Beginners Glittery Smokey Eye Makeup Tutorial | How To Apply Eyeshadow

today's Monday makeup lesson I'm gonna show you how to create this glittery smokey eye it's actually really easy to apply and you don't need that many eyeshadows or products so let's get started as always I've started off by priming my eyelids using the Urban Decay primer potion you can use concealer and a little bit of setting powder if you prefer you basically want to create a blank canvas for you to work on this is particularly important when you're doing a smoky eye it'll also give the shadows something to hold onto first shadow that we're working on is that neutral shade there should be at least one shade darker than your skin tone and at least two shades lighter than the smoky shadow that you're using so just adjust this depending on your own skin tone and your preferred shades you're also going to need a blending brush we're actually going to be using two one for applying and one for blending we're gonna start off with the applying one and take a little bit of eyeshadow and start to work this from the outer edge of the eye blending in instead of starting directly on the outer edge I like to come in a little bit this will just help with the blending process to make sure we're not planning our eye shadows out too far we want to keep our application in between these two lines for a regulars here on the makeup chair you guys probably already know this but for those who are beginners you basically want to keep your eyeshadows blending in from this point and to find this point you're going to use the edge of your nose edge of your eye and edge of your brow and keep your eye shadows in from this point and then create a parallel line for the inner corner stopping at the tear duct don't worry too much about the inner corner just really make sure you're focusing on that outer corner blending over and back so how do you blend well what I like to do is I like to keep my hand quite low when I blend this will just allow me to sweep over and back in the crease of the eye and this is where the lid creases into the eye shape you want to keep this nice and soft and blended it should fade pretty much upwards towards the brows but by the time it reaches the brows it should be very sheer you should also apply the shadow all over the lid this will actually create a layered effect and help with the blending process for your smoky shade as we're not using any other eye shadows today I really want to make sure this blend is perfect so I'm taking a clean blending brush so this doesn't have any product on it and we're gonna sweep this over and back to blend out any harsh lines and now we're gonna take our smoky shade I'm going to use a flat brush but also my fingertips to apply the shadow we really want the darkness to be at the lash line and there's two ways of doing this keeping your hands nice and low or lifting your hand high and coming at the lash line at a higher angle do whatever works for you and then I'm also going to be using my fingertips to apply it on the lid this just allows me to work the black shadow into the lid once I've done that I then take my blending brush this is the one that was used previously and softly sweep over and back to blend out what I applied with my fingertips now this brush will have a little bit left over from the previous shade but that will actually help with the blending process and all you want to do is to apply and blend until you get the depth of color that you like making sure that that lash line is nice and deep and dark and blending upwards into nothing by the time it reaches the brows I then applied some mascara and lashes off-camera and we're going to continue by applying the glitter I'm using this Urban Decay palette which has some gorgeous glitters and I'm using the neon moon shade and I'm gonna apply this with my fingertips just so I can really press this onto the lid sometimes I feel like your fingertips do a much better job with a lot of different shadows particularly with this type of glitter and you only want to saturate the lid starting in the center and then blending out hums I'm going to take a metallic eyeshadow so this is very similar to the glitter but it's more of a metallic sheen and we're just gonna apply this on the inner corner of the eye and also underneath the brows the glitter won't give the same effect here so we have to use metallic eye shadow I then took my flat brush and a little bit more of that black eyeshadow I just applied this on the outer two-thirds of the lower lid and I see finish look if you recreate it I would love to see it definitely let me know comment below if you have any questions and you can also message me on Instagram it's at JD Katy check out the other videos on the screen give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and if you're new here hit subscribe and I'll see you guys in the next one