Many people’s first experience with smoky eye makeup is the smudged makeup on girls’ lower eyelashes: in the Korean drama, the heroine cried and her makeup was blurred, so a circle of marks appeared near the lower lash line. At first glance, it looked like Avril Lavigne.

This large-scale eyeshadow painting method that frames the eyes up and down is the smoky eye. For Asians whose eye sockets are generally not deep, it is difficult to demonstrate smoking - it cannot be dirty or overdone, and you also need to pay attention to the matching of facial makeup and overall look.

Like the Alexander McQueen show makeup at this autumn and winter fashion week, if you look carefully, it will be difficult for the usually refreshing models to control this series of majestic McQueen clothes without smoky makeup. For example, little supermodels Willow Hand and Maartje Verhoef:

Both are supermodels, but these two still need to put on smoky makeup to look good in Alexander McQueen’s ready-to-wear:

Makeup artist Dabao said: "First of all, you have to know how to grasp the overall style. You may go out to play on certain occasions, such as music festivals or parties. At such times, you can try a smoky look."

So Dabao answered many questions from Jiemian News about smoky makeup techniques and misunderstandings. We summarize it as followstips, for everyone to dispel misunderstandings.

"Small smoke" more suitable for Asians

"Little smoke" is actually a common word when we see various Asian makeup tutorials. Dabao told Jiemian News that Asians are indeed more suitable for small smokey eyes, because "big smokey eyes may not match the proportion of their own eye contours."

Let’s take a look at Song Hye Kyo’s Big Smoke and Little Smoke. “Everyone can learn from the second style in life. The Big Smoke makes the eyebrows high and European, which will indeed make them sexier, but some people are not suitable for the Big Smoke,” said Dabao.

Dabao also gave a personal demonstration on Xiaoyan’s painting method:

It can be added to the basic eye makeup, "For example, if I usually wear normal makeup, I want it to become smoky quickly: the first step is to use a brown eyeliner to draw out some of the inner eyeliner below; then use eyeliner or brown eyeshadow to blend out the eyeshadow on the lower eyeliner."

"After finishing the painting, according to the depth of the lower eye shadow, superimpose the eye shadow on the upper eyelid, which is also a dark brown color of the same color," Dabao added: "This will immediately turn into a smoky eye that is more suitable for Asians."

Small smoke should be in earth tones as much as possible, not pure black, because "pure black will make people look unhealthy." Earth tones will be softer. "This small earth-toned smoke, whether paired with red lips or nude lips, will be more flavorful and not too exaggerated." Dabao concluded.

How to create a blurry effect with smoke

"If you are painting smoke, you can actually use light-colored contact lenses." Dabao said: "Foreigners have very light eye colors and large eyes, and the smoke they draw has a blurred effect; Asian eyes are dark and small, and the heavy smoke frames them, and they will look like small mouse eyes. If you use light-colored contact lenses, the effect will be different immediately."

Smoky eye shadow has no restrictions on color. As long as the large-scale eye shadow painting method is framed up and down, it is the category of smoky eye makeup. So as long as you add purple, green or any favorite color on the head of the eye or the bulge in the middle of the eyeball on top of the basic smoky makeup, you will achieve a colorful and personalized smoky makeup.

The most important thing is that after applying the smoky eye, you must clean the triangle area under the eyes. Dabao said: "Sweep away the dirty powder underneath, and then add some foundation. This way you won't have a dirty and lackluster feeling, but will have a delicate and blurred feeling."

"Eye first, then eyes" affects the overall style

If you want to wear smoky makeup, or if you are not used to wearing makeup, you must apply eye shadow first, then eyebrows.

“The height, thickness, depth and flatness of eyebrows are all determined by eye makeup. Never draw eyebrows first and then eye shadow.” Dabao said.

The face shape is a confirmation of the basic eyebrow shape. "For example, if a person's face is round and a little fat, the basic eyebrow shape may need to be a little raised and the eyebrow peaks are a little raised, which is easier to modify." Dabao said: "But when you wear smoky eye makeup, the eye makeup becomes heavier, and the normal daily eyebrow shape may be shorter and lighter in color. At this time, you may need to make the eyebrows thicker, longer, and raised, so that your eyebrows and eyes are balanced."

"Actually, one of our standardized procedures for professional makeup is to apply eye makeup first and then eyebrows." Dabao said: "Eye makeup will adjust the length, size, and shade of the eyes. You have to determine the position of the brows, eyebrow peaks, and eyebrow tails based on the proportions of the eyes. It is recommended that you apply eye makeup first."

In other words, eyebrows actually need to be adjusted overall according to the final makeup of the eyeball area. Generally speaking, smoky eye makeup will enlarge the scope of the eyes, so you can lengthen the eyebrows appropriately after applying eye shadow.

Pair it with "can't wake up" relaxed and fashionable

The shape of your eyebrows has a great influence on your smoky style and feel, as does your hairstyle. “In the past, smokers tended to be more feminine and arrogant.Feeling, but now it is more popular to have a lazy and casual hairstyle, which will make you more fashionable and not look tacky. "Dabao said.

In fact, it is very easy to avoid overdoing the smoky makeup. “Don’t confuse smoky makeup with sexy heavy makeup. Smoky makeup can give you a youthful look. Weakening the eyeliner and eyelashes is a simple and easy way. "Dabao said: "If you draw thick eyeliner and apply exaggerated false eyelashes, you will have a heavy makeup look. ”

There is a universal rule, which is to weaken the color of other parts of the face if you don’t want to be glamorous overall. For example, use apricot blush, nude lip color, etc., and then adjust it on the overall outfit.

In fact, smoky lips and aunty lips are also a classic combination, but it requires your own temperament to match it, and it will be a bit strange if you can't hold it. After all, not everyone is Song Hye Kyo or Angelina Jolie. Like Chinese artists Ni Ni and sweet Ker, who are typically suitable for clear soup noodles, the combination of "smoky + nude lips" is not easy to break down.