Best Eye Shadow Color Combo's for Women with Blue Eyes

Many companies that sell makeup to the masses have all come up with really convenient ways for those with certain eye colors to figure out which colors will look best on them. If you have green eyes, they've made a combo just for you. Brown eyes? They've got you covered too. Baby Blues? They got you too.

I've actually bought a few of these combo eye shadow kits, but came to find that the colors offered to me looked pretty terrible on me. I've got eyes that change color, literately. From green to aqua. Mostly blue though, and the kits that they have for those with blue eyes included drab stormy colors, such as navy blue, stormy gray or subtle gray silvers.

On my eye, the drab colors made my eye color appear duller, and stormy, like the drab matte colors offered to me.

I have played with tons of different eye shadows, and I don't care what colors those kits come in, your best colors are colors you think look best on you. For my eyes, using purples, lavenders, and darker pinks look best when paired with very dark and thick eyeliner lines above my eyes.

Black colored eyeliner highlights the entire eye, and draws attention right to the eyeball itself. The dark color lets my lighter eyes stand out, and I get compliments on my eyes all of the time when I wear thick eyeliner around the entirety of my eye.

If you have light blue eyes you can use brown eyeliner, or deep black eyeliner. Thick or thin lines, it's really your choice. I would suggest black eyeliner though, because it is bolder, and bold is in.

Good color combinations for women with blue eyes and light hair include light pinks, and light purples. Metallic eye shadows are in, so try and find pink and purple shadows with a metallic shimmer. When applying, be sure to blend the two colors. I usually apply pink to the entirety of the eye, and then add a darker colored purple to the corners to create a nice smoky effect on the eye.

If you were to only add one solid color, the entire eye would look boring, and it would lack proper shading, making the entire eye look messy, or in worse cases, really dumb. I have seen women apply metallic pink eye shadows to their eyes, and then nothing else. The result is a clown like mess.
Blending colors gives the eye a really smoky and sexy look. It also can create the illusion that your eyes are larger than they really are.

Colors to avoid in my opinion are reds and peachy colors. I find that reds, and golden peach colors make me look tired and sick. Light matte browns especially make me look sick, or give the effect that I've been punched right in my eye.

If you are going to use peach colored eye shadows, do make sure the color shimmers, and do make sure that you blend the color in with another color, such as metallic purple.

I have often times heard that blue eye shadows drown the color of blue eyes. This is true if you only plan on using blue eye shadow alone. However, if you were to blend a metallic blue, with a silver metallic eye shadow, you can create a really beautiful stormy eye, that that will not overpower your blue eyes. Use the silver color on your upper brown bone, and the metallic blue on the lower lids. Next you can take a stormy metallic gray and blend it in at the corners.

This color combination is especially beautiful on women with dark hair and blue eyes.

All and all, when it comes to picking the proper eye shadow colors for your blue eyes, my best advice would be to experiment with many colors.

You can do this by picking up a collection of pigment powders. The ones sold by Pearl EX are safe and non-toxic, and cost a heck of a lot less than some silly little makeup kit. These colors will last all day long, and each kit comes with enough color combinations for you to play with, and experiment with. The powders are used in craft projects, but the smart consumer knows that these powders are eye makeup miracles, and work better than high priced, high end eye shadows like MAC.