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So everyone wants to know how to make their eye color pop, and here are
some ways to do that. One thing to look at is, of course, the color wheel.
It's how you find out what colors are complimentary to your original shade
of eye color. So, I have blue eyes and the opposite color on the color
wheel is orange from blue.
So obviously I'm not going to go all out and put orange all over my eyes
and my face. But some ways that would modify that to make my eyes pop and
still look natural would be using colors that still have kind of that
orange-y undertone. So bronze-y colors, anything that's maybe even brown
could work with that kind of burnt undertone to it. You could use peachy
colors.
Today, for example, I'll show you what I used. I have this color right
here, which is definitely one of those more peachy colors that I was
speaking about, and I also have a little bit of this one here, which is
bronze-y, and then this brown. So as you can see, those three colors have a
warmer undertone and they're complementing my blue eyes and making them pop
without it being too harsh.
One thing to think about too is whether you want to wear warm tones or cool
tones. Usually, I say when you're doing an eye, keep them all in the same
tone family. So, one easy way to figure this out that I've heard before is,
a, do you tan well? Do you immediately go out in the sun and get a nice
bronze tan, and do you look good in gold? So that would mean that you would
want to wear warmer tones.
If when you go out in the sun you burn and then tan and you look good in
silver jewelry, then maybe you should wear cooler tones. I mean, you don't
have to. There are no rules in makeup. It's whatever you feel comfortable
in. But usually when you're doing an eye, I like to keep everything in that
same tone. You don't want to mix cool tones and warm tones. It gets a
little messy.
So, other colors that would work well, say, for green or hazel eyes, the
opposite color of green on the color wheel is red. So you would want to use
something that has that red undertone. You don't want to go all out and put
the color of my lipstick on your eyes obviously. But you would want to use
something with that undertone, once again.
So you could do purples that have a red undertone. That looks really great
on green/hazel eyes, really makes it pop. You could even do purples,
anything blue with more of that red undertone could work as well. Brown
eyes really get lucky because it's such a neutral tone that they really can
wear any color and it pops very nicely on them.
Another thing that I do on my eyes since they're a lighter shade, if you
have darker eyes it doesn't matter if you line too much because it's going
to kind of close them off. But I use an inner-rim brightener to kind of
keep the lightness of my eyes open. Those are my tips on how to make your
eye color pop.