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Survey Says... October 3rd, 2012

  • Your skin tone/coloring:
  • What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow?
  • What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow?
  • What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow?

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Jessi Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/Neutral
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? nude
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? mid-toned pink
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? baby pink

Elle Jaye Avatar

■Your skin tone/coloring:MAC NC50/NARS New Orleans
■What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow?
MAC Hug Me
■What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow?
anything bold:
NYX Merlot, MAC Diva, MAC Rebel,Wet N Wild Purty Persimmon
■What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow?
NYX Maison (with NYX Desert Gloss) or Wet N Wild Suga Plum Fairy (with NARS Female Trouble gloss)

Ana Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NC30-35
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Light pink or nude
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Any bold color… Red, hot pink, orange
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? A blue pink lipstick or nude

Kendra Avatar

I usually fall into the “medium beige” shades.

With green eye shadow I usually go for a pinky-nude lip.
With brown eye shadow, the sky is the limit, although I do prefer a coral lip.
With purple eye shadow I usually wear a medium pink or a rose lip color.

chris Avatar

Skin tone: NC 50
Green eye color – MAC Cyndi Viva Glam or other coral shade.

Brown eye color – Wide open for lips, as I consider brown a natural shade for everyday eyes.

Purple eye color – Sheer and simple, like MAC Just Add Color, Cultured, Pop Mode, Rebel or Hot House lipglass.

Ryou Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring
Light-medium, neutral: NC/NW 20-25.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow?
Peachy corals.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow?
Reds and tangerine orange.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow?
Warm pinks.

Dominique Avatar

■Your skin tone/coloring: medium/fair
■What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? : soft rose with pastel green shades ( such as Garden Pastels from Dior )
■What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? : either rosy nude or amethyst and purple or plum shades
■What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow?
either deep rose ( MAC Offshoot for example ) or fushia colours such as Nars Funny face

Christine Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: medium with golden undertones
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? pinky nude
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? fushia/mauve and red
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? mauve, pink

Joyce Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: light to medium with yellow undertones

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Pink corals; MAC Ever Hip, aerie Glow, Josie Maran Sole Love

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Any semi-opaque glosses; MAC Cult of Cherry, Revlon Peony

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Light pinks; Rimmel Airy Fairy, Shiseido Baby

LauraR. Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Very fair with neutral to yellow undertones

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? MAC Ravishing

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Anything! I use brown eyeshadow when I want to play with lip color, since it’s so neutral. Right now I’m loving MAC Lustering, Revlon Temptress, Kate Moss for Rimmel in #12…I could go on 🙂

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Clarins Joli Rouge in Petal Pink, MAC Venus (le), NYX gloss in Salsa

Wwendalynne Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NC 20-25

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Right now anything in the orange family.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? No favourite as it depends on my mood. Anything goes! Rose, Coral, Fuschia, Red..

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Warm pinks

and nude any tine with all of the above.

christina Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: ghastly pale with a hint of life (pink tones) 😛

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? A medium nude, not foundation nude, but a richer deeper nude. Something that equally enhances your lips, compliments your skin tone without being a stark contrast to the green.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? A rosey or a mauve lip color. Something that will draw attention to your face without over powering it (since the brown shadow is neutral.)

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? A your lips but better lip shade. The purple is already the focal point.

Nikki Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NC50

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Usually a pink or coral shade(ex: MAC Funshine Slimshine, Revlon Coral Reef gloss, Revlon Pink Velvet lipstick)

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? When I wear brown, I feel I can pretty much pull off any lip color from nude to bold, so I wear whatever I feel like pulling out that day.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? With bright eyes, I prefer nude/neutral lips. (ex: MAC Touch lipstick, MAC Spice lipglass)

Emily Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/neutral

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? MAC Fleshpot or Revlon Peony

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? MAC Royal Azalea, MAC Saint Germain, or MAC Candy Yum-Yum

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Revlon Primrose or MAC Fleshpot

Violet Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Pink/cool, fair
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? – Light-ish pink or dark berry-red/bordeaux.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? -Something bold and not too light, maybe Guerlain’s Gigolo, or Illamasqua Kontrol (in which case I’d color match with purple eyebrows).
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? – Neutrals/mauve colours, sometimes a warm pink.

