Reserve the dark shadows for the outer corner of your eyes and to enhance your crease. Spread it evenly over your eye lid up to your brow bone.
You always apply the lighter colored eye shadow first. But don’t just stop at your eye lid, go up to your brow bone, as you are going to be applying eye shadow over there as well. Once you have selected your primer, gently blend it in to your eye lid.
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Choose a primer that is very near your normal skin tone, and use a makeup brush or your fingers to apply it. It will also ensure that you get smooth eye makeup, by making sure it doesn’t clump. A good eye primer will also ensure that your eye makeup stays on for a really long time, ensuring that all your hard work doesn’t just go to waste in a few hours. You will have a smooth base to start your work on, a really good blank canvas, if you will. A good primer will set you off on the right off. A good foundation is always necessary, whether we are talking about education or makeup. So if you don’t want your eye shadow to hog all the attention, be careful not to use a really dark shade overall, use it just in the crease and you should be fine.Īlways start with a good primer before applying the eye shadow of our choice. However no matter what shade of brown your eyes are, you want your eyes to stand out and be in the centre, not your eye shadow.
This will really highlight your eyes and make them pop. If you notice your iris carefully and see that there are flecks that are golden in color, then go with a yellow eye shadow or an eye shadow that has a yellow undertone. If your eyes are of a lighter shade of brown, then your best bet would be to observe and understand the lightly colored flecks that are in your eyes. In fact, you can go more creative and use different colored eye shadows in conjunction with each other to go for a more dramatic look with several different dimensions to it. You can try getting creative with colors such as green, bronze and violet. If you have eyes that are medium brown in color, then the world of eye make up including shadows and liners is your playground. If you observe the tiny lighter colored flecks in your pupils, choosing an eye shadow that will complement you the best will be much easier. Therefore if you have dark brown eyes, colors such as very rich greys, really dark greens, and deep plums will suit you the best. As mentioned before, Shadows in darker shades compliment dark brown eyes. In other words, this combination really makes your eyes pop. This will also make your eye appear bigger, and brighter. Yet another very important and useful tip for emphasizing brown eyes, that is sometimes overlooked is that you should always liners in dark shades in conjunction with shades that are lighter in color. The rule of thumb for choosing a color is simple, light colors really brighten up your eyes and really enhance the size of your eyes making them looker much bigger and also bring more focus to them Shades that are darker in color, on the other hand, contour and also minimize. Finally light yellow complements light brown eyes the best as this color enhances the golden flecks that are present in light brown eyes.Ĭhoosing the right color is key. Eyes that are medium brown in color are the easiest to style amongst brown eyes, as pretty much all colors suit them, but the color that suit them the absolute most is green.
If you have really deep dark brown eyes that can pretty much pass as black eyes, then your best bet would be to go with colors that are as deep and dark as they will compliment your eyes beautifully. Brown can be divided in to three shades: deep brown, medium brown, and light brown. So the first step in your makeup if you are a brown-eyed beauty is to determine what shade of brown your eyes are. So determining your shade of brown will really help in bringing the best out in you. Brown eyed beauties are literally spoilt for choice. Yes, this is true that the shades of brown might differ, and yes then the colors you choose to decorate your eyes with might compliment them better or enhance them in a better way but they won’t just make or break your look. This is the best part about brown eyes, you really don’t have to sweat it on what colors would compliment your eyes, or which colors will suit you the best, you can pretty much go with any color. Which means that pretty much any color suits brown eyes. On the color wheel, there is no opposite or complimentary color for brown. Brown eyes are the easiest to decorate and its very simple to get the perfect eye makeup under your belt.