Beauty How-To: Highlighting Eye Colours

 

Trying new eye shadow colours can be daunting and we often stick to what we know best. To help you on your way to bright, bold eyes BWA thought has you covered with our comprehensive eye colour guide!

For brown eyes:

The best colours to use on brown eyes are colours of the same tone e.g.  as deep purples, blues, greens and golds.

These will really make your eyes stand out. Don’t think this means large quantities of colour, rather right placement colour.

Our celebrity beauty inspiration for brown eyes is Kelly Rowland who has jumped on the bright eyes trend rocking bright shadows and liners on the red carpet.

Green will bring out the earthy tones and give you a really natural, earthy look. The gold will bring out the yellows and light browns that are in the iris making your eyes look lighter.

For blue eyes:

For blue eyes, go for lighter tones of green, blue, white, silver, purple and browns – these lighter tones will match the tone of your eyes helping to make your look more natural.

Green will bring out any flecks in your iris. Silver will enhance those icy tones, bring some white into your palette to soften the look.

For green eyes:

Focus mainly on natural earthy tones with the occasional metallic version of the colour. These colours include bronze, gold, brown, yellow-browns, greens, green-browns and pale gold.

These colours will truly bring out the colour of your eyes but if you want to be bold, go for a smokey purple eye.

For grey eyes:

You are the lucky ones! Due to grey eyes having so many flecks of different colours, you can wear almost anything!

The best way to make your eyes pop are fun colours like orange and yellow.

Check out our celebrity gallery for some inspiration.

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Images: Zimbio.com

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  • Reply greengal Tuesday 8th November, 2011 at 11:32 pm

    so black eye can go with any colour?

  • Reply hellohola Wednesday 28th September, 2011 at 3:31 am

    what about black eyes?

    • MissBee218
      Reply MissBee218 Wednesday 5th October, 2011 at 1:10 pm

      you can rock any colour, just remember – its the placement of colour not the amount!

  • Gjenia
    Reply Gjenia Wednesday 14th September, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    Very helpful! Thanks

  • Reply AlexandraRose Tuesday 13th September, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    Niceee! Awesome tips 🙂

  • Reply Claireo Tuesday 13th September, 2011 at 12:26 am

    This is a great gallery- so many ideas- can’t wait to try them out!

  • Reply lizzie77 Monday 12th September, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    Thank you for the gallery, good ideas to pick up and apply!

  • Reply mzluvinkhim Monday 12th September, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    I love these looks but i don’t usually wear alot of colour in my make up so it would be very different for me.

  • jennika
    Reply jennika Friday 9th September, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    i love this idea! definitely going to use it more often… thanks for the tips! x

  • Reply Narao10 Friday 9th September, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    I have brown eyes and purple shades as always make my eyes pop a bit.Lovely tips.

  • citystyle93
    Reply citystyle93 Friday 9th September, 2011 at 8:20 am

    wow love the gallery… so many different ideas 😀

  • Reply nphan Thursday 8th September, 2011 at 8:38 pm

    I didn’t know the placement of colour can make such a difference. thanks for the tips!

  • Reply mandachic Thursday 8th September, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    Thanks for the tips on coordinating shades with eye colour – I will certainly be putting it into practise

  • Reply milicamitreska Thursday 8th September, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    it’s given me new inspiration to be more creative with my make up

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    thanks for the insperation!!

  • ktbt888
    Reply ktbt888 Thursday 8th September, 2011 at 4:39 am

    Great tips for the person who can’t apply makeup@!

  • Reply DuckieBox Wednesday 7th September, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    <3 thanks for the awesome tips~!

  • Reply tzyling Wednesday 7th September, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    Thanks for this gallery. I’ve never been the best at eye make up and always stick to the same colour and method of application. This gallery has given me some ideas!

  • Reply lovelyloves Wednesday 7th September, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    Nice Gallery!

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