Looking for a way to spice up date night — well, makeup-wise? You've come to the right place. Makeup artist Kristen Gallegos shows you below how you can trade in your usual smoky eye for something subtle yet sexy that still screams smoke show.
1. Line the inner rim of your lower lash line with black liner. After you apply foundation and blush, emphasize your lower lash line by running a long-lasting black liner over it. Model Clair Westenberg used Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner Pencil in "Black."
2. Trace directly under your lower lashes with charcoal liner. Create a winged effect by extending the liner up toward the tail of your brow. Clair used Revlon PhotoReady Kajal Matte Eye Pencil in "Matte Coal."
3. Emphasize your lower lash line and add drama to your winged liner. Add black eye shadow over the charcoal liner with a flat-tip brush. Clair used the black shadow in Revlon ColorStay 16-Hour Eye Shadow in "Free Spirit."
4. Swipe on mascara. Coat your top and bottom lashes. Clair used Revlon Bold Lacquer Length + Volume Mascara in "Blackest Black."
Hair by: Ryan Trygstad
Clothing/accessories on Clair: Julia Wide Leg Trousers, MISHA NONOO, $395; Serena Silk Tank, MISHA NONOO, $260; Diamond SupearlCosmic Earrings, MCKENZIE LIAUTAUD, $1495
Clothing on CJ Richards: Jock Jacket ROGUE, $495; Sammy End on End Shirt, HARTFORD, $228
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Carly Cardellino was the beauty director at Cosmopolitan. If you follow her Instagram, then you know she'll try just about any beauty trend or treatment once (the pics of her purple hair are on IG to prove it). But her favorite part about being in beauty is finding the most effective products, and then sharing that intel with others—because who wants to spend money on stuff that doesn't work? No one, that's who. Her most recent discovery: De La Cruz Sulfur Ointment, which will change your blemish-clearing game! Hopefully through the beauty stories she writes—and the experiences she shares—you can see exactly why she's in this business.
