new-kid-i-smoulder.jpgEveryone wants smoky eyes at the moment, but it's a harder look than you might think to pull off. I've tried using daubs of charcoal grey eyeshadow, smudging my liner and all sorts of other tricks, but each resulted in nothing more sultry than a convincing-looking black eye.

So I was delighted when I heard that there was a tool that had been specially designed for creating smoky eyes, and that it was a neat and smudge free procedure to get them smouldering in all the right places. It has all the tools you need for the look, with a hard angled, precision eyeliner at one end in charcoal gray, and a matching cream eyeshadow at the other. I found it a doddle to use, with no mess, fuss or hammer horror results.

£16 at new cid

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