How to Do Glam & Dramatic Green & Gold Eye Makeup
Today, I'm going to show you how to do a green and gold eye makeup look. It is quite dramatic, but also simple to do. If you follow along with this tutorial, you will be able to recreate the green and gold eye makeup for yourself.
Keep an eye on the video to see the shades I used throughout this tutorial OK, now let’s start.
Tools and materials:
- Green-gold eyeshadow palette
- 5 clean eye makeup brushes
- Pencil eyeliner
- Kohl eyeliner
- Mascara
- False eyelashes (optional)
1. Apply the first gold eyeshadow shade
Start applying this first gold shade in the crease of your eyelid, from the outer corner to about three-quarters of the way across to the inner corner.
Then, use your brush to blend it upwards on your upper eyelid. Don’t add more eyeshadow to the brush, just blend in the eyeshadow you deposited on the crease of your eyelid.
2. Switch to a blue-green shade
Apply a blue-green shade of eyeshadow to the outside half of your lower eyelid, pulling a bit into the crease.
Add a little bit of that same shade to the inner corner of your eye and then connect to the two areas of blue-green shadow just in the crease. Don’t fill in the center of your eyelid with this shade.
3. Add a darker green shade
Use a darker green shade of eyeshadow to darken the outer area of the previous blue-green shade.
4. Apply a bluer shade
Shade the outer V of your eyelid with a deep blue shade of eyeshadow, pulling it into the crease. Blend all the tones a bit with your eye makeup brush.
Tip: if you get a bit of shadow falling below your eyes, use a clean makeup brush to gently sweep it away.
5. Finish your upper eyelids
Go back to the original gold shade and apply it to the rest of your upper eyelid.
Use a light gold shade to fill in the middle part of your lower eyelid.
Blend the gold into the green on the outer side of your eyelid and pull it into the corner of your eyelid.
6. Back to the blue-green eyeshadow
Gently tap a bit more of the blue-green shade at the outer corners of your eyelids and blend it out on the edge of the gold shadow.
7. Add color to your lower lash line
Use a green eyeliner pencil to apply liner under your lower lash line, from the outer edge to about three-quarters of the way to the inner corner.
Then apply some of the blue-green eyeshadow on top of the eyeliner. While you have that shade on the brush, if you want to darken the outer V of your lower eyelid a bit, this is a good time to do it. Just make sure that it’s well blended.
Apply the light gold shadow under your lower lash eyeliner, just at the inner corner, slightly overlapping the blue-green liner.
Go back to the eye makeup brush that had the gold eyeshadow on it that you used in step 1. Without adding any more eyeshadow to it, just use that brush to blend in all the color under your lower lashes.
8. Add liner to your top eyelash line
Apply kohl eyeliner to your upper eyelash line
Add mascara, and, if you want more drama, add false eyelashes as well. Then you are done.
One final tip – if you have hooded eyes, use spiky false eyelashes, because full curtain lashes will hide your eyelids. And you’ve just made them so gorgeous, you definitely don’t want to hide them.
Green and gold eye makeup tutorial
If you gave this green and gold smokey eye makeup tutorial a try, leave a comment to let me know how you liked it.
Products used
- Urban Decay Born to Run Eyeshadow Palette (Riff, Big Sky, Wonderlust, Radio, Stranded)
- Kiko green eye pencil 08
- NARS Climax mascara
- XO Beauty lashes - Fan girl
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Gorgeous! 😁