How to apply makeup - Chic bronze and purple eye makeup look - Indian Makeup and Beauty Blog | Beauty tips | Eye Makeup | Smokey Eyes

An easy makeup look for a date, dinner or night-out with your girlies. This post is part of a series of posts on how to do eye makeup by Zuri.

To see the previous posts in this series, just follow these links: 4 tips on how to apply eye kajal, How to do eye makeup with only kajal, How to remove kajal from eyes, Tips to make eyes look bigger using makeup, How to apply mascara, How to do eye makeup step by step.

Follow these easy steps to achieve this eye makeup look—

Products used –

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For face –

For lips –

I finished with my base first and then went on to do the eyes. First, I applied a BB cream (The Body Shop All in one) and spread it all over the face with my fingers. The BB cream works as a moisturizer, sunscreen, serum, primer and a light coverage tinted foundation. Hence I skipped applying a moisturizer and primer separately. Next with a sponge I applied a cream foundation (Bobbi Brown Warm Beige 3.5) and blended as I went along. Then with a pressed powder (Loreal Infallible creamy powder foundation), I set the cream foundation only on areas that I knew would tend to look a little oily (T-zone). I decided to keep the concealing for the end to see weather I needed it or not after the eyes were done. I contoured my face (Inglot Pressed powder) and applied a bronzish-pink blush (MAC Mineralize Sun & Moon) on my cheeks and finally applied a copper highlighter (MAC Improper Copper) on the cheek bones. So now to achieve this look below, read on —

Step 1: As always, I applied an eye shadow base (Maybelline Color Tattoo Fierce & Tangy) all over the eyelid and also on the lower lash line.

Step 2: Then with my favorite dome shaped blending brush, I applied a matte brown shadow (MAC Cork-shade no.1) on the crease line which will help me in blending the other colors later on.

Step 3: Next, for the eyelid color I chose a beautiful bronzish-copper shade (MAC Woodwinked-shade no.2) and spread it all over until the crease area.

Step 4: Now to add a purple (MAC Fig 1-shade no.3), I picked some color with a pencil brush placed it right where the crease folds and then with the same blending brush I swept it in wind screen wiper motions.

Step 5: Moving on to the highlighter (MAC Ricepaper-shade no.4). I applied it just on the brow bone with a flat shadow brush.

Step 6: Now to add a hint of pink into this look, I blended a pinkish-gold color (MAC Expensive Pink-shade no.5) just where the bronze and purple met. Adding another color there makes the eye makeup look well blended.

Step 7: To help the look stand out even further, I applied a hint of gold shadow (MAC Amber Lights-shade no.6) just in the inner tear duct area with a pencil brush.

Step 8: Moving on to eye liner – I used a pencil (MAC Engraved) and smudged it with an angled brush creating a slight wing at the outer corner. A look like this will look great if you use a gel liner (mine had dried out 🙁 ).

Step 9: Then I applied kajal (MAC Engraved) in the water line as always and to intensify the lower lash line further, I smudged some purple shadow (shade no.3) below just until 3/4th of the eye. In the inner corner, I applied the same gold (shade no.6) and blended.

Step 10: The last part in the eye makeup – curling the lashes (Inglot) and adding mascara (Chanel).

Step 11: Now since the eye makeup was over, I got on to apply a wee bit of concealer (Kryolan FS22) under the eyes with a blending brush. I prefer using a brush at times when applying concealer as it gives a seamless finish! Then to set the concealer, I dabbed on some powder.