Emphasize The Eyes: Best Shades for Your Eye Color
Ever had some serious eye envy? Like you are living for the rose gold eyeshadow trend but not sure if you can pull it off with green eyes? This guide is for you then, we have narrowed down the best shades to emphasize your eye color, so let your eyes do the talking and give your lips a break.
Blue eyes. Now we know that not everyone with blue eyes has the exact same shade. So don’t stress, we broke it down by shades for you as well. But first, blue eyes in general are emphasized best by light and neutral colors, as they pull the lighter tones out of your eyes that can be darkened with dark eyeshadow shades.
If you have light blue eyes, neutral browns and bronze-orange tones are suggested to create a smokey eye that will be doing the most for your eyes. To create a look similar to the one below, Be Your Own Kind Of Beauty has the perfect nude shades to accomplish this.
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Do you have a little more gray in your eyes but want to pull those blue tones through? Try corals, bright orange or orangey browns. These colors create contrast with the gray and make that shy blue come alive.
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Deep blue eyes are emphasized with peach and salmon tones. Applying a brown or navy eyeliner is another trick makeup artists utilize to make your deep blues pop, while black liner tends to pull the gray shades out of your eyes.
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Green eyes are best with pinks and red-browns, think the red-violet spectrum on the color wheel, these will really work to pull out your yellow and gold hues. If you have true green eyes, test out those rich red shades you have always been to scared too, these will really make your color illuminate.
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For golden green eyes, you want to pull out that golden tone honey, so violet and wine shades used to create a smokey eye can help you achieve just that. Beautiful shades of violets and neutrals are featured in our I Feel Beautiful Eyeshadow Palette.
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Hazel green eyes are complemented by periwinkle shades.
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Now for all the brown eyed girls, with a neutral eye color you can play a little more and see what may be best with your skin tone and hair. With that being said, these colors are what the experts suggest. Warm rust or shades with coppery undertones will bring out the green and gold flecks. The red undertones in these colors are what really creates the contrast with the green and gold. Brown eyes can be greatly complimented by the shades featured in the Do Your Squats Eyeshadow Palette.
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Purple shades are what you need to reach for when you really want to let your eyes do the talking, as it is opposite brown on the color spectrum.
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Get your dark brown eyes poppin’ with teal and blue shades, not only will the whites of your eyes appear whiter, and who doesn’t need that, but the blue will be begging those brown eyes for all the attention.
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Author: April Leonard @apeeshitt
