Black and Grey Smokey Eye: Going Out Make-Up

Saturday was my best friend Kat's birthday and I've had a dress ready for it for ages which is sort of black and grey tye-dye.

To go with this, I needed some serious make up. I normally do brown and bronze eyes with golds and decided with this I wanted something a bit different. I'd spotted a post on instagram that I'd fallen in love with which was a really black smokey eye with bright pink lips. Usually I disagree with bright lips with a lot of eye make up but this time I made an exception.

Here is the finished overall look, excuse my awful skin I had a breakout just before which was so inconvenient!

I began by priming my eyes. My new infallible secret weapon is Urban Decay primer potion in Eden. It is a creamy liquid that almost looks like a concealer in it's colour but it's fab. My eyeshadow didn't budge or crease, which is great because I can't stand bitty eyeshadow!

On my eyes I have several different eyeshadows, quite a few actually. From my MAC palette I used a clean white for under my brows, I think it was called White Rabbit but the name's rubbed off a bit. I also used this in the corner of my eyes along with a Natural Collection white eye pencil, which only cost me about £1.99.

I used my white glitter MAC pigment, which came as part of a stacker collection over Christmas, all over my lid. I used Browndown in my crease to try and soften it out a bit before adding Carbon all over my lid in a diagonal direction. The picture I'd seen had a really clean lower lashline, that was thick but then stopped before then using a white line on the edge. I used Carbon here and smoked it out with Knight Divine. I kept blending Carbon all over my lid and then added a bit in the corner on top unblended to make it extra dark. For a clean line on the edge, I used a wipe to take off any excess that had been blended too far over.

For my line, I used Blacktrack on both the bottom and top lashlines and flicked out both edges to give almost an Egyptian style liner look. I added some lashes and my eyes were ready to go.

On my face I tried to keep it minimal because the eyes and lips are so bold. Along with my usual foundation, I just used my MAC extra dimension powder in Superb to contour and extra dimension Shape the Future as a highlight. I also used a small amount of bronzer on my temples and jawline to slim my face down a bit, highlighting my chin and down the centre of my nose.

The lipstick I used is Silly by MAC which is perfect as it is bright but matte, so it isn't too distracting from the eyes by having any pigments in it.

I finished my look with my other new secret weapon, MAC Fix+ finishing spray. It is a miracle worker and helps to keep all of my make up on, even when I get warm under club lights. It smells amazing and fresh too.

Sorry there isn't a lot of description in this. I need to learn to blog the day after so I can remember what I did exactly!