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5 Beautiful Cool-Toned Purple Eyeshadows

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Purple eyeshadow may be a harder color for brands to excel at, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t beautiful, readily available ones available! Here are five of my current favorite cool-toned purple eyeshadows… Share yours in the comments! 🙂

  1. Urban Decay Flash — a brightened, medium purple
  2. Inglot #439 — a rich, violet purple
  3. Makeup Geek Duchess — a muted purple
  4. Fyrinnae Because Cats — a frosted, bluish-purple
  5. L’Oreal Purple Priority — a deep, frosted purple

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Let Avatar
Let

Because Cats is a nice one! I also love Fyrrinae Meerkat– and a slew other indie shadows.
I don’t think I have a favorite purple from mainstream brands. I do have Purple Priority and a couple of purple-toned palette (Sleek Vintage Romance, Too Faced Boudoir Eyes).

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Let

Some of my favorites are:
-Shiro Cosmetics Alkahestry; Equivalent Exchange
-Notoriously Morbid Forgotten Dreams
-Femme Fatale The Nightmare (might look green in some swatches though)

Hopefully I don’t mix up the warm/cool undertones in my list above…

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Rachel R.

That’s a toughie… BareMinerals “Bloom;” Urban Decay “Grifter,” “Psychedelic Sister,” “Ransom,” “Urban; ” Tarte “Purple Fog;” Too Faced “Voulez Vouz” and “Candied Violet;” Bobbi Brown “Eggplant.” Almay intense i-color “Smoky for Hazels” (violet-grays). Bonus: My new favorite eyeliner is Tarte Amazonian Clay gel liner in “Plum.” AMAZING.

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Mariella
Very Light, Pink undertones. Normal-to-Dry skin. View Mariella Full Profile

Wow, these are all so pretty. I wish I’d picked up the Ingot one when I was in NYC. I don’t think the L’Oreal one is even available in Canada which is a bummer (the same is true of Gilded Envy…not a purple…I search for it every time I’m at the drugstore but it was never released here!) I think my fave purple of those I have (not sure if it’s cool toned but I think it is) is Smoking Jacket from the Too Faced Smokey Eye palette.

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Helene

The Inglot one is stunning! Fyrinnae is a brand I must buy some eyeshadows from. They seem to have real beauties there.
I like all of these, I’m such a sucker when it comes to purples. I just want them all.
Thanks for this awesome selection, Christine!

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