The best Eye Makeup for Blue Eyes is makeup that emphasizes your beautiful eyes, not your makeup.
The biggest factor in determining your makeup look is your own skin tone and coloring. If you have light hair and pale skin, you need to stick with a light hand. If you have darker coloring, you can pull off a more dramatic look.
Eye Shadow for Blue Eyes
Pinks, Peaches and Bronzes are the best eye shadow colors to emphasize your baby blues. These are colors that are opposite blue in the color spectrum and will make the blue pop (as they say).
Choose your shade of pink, peach and bronze Eye Shadow for Blue Eyes based on the intensity of your eye and overall coloring. For example, lighter coloring can go with lighter pinks and apricots, darker can go with mauve colors.
Other colors that compliment blue eyes are purples and greys, as well as neutrals in soft brown and taupe.
If you use two or more colors of eye shadow, you can apply pink or peach all over and then a darker violet, lilac or purple or dark grey or brown in the crease and/or corner. This is give your eye shadow some dept, while still emphasizing the color of your eyes.
Metallics and uber shiny and sparkly eye shadows are ver popular right now – you can go with bronze, gold or anything in the gray or silver family. If you have very light blue eyes and pale skin, stick with the lighter shades.
By looking at the two photos above, you can see the same model with two very different Eye Makeup for Blue Eyes looks. In the first photo she has a very neutral, natural look. Her bronze eye shadow and eye makeup is very subtle, but it draws all the attention to her eyes. In the second photo the look is much more dramatic and the makeup is heavier. The eye makeup still draws attention to her eyes, but you also notice the eye shadow.
At the end of the day, there are no eye shadow police and there are no hard and fast rules. In the past you have probably been told not to wear blue eye shadow. Well, those rules no longer apply and there this an endless variety of eye shadow colors from which to choose. If you are a one look girl, find your best colors above and stick with it. If you are a one eyeshadow color, the same every or almost everyday, stick with bronze.
If you like to be creative and try different Eye Shadow for Blue Eyes looks frequently, go for it and have fun!
Mascara - Eye Makeup for Blue Eyes
Although black is the universal mascara color, if your natural lashes are light black will probably look too harsh for you. My favorite mascara color is navy blue – it looks dark and doesn’t scream “BLUE”, but it can really add a little something extra to your look. Brown is another option and should probably be your first choice if your coloring is very fair.
Eyeliner - Eye Makeup for Blue Eyes
Eyeliner is the secret to a great looking eye. The same color guidelines apply as with mascara – black, navy blue or brown. If you have red hair you will probably look better with browns. Colored and metallic eyeliners are popular now – feel free to experiment and have fun!
Celebrities – Eye Makeup for Blue Eyes
Taylor Swift has pretty blue eyes and a much lighter coloring. She usually goes with makeup that emphasizes her eyes. Her eyes are on the small side and although her eyeshadow colors change often, she almost has noticeable eyeliner and false eyelashes.
She made beauty headlines when she was one of the first celebrities to embrace the blue eye shadow trend. It is not one of my favorite makeup looks for her, but hey she is young, successful and has to dress up a lot – why not have a little fun!
Days of our Lives actress Nadia Bjorlin has beautiful blue eyes – her Eye Makeup for Blue Eyes shows them off here with bronze eye shadow, black eyeliner and nude lips. This is a great example of how dark eyeliner can draw attention to your eyes.
Actress Ashley Benson has beautiful eyes that are spotlighted in this photo with eyeliner and mascara. As you can see here, you can’t even see what color eye shadow she is wearing – it is the eyeliner and mascara that draw your attention in to her eyes.
January Jones goes for a colorful smokey eye look – you can tell it has blues and greens. I think it looks very pretty, but it makes her look older when compared to a lighter makeup look.
Eye Makeup for Blue Eyes Recommendations
One of my favorite eye shadows for blue eyes is Smashbox Highlights in Beam. Look for pretty pinks, peaches, bronze and nudes. You can go with shimmer or matte.
Stick with black eyeliner and mascara Eye Makeup for Blue Eyes unless you have very light coloring (ie blonde eyelashes) and black looks too harsh – stick with navy blue or brown mascara and navy, brown or charcoal eye liner.
If you are over 40 – 45 and have those dreaded signs of aging around your eyes, black mascara is fine but black eyeliner may emphasize that – try a dark brown, navy blue of charcoal liner.
If you do emphasize your eyes with your makeup, go with a softer blush and lip color – otherwise you’ll just look like you are wearing too much makeup.
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