What is the Best Eye Shadow for Brown Eyes? Good news! Brown eyed girls can wear any color eye shadow and look good. you have the only eye color that can even match your eye shadow to your clothing and look great doing it.
OK, so you can wear any color. But which color looks best? That depends on the color and intensity of your eyes and your skin tone. You want to match the intensity of your eye makeup to the intensity of your skin tone/coloring. So if you have very light skin, stick with lighter colors. If you are darker, so with darker, more intense makeup.
The universal Eye Shadow for Brown Eyes colors are brown family neutrals – taupe, beige, brown, even gold. If you wear the same look everyday, invest in these colors. If you are a one color at a time, the same color everyday girl, stick with a pretty taupe to medium brown or gold. If you use two colors, apply a darker shade in the crease and outer corner.
Other eye shadow shades that are great with brown eyes are purples – from light lilac to plums to dark, vivid purple, grays – from light to dark charcoal, pinks – including darker mauves, greens – especially the darker hunter green colors, even dark blue.
Most brown eyed ladies have cool skin tones and look better when sticking to cool colored eye shadows. Pinks, corals and blues in a warmer hue won’t look flattering at all, so stick to neutrals or cool colors.
With the metallics all the rage, brown eyes look great in all of them – silver, gold, copper, bronze – anything goes!
Soft gold is a stunning color, especially if your eyes are a lighter brown color. If your eyes are so dark they are almost black, add a lighter touch to your eye makeup to lighten up your look.
Brown eyes can also pull of the traditional dark smokey eye look easier than many others.
Celebrity Photos - Eye Shadow for Brown Eyes
I love this look on Sandra Bullock – she goes with lighter eye shadow and lip gloss, which plays out so nicely against her dark eyes and hair, and works perfectly with her pale skin. I love the gray/silver eye shadow on her – which coordinates perfectly with her earrings. Notice how the eyeliner and mascara finish off her look perfectly and the emphasis is all on her eyes.
Eva Longoria has a somewhat darker skin tone and goes with darker eye shadow. This is just a beautiful, perfectly made up brown eye. It looks like she is picking up the light taupe color of her dress in the lightest shade of her eye makeup. Also finished with perfectly lined eyes and mascara.
Glee actress Jayma Mays has much softer coloring all the way around and goes with a neutral, nude eye and eyeliner and mascara. I think she would look much better with a lighter touch on the eyeliner – but otherwise she looks really pretty. I also found two more looks that are completely different, so you can compare three different eye shadow for brown eyes looks on the same person.
Fellow Glee actress Naya Rivera has much darker coloring and very dark eyes. Notice how the lighter eye shadow – including white just under the brow lighten up her eyes. Also she has much less eyeliner than most of the other brown eyed beauties.
One more Glee beauty, Dianna Argon has totally different coloring and a totally different look. She emphasizes her lighter brown eyes with a blue-gray. She also goes lighter on the eyeliner. All of her makeup is very soft and it really looks good on her.
In both of these pictures of Vivica Fox, she brightens up her eyes by picking up the color of her
gown – mint green on the left and taupe on the right (sorry you can’t see the gown – it is strapless).
Salma Hayek draws all the attention to her brown eyes with silvery gray eye shadow.
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