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5 Silver Eyeshadows to Try This Winter Season
It’s getting colder in my part of the world, though hardly cold (to anyone but a Californian, that is), but with the thought of chilly days, I’m reminded me of the upcoming wintry months. How about a look at some fun shades of silver? I wanted to curate a range from light and bright to darker, moodier silvers (that almost look gray).
- Inglot #447 — a bright, metallic silver
- NARS Interstellar — a cream eyeliner/eyeshadow in silver
- Make Up For Ever ME 116 — a light-medium silver
- Makeup Geek Mercury — a bluish-silver-gray
- Urban Decay S&M — a dark, silvery gray
>> See side-by-side swatches! <<
By the way, are there any lists you’d love to see created?
I like S&M! It’s hard to get a neutral gray!
It is nice!
I heard THAT!
I love silver and gray shadows, but for some bizarre reason it’s very difficult to find grays that look gray, not blue, not green, not white, or not too brown on me.
I’m NW15, but find that I usually prefer “dirty” grays, like Inglot M349, MAC Copperplate, Sephora City Fog, or Cargo Yukon
Carla I am a NW15 as well and I agree, it is hard to find greys that look greys. Some suggestions: Estee Lauder’s Film Noir has some very good tonal greys in the palette. I also like Dior’s Gris-Gris – but it does have a baby blue in one of the shades – but the rest are lovely. Another good set of greys is in the Sleek eyeshadow palette of Bad Girl.
Wow, these are gorgeous! The UD S&M one is my favorite, will have to check that one out!
I like how it isn’t too bright!
I love the Inglot one. They’re all beautiful choices, though.
I love that one for a really big pop!
UD makes really nice eyeshadows…….pigmented, variety of colors, reasonably priced…. I like tem better than Mac or the high end brands. Eyeshadows are the only thing I buy from UD? Wish it have better holders……so bulky and cheap looking tin. SnM is a classic.
UD definitely has a nice eyeshadow formula 🙂
My favorite silvery shadow is Mushroom by Urban Decay!
Pretty shade!
I would like for us all to take a moment of silence to mourn the loss of UD Strip.
This is very useful for me, LOL! Silver is a shadow shade I don’t have many (any, depending on your definition of ‘silver’) of. I like the UD and the Makeup geek best here! 🙂
The Inglot and UD shadows look really pretty
I like silver, because it seems to harmonize with my natural coloring, as well as with the colors I wear best/most often. I prefer a true silver, as opposed to one that will “read” blue on me.
My current favorites are UD “Vapor” and some Inglot shade whose number I can’t remember.
I particularly like to combine a true silver shadow with a deep red lip for the fall/winter/Christmas season.
Wonderful shades of silver ! But none of them have a matte or a satin finish. Any ideas for silver es that wouldn’t catch the wrinkles of my 46 year old eyes.?!
The only true “silver” shadows I recall having all came in palettes and, oddly enough, all are by TooFaced – Ooh and Aah, and from the newer Smokey Eye palette, In a Flash and Nice Ash (the last one being my fave – it’s more a darker silvery-grey). I have UD Mushroom and love it but I consider it more of a Taupe. Stila Cloud is another shadow I like a lot but, again, I’m not sure if it’s actually “silver” or more of a silvery-taupe.
the ingot one is so bright and happy compared to the rest lol! definitely my favorite out of the bunch. i’m also a huge fan of UD’s mushroom.
i’d love to see your curated list of golds and greens!
NARS Interstellar is so pretty, I’m going to check it out.
These are beautiful silver shades! I’m Really digging the Nar’s as it reminds me of that Armani Merallic Liner, which I forgot the name of snd can’t find! 🙁 Do you recall it? I’m so pale, I’ve found frosty flashy whites work best as silver on me! My all time favorite came from Lancome in a small plastic jar with lid and the words are worn off, but I think it was a star powder? In Silver, most likely. It’s quite old but remains wonderful! Softer than pigments, but basically the same idea! 😀
Quarzo? maybe? Ametista?
Are you offering? 😉 Yes, please! 😀
Would love to see a list of: mauvey lipsticks/lipglosses/blushes, bronzey blushes/eyeshadows/lipsticks/lipglosses, finishing powders/setting powders…adore your recs, Christine!
Love that UD S & M colour – I agree with Erin – it is hard to get a lovely neutral grey. And I am so fond of greys. These are beautiful – thanks.
Love Grey’s but they are very difficult because of undertones. Tried to.paint my house a clear grey. Tried 20+ colors but never hit it right. Happy with my choice but wasn’t my original plan. Grey may be the toughest color there is but so many beauties.
Silver is a tricky color for me. Usually it doesn’t look quite right on me. I can use it as an accent color though, but as an all-over color it just looks a bit off always.
I love the look of Mercury. I’m totally addicted to this kind of grey/silver shadow right now.
Jill x