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Trending 2000s frosted smokey eye

Pull out your flip phone for a selfie and take a walk down memory lane with this frosted Smokey eye with a contemporary touch done by Estie Swart from Estie Swart Artistry, based in Fichardt Park, Bloemfontein.

Remember to prep your skin ladies

Skincare will always be your first step to any makeup look. Exfoliation, daily washing and toning and the correct moisturiser and serums are very important.

For daytime makeup, sunscreen, sunscreen, sunscreen!!

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Moisturising before your makeup routine can also be a great primer for dryer skin. If you have oily skin, try to get an oil-control primer to help with those shiny areas.

Get your eyes done in just a few steps!

  1. Start with the eyes before the foundation.
  2. Use a light coat of concealer over the whole lid to even out the veins and discolouration.
  3. You can set this with a loose- or compact powder to help your eyeshadow glide over the lid.
  4. Apply a medium-toned colour, just darker than your skin, through the crease of your eye, make sure that when you open your eyes and look straight forward it is blended up where it can be seen.
  5. Then add a dark shadow close to the lash line, filling in the whole lid space, and lightly blending it towards the brow or the temples if you want to draw the eyes out a bit more.

Pro tip: A Smokey eye is a technique, not just a black eyeshadow all around the eyes. The technique is that the colour is most intense close to the lashes blended into nothing.

  1. What you do on top, you do at the bottom. Start with the medium tone colour underneath the lashes and darken it up with your dark colour, tapering it thinner towards the nose and connecting the outside corners.
  2. Time to add your liner. Use dark eyeliner in the same shade of your shadow to line your top and bottom lash line, softly blending it out with a cotton bud or liner brush. Line the inner waterline as well on the bottom and top to create that full Smokey eye.

Let’s add that 2000’s flare

Take a white shimmery eyeshadow and intensify those inner corners and brow-bones!!

The brow-bone highlight was Icy in the 2000s and is making a comeback in the fall/winter looks of 2024!

  1. To open up your eyes, firstly curl your lashes with an eyelash curler then go in with a volumising mascara.

Brows

  1. Fill in your eyebrows with a slip eyebrow pencil, drawing in hair where needed. Use a shade lighter than your hair colour.

Face beat!

  1. Use a makeup wipe to clean up underneath the eyes if there is any dark eyeshadow powder that fell on the cheeks.
  2. Choose a concealer with a peachy/orange undertone to make sure your darker circles are neutralised.

Foundation

  1. Choose the right foundation for your skin. If you can get away with less, rather opt for a BB Cream and conceal in the spots if you really need to have more coverage.
  2. Blend out your foundation and add a bit of cream bronzer to the outside edges of your face, to bring back some definition.
  3. For an evening look, you can contour as well with a darker shade of foundation. Powder only where absolutely necessary.
  4. Add a pop of colour with your favourite blush. With a darker eyeshadow look, a brighter blush is sometimes needed to balance out the look.
  5. Time for the HIGHLIGHT!!! Add some highlighting powder on the highest points of the checks, draping a little bit onto the apples.

Lips

The 2000s lips were either very pale pink or blacked out, dark lined or va-va-voom red!! With this look, we are opting for a more subtle darker line, blended in and a lighter colour added in the centre, to not compete with the eyes.

If you want to do a red lip with this look … you go, girl!! You will be bringing out your inner Diva, like Christina Aguilera!

Just remember to add gloss!!!! Glossy lips are back! Add a slick of clear gloss to make any lip bring out the 2000s.

In the words of Bloemfontein Photographer Frikkie Kapp when I started doing makeup in 2004:

“Let the gloss drip off the lips.”

Compiled by GYPSEENIA LION | Make-up by ESTIE SWART ARTISTRY | Model: KAYLA BARKER

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