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Eye shadow for green eyes
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Following on from my other thread, it seems it's time to buy new eye shadow.
I can't find one exactly the same as the one I've been using.
What colours work well on green eyes? What about something like Clinique's Sparkling sage / french vanilla duo? Or is putting greens on green eyes not a good idea.
Please help me. As you can probably tell from my recent threads I'm fairly clueless when it comes to make up.
I can't find one exactly the same as the one I've been using.
What colours work well on green eyes? What about something like Clinique's Sparkling sage / french vanilla duo? Or is putting greens on green eyes not a good idea.
Please help me. As you can probably tell from my recent threads I'm fairly clueless when it comes to make up.
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So for green:
Opposite - red (if you are willing to go for a very bold look it can look amazing)
Harmonious - Yellow - but not yellow because its a very hard colour for anyone to wear well. Gold does work though. Blue as well - and there are many shades, it totally depends on what kind of look you want and how daring you want to be.
Complimentary - Purple and brown (the reason I said brown rather than orange as its again a very hard colour for most people to wear, and pink works much better with blue as a complimentary than it does with green).
But having said all of that, it doesn't mean you can't wear whatever colour you like! There maybe some tones of colours which should work for you which don't and some shades which shouldn't work but do. It is a case of trial and error really!
If it helps I'll do other eye colours tomorrow
Brown eyes please
I normally stick to my "safe colours" browns and greys it would be interesting to see what you suggest.
Opposite colours - Blue and turquoise
Harmonious colours - Brown doesn't really have any asides different shades of brown and gray. On the colour wheel it would be either red or yellow, but neither of these colours look very harmonious with brown in real life.
Complimentary colours - Purple and possibly green (but with both stick to more bluey purples + greens rather than pinky ones or yellowy ones)
I use their eye primer (£1.50) underneath, which makes them stay on for much longer.