Creating a Smoky Look With Eyeliner

The Tools

• A pencil and a cotton swab, or a pencil with a smudger tip on the opposite end.
  Try: Prescriptives Deluxe Eye Pencil, $19.50, prescriptives.com, and Clarins Eye Liner Pencil, $26, clarins.com.
• Matching eye shadow.

The Technique

• Step 1: Pull the upper lid taut. Starting at the inside corner, draw heavy horizontal strokes onto the base of the lash line, working outward.
• Step 2: Lightly continue the line under the lower lashes, keeping the strokes as close to the lash line as possible and stopping two-thirds of the way in.
• Step 3: Blend and diffuse the color with a smudger or a cotton swab, then apply a coordinating eye shadow over the penciled lines and blend upward.