If you've got gorgeous, deep chocolate skin, you've been blessed. The only downside is finding makeup that complements your darker skin tone, because the selection is sadly limited.
We don't believe in prescriptive beauty or 'rules' around these parts. But when it comes to playing up your eye color, some color wheel basics actually are pretty helpful. Take the color brown: When paired with the best eyeshadow shades for brown eyes, you can bring out depth and dimension like whoa. We tapped makeup artist Vanessa Ungaro of Lauren + Vanessa to share which eye makeup colors bring out the most stunning facets in every range of brown. Read on to find the best makeup shades for your eye color. (And pssst...in case you're curious or somehow landed here accidentally, we also tracked down the five best makeup colors for blue eyes and ditto for green.)
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Match foundation to your skin’s undertones. Undertones are the base of your skin’s color, and they are divided in three different categories: cool, warm, or neutral. Your foundation color should be in the same category as your skin’s undertones. You can do some simple tests to figure out what undertones you have.Best Mac Eyeshadow For Dark Skin
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- The white vs. cream test: get two articles of clothing, one white and one off-white. Hold them up to your face, look in the mirror, and decide which color complements your skin tone better. Make sure you don’t have any makeup on when you do the test. If the white looks better, you have warm undertones. If the off-white looks best, you have cool undertones, and if both look great, then you have neutral undertones.
- The vein test: Look at the veins on your wrist and try to see if they look green, blue, or blue-green. Green veins means you have warm undertones, blue veins means you have cool undertones, and blue-green veins means you have neutral undertones.
- The jewelry test: Get some gold jewelry and some silver jewelry to do this test. Try on both sets of jewelry and decide which jewelry flatters you the most. If wearing gold jewelry looks best, you have warm undertones, but if the silver jewelry looks best, you have cool undertones. If both types of jewelry flatter your complexion, you have neutral undertones.