Jill’s Evening Collection

Dior Backstage Eyeshadow Palette In Smoky Essentials

Use your small angled liner brush to trace over your pencil liner from the daytime, dragging it up and out (leave some of your lid showing- don’t go as high up as your usual). Do get thicker as you extend out towards your temples. Clean and drag up and out with a q-tip or your finger, and sharpen/ soften any edges as needed with your mini beautyblender loaded up with concealer. Use a flat shadow brush dipped in that gunmetal shade above the black to diffuse the line, pulling it out at the outer corners and diffusing the color as you work up towards the crease. Use a fluffy brush dipped in that middle taupey shade in as your “transition color” as the kids say- basically it’s the color that connects your bare brow bone skin to the deep tones at your lashline so it’s all gorge and graduated. Go in with a clean fluffy brush and blend over all of the shades so there are no harsh edges- one leads seamlessly into the next. You may also find your mini blender helpful for this job. Et Viola you have yourself a stunning smokey eye. You can use the lighter shades in the palette like a dot of that second from left top row on brow bones and the white at inner corners for a pop. Play with the brown shades as liner alternatives for day.