A Smokey Eye That Won’t Make Your Eyes Look Smaller

guys wanted to show you how you can wear smokey eyes without them making you look like you have really tiny eyes i feel like this is a question that i get a lot or at least i've gotten quite a bit where people are like i want to wear a smoky eye but i feel like it closes my eyes so much and i want to combat that so that's what we're going to do today there are a couple tricks that are relatively easy and tmake a big difference so i'm going to start by priming my lids with my urban decay original priming potion step one pick a color any color i'm going to be using the mary jane palette by melt cosmetics and i think i'm going to go in with this shade uh i'm going to be using ruba i'm going to use the new uh shayla sigma large shader brush this is the e60 and pick up that color i'm going to start off by packing this all over my lid this is going to be my smokey color all the way up to the crease you may have seen a video where i did eyeshadow do's and don'ts and i showed you how placing different colors different neutral colors in different areas of your eye changes the shape changes which like direction tlook like they're pointing changes whether or not your eyes look heavy i did one where i did like light up here and dark all over the lid and then reversed and people were like yeah but people wear smoky eyes and how come that works well we're gonna talk about it okay step one color all over the lid right smokey color all over the lid now i need a blending brush so i'm going to use my refer 01 brush i'm going to pick up that exact same color on this blending brush making sure to really tap it off so i'm not going in with too much and i'm going to buff around those edges so i'm going to slowly blend that color up and out so we are extending the definition beyond the lid so just a quick aside to all those people who were like i don't understand how to smokey eyes work do you already see the difference by bringing that eye shadow up a little bit we're just blending it up it's creating definition up here rather than just doing it all over the lid and not blending it up see how heavy that looks that's an aside that's not what this video is about but i wanted to include that i'm just going to keep blending this you can obviously like when it comes to a smoky eye i really love to smoke it you can take it up and out as far as you want as far as you know makes you feel comfortable which to me is like up to my eyebrows to my hairline essentially extending that shade beyond just your lid helps to define the rest of your eye without making it look like that area is being dragged down which is in turn going to make your eyes look more open okay step one so the next thing that i'm going to do for a smoky eye is apply this exact same shade all over my lid i mean what i just did that all over my lower lash line what so i'm going to use i'm going to use my rougher o2 brush this guy and i'm going to place this on my lash line all the way to the that's a weird noise that was an animal all the way to the inner corner and then i'm slowly going to blend it down so focusing the majority of the pigment here and blending down now the further you blend this down the more it's going to define your eye and help to make it look more open i know there are a lot of people out there who have dark circles who do not like to take this kind of a color super far down because tthink it accentuates those dark circles so do as much as you are comfortable with but smoking it a little bit i think is like kind of necessary can you see how much more like defined just this eye is in general now that we put that color there versus this side okay we look like a panda this for me very basic smoky eye if you're like alex i've done this it doesn't help it makes my eyes look tiny here come the tricks so now what you want to do for the upper part of your eye you are going to want a smaller blending bra you are going to want a smaller blending brush this is the refer 13 brush nice and tiny and you're gonna want a slightly darker eyeshadow color so since i went in with aruba wait ruba now i'm going to go in with this guy which i can't read sideways i'm going to pick that up on that little blender i'm going to use this to add some definition to my crease so just above where my lid folds when my eye is like this just here so i'm defining now i'm using a teeny bit of a slightly darker brown just to push this area back in space and define that eye socket so this color is ever so slightly darker than the lid you can also do this with like the same shade that you used for the lid and just kind of like build up that pigment a little bit more if you don't want to have to like use multiple eyeshadow colors or just intensifying that definition of the eye socket on this eye which continues to kind of like create a more open eye look next i'm going to use that exact same brown shade on my rougher 23 brush this tiny little brush and i'm going to define just under that lash line so i'm actually taking it down a little bit lower than where my lashes come out i'm just going to buff that in that area from the inner all the way to the outer part which kind of just helps to like define that lash line and make that water line look a little bigger it's essentially the same thing that we did on the top with our crease so it's all about where you place that definition now if you want this smokey eye to remain darker then what you want to use in your water line is going to be something that's going to be a little bit more of a maybe a couple shades darker than your skin tone with a reflect so something taupey that's metallic that's going to create like a nice light reflect that's going to help to open up your eyes and not completely close them off if you go on with black it's going to close your eyes off okay what i want to do today is show you how you can rock a smokey eye with a nude water line so i'm going to be using the makeup by mario brightening eye pencil which is just like a really nice kind of like light peachy nude so i'm going to line my entire water line and i'm just going to drag it down ever so slightly so starting off in the water line taking it all the way to the inner corner and once the water line is covered i'm just going to kind of angle the pencil so that i'm kind of dragging it down onto my lash line just a little bit so the majority of the product is right in my waterline and then i'm just blending down a little ah i just stabbed myself in the nose i'm gonna take a little bit of that into my inner corner just so that it's blending just like that can you see that difference it like really opens up the eyes compared to this side and if you want to like continue to make them look even bigger um i'm going to extend it just out a little bit so from my outer corner i'm just kind of like dotting it out here you don't have to take that out super far to create like more open effect i'm just wiping off my