What eyeshadow color did you use to dislike but now love? Share!
Neutrals — for years, I only liked brights, but they really grew on me.
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I used to have trouble with pink, but I have learned how to wear it so that I don’t look like I’m sick! It’s now one of my favorite colors
When I was in highschool, I would only wear neutral eyes if I was wearing a bold lip. Bright colors were, and still are, more fun to play with than earthy tones because its more fun to blend into the different colors you were using and it’s eye catching on top of it. Now that I’ve been really into lipsticks the past several months, I’ve been able to appreciate natural colors more than I did.
For years, I stayed away from blue, as I was afraid of looking like a Barbie doll. That’s because as a kid, I used to sneak my mom’s frosty blue eye shadow and pile it on. But the Dior Bleu de Paris kit changed my mind– it has grayish blues that make the color so much easier to wear, and the colors make my brown eyes pop
Hm… probably khaki? I still can’t really always wear it (the rest of my makeup and wardrobe isn’t really suited to it, LOL!), but I am no longer afraid it will make my eyes look mouldy 😀
brown! i used to think it’s so boring but now my eyes are really drawn to the shimmery, richly pigmented ones! it all started when i fell in love with Urban Decay’s West from the Theodora Palette
I can’t think of one! I need to make friends with the bronze in my collection though!
Reds and Yellow! I thought they’d be too extreme, but I’m loving them.
Its neutrals and taupe shades for me too.. I used to love only colors on my lids but i am loving the blend of neutrals as well!!
Though I feel it is gonna take me time to love pastels on me 😉
Sky blue! I thought it looked oddly bright and a little dated on me, but well paired with other colors works a treat!
Orange. I took one look at Blood Orange by Meow Cosmetics and that was it! I had to have it! One of my favourite summer looks is pairing it with Fyrinnae’s Hitched over a Fierce And Tangy base (my second orange purchase) and finishing it with either a teal or bright purple eyeliner.
Speaking of teal, that’s a colour I didn’t even own until a few years ago. Now it’s one of my most reached for eyeliner colours.
Same here, neutrals. I used to be all about color.
Anything dark. I’m redonkulously fair skinned and very rosy cheeked. It wasn’t I learned how to really perfect my base makeup and eyeshadow blending skills that I could make dark shadows look balanced and not like two black eyes.
Orange!
I used to ignore it when it came in palettes, but now it’s my favorite for blending out the crease/edges with deep browns or blues.
Neutrals for me too. I guess that’s why UD Naked Palettes are so popular. Unfortunately they lean overall too warm for me. I know many people are tired of the UD Naked line, but I sure wish they would put out a cool to neutral palette that has the glitter shadows replaced by mattes so it’s more of a 50/50 matte/shimmer mix.
Silvers, greys, & taupes; I always loved them in the pan, and would often buy them, but I never liked the way they looked, until I dyed my naturally dark auburn hair black. After that, everything seemed to fall into place, but I had to stop using my warmer browns, golds, & bronzes, LOL!
Pinks. I hated it, but now love it.
Black and now I’m trying to find a way to wear blue and green (I have blue eyes)
Have you tried blues with bronze/rust/warm browns?
Hi, Erin. Navies, sapphires, and violet-leaning blues should work well with your blue eyes.
Green! I used to be TERRIFIED of it haha. But now I wear it most of the time, makes my dark brown eyes POP
Blue! I can still remember a beauty book called “Blue Eyeshadow Should Be Illegal” and that may be part of it but I also remember girls with really garish blue shadow worn from the lid practically up to the brow bone when I was younger. But some of the amazing blues and teals that have come out in recent years (MAC Birds+Berries, UD Haight, Evidence and Deep End) and some of the amazing dark blue and teal liner pencils work so well with my brown eyes if I use them judiciously. Enhancing rather than overpowering on brown eyes.
Taupe. Now that I can find good cool-toned ones I use it a lot.
Blue. When I was a teen, ‘eyeshadow’ basically meant a robin’s egg blue color, which is not particularly flattering on me, and I just didn’t wear eye shadow until I started wearing purple in my early 20s. But now periwinkles, blue-violets, and deep blues are among my favorite eyeshadow shades.
same! i thought neutrals .. especially matte ones were lame and i was all about color and shimmer and glitter and now i’m loving mixing and matching neutrals and colors as well as mattes and shimmers..
