How To Do A Faux Foil Eye With Erika Heynatz And Rae Morris

Before applying cream foundation prep your skin with primer. Laura Mercier’s Radiance Primer contains pigments, which will add some extra glow to your skin.  Brush the primer over your eyelids as this will help with your eye shadow’s staying power.

To create the eyes you’ll need a blending brush and a highly pigmented gold shadow. The MAC 217 blending brush is a great option as it has densely packed fibres which pick up the most amount of colour. Rae suggests wetting your brush before applying the shadow as this will create a block, dense colour on your lid. For a gold foil eyeshadow try Stila Magnificant Metals Foil Finish Eyeshadow in Metallic Gilded Gold or M.A.C Pigment in Melon. Rae suggests applying the same colour to your cheekbones to give you a sun kissed glow – just blend it out so it doesn’t look too intense.

To finish the eyelids Rae says, “take a bronze kohl pencil and smudge along your top eyelash lines. Use an angled brush to slightly extend the line outwards”. Chanel Stylo Yeux Waterproof Long Lasting Eyeliner is great for party season as it’s waterproof and won’t end up doing a disappearing act halfway through the fireworks.