Happily posting a makeup tutorial after forever... Oops.
Smoky looks aren't normally my thing, but I thought I would try it out today anyway.
Having such a flat eye shape, I think it's particularly a struggle to make neutral, dark, smoky eyeshadow look flattering on me, especially with non matte colors. Surprisingly, I'm pretty happy with the results, though it was definitely something that had to grow on me. I hardly ever like neutral makeup on myself, and I generally have a hard time keeping myself from continuing to add and just leave things looking simple.
To balance out all the shimmer that I used, I kept my lid light and matte, which stops those beautiful, potentially devastatingly shiny eyeshadows from taking away as much dimension as it would otherwise. The shape that I decided to go with also allows me to use a lot of black without it being overwhelming, or consuming the look, but it still has the effect that I wanted from it. If there was one thing I could add to this in post, it would be just a quick dab of silver glitter in the outer corner, of course.
