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Golds! Love those!
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MAC’s Satin Taupe. It’s so versatile. I can keep it neutral or kick it up a notch, depending on what other colors I pair it with.
I don’t have one favourite, but I do wear a lot of pinks, purples and blues, so I guess they are my favourites. I also really like silver/grey.
Hmmm its hard to choose, Probably around the yellow/orange side 🙂
Purples and greys
Hmm, Purple or Bright Aqua/Teal/Turquoise
warm toned purples (Nocturnelle, Vibrant Grape etc) and tarnished or bronzy golds are my favourite to wear, especially coming into Autumn/Winter.
Purples…I love purples and with my light-med toned skin and golden brown eyes I think it looks fantastic!
Plums to bring out my green eyes. Champagne shades like Stilas kitten eyeshadow always lighten up my whole face. And I love bright greens like Urban Decays graffiti eyeshadow.
light brown or dark brown
im in love with browns!!!
I love neutrals, nice light browns, soft whites and pearls. I also have a thing for purples, they are a great addition to a classic smokey eye!
I love browns!!
Im loving brights at the moment. My fav look right now is yellow in the inner corner fading into orange and then pink in the crease using the MAC make up artists collection.
I thinks its because Ive been wearing golds, bronzes and browns for nearly ten years before I recently discovered MAC and bright colours are so much more fun to experiment with! 🙂
Neutrals, and then pinks 🙂 Though lately Ive been wearing a lot of purple when Im not at work.
Neutrals and deep purples! I like to wear golds when Im feeling festive!
I Luv Cranberry by MAC!!!!!
Champagnes! They make me look so much more awake.
Purple and gold. They make me happy. 😉
Bronzey browns!
I love to wear purples, golds, and frosty browns. I havent really branched out to anything else… I want to buy more greens like Henna or Humid.
I love purple and gray.
all that glitters by mac
I love to wear purple!
Greens and purples.
I love golds too!!
Toss up between purples and browns… guess if I had to pick it would be browns 🙂
My favorite colors are pink, beige, peach, mauve and silver/grey
Greens!
Purple
I always wear dramatic (or less dramatic) smokey eye in one of the 3 variations:
– blue,
– green,
or
– intense blacknwhite.
purples!and I also luv taupes and greys
Various shades of purple. It bring out my green/hazel eyes nicely. Althought I do have lots of love for almost all colours:)
i totally agree, great with my hazel eyes!
Oranges! I habitually wear various oranges day-to-day. LOVE oranges.
Brown, goes really well with my skin tone and it can be soft or intense…either way it always looks great 🙂
I heart green eyeshadow but I get the most compliments when I wear gold, bronze, blue and purple (i have brown eyes)
Purples!
Champagnes when I want to be a bit more natural and purples when I want to be a bit prettier or funkier!
This may be boring but browns and other neutrals. They just work with my face the best. However I do sport color now and then.
Id say my favorite neutrals and browns are : Orb, Wedge, Mulch, Satin Taupe, Rich Beach by Benefit, Saddle, and brulee.
Purples,silvers/greys.
Now that it is fall, I am loving plums. Also dark greys and silvers for evening.
Purple! Mauves, plums, anything.
You know ive always leaned over to pinks so Id say pinks
I love golds for summer and berry for fall. and any type of neutrals 🙂
Dark Blue (even better if shimmery!)
gold and browns. i can never have enough gold and brown eye shadows!
Green!! Light green, dark green, blue green, whatever!
Im obsessed with cream/bronze/brown smokey eyes. I think that theyre the most flattering on me. They really warm up my fair skin.
I always get lots of compliments when I wear deep greens and navy blue, though, so I like to sub those in every once in a while, especially when I wear all black.
Love to wear green and golds. Somehow I always gravitate to them, perhaps because greens my favorite color 😛
Hmmm… petroleum blue. That sort of half blue, half turquoise with black undertones and lot of shimmer, the Japan and Jaguar pigments by fyrinnae, for example!
Golden green, blue purple, and anything iridescent!
Champagne, deep brown, and plum!
I love purples the most.
Any kind of gray works awsome for me 🙂
Dark blues.. Usually MAC’s Deep truth!
I love golds too, But my favorite eyeshadow is urban decay sin!
Purples! With neutrals, like golds. 🙂
I love to wear golds and some shades of green!
purple purple purple!!!!!!!!!!!
browns, neutrals
neutrals and pinks
I have the craziest brown eyes with hints of purple and green in them.
Loving silver atm it brings out the purple!!
Can’t choose.
But I really like vibrant blues, purples and greens.
Basically anything vibrant! I love chocolate brown too, but I always have to punch it up with other colours like mauve or turquoise.
I love bright and bold colors. Blues, greens, and purples would have to be my favorites. I also love to do a dramatic black/silver/white smokey eye.
I guess you could say I don’t do subtle.. lol
silvers, greys.
chocolate browns (like dark edge from mac)
Purples & Gold tones.
plummy browns and khaki greens =]
Naked Lunch and Vanilla are my fave3 bases from MAC and I tend to lean to purples as fave color family.
