I’m back again with another Urban Decay Naked Palette look. I am no makeup artist, just a lover of makeup and applying it :). I did a look with the the Naked 2 here a while ago too. I think most makeup lovers picked up one of these palettes along the way, so I want to cover all the bases.
This time I did a really easy and achievable Smoky eye using the aptly named Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette.
You can check out swatches of the Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette here here too, if you want to see all of the shades on the skin.
First up I primed my eyelids with the Paese Eyeshadow Base. I just used my finger to apply it.
Then over top of it, just to set it and to get rid of the tacky feeling, I used the lightest shade in the Naked Smoky Palette ‘Thirteen’ all over the eyelid.
This step isn’t really necessary, but I just added a little of the shade ‘Combust’ into my crease to begin the story 🙂
To lay a base for the darker shadows on my lid, I grabbed the Nyx Jumbo Pencil in Slate.
I applied this to the moving part of my eyelid, one eye at a time and blending as I went as these set pretty fast.
To blend out the edges of the Jumbo pencil more and deepen up the crease, I took the shade ‘Password’, which is a grey toned matte brown.
I used a clean Mac 217 blending brush to buff this into my crease, and to make sure there was no harsh edges.
Next is the fun part 🙂 I loaded up my brush with the colour ‘Armor’.
And patted this onto where the Jumbo Pencil was. Be sure to pat, there is alot of fallout. You can always apply more of this at the end to intensify the look so don’t worry if you blend some away finishing the look.
I decided to darken the outer v so I took a tapered blending brush and grabbed the darkest shade in the palette ‘Black Market’.
I basically just drew a V with the brush on the outer part of my crease and lid.
Then, you guessed it more more blending 🙂 I cleaned my 217 off again and diffused the edges of the black.
If the colour gets too muddied, just apply more and blend the edges. Don’t worry if the edges of your eyes get a bit messy, you can just clean it up with you concealer.
Under the eye I added some ‘Black Market’ with a pop of ‘Armor’ in the middle and blended it up to meet my top lid
I curled my lashes and added some healthy coats of mascara. You can by all means add lashes and some liner on the top lash line at this point if you want to make the look even more dramatic.
I decided to add some gel liner to my inner waterline. Rather than going for black, I went with the Inglot AMC Matte liner in 78, which is a grey colour.
I wrote a whole blogpost about how I apply liner here so I won’t bore you with all the details. I use a pencil dipped in the liner to get the job done though :).
So I tightlined the top.
And the bottom.
You can see the difference with or without liner here.
Last set. I added some highlight to the inner corner. I took the shade ‘High’ in the Naked Smoky Palette.
And applied a good helping with a pencil brush.
It just adds a brightness to the look. You can see one eye with and one without here.
And there you have it, there’s my hopefully easy smoked eye look using the Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette.
I added a light pink lip and some peach blush to finish it off.
That’s my look with the Urban Decay Naked Smoky palette complete. 🙂
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