How To Create a Pretty Summer Eye Look.

With Summer basically here, only the calendar says it is not really Summer yet, I take a different approach with my makeup. The first thing I do is to definitely tone down the eye makeup.

I usually just wear a bit of bronzer on my lids for the day, if anything at all. But – I may just have to change my summer shadow habits. I just tried out a few new eye products, and they are helping me create a pretty summer eye look. I am calling it my “island eyes” look.

The products are from Elizabeth Ardens’s Cool Blue – Hot Bronze Collection. And if you haven’t used anything from EA lately, you must make a stop by one of their counters soon. I swear that their powders are the softest and most velvety feeling powders I have ever used.

The first product is an eye shadow palette with four color intrique shades. They are Ember, Sand Dune, Cool Blue, and Sand Castle. I sweep Sandcastle across my brow bone, and then Sand Dune on the inner half of my lid. I then apply Cool Blue to the outer half of the lid, sweeping slightly outward and upward. Next, I apply Ember as a contour in the crease, and blend this outward and upward into the Cool Blue. Next, I use their gel eyeliner, which is a round container with two shades in it. I apply Deep Brown to my upper lash line, and then Hot Bronze to my lower lash line. The look is muy caliente, if I say so myself.

Now while you may only want to turn up the heat by making “island eyes” in the evening, don’t skip all the beauties for the day. Apply a bit of powder bronzer all over the eyelids with a sweep of the Hot Bronze gel eyeliner color on the upper lash line, and your daytime eye look is complete.

The Color Intrigue Eye shadow Quad retails for $29.50 and the Color Intrigue Gel Eyeliner retails for $22.50. Check them out on Macy’s.com where shipping for beauty items is a flat $5 total!