Tutorial: High End vs Low End Dark Smokey Eye

Peace be upon all you lovely readers.

Today's tutorial is inspired by the makeup worn by Wan Sharmila who played Yvonne in the hit drama series Nora Elena. If you are living in Malaysia, Brunei or Singapore, the bet is that you would have probably heard about this drama or maybe even a fan :) The drama ended last week but fans are still talking about it and all three major actors in the drama are very much in the spotlight now.


Yvonne is the home wrecker in this drama, trying her very best to get Seth for herself, even to the point of killing Seth and Nora's baby. Everybody hates Yvonne, but I like her makeup :) she would usually have smokey eyes and is usually paired with red lips and lighter brows.

Here's my take on the look:

So why did I called it low end and high end? It's because that one eye is created using the Urban Decay Naked Palette, while the other one using the 88 matte palette. Can you tell the difference?

If you have either one of the palette and like the look, here's the tutorial :) Please refer to my colour code page to find out what the colours actually are from the 88 matte palette.

Firstly, prime your lids. High end I used UDPP, low end I used ELF Mineral Eye Primer.

Then using a soft fluffy brush, apply a reddish brown on your crease. I used Buck from Naked and shade 12 and 82 from 88 palette.

After that, with a flat shader brush pat on a black eyeshadow on the entire lid. Blend it upwards towards your crease. I used Creep from Naked and shade 01 from 88 palette.

Apply the same colour on your lower lashline and blend it out.

Apply a light bronze colour to highlight your inner corners. I used Sin from Naked and shade 14 from 88 palette.

To blend the crease and highlight the brow bones I used Naked from Naked and shade 16 from 88 palette.

I put a light dab of Gunmetal from Naked and shade 05 on the lids. Shade 05 showed up better than Gunmetal in my pictures.

Line your upper and lower waterlines and lash lines. High end I used UD 24/7 pencil in Zero, low end I used my Rimmel eyeliner.

Lastly, curl, lashes and mascara!

FINISHED!


You can hardly tell which is which, but I didn't wear them long enough to tell which one lasts longer. But I can say that the colours in the Naked palette is WAY EASIER to blend. They are very pigmented, goes on smoothly and took much less time to finish an eye. For 88 palette, you tend to always layer and blend to achieve the same intensity as the Naked colours.

So I hope you guys like the look :) Here is the list of products used:

On my eyes:
Urban Decay Primer Potion / ELF Mineral Eyeshadow Primer
Urban Decay Naked Palette: Buck, Creep, Sin, Naked and Gunmetal / 88 matte palette: shades 12, 82, 01, 14, 16 and 05.
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Eyepencil in Zero / Rimmel Two Tone Eye Definer in Trendsetter
Shade 12 to fill in eye brows
Heavy Rotation Colouring eyebrow in Light Blonde
Avon Supershock Mascara in Black
False lashes

On my face:
Claudia Stevens Facial Prep Foundation Base
Naturactor Cover Face Foundation in 141
Benefit Powderfladge
ELF High Definition Powder
ELF Warm Bronzer
ELF COntouring Blush and Bronzing Powder
NYX Mosaic Powder Blush in Highlight

On my lips:
Vaseline
Avon Simply Pretty Lip Defining Pencil in Red Flush 

If you would like to watch Nora Elena, you guys can log on to tonton.com.my

Have a colourful weekend ahead guys!