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Temptalia Asks You - Is there any color eyeshadow you won't wear?

Is there any color eyeshadow you won’t wear? I know your favorites, but what about a shade you don’t dare to wear?

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Certain shades of yellow just look wonky on me — like Chrome Yellow!

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Summer Avatar

Pinks because I have so much redness under my eyes but I still wear them but it’s very rare for me to do so. If I do wear pinks, I have to wear a good concealer.

kelly Avatar

Pure black: I am fair and it just looks wrong on me…
Blue: I have MAC’s Deep Truth in my 15-pan untouched since I bought a month ago-just screams 80s to me…

Miss_M Avatar

Dark colors like cobalt, black and darkbrown, yellow, orange, red, bright fuchia and really light pastels are colors that don’t flatter me one bit.

Stefanie Anja Avatar

I generally use dark colours in my crease only, never on my lid, cause I’m so white it would look too goth otherwise.
I also avoid lining my upper lid for the same reason.
But other than that, there’s no one colour I avoid completely. 🙂
I think you can make anything work for any skinktone. It just takes more skill and creativity for some colours.

maycon Avatar

reds, oranges, pale baby pinks, baby blues, light golds or a super yellow gold, any light color i don’t like… just light silver i enjoy…

ashbash Avatar

Its not that I won’t wear it but I don’t have white eyeshadow. I don’t think I would wear plain or matte orange or red

JO Avatar

yellow orange and red i am a bit iffy on…i will probably find they suit me coz most things seem 2 suit me lol. But it scares me lol

littlemissmagic Avatar

warm antique golds, rusty bronzes don’t look good on my nc20 asian skin/features.. the colours also don’t go well with my clothes and style either.

Rita Avatar

I like colourful e/s, but they must not be too bright or clear (like basic colours), nor mainly too dark (black or grey) or too light, and no blue-blues for me.

Saira Avatar

Probably cooler toned browns. I used to avoid wearing brown eyeshadows, as they tended to look dirty and muddy on my eyelids. I went to the Mac counter, though, as I wanted to try wearing some browns that would suit me and the make-up artists said that I would suit browns with warm undertones (yellow/red undertones in the shade) and that the browns I had been wearing were probably more cool-toned (more blue/grey in the shade) and too cool for my colouring. I’m really happy, as I took her advice and tried some warm browns (Woodwinked, Tempting, Texture) and finally have found browns to suit me! Yaay!

samaya Avatar

colors like moth brown…they make me look bruised..
fushian other reds look good on me if some MUA uses it..whn i use it by my self…i look HORRIBLE..:)

Wilcoa Avatar

I don’t think there is any color I *won’t* wear, but I do tend to stay away from blues since I tend to look dead or too colorful when I do.

Jennifer Avatar

Pinks and reds – I’ll wear them just to play with the color, but I wouldn’t go out with them on or anything. There’s just too much pink in my skin already for it to look at all good. 🙁

Anitacska Avatar

Red, orange, black, dark brown, and generally very dark colours. Also very light colours only look okay if I wear them under the browbone to highlight, not on my lid.

tremorviolet Avatar

Pretty much all blues, they clash with my eyes and look too garish on my fair skin. Even teals look bad. I have to be careful with greens: I love olives but they can make me look bruised.

Candee Sparks Avatar

There isn’t a single shade or color that I won’t wear and I make every attempt at making them look good. Except neutrals because they bore me to tears, I wear those when I want to look more masculine that day and not like a coloring book.

Whitney Avatar

I agree with your first sentence… I am lucky because most colors work well with my hair, eye and skin color – or I make it work with other colors. I won’t wear just white or just silver (idol yes) – but if I use other complimentary colors with them the that is a different story.

..amy.. Avatar

I wasn’t sure id ever use my chrome yellow or orange but on youtube makeupbyrenren has a video for tiger eyes and the colors sooo work and are fun to wear …the only thing id hate to wear are crewam shadows don’t care how creaseless they claim to be

AA Avatar

I can’t think of any color that hasn’t worked for me. The only colors I don’t buy much of are pastel pinks and blues, they’re boring!

Jade Avatar

I used to steer clear of blues but slowly I am working on integrating them… I find if I pair with a neautral or just use as a liner it seems to work better for me… and be more day time friendly

xdwlx Avatar

Eyeshadows are my favourite things and I love to play up my eyes. There really isn’t a colour that I wouldn’t wear, I’d wear them all and I’d even wear them all together!!!
I love statement eyeshadow!

Nicole15 Avatar

I tend to stay away from reds & true oranges. They make my eyes look very sick. i can do a bronzy or corally orange like Mythology but not anything more orange than Rule.

Tekoa Avatar

Nope! There isn’t a shade yet I will not wear. Saying that, Chrome Yellow is hard to pull off and if I use it, its only in small amounts.

mlou Avatar

warmer shades of any color. Wish I could, because there are many. Look either bloody or bruised.

red-toned purples (cranberry,warm plums) or pinks, yellow greens, orange, warm browns/bronze.

Thank goodness for neutrals!

Michelle Avatar

I won’t wear a flat orange matte shadow like MAC’s orange, I wouldn’t wear passionate’s color family, or chrome yellow. I typically don’t wear greens either, bought humid and it gets no love. I won’t do a dark color on the lid as someone else mentioned earlier. I use those at the outer V.

Michelle Avatar

Did it not post? 🙁

I won’t wear any of the flat bright colors- chrome yellow- orange, bitter, passionate, etc. I also haven’t touched humid much. I also don’t wear a whole lots of blues at all, although i am thinking of getting tilt.

