To highlight brown eyes and bring out all the nuances of their iris, the ideal is to play with colorimetry. A professional makeup artist reveals the best eye shadow color to enhance them.
Brown eyes have the advantage of being able to get away with almost anything in terms of makeup. However, certain shades highlight them particularly well by bringing out all the nuances of their iris. To find these eye shadow, pencil or eyeliner colors, it is important to start by define the undertones of your brown eyes.
As Emmanuel Martin, FBNL Training Manager Kiko Milano explains, brown eyes can have warm or cool undertones : “To recognize if the brown eye has warm undertones, it generally has orange or golden highlights. And for a brown eye with cool undertones, the highlights will be more green or bluish. Little tip: the sun will help you determine its reflections more easily.” The makeup artist advises observing the color of your irises in natural light and, if necessary, getting help from a makeup artist. Although nothing replaces personalized advice, he then details a list of eyeshadow colors that compliment brown eyes particularly well.
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Brown eyes: these eyeshadow colors that make them stand out
According to the expert, “orange, copper and auburn” are three shades that highlight brown eyes particularly well. Colors with warm undertones that bring out the hazel or honey tones of brown eyes. “We also advise you the plumbest known for making green eyes pop, but also works for brown eyes” explains Emmanuel Martin. This color will be more suitable for brown eyes with cool undertones. If you are not a fan of eye shadow, you can find these shades in eyeliners but also in colored mascaras, very trendy in 2024, which allow you to add a little colorful touch to your makeup in a very simple and quick.
Long lasting eyeshadow stick, shade 13 Copper, Kiko, €7.99.
Green Me Eyeshadow Palette, n°102, Kiko, €17.49.
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