Beauty Tip- Eyeshadows

Beauty Tip

 

Choosing the right eye shadow to compliment your eye colour will make a big impact on your overall makeup look; it can enhance your eye colour and create bright eyes. You also have to take into account your skin tone when picking out the right eyeshadow colour. Many people are tempted to choose the same colour eyeshadow as your eye colour. This is a big mistake as it tends to compete with your eye colour and drawing more attention to the eye shadow. Eye shadow is intended to frame your eyes so it is best to find an eyeshadow to compliment them.

Skin Tone Considerations

For those of you who have a delicate "English rose" complexion, dark colours can overpower your pale skin tone. For darker skin tones, avoid pale shades, as you can carry off much deeper and richer shades.

Hazel Eyes  Like me, you are lucky if you have hazel coloured eyes as they suit almost any coloured eye shadows. I usually go for netural, earthy colours and golds. Try to look at your eyes and pick out some of the main colours in them and subtly include these in your eyeshadows. I have alot of green in my eyes as well as brown so I put a brown eyeshadow all over my eyes and then line a green eyeshadow in the crease of my eyes. Try to experiment with different colours of eyeshadows and see which ones are best for the shades in your eyes.

 Brown Eyes

To subtly emphasise brown eyes, you have plently off choice in terms of colour choices, as brown eyes suit almost any colour of eye shadow. This gives you an opportunity to experiment with a wide range of different shades, from soft neutrals such as browns, beiges and creams to bright neons such as yellows, oranges and bright pinks, (depending on how brave you are with colour). Metallic shades such as golds and bronzes are a particularly good look, as they are eye-catching without being too dramatic.

Blue Eyes

With blue eyes you are restricted more with your colours, but that's not to say that your eye colour is any worse than other eye colours. Your eye colour tends to suit warm shades or brown, taupe, gold, plum and peach. Also silver eyeshadow works really well with blue eyes unlike with brown eyes. Wearing a blue eyeshadow tends to look over the top and does not flatter your makeup. Metallics can work on some people but not others so try to experiment with shimmery golds and bronze shades.

Green Eyes

Golden brown, peach, violet, taupe and rich purple shades will empasise your eyes and make them into a striking feature. Purple shades work well on green eyes as the 2 colours contrast on the colour wheel, look for plum and violet shades but don't go too over the top with them as less is more.

Grey Eyes

Grey eyes suit charcoal, brown and purple shades. Soft purple colours such as violet often work well with grey eyes.

Colour Wheel Rule

If all of the rules above where too complicated then this is the general rule to find the best eyeshadow shade for your eye colour. As with artists when they are picking out colours they use the colour wheel to choose the 2 opposite colours to compliment and contrast each other, the same general rule applys when choosing an eyeshadow colour. To find the best eyeshadow colour for your eyes, find your eye colour on the colour wheel (see below) then trace it to the colour directly opposite it on the colour wheel, this should find the best colour for your eyes. For example, if your eye colour is the 3rd shade under the green, trace it across, this leaves you with the purple. Then find the 3rd shade of it and match an eyeshadow with that colour.