One of the most sultry and popular looks for a night on the town is the smoky eye. Smoky eyes work for women of all ages. It is also a timeless look that never goes out of style. If you have always wanted to learn how to create a smoky eye with makeup then all you need to do is follow the steps listed below.

Smoky Eye Makeup – Step #1 Select Your Palette

The first step in creating a smoky eye is to select the colors that you want to use. A lot of women will create a smoky look using black, gray, and white eye shadows, however, you can create a smoky eye with just about any colors as long as you have a dark tone, medium tone, and lighter tone shadow palette to work with. When selecting your colors make sure that they compliment your eye color, skin tone, and, if you wear glasses, make sure that the colors also compliment your eye glass frames.

Smoky Eye Makeup – Step #2 Prep Your Eyes

The second step is to prepare your eyes for a night out. One problem that a lot of women have when they get a little older is that the skin around their eyes starts looking droopy and tired by the evening. To perk your eyes up and prepare them for a new application of makeup you will want to cleanse your day make up off of your face, apply a moisturizer and lifting cream, and then apply a cool compress or cucumbers to your eyes for about 15 minutes. These steps will help you to reduce puffiness, lift the skin around your eyes, and provide you with a taught, smooth canvas to work on.

Smoky Eye Makeup – Step #3 Line Your Eyes

The first step is to line your eyes. You can line your eyes with either an eye liner or with eye shadow. If you are using eye shadow to line your eyes you will want to push it into your lash line to help thicken the look of your lashes as well as line your eye. If you are using an eyeliner then you will want to smudge it a bit to reduce the harshness of the line. You will also want to add a slightly thicker line to the outside corner of your upper lash line.

Smoky Eye Makeup – Step #4 Apply the Medium Tone Eye Shadow

Next you will want to apply the medium tone eye shadow to the lower part of your upper lid. Close your eye and follow the contour of your eyeball with the medium tone eye shadow. You can do this with a brush or your finger. Try to smudge this shadow into your eyeliner to help blend the two together slightly.

Smoky Eye Makeup – Step #5 Apply the Darkest Tone

The next step is to create drama with the darkest tone of eye shadow. To do this you will want to apply the darkest tone of eye shadow to the crease of your eye, as well as to your lash lines. Then blend to soften.

Smoky Eye Makeup – Step #6 Highlight

Next you will want to highlight your eye brow ridge by applying your lightest tone to the area of your eye that is located right below your eye brow. Again blend to soften the line between tones.