Bronze smokey eye with bold lip

Inspired by my earlier usage of gold toned eye shadows I wanted to explore this further and make the look more dramatic to contrast the natural themed make-up looks that I was previously applying to myself and the models. I was also encouraged by the seasonal make-up that I have witnessed, both in fashion and in every day life, that is a smokey eye, paired with a dark lip stick, and a very contoured face. A perfect intense look for the fall and winter seasons as it coincides well with the dark clothing often trending during the colder months.

 

Steps

To begin this make-up look I applied a pore refining primer as I would be using a full coverage foundation and concealer and they tend to blend easier when applied after a primer.

I then went onto apply a medium/full coverage foundation to my face with a buffing brush using stippling motions to give the foundation an airbrush finish because when it is pushed into the face is fills the pore giving the appearance of extremely smooth skin, but I ensured that I did not applied too much product where I have a small facial scar as this area is extremely quick to appear caked on. I also avoided the under eye area as I would be using dark eye shadows which would most likely cause a lot of fall out which would prove applying any foundation or concealer in that area futile as it would just be rubbed away when the eye shadow is corrected.

I then applied an eye shadow primer to my eyelids as this would intensify the colours I would later be applying and it would make them last longer.

While the eye shadow primer was sinking into my skin I moved onto filling in my brows, arguably one of the most important steps considering just how on trend fuller eye brows have become as apposed to the thin highly arched brows that were seen as ideal in the previous years. I used a mixture of brow powder and brow wax to sculpt and fill in my eyebrows but ensuring that I brushed through them regularly to keep them from looking too drawn on, as although I was going for a bold look I didn't want it to become fake and cheap looking. Keeping this idea in mind I went back in with a fine detail brush to fill in any areas that I felt that I missed with the larger brush.

I then moved back to the eyes where I applied a wash of gold/bronze eye shadow over my lids, really packing the colour onto there to get the maximum pigmentation as I wanted the gold/bronze colour to really show through this look as I feel that the colour greatly complements my eye colour.

With another brush I loaded it up with a dark chocolate brown which I though went perfectly with the gold tones of the base colour and began to contour my crease using wind wiper motions, keeping the majority of the colour on the outer v of my eye lid to achieve a smokier look.

I then applied more of the base colour to the centre of my eye lid to intensify the gold tones as I felt that the chocolate brown of the contour shade had taken away from it.

Using a small pointed brush I swiped the chocolate brown contour shade underneath my lower lash line to balance out the eyes and to stop them from looking too top heavy, using the same brush I applied a light shimmery gold to the inner corners of my eyes to bring some light to this area to highlight my eyes.

Then using a clean blending brush I began to blend out the eye shadow to give a softer, more Smokey look to the eyes.

Using a ashy black pencil eyeliner I lined my lower and upper lash line to darken my eyes some more and make my eye lashes appear thicker. I also tight lined my upper lash line to really intensify the darkness of the look and to make my eye lashes look bolder at the base.

After curling my eye lashes I applied several coats of a thickening mascara to my upper and lower eye lashes to define them.

When I felt that I was finished with my eyes I used a fluffy brush to sweep away any fall out from underneath my eyes and applied two thins layers of a high coverage to conceal my under eye circles, I ensured that I used a shade of concealer that was slightly lighter than my foundation shade to give my face a highlighted look, which is very on trend currently.

Finally I moved onto the dark lip. I firstly outlined my lips with a lip pencil to prevent the dark lip that I would be applying later from bleeding or smudging.

Using a dark cherry shade of lip stick I carefully applied it to my lips with a detail brush towards the end to get a precise shape.

To finish of the look I contoured my face using a powder contour shade, applied with a small fluffy face brush and blended out with the buffing brush I used earlier to give a softer less drawn on look to the contour.

 

I also filmed a time lapse of myself creating this make-up look on myself and uploaded it to my personal YouTube channel : www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ijegNFrUg

 

 

Done