I'm a blue-eyed girl looking for a fun departure from my usual default brown or gray smoky eyes. Seems like the more boring the color palatte, the better it enhances my eyes! The intense blues, greens and purples that look hot on brown-eyed girls just overpower my light eyes .
That being said, what are some exciting alternatives to the usual browns and charcoals? I've heard that cranberries and burgundies can be lovely, but I have no idea how to use them without looking like I have pinkeye or just got into a fight!
Almay has a cool line that is designed for eye colors. The colors are perhaps not as vibrant as you may want for the stage but they did help me discover a color palette for myself that I could play off of. I also wear different color contacts so it helped with finding good colors for each of my eye colors!
I use blue and turqoise (sp?) a lot lately. As long as the color is bright enough and offset with highlighter, big lashes, some glitter and dark eyeliner it can look pretty dramatic still with light eyes
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I have grayish blue eyes and very pale skin with a warm undertone. I almost never wear browns! my standard eyeshadow for about 10 years was MAC surreal - kind of a peacock/turquoise frost. I was never happy with how browns looked on me in photos, but always liked the brights and got lots of good feedback, so that's what I stuck with.
I've since branched out. my main pallettes are:
silver (warm gray frost, or smokey with a dark graphite gray)
blues (built on the surreal, or more navy or cobalt frost)
green (either bright frost, or with deep matte green for smokey. I also have a matte acid lime that is so fab. I get a little wild sometimes and pair it with lilac)
burgundy
lilac (MAC beautiful iris. I love to pair it with the surreal)
deep pink (I have a MAC pigment that is pink with a blue pearlescence. I do that in the crease with a deep mauve on the lid and it's wow)
metallic bronzes, golds - often paired with another color like lime or frosty cream. bronze and green is awesome with animal print costumes. :)
I have several glitters that I will overlay over my shadows. I also like to play with different liners - either glitter, or I have a glowy champagne liquid liner that is awesome on top of a dark shadow and behind thick mascara.
I like to go to MAC and just ask them to go wild. I would have never thought pink would work! but that's how I found out. got the acid lime that way, too. for the silver, I saw a spread on silver eye makeup in allure magazine (about how it looks good on all complexions) and brought that in.
really - basic point is, anybody can wear any color. you just need the right shade, intensity and formula. and you can play with where you put it: in the crease will give you a vibrant halo effect over the eyes; you can get a nice flash of color by concentrating it on the inner half of your lid with a more sedate or matte color in the crease and corner. play around. :)
This one is cool and completely over the top but can be toned down
I love to google celebrities with the same color skin/hair/eye colors I have and see what they've done for different looks and ispiration (red carpet, funky party, after hours, day time appearance etc.)
I have very light blue-ish-gray-ish eyes and I use green successfully. I either draw a black line with a pencil and then fuse green all over it, or just draw a thicker green line.
Back when I was blond I actually used lip liners on my eyes. I didn't try it when performing, but it looked really good in real life, even in my daily not-so-liberal corporate environment.
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Silver, black, and glitter. The tribal girls do a lot black and glitter in the Bellydance Superstars DVD I have of a Paris performance, but more silver and less black would work when you're not going so gothic looking.
Oh my goodness, these photos remind me of one summer when I was about 14 years old - my friend and I spent weeks cooped up in a caravan with one of those giant painter's pallettes of eyeshadow in every shade, giving each other make-overs, with bonus points for getting as many colours as possible onto one lid. We also did some inspired hair braiding. Ahh, my '80's childhood...
I have blue eyes and usually use brown tones for shadows. The Mac muas havve used violet colored lid and highlighter with nocturnelle (deep reddish purple) in the crease and navy blue liner on me. They've also suggested adding the nocturnelle in the crease and as liner to the browns for evening. With navy liner on top of the purple.
Another trick is to do the normal browns, then add just a fingertip spot of bright turqoise/blue at the outer corner of the eye.
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