Best eyeshadow palettes for brown eyes
Ahhh, brown eyes. The most common of the iris colours. And therefore the least desired. Seriously, have you ever heard someone say, “Ugh, what I would give for brown eyes!”? Or what about, “Whhhhhyyy didn’t I get my dad’s brown eyes? Whhhhyyy?”
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But you know what? Brown eyes are just as pretty as baby blues or emerald greens (having brown eyes myself gives me no bias). They can be just as striking, just as enticing, and just as covetable. And to ensure they always look their best, it’s a great – nay wonderful! – idea to enhance your peepers by picking the eyeshadow shades that’ll suit ‘em best.
BEST EYESHADOWS FOR BROWN EYES
There are two ways you can go about picking your eyeshadow shades. You can choose certain hues to intensify your eyes (so make them stand out even more), or you can go for shades that’ll complement your eyes.
If you want to enhance any shade of brown eyes, your best bet is to pick eyeshadows with blues and greens. Think navy, teal, turquoise, baby blue, cobalt blue, blue-greys and royal blues. These colours will be a wonderful contrast against your brown eyes.
Try:
ModelCO Eye Shadow Trio in Island Fever.
W Cosmetics CANMAKE Eye Nuance
If you would prefer to use a shade that’ll complement your eye colour, then you need to factor in the type of brown eyes you have.
For warm brown eyes
Warm brown eyes, like Camille Belle’s and Jennifer Lopez’s, are usually a bit lighter and feature more tones of yellow and green. The shades that’ll suit your eyes best are beiges, caramels, mid-browns, golds, golds with a teeny tiny hint of green, peaches, and even oranges and yellows.
Try:
jane iredale PurePressed Triple Eyeshadow
Natio Love Being You Colour Collection - Natural Nudes Mineral Eyeshadow Palette
W Cosmetics CANMAKE Perfect Stylist Eyes
Bobbi Brown Shimmer Wash Eye Shadow in Beige
For cool brown eyes
Cool brown eyes tend to be a bit darker and deeper, and have hints of red or purple in them. Keri Washington and Jessica Alba’s eyes are perfect examples. For your eyes, it’s best to use shades like pinks (especially dusty pink), burgundies, dark browns, purples, and metallics like copper and bronze.
Try:
Natio Mineral Baked Eyeshadow Trio
Maybelline New York Burgundy Bar Eyeshadow
Revlon ColorStay 16 Hour Eyeshadow Palette in Seductive.
Do you have brown eyes? Which colours do you often wear to bring out your eyes?
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230 Member Comments
Great tips girls keep them coming.
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Perfect color. I do agree. Brown eyes can still be striking.
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I need to buy some brown contact lenses!! Love the look of brown eyes.
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I have been wearing greys and browns, I think it might be time to add a little colour, although I do use a blue eyeliner
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In my opinion Jennifer Lopez and Jessica Alba can do no wrong
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Love all their makeup looks! It's natural but also makes their eyes sparkle!
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I don't have brown eyes but I do use some of these occasionally!
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I have a passion for eye palettes and love to try all the different shades. I love the burgundy's and caramel tones which show off my dark eyes.
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Been trying to wear more colour for years, but nothing seems to look good beside the very safe natural, brown, bronzey colours. Now that I'm moving towards late 30's I feel the colourful eyeshadow ship has already sailed off for me!
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I have cool brown eyes but prefer the colours recommended for warm brown eyes.
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I personally prefer cool town browns for my eyes, I build up the dimension as I have monolids to make it pop. Have trialed a little colour but struggled.
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I have cool browns and love me some eye shadow. Hoarding situation alert...
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I have blue eyes but this is a helpful article anyway. Makeup articles are good as it is an area where I am lacking in confidence and skills
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My eyes are grey/green, and I'd wear some of these :) I like the ModelCo trio and the Revlon purple tones :)
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I have cool brown eyes, and my favourite colour (and the one I get the most compliments on!) is a metallic olive eyeshadow
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Some really great choices and tips!!!
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Great article for brown eyes. But i use them an only special occasion.
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Yes it's nice to do a special makeup for special occasions!
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Im a blue eyed girl but I would happily wear all these shades. At the moment I have a passion for golds, blues and lilac shades but im really happy wearing any colours.
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Great to read about. I have cool brown eyes.
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I do have brown eyes & I have Nude by Nature earthy palette.
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Browns eyes are soooo beautiful! Love 'em! My youngest daughter has them lucky thing!
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Any colour suits them. I have grey blue thingy going on. Not everything looks good on me.
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