STEPS:
1. Choose a color. A smoky eye is done with one
color of eye shadow. Brown, grey, or black are good choices. Dark plum
or navy are for the brave. Eyeliners should match. 
2. Prepare your lid. Apply a thin layer of
foundation across your lids. Better still use a primer or concealer.
This will help the makeup stay on longer and appear bolder and more
vibrant. Then, sweep on a flesh-colored shadow or powder.
- Use a light shimmer if you’re feeling fancy.
3. Pencil in. Using your pencil, trace your
lashline. Always work from the inside and get thicker towards the end,
flicking for a fancy and cat-eye fashion.
If you want your smoky eyes to look especially frisky, draw on your
inner rims as well, this will give your eyes more wow factor and
definition. Remember to blend with a Q tip or cotton bud, heavyness can
make it look clumsy and unfeminine.
4. Brush up. Start by sweeping on a layer of
shadow close to the lash line with your eyeshadow brush, diffusing the
eyeliner. Use your lightest colour here, a touch of white or pearl
shimmer is great.
With a light hand, and a slightly darker colour, cover the middle of your lid fanning out towards the crease.
5. Trace along your crease and socket then flick out towards
the corner of your brow bone with a much darker colour, this is a sexy,
smouldering look and gives your eyes heaps of definition and appeal.
6. Apply a nude shimmering colour to your brow bone. By accentuating the highest point on your face you are bringing out your facial feautures and really complimenting your eyes.
7. With a soft brush, blend away any harsh lines to make it a more soft 'smokey' effect.
8. With a fan brush, sweep just under your eye to catch any fallout or powder that may have collected here.
9. Take a white eye pencil and line your waterline up to the
tear-duct, this will make your eyes appear wider, brighter and fresher
and make you look more awake and healthy, also whiter eyes look more
beautiful as well as bring out the colour of your iris.
10. Apply two coats of mascara on curled lashes to polish the smoky eye look.
11. Finished.
Tips
- Blend the colours you use otherwise the colour will look too heavy (unless this is the look you are going for) and it may make you seem unapproachable.
- Never use eyeliner in your tear duct.
- Add a lot of Mascara to your outer lashes so you have a sexy "cat eye" look. Also, put a small amount on your inner lashes.
- Hold a tissue under your eye to catch falling eye shadow.
- Don't use a thin eye shadow brush, instead use a fluffy one. Also, don't put to much of a dark color on your lid, it makes it look messy.
- When applying eyeshadow, use a fluffy brush and always have the darkest shade in the inner corners
