Read the previous post (below) for my silly analogy to discover whether matching eyeshadow to your eyes is the best way to enhance your natural eye colour...
Here's a great example of blue eyes being enhanced by...blue? No, not blue, but shades of orange:
Oh hey! Sephora did produce another 3 sets of eyeshadows for enhancing green, blue and brown eyes. Do you think they did better with these collections?
Have a look at these pics below and the colours in each set and tell me in the comments section whether they were closer to the mark with these suggestions. I.e, Are these sets based on the principle of using
complementary/opposite colours to enhance the stated eye colour? Or are they mainly 'blah' because they
harmonise with the eye colour stated? You may have to dig out that colour wheel you learn about in high school Art class... (HINT: Complementary colours are
opposite on the colour wheel, not next to)
Green eyes collection:
Blue eyes collection:
Brown eyes collection:
What can you see??
So you can see red, yellow and blue - the primary colours, plus orange, purple, green - the secondary colours. In this wheel you'll also spot colours in between those already mentioned, like orange-red and green-blue etc. Those are known as tertiary colours.
Great makeup doesn't just 'happen.' If you look in the mirror and you know your makeup's just not 'right' - THERE IS A REASON WHY. It's not random! If you see yourself and think - wow, that looks better than I though it would, there's a reason for that too. Check out these pics and you'll notice how colour plays a massive role in enhancing the natural colour of eyes. These makeup artists made deliberate choices to make the blue eyes 'pop' and they got it right. How? The answer is in the COLOUR of the makeup which is also often continued in the styling/fashion.
Get a little technical with me and 'analyse' what colours have been used to enhance these cool blue peepers, in the makeup itself and/or in the clothing colour choices...