I really like light colored shadows.Like Shroom.Beautiful as an all-over lid color.And for more drama i like using blues and silvers.My Favorite!
Plums and Browns but only mattes!
I completely despise any item with shimmer currently.
i love brown and purpleee!!
or neutral…
Neutrals have always been my go to. Specifically, Urban Decay Sellout. My new favorite is MAC Smoke and Diamonds. I feel like its a klutz proof way for me to wear a smokey eye.
taupey browns and purples!
Hands down PURPLES!!!
Anything in the bronze/gold family:)
Purples, Greens, and Greys.
Blues, aquas, teals…my favorite e/s to wear is MAC Deep Truth…its sexy.
purples and greys, and greens and browns in 2nd place.
I love wearing Humid by MAC
I love shimmery browns. there is one shadow in a palette from kat von d called Stryker that is a magical brown/green duo tone. favorite shadow for the last six months!
purple, greys, and taupes 🙂
purples are my favorite =)
Hmmm. I think purple brings out my brown eyes the best, but I really don’t have a favorite. I need to play around more, I think. :o)
Tough question. I guess I’d have to go with smoky taupes.
I was into purples (Dior Petal Shines and Violet du Soir de Guerlain) now it’s gold mania! Indigo Pallette de Lancome, Gold leaf of Clarins, 4 quad EDGE of Lancome and I just purchase 24K of Smash Box, I lOOOVVED it but I really need to stop bying gold eyeshasows!
My go-to colors are golds/bronzes/oranges, but when I’ve got time to experiment, I love to rock the bright colors too!
champagnes, golden peaches, tarnished bronze (Soft Force, All that Glitters, UD’s Blaze or X, Goldmine, sumptuous olive). I really want to like purple and blue (noctournelle and tilt) but i just can’t make them work!!
I adore soft, yet colorful greens, violets, blues–not pastel hues, but hues that won’t overwhelm my face. I also love matte mustard and melon colors. In general, I’m not into bronze, plum, purple-brown, grey-brown, but I do love a highly metallic taupe & a matte, deep, red-brown.
I’d say white-neutral-softpink frosts.
I prefer adding shadows and highlights to wearing bright and/or very obvious eyeshadow colours. Though lately I’ve been trying to add some real colour and purchased the MAC ‘Photorealism’ and ‘Tone: grey’ quad.
I love to wear darker colors, forest greens, royal purples and deep blues. But I usually end up with brown for work. Blah.
plummy browns are my staple followed by greys with purple undertones. lately i have been digging peacock blues and greens.
Browns, champange, bronze, gold and colors like that!
Purples and blacks for sure! 🙂
Purples and greys! I think those colours really match my brown eyes. My favourite eyeshadow is MAC Shale 🙂
Gold, grey and purple!
Purple! I really like wearing all eyeshadow colours but I find purple really hard to resist!
I love purple, teals, blues and greens. Eecently addicted to the rainbow colours too!Like yellow and orange.
I love love love greens. Especially darker greens. They make my blue eyes pop.
Purples – they are so fool-proof !
purples, greens, navy blues, browns
I rarely use eyeshadow, but when I do I go for shimmery beiges and champagnes
I LOOOOVE Greens,Golds, & Blacks! Im NC50 (MAC) so I really love Goldmine, Juxt, Bitter, & Carbon. My HGs: Green:One-Off as of lately. Gold:Gorgeous Gold Black: Black-Tied!!
Smoky! Greys, blacks, dirty browns, silvers, etc. vI also wear purples a lot.
Pink, peach, and whites. ^_^ very girlie. I wish I could wear blue, but ugh.. really just looks terrible on me.
MAC All That Glitters…seems to go with everything & makes me look awake. I want to venture into greens though.
golds and purples!!
Probably pinks. Stars N Rockets!
Way too many! I like bronzy browns, taupey browns, deep purples, some golds, champagne’s. I also like teal’s.
I forgot to add they definitely have to have shimmer or sparkles. I don’t really care for mattes.
Anything shimmery but mostly blues, greens, gold, and silver. The more colors I can fit on my eyelids at one time the better!
Blues, greens, teals…
I have to force myself to choose other colors
Probably silvers/greys.
hey i think m bit late but wanna post a comment
i love gold as well and went through ur gold eyeshadows list
pls post few tutorials using mac gold eyeshadows …
Blues and Purples with Golds
brown and grey.
I love purples, but have started liking greens and neutrals too.
Browns/taupes… very natural.
Teals and greens!!
Black and grey! I also love deep purples and shiny greens.
I love greens, purples, and pink-ish-purples like Starsn Rockets from MAC. I have really light blue eyes
I absolutly hate browns, yuck!
oh and i love glittery black and grey smokey eyes
It totally depends on what color I want to bring out in my eyes. They can look either blue/green/grey depending on what color I wear on my eyes. Neutrals, especially those with a warm cast to them make my eyes look bluer, purples make my eyes look greener. I really like MAC Shale and Satin Taupe which just have a hint of color and subtlely highlight my eyecolor. Greys I love when I want to do a smokey eye and I’ll usually add a colored liner with it.