By Hannah Powling
“Nail any smoky eye” with Urban Decay‘s newest addition to their Naked range – The Smoky Palette.
Packed with a dozen sultry, and smoky neutrals – featuring nine new and never-before-seen shades and three classic colours, this palette is loaded with all the essentials you need for any smoky eye.
Urban Decay are great for their pigments, and each eyeshadow in this palette features a strong colour payoff, blends out softly, and can be built up for real dramatic value. Also comes with a double-ended brush, with a tapered end, perfect for applying in your crease.
There are endless looks to do with this palette, to list a few – a smokey bronze eye, smokey gray, smokey brown-black, a smokey blue-black eye, a smokey plum, a smokey taupe… Plenty of possibilities. Here are a few of my favourites..
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The ‘spotlight’ eye. I really built up ‘Armour’ shade in the middle of my eye, with ‘Dagger’ and ‘Black Market’ in the crease and blended out. Little touch of eyeliner in my waterline and lots and lots of mascara. Tip: Hold a folded tissue placed on the outer corner of your eye while you blend, to get that real sharp wing.
This is a matte-textured quite minimal smokey eye, just to show that you don’t always have to go full-on! These colours work nicely used singularly, using just ‘Thirteen’ on the lids and ‘Whiskey’ in the crease and underneath, just using the right tools to get a soft blend.
I have used the warmer colours for this one; using a little ‘Whiskey’ in my crease and blending out with ‘Radar’ and ‘Dirtysweet’. The highlight is ‘High’. As I have heavier eyelids I really concentrate on my crease and blend out quite high to the brow. Also bringing out the wing to create a cat-eye blend. I have falsies on here too, and liquid liner.
This is using the ‘Black Market’ all over, even using a little MAC’s Fix + spray in between applying it to really layer on the coverage, adding density to the pigment to stick to the lid. This colour has a hint of blue, which adds a little texture, which I like. I blended it out with a little ‘Smoulder’ and ‘Radar’ to warm and soften the blend out. Also piled on ‘Armour’ on the inner corners of my eyes. And of course, false lashes.
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Naked Smoky, £38 is available online at Urban Decay from 30th July 2015
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