Nicole Avatar

I don’t like yellow, gold orange, red and pinks and some more colors with an warm and golden and red undertone. It looks like I’ve cried all day long.

margot Avatar

Bright yellows. It makes me look weird. Golds go on okay, but pure yellows nope
Blacl also. I have a really fair skin and black makes me look dead and nasty.

Sarah Avatar

Definitely not cool shades. Purples, blues, frosty pinks make me look ill and as some people say – like we’ve been punched in the eye.

I generally have fair skin (rocking a killer tan right now though, hehe), hazel eyes and dark hair – despite this – i steer away from cools. Warms are ingenious in helping me in my very strategic masking of dark circles. I <3warm tones.

lina Avatar

yellow…i can wear bright future but i cannot pull off chrome yellow….i’m nc42 and asian and it makes me look diseased lol

aradhana Avatar

it’s not usually the colours that are a problem…often the texture…i can’t usually do pastel shades on my darker skintone but sometimes with the right formula they do work.

at the mac counter i tend to steer away from the whole range of paler shades…so don’t have any shroom, or nylon or mylar etc…

but sometimes it just takes a little something to take one out of the comfort zone. i was pleasantly surprised with ‘whistle’! looking at it in the pan, and even swatched on my hand i wasn’t particularly excited and thought it would end up too pale and ashy….but i LOVE it! it’s an awesome natural looking highlight colour for me, and i never would have guessed.

aradhana Avatar

for people who tend to stay away from certain shades (like pink or magenta) that make them look like they’ve been crying or never sleep, sometimes i find a bit of black or navy liner helps to separate the colour from the eye….

Abbey Avatar

Yellows and oranges. I do wear Red though, everyone seems so afraid of that color! I like it because my style is a spin off punk and it work with that and my NW20 skin.

Tami Avatar

I am pretty open to any color shadow but if it looks chalky it’s a definite no-go for me. I bought a drug store palette of a popular brand a few months back. The colors were beautiful in the package but looked like I swiped colored chalk on my lids:-(

MC Avatar

Blues are hard for me. Grey-blue looks good, teal looks good, but plain old sky blue, I usually just don’t like. I’m fair so I only use a bit of black–usually stick to a dark grey.

Christy Avatar

White and red. Red just seems so odd to wear for eyeshadow. Pure white, not a creamy white, just doesn’t work with my skintone.

Carmen Avatar

yellows do not flatter me – I have yellowish skin tones (NC25-30. Also certain browns, but if they have some shimmer, I can usually pull them off.

Kelsey Avatar

I am a very fair blue/grey eyed blonde[natural] hair. Blues look TERRIBLE on my skin tone. I have tryed all kinds of blues, they just look so bad. Also, I really cannot pull of any kind of dark colors, I look sick with them. ><
Hoepfully I can pull off both these shades in summer. lol.

Julie Avatar

I think it mostly depends on what shade of colour it is.
Some naturally wouldn’t look good on me, but I can’t think of any on the top of my head!
Maybe yellow?

Jody Avatar

Definitely pinks, for some reason I end up looking like the devil. I cant wear bronzey colors either like Woodwinked, I am wondering if this would work if I had the right combo because everyone seems to love it. I am pretty fair with brown eyes/brown hair.

Yaya Avatar

Blue, yellow, and pink!
Like above poster said, I feel pink makes my eyes look like I have an eye infection or something, or really dry skin.

I’ve had the NARS Rated R palette for a years now and never used it… not sure why I ever bought it.

kimberly v Avatar

nope! i work every color! even if its just on a corner or liner but i love em all! i love chrome yellow together w/gorgeous gold and its beautiful!

Angel Avatar

Bright blues. All the beauty books out there tell me it’s my perfect shade, but nope, just makes my already small eyes disappear.

Rachel Avatar

My skin color is a pale yellow..so yellow and yellow/greens look pretty gross on me. No contrast. I look like death warmed over. Not a good look.

Melissa Avatar

i WONT wear red.. i’m afraid of it cuz i heard it’s bad for the eyes? & i jus think it’s not flattering on me cuz i’m so light. :/

hi Avatar

There *are* some pigments used to make red products that are bad for the skin, but the pores and cells in the eye area are so small, it’s much harder for those potentially irritating pigments to affect your lids. For example: I tried to use my reddish pink balm from The Body Shop on my cheeks as a dewy cream blush, but my mom advised em not to because red and pink pigments that are alright for your lips (and eyes) do a number on your facial skin. Just use red/pink products where they’re supposed to go! 😉

Daisy Avatar

Anything Orange or with an orange tone in it (so bronzes and coppers are out too) They make me look like I’m ill or am having a huge allergic reaction.

Melia Avatar

I refuse to wear earthy browns….I’m not into browns at all. I have maybe 2 browns in my stash and every time I’ve used then to try and make them work, I feel that they just don’t wow me (or make me feel really weird). Another color I’m a bit skeptical of trying is red. It would have to be cool-toned for me to try it out, but I wouldn’t say no to it.

Zoffe Avatar

I don’t think there’s a colour I would never wear…
It’s a bit hard for me to wear MAC Tilt (and similar colours) since it’s so close to my eye colour but I’ll wear it as long as it’s mixed with something else 😉

Jessie Avatar

I can’t do blues… can’t seem to pull them off with my pale skin, dark hair & eyes. Also, dark plums make me look like I got smacked around a bit =)

Brigitte Avatar

I love the ways blues look on other people but I just can’t seem to make them work on myself. I can make greens work but I hate the way it looks on me. 😡

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