Abby Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/Medium
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? I love pink and green together, so I think any range of true pinks can match with a green eye.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Mostly anything, but at this time a year I think a classic red with brown/neutral eye is dynamite.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Nude or neutral lip with a purple eye.

Lulu Avatar

– Skintone: Very fair with neutral/slightly cool undertones
– With green eyeshadow I prefer a good red leaning pink – Catrice Pink Me Up is my favorite
– Brown eyeshadow: Basically any lipcolor, it depends if it’s a warm or cool brown
– Purple eyeshadow: Of course purple lipstick!

GUSnail Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NC 40

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Something peachy nude-like MAC Freckletone

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Hmmm, anything really. Probably something natural like Pink Truffle lip butter unless it’s a special occaision.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Something rosey/warm pink, like MUFE N25

Janine Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NW20-25 Tanned skin with warm undertones

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? I would never wear Green Eyeshadow tho but when I would cover up my lips with Conecealer and normal Lipbalm, so Nude

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow?
A redish neon Pink (Paul & Joe First Kiss)

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow?
Lipgloss in a nude Rose (elf Heartbreaker, Too Faced Tickle Me)

HeavenGlam Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: MAC NC43/MUFE 160,Off-black hair,dark brown eyes
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? MAC Pink Nouveau
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? MAC Blankety for dark browns, Sephora The Red for lighter browns
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? MAC Saint Germain

Marian Avatar

■Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/warm
■What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Peach
■What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? any color
■What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Pink

doroffee Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Pale and yellowish
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Caramel. (supposing it’s a warmer green)
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Peach or coral… maybe a nude or a warm pink.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Mauve.

Wiebke Avatar

Skin tone/coloring: pretty pale and quite neutral, no definite yellow or rose undertones

Favourite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow: peach/rose like Dior Model

Favourite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow: everything…dark reds or even browns

Favourite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow: definitely nude.

Melissa Avatar

skintone: porcelain with neutral pink/yellow undertones.
Lip color w green shadow: I would never wear green shadow.
Lip color w brown shadow: coral.
Lip color with purple shadow: plum, purple or berry.

Georgina Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NW15/ NW20
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? MAC Sweetie
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Nars Damage
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Guerlain Rouge G in Gemma

xamyx Avatar

Skin: Currently light (NARS Deauville; MAC NC 15-I’m still tanned), very neutral tones.

Green: Pinky nudes for bright, true, or olive greens; pale nudes or blackened shades for deeper shades.

Browns: Anything, really; it mainly depends on where I’m going. Typically, I’ll do a mauve, rose, or MLBB shade if I must look conservative, or if I’m going out, I like a true red.

Purple: Again, it depends on the shadow, but typically the same as with the greens. However, with really bright purples, I like a very pale nude, or even black.

Michelle Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair-Neutral.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Natural nude.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? A browny, spicy fall red.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? A natural balm, such as burts bees, or a pretty strawberry or nude gloss.

KK Avatar

Skin tone: Medium/warm
Green eyeshadow: I don’t wear green eyeshadow, but some kind of nude or brown…the Benefit Hoola gloss is a really nice neutral, so maybe that.
Brown eyeshadow: lots of different things, some of my favorites are LORAC Nick or Ernesto, MAC Curvaceous, Spite, Check This Out, Benefit Hoola and Dallas, NARS Stolen Kisses.
Purple eyeshadow: something with a little, lighter purple in it. DiorKiss Blueberry Muffin (might be discontinued), NARS Born This Way, LORAC Nick, MAC Funtabulous.

Winni Avatar

My skin tone is medium w yellow undertones, around nc35.
With green eye shadow – Mac Cream in Your Coffee
With brown eyeshadow – warm pink or red or plum. Love Bobbi Brown Garnet Shimmer
With purple eyeshadow – something neutral or nude, Mac viva glam V or Impressive

Jackie Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Very fair with pink undertones, NW10/15 max.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? A peachier nude, something like MAC’s Hue in particular.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Creamy pinks or deep plum reds.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? More of a brown/neutral nude.

becca Avatar

skin tone/coloring: very fair, neutral-cool, nw10

favorite lip color with green eyeshadow: tom ford blush nude or mac shy girl, with lancome juicy tube in simmer on top.

favorite lip color with brown eyeshadow: ysl rouge volupte in lingerie pink or mac angel lipstick with victoria’s secret lipgloss in innocent.

favorite lip color with purple eyeshadow: mac creme d nude or hue.

