Eye Palettes to Enhance Your Eye Color

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Do You Match Your Eye Shadow to Your Eye Color?

A few weeks ago, I contacted makeup artist Amy Oresman, who was responsible for creating Hayden Panettiere's dazzling Emmy look.

A few weeks ago, I contacted makeup artist Amy Oresman, who was responsible for creating Hayden Panettiere's dazzling Emmy look. And here's a little gem that didn't make it into the original post.

"What can you say about the often-repeated beauty advice to match your eye shadow shade to your eye color?" I asked. Here's what she had to say: "Don't believe it! Matchy-matchy eye shadows compete with your natural eye color, making it look more muted and washed-out."

So, fill me in. Do you already follow this advice, or do you "break the rules" by color coordinating?

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Blue Eyes

Eye Palettes To Enhance Your Eye Color: Blue Eyes

Welcome to my fourth and final installment of my Eye Palettes to Enhance Your Eye Color series.

Welcome to my fourth and final installment of my Eye Palettes to Enhance Your Eye Color series. This post focuses on blue eye shadows to make your baby blues look bad ass!

After consulting with many makeup mavens and experts, I've discovered that it takes more than just one color to make blue eyes bold. The perfect palette is hard to come by, but I've found a few that get the job done well. Each of these include three to five shades of just the right blue hues to perfectly enhance your eyes.

The lightest neutral shade is the accent color that should go just beneath your brow-bone, the medium color should be swept all over your lid and the darkest gets applied to the crease.

Pop Beauty Eye Cake in Blue Eyes, $19, is a gorgeous palette consisting of five different colors designed to bring out the pop in your blue eyes. The colors are smooth in texture and rich in pigment and will draw oodles of attention to your eyes. Consider yourself warned baby!

For more palettes to enhance blue eyes, read more

Green Eyes

Eye Palettes To Enhance Your Eye Color: Green Eyes

Welcome to my third installment of Eye Palettes to Enhance Your Eye Color.

Welcome to my third installment of Eye Palettes to Enhance Your Eye Color. This post features green shaded shadows created especially to make green eyes pop! Green has both a warming and cooling effect on the eyes. The color symbolizes: balance, harmony, and stability. You can use bright, chartreuse colors for a springtime feel or darker more olive colors for a fall/winter look.

Each of these palettes include three to four shades of just the right greens and golds to perfectly enhance your eyes. The lightest neutral shade is the highlighter and goes just beneath your brow-bone; the medium color should be swept all over your lid and the darkest is applied to the crease. Stay tuned for one more palette tomorrow to suit blue eyes!

Du Wop Eye Shadow Palette in Green Eyes, $32, is a collection of six smooth, light and brilliant green-hued eye shadows. The palette contains three shades of the color shadow base, a gold shadow to give your eyes a metallic shimmer and a deep forest green cream liner.

The colors are: soft golden green, soft lime, rich forest green, chartreuse, deep green cream liner and gold. The colors are easily blend-able and they won't crease!

For more groovy green eye shadow palettes, read more

brown eyes

Eye Palettes To Enhance Your Eye Color: Brown Eyes

Welcome to the second installment of Eye Palettes To Enhance Your Eye Color.

Welcome to the second installment of Eye Palettes To Enhance Your Eye Color. To see the palettes for hazel eyes click here. This post focuses on brown palettes to make brown eyes pop! If you are a brown eyed girl, then you know that bronze (and even golden green) shadows accentuate your warm browns.

After consulting with many makeup mavens and experts, I've discovered that it takes more than just one color to make your brown eyes beautiful and brilliant. The perfect palette is hard to come by, but I've found a few that get the job done well. Each of these include three to four shades of just the right browns and bronzes to perfectly enhance your eyes.

The lightest neutral shade is the accent color that should go just beneath your brow-bone, the medium color should be swept all over your lid and the darkest gets applied to the crease. Stay tuned for more palettes later this week to suit your eye color!

Very Sexy® Makeup Mosaic Eye Shadow in Eye Contact, $18, is a palette of four shades that can be worn alone or layered together to create a stunning, eye-opening effect that's all your own. I suggest using the lightest color in the v of your inner eye to add a special bright sparkle to your beautiful brown eyes.


For two more brilliant brown eye shadow palettes, read more

Hazel Eyes

Eye Palettes To Enhance Your Eye Color: Hazel Eyes

Welcome to my first installment of Eye Shadow Palettes To Enhance Your Eye Color.

Welcome to my first installment of Eye Shadow Palettes To Enhance Your Eye Color. If you have light green or hazel eyes, then you know that purple shadows make them pop. I've tried at least a dozen shades recently, and what I've discovered is you really need more than just one color to make your hazel cat eyes glow. The perfect palette is hard to come by, but I've found a few that get the job done well.

Each of these include three to four shades of just the right pinks, purples and sables to perfectly enhance your eyes. The lightest shade is the accent color that should go just beneath your brow-bone, the medium color purple goes across your lid and the darkest shade should be applied to the crease. Stay tuned for more palettes later this week to suit your eye color!

Beauty Addicts Eyeshadow Palette in Motivate, $34, is a collection of four beautiful and rich colors from the purple family; they are: heather, berry, plum and pale pink. The beauty of this palette is that you can skip the darker crease color for day (just use as a liner) and then add plum for a more dramatic effect at night.

To see a couple more purple palettes, read more