LOOKS : gearing up for Fall : the Smoky Eye for darker skintones

My sheer, bronze shadows are slowly making their way to the back of my makeup drawer while my fall shadows of mahogany browns, cranberry, and gray are dusting themselves off for fall:

I saw this smoky eye on J. Lo back in the April 2010 Instyle magazine and immediately tore out the picture to keep in my stash of looks that I love. I finally tried it out the other day:

Since I have darker skin, the secret to my version of the smoky eye is to add a little bronze underneath the gray shadow to warm it up. If I just use gray and silver, it looks too bright and garish, almost ashy on my skin. The bronze under the gray gets me the right amount of sultriness: 

Here are some of the tools I used:

I had to keep adding stuff to get it right, but here is basically what I used:

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too faced shadow insurance

mac shroom, all that glitters, brule

mac electra, silver ring, dame's desire

mac amber lights, carbon, fluidline in blacktrack

l'oreal voluminous waterproof mascara

ardell 109 (too natural-looking on me...changed to sonia kashuk full glam for 2nd pic)