How To Apply Smokey Eye Eyeliner

Naila Hussain, a professional make-up artist from the Glamface Academy, offers a how-to guide to creating a smoky eyeliner effect. Enlarge

How To Apply Smokey Eye Eyeliner

Naila Hussain, a professional make-up artist from the Glamface Academy, offers a how-to guide to creating a smoky eyeliner effect.

Hi. Today, I'm going to show you how to do smoky eyeliner. Now, to do this, you will need a black eye pencil or a really dark brown eye pencil, you need a very small, flat shader brush and then you need a black or very dark brown eye shadow.

Over here, we've already done the eye make-up look, and we're going to go in with the black eye pencil really close to the lash line to draw a nice soft eye. Just close your eyes. Start in the middle, and really work it very, very close to the lash line, working it into the lashes.

Go into the inner corner. Don't worry if the line isn't neat, because we're going to smudge it anyway. Then with your small flat shader brush and the black eye shadow, just pick up the tip of the brush in the eye shadow, tap off the excess because you don't want it falling out over the eyes, then place the eye shadow over the eye pencil and start to smudge it.

Small, small strokes, small strokes working outwards. Then turn the brush to the side and gently wash it over the eyeliner so we're really blending the eye shadow colour and the eyeliner together. So just to recap, you need a black eye pencil and you need your flat shader brush and a very dark black or brown eye shadow.

And that's how to create a nice smoky eyeliner. .