Get the Look! How to Make Smoky Eyes

Don't make it up.

Whether you wear makeup every day or only for special occasions, using the right products at the right time, meaning application, can make all the difference in looking your best. We recently sat down with Celebrity Chef Judi Gallagher to teach her how to enhance a few of her own techniques. Now, every Friday Judi comes in to see Ashley for  makeup before appearing on her new segment,  'Lunch with Chef Judi,' on ABC 7.

According to Chef Judi, she had worn makeup since 13 or 14 but never learned how to properly apply it.

'Since going to Ashley at Cutting Loose Salon, people ask me every day to teach them how I do my makeup and what I use," she says. "It is amazing to learn tricks; even in New York City I was recently asked who did my makeup. They loved it and that was at Bergdoff's! I thanked them and told them I am in training!'

Here are our tips for applying makeup. No matter how many times you have done this before, as Chef Judi learned, there are always new and better ways to get that best-ever look.

This week we are going to show you how to get that sexy, sultry Kim K smoky eye!

There are a few things we want to keep in mind before we start:

'¢ Keeping the dark colors on the outside and the lighter colors on the inside will make your eyes appear larger, which is ideal.

'¢ Use a light gray color to define the crease and line the outer lash line. Make sure you blend the gray color to avoid harsh lines.

'¢ In circular motions, apply a darker gray color to fill in the previously defined area, using circular, outward motions to blend.

'¢ Add your darkest color in the crease and along the lash line for depth, always blending between applications.

'¢ Brow powder can even be substituted because it is more pigmented, which makes the black slightly more saturated.

'¢ Using a black pencil eyeliner, line the top lash line starting at the outer corner. Use small dashes and go back with an angled brush to 'connect the dots' instead of trying to make a straight line.

'¢ Using the same (clean) angled brush, fill in your brows.

* Tips for brow pencils: to avoid a harsh line, you want to first warm the pencil up by applying it to the back of your hand and then use the angled brush like a paintbrush to apply it to the brow.

As a final touch, go back with a light iridescent pearl color and apply that to the inner corners of your eyes and under the brown bone for an instant eye lift!

All that's left is to apply mascara, and prepare to stop traffic!!