Tutorial #2: Night on the Town Look- Neutral and Navy with Pink Lips

If you're anything like me, you are a huge sucker for dramatic eye makeup. Since the last tutorial I posted was a very natural, day time appropriate look, this time I decided to do something a bit more out there. I have named this a "night on the town" look, but to be perfectly honest, I would totally wear this look during the day :p. It's all about using the shadows in the right amounts and right spots for your colouring. I have darker features, so I can handle a bit of a heavier eye look. If you're a bit fairer or if you have a lighter eye colour, you can maybe opt for things like switching out a black eyeliner for a brown one, or maybe using some slightly lighter shades in some areas.
As usual, I have all the shades I used listed with all the steps but I will also describe them so you can see if you have anything similar. For this one, I used mostly MAC products, but that's not because I am sponsored by them or anything; I just really, really love their eye shadows :p. Hopefully you all enjoy this look as much as I did making it! :)

**Face**

Step 1: Use a tinted moisturizer all over your face. This will give you some coverage, without being too heavy with the heavy eye makeup this look has. I used the Smashbox tinted moisturizer in "Light"

Step 2: Use a fluffy contour brush and bronzer to contour your cheeks. This will give you a bit of colour in the face without competing with your eyes.

**Eyes**

Step 1: Prime your lids with your favourite eye primer. I used the MAC Paints in "Untitled". You can put this all over the lid and on the brow bone if you want, or just the lid.

Step 2: Using a stiff eyeshadow brush take a light, shimmery eye shadow and pat it all over the inner par of the lid, stopping about halfway across. I used MAC's "Phloof", a really pretty, shimmery, white-ish shade that has just a hint of pink to it. Haveig a shade like this on the inside part of the eye helps keep a dramatic look like this from closing off your eye area completely

Step 3: Wipe off that brush, and using a taupey, mid to dark shade, pat this onto the remaining part of the lid, without going too much into the crease. I used MAC's "Satin Taupe" for this.

Step 4: Using a crease brush, take a navy blue shade, like MAC's "Contrast", and put this on the outer V of the eye, being careful not to go all the way in the crease. You should so no farther than a third or a half of the way along the crease. This will smoke up the look a bit, adding some dimension and drama to the eyes.

Step 5: Ok, so by now you're probably going "OMG OMG OMG IT'S SOOOOOO DARK AHHH!!!!". Do not panic, this next step will help. Take a matte eyeshadow close to your own skin tone (I used MAC's "Brulé") and with a fluffy shadow brush, apply this to your brow bone and around the outer V, blending it with that line created by the dark shadows on the lid. This will immediately soften out the line and calm things down a fair bit.

Step 6: Take a black eyeliner and line the entire top lash line and bottom waterline.

Step 7: Take a pencil brush and smudge a bit of that black eyeliner into the bottom lash line.

Step 8: Use that same brush and the navy shade from earlier and smudge that in the bottom lash line on top of the liner. The liner will act as a surface for the shadow to stick to.

Step 9: Apply a generous coat of mascara to your lashes. I used The Body Shop's Big and Curvy in Black.

**Lips**

Step 1: Take a light pink lipstick and apply it to your lips. I chose to do a light pink so that it would still be fairly muted, but still be able to go with the eyes. You could do a nude lip, but I found it was just a little too pale in conjunction with the eyes. I used Bare Escentuals Buxom lipstick in "Vienna".


Alrighty! Now you look absolutely fabulous and ready for a night out with the girls, or even a hot date ;). Whatever you choose to do with this look, I hope you enjoy it! Even if you don't you'll still look awesome doing it :p.