St Paddy's Day and a green smokey eye

Happy almost St. Paddy's day guys!

My " 'Sup??" face! haha!

I love holidays...all of them! I love being festive...I love all the silly little decorations and I love wearing festive holiday appropriate colors! I've always been that girl that has to wear red or green on Christmas, green on St paddy's day, pastels on easter, and red white and blue on the fourth of july. As I've gotten older I've stayed true to my color coded holidays but I like to try to find new, slightly more subtle, ways of doing it and one of my favorite ways to do that is with makeup! This year on St. Paddy's day I'll be working all day and in all black so I decided a green smokey eye was going to be necessary to keep the Irish spirit alive! Lots of people on YouTube have fun St. Paddy's day eye tutorials but mine is a little darker and a little more subtle. Whether you like a bright crazy look or a more subtle one I hope you like what I've done! 

BTW: I wanted to do a St. Paddy's day makeup look for you and I was going to do a video but I just couldn't get it to work! So sad :( So instead I took lots of pictures and I'll walk you through what I did and what colors I used. Here we go!

I don't look too excited here but i am, really, I promise! haha!

So the first step is to take a big fluffy brush with a nude/beige color of your choice and put it all over the lid. I used this pinky beige from my Victoria's Secret palette

Next take that same big fluffy brush and wash a bright green shadow all over your lid concentrating the color at the lash line

This color is "Kelly" from covergirl. MUCH brighter than it looks here.

I should have taken a picture of this next step so instead I'll send you to a video by makeup goddess Kandee Johnson here! She is doing this technique with a purple eye but its exactly the same idea. 

Take a creamy black eyeliner (I used my elf eyeliner and shadow stick) and color in the outer "V" corner of your eye up onto your brow bone and into your crease a little. This will look messy but don't worry! This is an awesome technique because you can really get precise about the shape you make and end up with.

Next take a smaller flat brush or a small blending brush and with a little bit more of the green start blending out the black liner you just put down with little circle motions. You'll be amazed at how gorgeously the black blends. Build the green on top of the black and blend until you're happy with the color.

If you want you can take a lighter green, I used a very pale pastel green again from my Victoria's Secret palette, and brush it onto the lid with a fluffy blending brush to brighten everything up a bit and to give you a little more green.

This is a gorgeous pastel green! I'm so sad the color didn't come out in the picture!


Take a light beige, gold, white, or light pink (whatever works best with your green and your skintone) with a big domed blending brush and blend out the edges of the color all around. You can also use this color to highlight under your brow bone and in your tear duct.

Next line your eyes and waterline with a black eyeliner. For this look I stay very close to the lashline and only go about halfway in.

To give your face a finished look fill in your brows with a brow powder of your choice.

I'm using my elf brow palette and a small angled brush.

Curl your lashes....

put on a little mascara...

and we're done!

 

I finished off my look with a little tan colored blush and nude lip gloss. You dont want too much color on your cheeks or lips when you're doing color on your eyes.

I will work on doing another video soon but for now I hope you liked this look and I hope it works for you when you try it at home! Comment below if you have any questions or comments! 

with shamrock earrings, green smokey eyes and lots of love, 

Katie

ps: Here's another fun green look you might like. Enjoy!