The expressive and charming woman's eyes always attract attention to themselves, turning any woman into a fatal beauty that can easily break men's hearts.
To achieve this effect, you can use the makeup Smokey Ice, which looks especially elegant on the owners of delicate brown eyes. How to learn to perform this type of visage and make your look inimitable? Details in our article.
Secrets of "smoky" eyes
Like a misty haze, this makeup can turn its owner into a beautiful stranger. Creating a "smoky look", this type of make-up is translated in this way, women of the whole world mastered the Smokey Ice technique at the beginning of the twentieth century and began to use it for a solemn evening appearance.
At first, this makeup was used to create the fatal image of a vamp woman and was performed only in black tones. Now the technique of visage Smokey Ice has changed in many ways, and although the classic version has not been canceled, the color range has been replenished with a variety of colors: from brown to turquoise.
The main secret of such popularity among make-up artists and women of the whole world is simple: filigree shading of pencil and shadows, layer by layer, in such a way as to create a complete feeling that the eyes have fantastic magnetism.
Especially this technique looks advantageous with brown eyes, giving the look of mysticism and depth.
Create your Smokey Ice: the rules of makeup
Technique Smokey Ice is not difficult to perform, but practice in applying such makeup is still worth it. The most important thing to consider a few nuances and rules.
But, in fact, the rules of creating makeup, "Smokey Ice" for brown eyes:
- Skin preparation. Apply any makeup should be on pre-cleansed skin of the eyelids. The smoother and smoother the surface of the epidermis, the upper layer of the skin, the more accurate and advantageous the makeup will look;
- Application of a base or base. In order for makeup to last as long as possible, you need to powder the surface of the eyelids with either a light fluid or foundation. If there are inflammations or bumps on the skin, the second option is unambiguous. Stock up on a primer - a masking pencil that will give your eyelids a perfect and well-groomed appearance;
- Shadows and pencil. The colors of these tools for making makeup should be chosen, focusing on the color of the eyes, hair, and also correlating them with the tone of their skin. The make-up for the color of clothes should be selected last;
- Pomade. Such a bright make-up, like Smokey Ice, is combined only with soft shades of lipstick, such as maroon and dark purple. Accents in your image should not overlap: either you need to pay attention to bright lips, or to your eyes. The best option would be to use a transparent shine.
Make-up tools
Smoky Ice make-up is performed using various accessories and makeup tools. To work necessarily need:
- Eyeliner. It is better to choose the classics in black tones, however, a gray pencil looks very interesting on brown eyes, if an unusual Smoky Ice is made;
- Eyeshadow. A foggy effect requires at least two or three shades. For brown eyes, for example, it must be the shadows of the color of wet asphalt, as well as coal. If you do not have time to select the palette that is suitable for your eye color, then you need to use a ready-made set of shadows to perform the Smoky Ice make-up, which is commercially available in many cosmetic brands;
- Nacreous shadows. Obligatory emphasis in smoky eyes is the creation of a light and open look, so the space above the upper eyelid should be shaded with a pearl shade;
- Mascara. It should be water resistant and lengthening the eyelashes to give the look expressiveness and depth;
- Brushes for applying makeup. In your arsenal, you must have a beveled, flat and spongy brush for eyelids;
- Cotton swabs or tampons. Each step-by-step video of the visage is completed at the stage of applying lipstick or gloss with a lip, however, it is not a question of correcting the already created make-up. This is precisely what these last tools are for: to collect particles of mascara and shadows that have fallen off in the process of applying, to correct the corners of the make-up, or lipstick that has come out of the lip line.
The desired palette of shadows
To choose the right color combinations is the most important in the performance of any makeup, especially such a technique as "Smokey Ice", where you need to shade layer by layer from the darkest to the lightest tone of the shadows, otherwise the smoky effect will not work, and the look will be similar to the eyes sad raccoon. Your task is to give your eyes a depth, a kind of 3D image, as if you are an artist, only your canvas is a face.
The main feature of brown eyes is that, depending on the color of the shadows, they can change their main shade. No wonder brown is a fusion of orange, green and gray colors. So, for example, the shadows of the color of ripe plum will give an emerald glow, and pinkish or purple will make your eyes sparkling, as if carved out of a noble topaz.
A winning option for hazel eyes will be green shades with a golden hue that will accentuate all the warmth of brown eyes, as well as violet and deep shades of copper-brown.
Pay attention to the shadows that have a reddish undertone - a delicate coffee mocha with a ruby base will make your eyes look inviting and attractive, making the brown iris play with a whole color kaleidoscope.
