Smokey Black Eyeshadow: Vampire Halloween Makeup

Video Transcript

"Hi. This is Melissa Dacher with model Susie Chhuor for Expert Village. Today we are going to show you how to do vampire makeup for Halloween. Next I'm going to show you how to make a smoky black eye. You take your base cream (black in this case, because we are making a black eye). This will actually go on before the actual eye shadow. It's nice and smooth. It's a great color; it doesn't crease. You can actually use this instead of the eye shadow if you want. But this is always nice to use as a base to make it stand out better. Take your brush and dip it and then apply it first to the very bottom of the lid, right up against the eyelash line. You take that and then just lightly blend it upward and blend it outward as well. You don't want to use too much of it to start because it's easier to add more than to take away too much excess. And since this is just a base, it's okay if it doesn't blend perfectly well because you are going to add your eyeshadow on top. It is nice to build up the color. Again, start at the lash line and draw out your line and then blend it upward into the crease. It's good to take your finger or a q-tip and just blend that as well. This is going to create your nice puffy black eye. Just keep adding more and blending in. Now, you don't want to go pass the crease because then it would defeat the purpose of the red that you already have. You just want to make it look a little smoky. Keep adding and blending. And you always want to make sure that you have more eye shadow near the base than you do up here at the top, near the crease. You want the colors to kind of blend smoothly together. You don't really want to see a line of change. Blend this outward, and you can also blend this downward as well. Just blend it to the very outer corner of the eye. Blend it downward. The nice thing with working with cream eye shadow is that it does blend very smoothly. You don't have to worry about it dripping onto the rest of the face. The color stays just where it is. "