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AlyxVeee Avatar

I wore a TON today, blues, pinks (kinda turned purple in the crease which was awesome!) but if im going to do something, im going to really go for it. Neutrals are just kinda….blah rather wear no makeup.

Rosanna Avatar

Yes! Sometimes it’ll be bright/bold colour but more often it’ll be more toned down. All I’ve got is color e/s and like 2 neutrals. ;P Colour is just so much fun – but I tone it down to neutrals at family parties. I don’t want to give them a heart attack from the colours b/c they’re not used to that.

Liz Avatar

I like to balance my makeup – brights looks and neutral looks – but i’m more often than not caught wearing bold makeup. Love playing with colors and exaggerated looks. Ha, funnily enough the beginning of my freelance work was doing drag makeup for photo shoots… this would totally explain my love for color and exaggeration, haha.

rowan Avatar

i love bright/bold makeup. i wear it when my mood takes me, which is quite often! today i’m wearing girl about town lipstick by mac, and air guitar glitter liner by urban decay.

shatani Avatar

yes i do, and very often! well, as often as i wear makeup, which isnt that often. i love bright bold makeup, especially the lovely jewel tones.

Leila Avatar

Hardly! I get embarrassed wearing colored eyeshadows and eyeliners because I don’t know which colors suit my skin tone. Plus my eyeshadow applying skills are terrible. The only bold color I wear is red lipstick..

Miss_M Avatar

No, I never wear bright or bold make-up. I’m a fair blonde and a bright or bold look makes me look like a dragqueen. In the summer I wear a coral gloss and/or a coral cream blush, but that is as far as I go.

Rosanna Avatar

LOL. That’s always in the back of my mind when I wear bright/bold colour – funny stares, or even worse those dirty looks that totally say “I’m judging you based on your makeup!”

But ignore them. You don’t know them so they don’t matter. Just go for it!

Tessa Avatar

Yes! I always love a bright lip but a current favourite is a bright matte colour in my outer-v, with a matte peach lid. I like oranges, peaches, corals at the moment.

Emma Avatar

No, not really.. :/
I try alot at home but when I’m going out I feel like I’m going to look like a clown or something.
I really have to start experimenting more with more bold colors and find the confidence to wear them 🙂

daphne Avatar

Yes, occasionally. I wish I could more often but I work in a fundraising often so I have to toe a line. I do wear lots of bright eyeliner with neutral shadows, and occasionally I’ll come in with a really bright or bold eye just to test the waters…and I usually get no reaction, actually. But I try not to push it by wearing it every day, I feel like that’s asking for a talking-to. I don’t wear full makeup a whole lot on weekends, but if I’m going out with my boyfriend or to a party or something I will always go colorful because I can, dangit!

Ferarri Avatar

Me too. If I wear light neutrals, it doesnt show up that well. So, I usually wear bold makeup behind my glasses. At least a matte brown and a bright color for the lids.

JayJay Avatar

Hell Yes! If it’s not bright, then it’s dark and smoky. I’m fair with black hair, so I find I look very odd when I try to do a “nude” or neutral look. I keep it toned down with lighter lip colours.

Sass Avatar

Yes. Everyday, even to work and I work in a corporate office. I am a woman of color and I am not afraid to use bold colors. I love dramatic eye looks A LOT! I like to look like I’m wearing makeup, but in a nice way. 🙂

dolce aria Avatar

Lately, more and more. I don’t really get to wear makeup at work(I work in a male dominated field, and being a young, fairly attractive woman ALREADY works against me a LOT, so its just “asking for trouble” from the guys I work with if i show up looking like i’ve put effort in. Even neutral makeup calls attention to my “ladylike” tendencies, and makes my colleagues, and the others at work, take me less seriously, get aggressive if i ask them to do something, etc. I have to “butch” myself up as much as possible)
So anyways, when I do my makeup, I want to FEEL glamorous, and girly, adn bright, and all of that. So I do a lot of experimental looks, bright makeup, etc.

Jennifer Avatar

I sometimes wear purples or greens…If it is neutral colors , I tend to go dramatic or bold with them… I know most people say those are “night” looks, but since I don’t go out at night to places that “Night” looks are warranted , I do my night looks during the day lol

Why Not? I ask…hehe

Diana Avatar

I would say about 5 days a week i wear bold eyeshadows. I absolutely love to play up my eyes. And for all those out there who think they cant do it just try it with a nude lip. It always works. I do enjoy a neutral look about twice a week.

lazeny Avatar

I do, especially around the eyes. I mostly go for a combination of green, violet or blue sparkly shimmery bright eyes. I normally don’t wear blush until fairly recently, and I also love coral and orange and beige lips colors

amy Avatar

Yes quite often. I love to do a bold lip the most often because it is very effortless and when I have time I would do a bold eye. I love to alternate between bold and subtle looks.

Allyssa Avatar

Yea I do! When I’m in a rush in the morning I do a mostly neutral look but as often as I can I try to squeeze color in. If I have time between the gym and classes, I’ll go bright and colorful. And if it ends up looking a little weird, I just blend it out with gray or brown eyeshadow so it’s a colorful-neutral :-p There are such great color products out there now that I figure why not take advantage of the fun?

Anitacska Avatar

I love colours, so I will wear colourful eyeshadows practically every day. Not necessarily bold, but bright and colourful. Today it’s pinks. Yesterday it was blues, the day before, purples. I don’t really like neutrals, might as well not bother with applying make up if it’s going to look like I didn’t. I also have a lot of lovely lipsticks and lipglosses, pinks, purples, corals, some neutrals, to suit every mood and eye colour. 🙂

shontay Avatar

I absolutely wear bold makeup. As a woman of color, I think it’s important to show that we can. I wear bold lips to work all the time. It’s a pretty casual environment. I even wear hot pink lips to the store. I have to be me.

Catherine Avatar

All the time! Today I’m wearing UD Fishnet and Ransom. =) I think it’s easier for me to get away with though because I’m Asian with a very small lid space AND I wear glasses too! LOL.

Cherie Avatar

Totally! I usually do in the Summer more for some reason… I guess summer just screams bright colours – hot pinks, bright blues, teals and purples (vibrant grape anyone?!?!) 🙂

Natasha Avatar

It depends on the time of day…during the day time I don’t wear anything but lipgloss but if i’m going out at night I will go all out with bold stuff especially by Make Up For Ever!

montygrl4131 Avatar

I have a very early wake-up call on the days I work, so I usually just do eyeliner, blush and lip balm. The blush and eyeliner are generally bright if I’m feelin’ it. On my days off, I go bright. I figure if I’m going to wear make-up, then I should have fun with it.

Lila Avatar

Yes, but recently I’ve been sticking with neutrals.
Only because im too lazy to search for the bright makeup out of my stash first thing in the morning.

tresleches Avatar

Nope..I stay to neutral colors only because I feel like bright and bold clash with my complexion…and I something I think certain colors are too loud to wear to certain places I go..lol

K Avatar

Not as often as I used to now that I work at a cosmetics company that doesn’t sell many bold, bright colours! I still have ’em stashed away, though!

Marjolijn Avatar

I sometimes wear bright coloured make up but I rarely go all the way and bring the colour above the crease, because I think that’s a bit too much on me (I’m quite pale).

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