Learn with smokey eyes master Dick Page. This cult makeup artist (and Shiseido artistic director) is the man responsible for the season’s Michael Kors vibrant purple smokey eye. He says it so beautifully: “I sometimes “anchor” the color with a smudge of black pencil along the lash line, blended into the shadow (…); that gives a little extra weight to the color and is good for women who feel that the pastel shade alone is too junior.” (source: Courtney Dunlop; “Dick Page Maps Out Your Spring Makeup Look”; stylelist.com)

I personally prefer a charcoal eye pencil (instead of black) for a slightly softer, yet still smokey, look. But it’s the fresh idea that counts here. It’s a great classy hint on how to do a pastel and a smokey eye in the same time. And it works with all the on trend pastels: lilacs, baby blues, teal, mint green.

How do you feel about this spring trend? Do you do pastels? How do you work it into your smokey eye makeup?