Just about the complex: "Smokey Ice" for brown eyes step by step
Consider how you can make a simple makeup "Smokey Ice" for brown eyes with a step by step with the photo. The first step will be cleansing the face and applying day cream to the skin to give the top layer of skin the necessary moisture. The next step is to level the skin with a tonal tool. Especially you need to pay attention to the circles under the eyes, if they are, so they will spoil the whole look of makeup.
After masking you need to circle the eyes with a black pencil. Make sure that the line is smooth and neat, and also has a thickening to the outer corner of the eye.
Next you need to feather the pencil on this outer corner, the edges should be carefully worked out.
Then you need to select and apply the darkest shadows on the upper eyelid, on the bottom such color should be applied strictly from the outer edge to the inner one. Remember, between the eyelashes there should be no streaks without shadows or a pencil base, otherwise the look will seem flat and inexpressive, and the smoky effect will not work.
Then we apply light shadows with a flat brush, and make sure that the composition lays down smoothly. The intensity of the second color is reduced to the corners, there it should turn out soft and luminous.
Pearl eye shadows should be applied to the inner surface of the eye and the space above the eyebrows, which will make the look open and radiant.
The final stage will be painting the eyelashes with lengthening mascara, as well as the completion of the makeup with glitter or not bright lipstick.
Do not forget to clean the skin under the eyes with cotton buds, remove the remnants of mascara. Your Smokey Ice is ready!
Below are the step by step instructions on the photo.
Daily Smokey Ice for brown eyes
Every day, any girl wants to look beautiful and harmonious, and if earlier Smokey Ice makeup was used only for the evening appearance, now makeup artists recommend applying it at any time of the day, depending on the color of the shadows that you will use when applying makeup.
For a bright day, shadows such as light brown, pinkish, green and blue are suitable. The most important point should be that they are perfectly combined with your type of face and hair color. Brunettes will suit darker and deeper colors, blondes will look great with make-up in pink, and brown shades will suit brown-haired women. Step by step photo illustrations below.
Smokey Ice for an incendiary evening
Smoky Eyes make-up looks great in the evening light, because it was taken from 20th century movies that presented a new image of a vamp woman or a fatal beauty who easily finds new favorites and shines the brightest star at the evening rendezvous.
Choose a tone for evening make-up better than the classic, or those that are perfect for your evening dress. This is the only time when makeup is matched to the color of the dress or trouser suit.
Mother of pearl shades, stars, glitter are preferred. You must be bright and radiant so that you can be noticed at any brilliant party. Photos with step-by-step instructions below.
"Smokey Ice" in coffee tones
An option for brown eyes is also makeup in coffee tones that emphasize the warmth of the nutty look. If you have an almond-shaped eye, then use darker shades to emphasize a beautiful shape, if you have close-set small eyes on the contrary, then your option is light shades of brown, for example an almost beige color. Brown "Smokey Ice" for brown eyes step by step with the photo below.
Sapphire and Emerald Smokey Ice
Green and blue shades draw a stunning emerald hue of brown eyes, so this make-up can be used when you want a warm summer in the middle of winter chill or make bright summer make-up to attract increased attention.
Recommendations from experienced makeup artists
Smoky Eyes makeup is very popular among make-up artists, who often use such makeup for their models, because Smoky Eyes looks great with any outfits. Therefore, designers such as Dior or Mucha constantly resort to its bright accent for their model images.
It must be ascending, that is, to create a feeling of flight and radiance. According to her, the colors should be matched to the whole image, so that everything looks more or less harmonious.
Lia Vitkovskaya, a well-known makeup artist with experience, advises to play on eye shades and to take light reflections as a basis. For example, if you have light brown eyes, then you need to add a blue tint to make your eyes more open.
If you have dark brown eyes, then add more green or burgundy, then the look will be darker, which means alluring and languid.
Alexey Skoptsov, a teacher at the school of beauty, also gives very interesting training tips. According to him, before applying makeup you need to use a lifting mask that will completely clean your face and prepare it for make-up. It would also be great to use a nourishing and cleansing mask, for example, on the basis of chamomile, or a collagen mask based on silicone.
If your skin is still subject to various roughness or irregularities, then it is better to use a tool such as a highlighter that completely transforms the tone of your face makes it smooth and smooth.
From the evenness and smoothness of your upper layer of skin depends on how accurately make-up will lie, and therefore you should not ignore such an important preparation and foundation.
Be sure to paint and lower eyelashes with mascara, as this will give your eyes a magnetism and a special charm. If painting of lower eyelashes with mascara is not your fad, and you constantly stain the space under your eyes, then an ordinary stencil will come to your aid.
It needs to be cut out of paper along the contour of the eye and placed under the eyelashes, after painting, just remove the stencil and powder the space under the eyes. Thus, your makeup will be neat, complete and perfect.
Additional useful tips on make-up "Smokey Ice" can be found in the following video.