Precious Avatar

skin tone: NC20
green eyeshadow: MAC Up the Amp
brown eyeshadow: MAC Creme in Your Coffee or MAC Offshoot
purple eyeshadow: MAC Pink Nouveau

Gabbi Avatar

Skin tone: pale/golden undertones
With Green Eyeshadow: On the rare occasion I wear it… I’d say either something like MAC Shy Girl or MAC Honeylove [or Revlon Creme Brule…]
With Brown Eyeshadow: Anything! I definitely like brighter/bolder colors best… MAC Rebel, MAC Lickable, D&G Devil, OCC Beta…
With Purple Eyeshadow: I definitely like the warmer contrast of MAC Shy Girl or Peach Stock… [I just like those two lipsticks in general with almost everything…]

Phyrra Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Very Pale Neutral (NARS Siberia / Urban Decay .5)
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Surprisingly, peachy nude or coral.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Hot Pink, Berry Pink or Baby Pink.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Fuchsia or Magenta.

Mahima Avatar

skin tone/coloring: Indian, NC40, Clinique Superfit Honey

favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow: Either a pink or coral. I love MAC Crosswires, Coral Bliss, Venus. Nude-pinks are also a no brainer for me, like Modesty, Hug Me, etc.

favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow: I love a light peach a la Jennifer Love Hewitt in ‘Ghost Whisperer,’ like MAC’s Ravishing lipstick;

favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow: Anything pinked coral like MAC’s Fresh Salmon or Skew (limited edition and discontinued of course)

Apparently I just love coral lips. lol.

Veronica Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, cool toned

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Usually a pink, like Covergirl Lip Perfection’s Darling or Revlon’s Strawberry Shortcake Lip Butter

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? All red, all the time. 😀 Currently, it’s Smashbox Be Legendary in Grenadine.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Plums, pinks, or lavendars. 😀

Angie Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring:Fair with yellow undertones.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? My lip tar in the color “grandma”
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? YSL lipstick in #13 not sure what the name is…something peach..?
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Revlon’s matte lipstick in Sky pink, YSL sheer candy in cool guava or Mac’s creme cup lipstick

Tennyoceres Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring:
Pale with yellow undertones AKA pale Asian. (MAC C2 is a tad too yellow but close)

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow?
I go berry/purple here. The more intense the green eyeshadow the less intense the berry/purple.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow?
Red. Brown eyeshadow comes across as neutral on my eyelids.

What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow?
This is where I go nuts and say ‘Everything!’ Usually a neutral/natural lip shade. My purple eyeshadow collection is mostly pigmented shades.

eRiN Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Pale with pink undertones.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Sometimes I wear a pink gloss with a green sheen (Kiss My Sass Cosmetics Summer Lovin’), other times it depends on whether it is a bright green or more neutral, then I just go with either a bright or neutral lip color.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Anything really. Dark brown or dramatic brown, something more neutral. Lighter or more neutral brown, then any lip color I want, red, pink, purple, bright, dark, whatever!
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? I do stick to plums or berries on the lips when I wear purple eyeshadow. Revlon Black Cherry, MUA lipstick shade 2, Darling Girl Cosmetics Magnificent Mauve, etc.

Katie Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Neutral/Beige
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with green eyeshadow? Nude or pastel pink lighted blotted on the lip. Pastels and nudes look awesome on my lips which are naturally very red. They can always use being toned down ;)I really like Viva Glam Gaga and MAC Fleshpot
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with brown eyeshadow? Hm…honestly, most lipstick colors seem to look good with brown eyeshadow depending on the intensity. I love YSL Lingerie Pink or YSL Golden Gloss in #50.
What’s your favorite lip color to pair with purple eyeshadow? Purple eyeshadow does not look well on me at all. If I had to wear it I’d have to opt for a nude.

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