For dramatic eye makeup colours, check out the colour wheel.

Select your eye colour, and choose the colour for eye makeup OPPOSITE the eye colour. The contrast will make your eyes really bright and dramatic; perfect for evening makeup. For example, if you have green eyes, purple would bring out the colour very nicely.

This tip would work more for Caucasions, with different-coloured eyes, but for those who like to wear coloured contact lenses, this could work too 🙂

This palette contains 4 colour-corrective cream shades designed to hide flaws, blemishes and discolouration. Each colour is used to hide a specific flaw.

• Yellow – for dark spots
• Beige – for shading and concealing
• Green – for redness and blemishes
• Pink – for freckles and highlighting

The concealer works quite all right. I like it that it’s small (great for traveling), and contain different sorts of concealing shades for different areas of coverup.

My only gripe would be that you’d need to use a little more to give better coverup on blemishes, as I felt it was quite thin. However, this could just well be me, since I’m used to cream concealers. Nevertheless, if blended well on light blemishes, it will cover them up quite nicely.

As always with all concealers, they are meant to reduce redness, dark spots and blemishes, and not to cover them up completely. Too much concealer would give unsightly bumps on the face. Plus, it would make your face look caked-up and artificial.

A useful tip to share: the green concealer can be used as an eye makeup base. It will brighten the eyes, and your eye makeup will last longer. Just do not apply too much of it, or else you’ll look really frightening :p This tip is applicable for all palette concealers similar to this one.

This is available at all Red Earth counters. I think I bought it for RM45; it can’t be more than RM50.

What I like about it: All-in-one concealer, decent price

What I did not like about it: The texture’s a tad too thin for my liking

Smokey eye makeup has always been an Everest for me. If I may say so, it could well be a feat for a lot of Asian women too, because it is difficult to create that smokey eye effect without looking either like a raccoon, or that someone has punched the daylights out of our eyes. I tried it many times in the past, and all I ended up with were black eyes. Literally BLACK eyes. Not a pretty sight, if I may say so myself.

It was only after I went for a makeup and grooming course with Stella-in International that I finally learnt how to create the smokey eye effect correctly. Even then, I still need a LOT of practice because a bit too much dark grey or brown, and you’ll end up looking like a zombie.

So there I was, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, suddenly struck with the desire to paint my face, and I finally got it right (YAY!! :p). But not before I checked out these videos. Man, there sure are a lot of good makeup videos on YouTube :p

This is done by the Asian Beauty Blog. I quite like it as it is not overly dramatic, as most smokey eye makeup are. However, she tends to use a lot of MAC, which I’m not so in favour of (other than the foundation). They’re not too bad, but I guess a lot of the sales assistants in MAC (and I can vouch for many consumers who share the same view) are pretty arrogant, which pretty much turned me off even visiting the store. Not all of them, of course, but sadly, a majority are.

Okay, I know, the model isn’t Asian (even though the makeup artist is), but her makeup tips are pretty good. This was by Your Look.

This is quite a good tutorial (okay, okay, she’s pretty :p). Michelle Phan has quite a number of video tutorials in her blog too, so do check it out.

This is by Pursebuzz. Man, she has a LOT of video tutorials on Youtube, ranging from hair style tips to more makeup tips. Worth a watch, but look out for more use of MAC.

There are so many more smokey eye makeup tutorial videos out there on YouTube (plus other makeup tips), so do check it out. Remember to practise this style of makeup several times before an actual function, so that you’ll get a hang of it (especially if you aren’t used to applying makeup on a regular basis). You don’t wanna only try it out when you have an actual function to attend, ‘cos there are chances that you might muck it up because you aren’t used to the amount of dark shadow to apply on your lids (yep, happened to me once. Wasted my time removing the mess and applying something else which I was more used to). So, ladies, practise, practise, practise. Good luck!

And most of all, have fun! 🙂

PS: Oh, and remember to clean out your brushes after you’re done with the makeup. Some eye shadows tend to stain and remain on the brushes, especially the nondescript, cheapo (aka cap palang) ones.