TUTORIAL - Singed Orange Smokey Eyes

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Annabella of Skin Scrubs requested I do the makeup from the Appleton 'Don't Worry' video (it's a remix, but heck, none of you want to hear it anyway - trust me!) and I loved it. Orange is a really hot colour for Spring, and although smokey eyes are usually ditched in favour of something softer, I think the brown really works. Brown, plus orange, plus the peaches, pinks and creams of the season - what could go wrong?! I think this look would be great for parties and (fingers crossed) late night BBQs with friends.



Click the jump if you want to find out how to recreate this look!



 1. Smooth on an eyeshadow primer as usual.

2. Now use your little finger or a brush to smudge on some black cream eyeliner across your lid. Any black eyeliner will work just fine, since it doesn't matte how well you blend it at all. Just try to make the lashline the darkest area.

3. Use a brush to press a matte, dark brown over the entire lid. No need to worry about blending yet...

4. Buff a light eyeshadow, similar to your skin colour from the crease to the brow. Then extend the dark brown eyeshadow up past the crease, the outer edge should be higher that the inner.

5. Blend a rusted, shimmering orange over the upper edge of the dark brown and into the highlight.

6. Use a regular eyeshadow brush or blending brush to apply a thick line of orange eyeshadow along the lower lashline.

7. Smudge some more black eyeliner close to the lower lashine, and blend lightly outwards into the orange.

8. Apply black eyeliner to the waterline (and tightline if you so wish), mascara your lashes and fill in your brows.

I USED: UDPP, E.L.F cream eyeliner, MUA dark brown, Sassy Minerals 'Understated', Fyrinnae 'Third Wish', GOSH black pencil eyeliner, Maybelline 'Falsies' mascara.

COMPLETE!

Misc. Tips - The fluffier the brush - generally the easier the blending. Fluffy pencil brushes are fabulous for the crease. If wearing warm colours on the eyes, use them on the cheeks and lips too. The most flattering blush and lip colours to pair with orange are peach, beige and soft bronze. If your eyes are dramatic, use a light coverage of foundation or risk looking like Jordan. I think huge falsies date smokey eyes - go for a layer of mascara or natural looking falsies. If your eyes are shimmering and blingy - go for matte lips and visa versa.

Who's still gonna be rockin' the smokey eyes with me this Spring? Will you be wearing orange? What do you think of orange lips?

22 comments:

  1. You know I love the orange! I love this look, I'll have to try it!

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  2. I love this take on the smokey eye! I think smokey eyes are great for night time, no matter what season it is because you can always change up the colours.

    I think orange lips are great for spring, not necessarily traffic cone orange but peachy colours for sure. I will definitely be sporting Ever Hip from last years MAC Libery of London collection! I've been wanting to wear it for a while! x

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  3. Love this look. Your tutorial looks very easy to follow, will definitely have to give this a go. x

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  4. OMG I love it! It looks so good with browns and oranges thanks for doing this for me xoxo

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  5. I love tutorials! Thanks will be trying this look out soon. I love a smokey eye and don't think I have done an orange one yet.

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  6. This looks gorgeous, the orange looks great on you :)

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  7. awesome look :) i must try it :)

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  8. A tut! Yay. I have no eye shadow skills but this looks verrrrrrry pretty.

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  9. Thank you so much for sharing... :D awesome tips, I'm definitely going to try this out :D

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  10. Very nice. Orange/peach/coral are win in my books.

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  11. OH WOW! This is awesome! I love the subtle hints of orange!

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  12. Loved it!
    Brilliant results with very few products.
    X

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  13. I think I'll have to try this, it's a great way to wear orange!

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  14. Lovely look on you, thanks for the step by step, am not sure how orange would look on me, but, this inspires me to try it.

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  15. Eee, I love tutorials! I was just wondering the other day if you ever did any on here haha. Thanks so much for posting this!

    Btw - lateish last year, I emailed you for some help re: liquid latex/sfx wounds, and you very kindly emailed me back with some awesome help. I just recently realized that I didn't reply back thanking you (at least, I don't think I did), which was horribly rude. So I wanted to say thanks very much for the help and taking the time to actually do so. It was greatly appreciated :)

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  16. I've been wanting to do a look like this for a while..

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  17. flawless fade out <3 what camera do you use?

    -Sam
    samanthasemillano.blogspot.com

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  18. Your smokey eye makeup looks fantastic! It is so well blended (thats the one area that I need to improve on). Well done, looks awesome :)

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  19. I love orange and I rock the orange lips. I love Illamasqua's intense lipgloss in Temper. I also have Mac's Morange but it doesn't look great. You have to tame it down a bit so you don't look like a clown or something.

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  20. This is just so fabulously gorgeous.

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  21. This is so pretty! I love new spins on the classic smokey eye. :)

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  22. one of my favourite ultimate from you.
    what a stunning little number, love it!! xx

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