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Summary: Make your smokey eyes really pop with under the eye eyeshadow. Learn how to apply dark color under your eye in this free video clip from a professional makeup artist.
Kate Shepherd is a Seattle based makeup artist. She works on local runway shows and photo shoots, but she also does makeup for news channels including CNN, FOX, and MSNBC. Kate's...read more
"So, now we're going to give her a little bit of under eye color, and I'm actually going to use a pencil for this. And I realize I need to buy a new pencil, but I'm going to use a liner underneath her eye to really bring out her eyes. But rather than just lining, I'm actually going to use a brush, and this is a really great way to do this. So, I'm just going to take the tip of this brush and actually blend it right on to that pencil, and this is a really soft coal pencil, so it's really easy to get a lot of color with this. You can see how much color already came off on my hand. Go ahead and look up. And I'm going to start from the outer corner, and I'm just going to start smudging this in to her eye, and look at how much that comes out. And you can do this just a little bit if you want to, or really smoke it out for that sort of vogue look, you know. I like to go over with my fingers, smudge it out a little bit more. And her smoky eye is almost done, but look at how much that just brings everything out. That's so beautiful. You can also go back in with the brush, go ahead an look up, and just soften the edges a little bit so it's not so harsh. And just keep blending it until it's either as dark as you want, or, you know, if you need to soften it up a little bit. So, now what I'm going to do, because we're basically done with using that powder underneath, is I'm just going to take my brush, and I'm just going to brush it away. And any of that powder that fell, you can see there's nothing there. And sometimes I like to use that powder to because it also gives her that really finished look underneath her eye. Her eye is so smooth now, it's flawless, you know, you can't see any powder, so. "