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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Monday, October 06, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
5:07 PM (Pacific)
Well I have another thought, how about this?
If using purple and orange works on green, because purple works on yellow and orange works on blue...why not try the following:
1.) Purple and green together. The idea is that purple will work on the golden aspect of hazel, and green will work on the red aspect (brown contains red).
I think the trick (to avoid looking Easter eggy) would be to use either a light, lavender shade with a dark or deep green shade, or a light green shade with a deep or dark plum shade.
2.) Green and pink together. Or green and red. Or green and rose. The green should complement the red aspect of brown, the red (or pink or rose) should complement the green.
Green and pink is easiest of course. You could use pink and line, contour or do a crease with green. (Which wouldn't have to be green-green, just a shade containing green.)
Green and red could be a light green celadon shade as a wash or lid color, lined with dark red. Very tricky. Would have to be the right dark red. I have MAC Sable, it's brown but quite red. Once in a while I use it... Or MAC Cranberry?
Green and rose...if I'm not mistaken, there is actually a Nars duo that is green and rose?
Then again isn't there one that's pink and green? Maybe I'm imagining that one...
3.) Pink and purple, or red and purple. Pink complements green, purple complements gold.
Pink and purple is easy to do, I do it myself all the time. I use either MAC Vapour or TBS Clover Pink as a wash, and dabble on TBS Damson (it's a handy shadow). Before I would line with MAC Wine eyepencil but now I think that L'Oreal Le Grand Kohl "Raisin" would be better. (The MAC pencils have better colors but the L'Oreal's last longer.)
Red and purple...would be something like the lavender shade and the cranberry shade. Again, tricky. But I think it can be done.
This is all in theory of course :) I can't try any of these out...well I can, but the effect that I'm thinking of would be lost on me. The idea is to take two shadows--two contrasting shadows--and use them both to bring out two aspects of your eye color. (Rather than the conventional wisdom to use one dominant color to bring out a single color.)
The illusion created should be a combination of those two colors in your eyes, blended together.
--J.
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