The smokey eye is back – here’s how to achieve it at home, according to experts

The gradient eyeshadow trend is peaking over the horizon once more - (Monica Schipper/Stringer/The Independent)

The return of the smokey eye was not something we’d anticipated, especially not as a trend forcast for spring-summer 2025. Alas, the beauty gods have spoken, and make-up artists backstage at the most recent fashion weeks have been snapped applying the moody-glam look to their models. Folks, the time has come to dig out those Bobbi brown shadow sticks (£23.60, Lookfantastic.com) and MAC paint pots (£22, Lookfantastic.com) of lore.

(Left) Smokey eye make-up at Paris fashion week and (right) New York fashion week (Marc Piasecki/Stringer/Ilya S. Savenok/The Independent)