Purples! When I first started using eyeshadow I had no idea how to blend and basically used the sponge applicators that came with the eyeshadow so purple eyeshadow always looked like I had a black eye. I read somewhere that purple eyeshadow would enhance brown eyes but after a few bad encounters with purples I never wanted to use them again. But now that I have good brushes and know how to blend, purple is my favorite color to work with because it really does work so well with my eye color.
Blues and grays. I never used to find them flattering on me, except for navy. Now there are so many color choices and finishes, it’s very easy to find flattering shades for both.
I’ve never been terrible fond of taupe. I always found it to be the eye color version of beige carpeting (read: boring). I’m starting to like some of the pink- and violet-tinged taupes that are out there, though. I may end up converted yet.
Take a look at NARS Lhasa!
Oh, that’s gorgeous! Exactly what I’m talking about. Thank you, Amy!
Temptalia, something I wanted to add to the deporting conversation. I am new to deporting and spent three days depotting all my stuff. Some people on your question line about deporting thought Chanel was too fragile to depot. Noooo, easiest of all my makeup. It is very easy to pry off the plastic coverlet in both the eyeshadow duos and the shadows. Once you do that, I used dental floss to pry the bottoms up and there was absolutely no damage to the powders. Looked better than the other brands, for sure!
Def neutrals, but I now wear o.d. green because it does great things for my eyes….
Probably browns – I used to think it made me look sick. But then I bought the Naked palette and I realised all the different shades of brown could work.
Pink!
For years, I was dead sure that I couldn’t wear pink without looking like I had a nasty eye infection. But I actually look amazing in pink! I am twice as likely to buy a palette now if it has a decent pink shade (especially if it’s pink with a gold shimmer)
Burgundies, especially the brownish-burgundies which somehow make my blue-gray eyes more interesting.
Browns! All shades of brown. Used to hate them, now I love them 😉
Pink ironically lol. It’s my favorite color but it still took me a while to start wearing pink shadows. I fell in love with pink toned shadows after Naked 3 though
Blues! It was just recently called to my attention by Miss Christine herself that if I loved purple ,green,and orange tones and liked how they looked on me that blues(oarticularly turquoise) would work too for my hazel eyes! Thank you Christine! So, I am kinda opposite of your reply Christine. I used to do mostly nudes until the past couple of years, when I decided that was too boring all the time and realized that, duh! color can actually enhance one’s eye color. So, I try to pop color in at least a little most days.
Taupes and grays. I love gray, just didn’t find any that were work appropriate. Evening yes, I can rock a mean silver smoky eye. For daytime, I finally found some work appropriate gray eyeliners and eyeshadows to work with my coloring (NC50 with neutral undertones) without making me look sallow and weird. Taupe was just boring to me. Now I love duo chrome taupes, blue and purple tinged taupes. Taupe must have some texture/complexity to get my attention.
I agree. That’s exactly how I feel about taupes.
Brown. For decades I only wanted to wear purples, greens, blues, and silver/taupe. Now that I am older I see the value in basic brown matte. Love many MAC and Bobbi Brown shades and the Urban Decay Basics palettes… I can’t see how I ever lived without brown eyeshadows!
I wouldn’t have gone any where near Pink before but Naked 3 palette has changed that.
Natural colors. I used to stick with darker browns mostly, and some golds. Now I like a shiny but natural color shadow. I think it’s more flattering to my deep set eyes rather than those darker shadowy colors.
Anything in the pink family. They always just made me look like I’d been crying, or was having an allergy attack. Now I’ve learned how to pick the right shades, and what to wear them with.
Blue! Blue eyeshadow can be beautiful if it’s done right.
I had problems with crimson and burgundy but now I now how to use them so I have fun creating new looks all the time with these two colors <3
Neutrals for me, too! I used to think they were boring and would almost feel I wasted a day/possible look by not doing something colorful, but I’ve since come to love neutrals (the amount of neutral palettes I have… yikes!) and discover that one can still be creative with them 🙂