our smokey eye
in under five steps.
Just think about lights and darks,
because when we go for the smokey look,
we're really working with the dark side of our pallette.
You can do a smokey eye with black.
You can do a smokey eye with gray.
You can even use navy blue or purples.
If you have darker eyes, you can play with blacks,
grays or navys which are cool colors.
Now if you have light eyes, it also is nice
to kind of go into the warmer color territories
like golds and browns.
You just need those colors to be deeper.
You don't have to just be locked in to black.
Black is just the classic, easy way to go.
So now I'm gonna use the fluffy brush,
and this is what I'm going to do.
I'm gonna dip it into my charcoal,
which yes, that's basically black.
Give it a little blow so that I get rid of the excess.
I don't want it falling all over my skin underneath my eye.
I'm gonna color the entire lid in.
And I'm basically gonna build how dark I want my smokey eye.
So the first layer's gonna come out light gray.
And then as I continue to wanna go darker and smokier,
I'm just gonna add a bit more charcoal.
So the shape that I'm doing here, you guys,
is lid and I'm actually going right up and over the crease.
Slightly beyond the crease of the eye,
just to give that a really smoked out look.
Use your finger to blend, and I'm gonna make this deeper,
but I wanna show you guys were it starts.
And here I go, I'm adding it right to the entire lid.
This way, we're putting it on, we're super fast,
and we're getting maximum intensity.
Now, I'm placing more color into the crease area.
All over the lid, right up slightly over the crease.
Giving that some blending,
making sure my color is all over that area.
And I do bring that color up to the crease and out
just a slight bit beyond the edge of my eye.
A great way to do it is just to go like this
and make sure you have a little angle there.
I mean, you could come out a little further,
but I like to stay just on a slight 45 degree angle.
Really easy.
Now, I'm just gonna spend my time just darkening it up.
Totally up to you how smokey you go.
If you want it darker, just keep layering color.
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Now I use my finger and just blend.
I'm not blending it all the way up to the brow.
I'm leaving a little lightness
between the smokey and the brow.
And that's how you get that beautiful,
beautiful blurred out look that's so sexy.
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I'm gonna use the smaller brush now
and all I'm gonna do is add a slightly lighter tone
and so I could either choose gold to kind of (groans) up
my smokey eye, or a little bit of vanilla or flesh tone.
And this is just to create a little more drama
under the brow bone which you can see if you do that.
And that really pops that smoke.
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So now for liner.
You can either use your stiff angle brush
and wet with a little bit of water and put it right back
into your powder black or charcoal powder eyeshadow
or you can take your mascara and just dip a little bit
of the mascara on this brush and get a beautiful wet line
that will give you all sorts of definition.
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Mascara, it's time to lash up.
So when you're applying mascara,
always wiggle right down at the lash root area.
This is gonna put all that extra mascara at the root
instead of the ends so you don't get clumpy.
In the case of a smokey eye, I suggest this
because we don't really wanna have that look on the ends
where the lashes are all stuck together,
but we do wanna really bold, bold, bold look.
And this will enable you to put even more than one coat
if you don't wanna use false lashes or a strip
or get into all of that, which you don't really have to.
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Other eye.
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And now, just hit your lower lashes.
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So for the lower lashes, a lot of people say to me
it's really hard thing to apply mascara
and I understand that.
One of my tips is make sure you take off
all the excess and rub that brush against your mascara top
because you really don't want
to have your lower lashes look clumpy,
and that's a great way to start on a cleaner brush
and then you can either go up and down
like I'm going on mine
or if you feel like that messes you up too much,
just use the point.
And just use a windshield wiper method just on the tips,
because really for the lower lashes,
it's just trying to get that perimeter
and that little definition.
It's not as if they need to be as highly covered as the top.
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Don't worry about lower lashes.
Sometimes, even the pros
get a little bit of black underneath.
Just wait til it dries and then take a Q-tip
and go underneath.
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Okay, so for the last step,
you can just line the lower lash line.
Now you can do this with the mascara on the tip of the brush
or a classic eyeliner pen, whatever works for you.
And honestly, if you like a lighter smokey eye
or a more daytime smokey, just leave it out.
Mascara will be enough.
I'm gonna load it up, though.
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Well, there you have it.
In five steps, we've got our smokey look.
So I'd love you to try this look out
and I wanna hear from you.
So send me your pictures, send me your smokey eyes,
your questions, your comments.
I wanna know how it worked for you.
Also, up next, I'm going to do a contouring video.
Really easy contour, so watch it.