Here is a goal: how to create a super-easy smokey eye

Which way makes more sense to accomplish this goal?

Select from:
(a). draw a hashtag symbol right before the outer corner of your eye and then blend it out with the smudger at the other end of your paint thinner;
(b). draw a hashtag symbol right before the outer corner of your eye and then blend it out with the smudger at the other end of your eye liner.;
(b).