Makeup ideas for blue eyes and dark hair

Few people are born with a combination of blue eyes and black hair. Most often, the shade of curls in this case is acquired. And without the right make-up with an emphasis on the eyes, they will look dull and expressionless. When applying may-cap, there is a very important mission: to emphasize the unique contrast given by nature or the hair master.

The choice of cosmetics for blue eyes and dark hair

Professional makeup artists have long come up with a formula for successful makeup for blue-eyed brunettes. They are convinced that if you have a basic set of suitable cosmetics in your arsenal, then it is possible to make makeup for any look.

However, if you abuse the colors, the image will become vulgar, so it is only important to emphasize your merits. Knowing your right tone of powder, eye shadow and lipstick will help you look amazing anytime with minimal makeup.

Shadows

You can choose a shade of shimmer, metallic, two-tone or chameleon, they perfectly emphasize the “angelic” eyes. But it is worth remembering the appropriateness – when applying makeup during the day, shades with sparkles can look too vulgar. Too bright colors will not work either. Your best friends are gentle and soft shades:

• Blue and cyan. The mistake of blue-eyed people is that they choose shades identical to the eyes. In this case, the iris looks strange and unnatural. It is worth paying attention to aquamarine or aquamarine, which is darker or lighter than the natural color by at least 2 shades.
• Silver and pearls. Pure white shadows are rarely suitable, but if you mix them, the situation immediately becomes better.
• Gray-brown, beige and sand. Great for daytime makeup.
• Green. Delicate and translucent tones are beautiful.
• Lavender, lilac. Suitable for bright beauties.
• Pale pink. Natural color, you can choose for daily makeup.

Pencil or eyeliner

People with blue eyes should take into account the nuance: it is better not to use black eyeliner, even if it is a classic arrow. Black “suppresses” the subtle translucency of cyan, and when used to stroke an outline, it makes the eyes appear smaller. It is more profitable to choose brown, blue, gray or, for example, plum.

ink

In eyelash makeup, you can use both black shades and colored ones. The former are classics, while the latter will help make the eyes bold and daring. They can be used not only for parties, but also as everyday cosmetics. The most important thing is to choose the right color palette and place accents.

How to use colored ink:

• For daytime makeup. Suitable green, blue, brown and plum mascara. Gold, silver and pink are not suitable.
• Girls over 30 years old. It is better not to use light colors (pink, blue).
• It is possible to combine several shades. A darker color can be applied to the roots of the eyelashes, and a lighter color near the tips. For daytime makeup, it is enough to use colored mascara on the lower eyelashes and black on the upper ones.

Whatever shade you choose, it should match your outfit.

highlighter

If you put a little highlighter on the inner corner of the eyelid, the eyes will shine. This technique “highlights” the look.

How to apply highlighter on the face for a “fresh” look:

• Prepare a thin eyeliner brush. The first thing to do is highlight the eyes. To do this, draw a few confident strokes along the lower lash line. Blend with a brush from the outer corner to the inner.
• Apply highlighter under the eyes with a “triangle”. For an oval and round face, draw this shape so that the top of the triangle is exactly in the middle of the cheek. Then gently blend the lines inwards. For a square and heart-shaped face, the top should fall on the “apple” of the cheek.
  

• To complete the look, apply a small shiny dot to the tip of the nose.

Eyebrow makeup

In order for the eyes to be the center of attention, they need the right “framing”. Powder, wax, a special “comb” and tweezers will help with this. You can make a light clarification of 1-2 shades. It is especially useful for girls with thin eyebrows.

It is very important for brunettes and brown-haired women to use carefully selected tones. If the hair is dark brown or coffee, then the eyebrow makeup should have a cold tone.

Pomade

Brunettes with blue eyes can boldly emphasize their lips. And choose bright lipstick so that the image has two “centers of gravity” – expressive blue eyes and lips with spectacular lipstick.

Makeup options for blue-eyed brunettes

The combination of blue eyes and dark hair most often corresponds to the winter color type. This is a rare natural data, impressive even without makeup. And with a may-cap, girls become even more charming and irresistible.

Daytime nude

In everyday makeup, lavender, lilac, pearl and light pink have the most advantages. Choose soft shadings and a maximum of 2 shades. When choosing lipstick for daytime make-up, pink, coral, beige or brown shades are the best choice.

Makeup for blue eyes and dark hair for every day should initially be simple, natural and quick. One of the best everyday makeup:

1. Apply light brown eyeshadow with a greenish undertone all over the lid. The multifaceted base color for this makeup perfectly brings out the beauty of blue eyes.
2. Highlight the outer corner of the eye with a darker shade.
3. Highlight the inner corner with a lighter shade – pearl or golden is perfect.
4. With a dark blue or green pencil, draw a neat line along the upper eyelid, soften it with shadows, and emphasize the lower eyelid with them.
5. Cover your lashes with mascara.

Evening 

Blue-eyed brunettes are very conducive to the most daring cosmetic experiments. For evening makeup, use dark green, dark blue, turquoise, sapphire, black to create a luxurious look. Such shades are also perfect for the New Year’s look.

Brunettes with blue eyes are very lucky – they can use the most saturated and dark shades in makeup. One of the options for applying evening or holiday makeup:

• Taking a delicate color, paint over the entire eyelid with it.
• Mark the lash line and blend well.
  

• Highlight the moving eyelid with blueberry shadows and soften their border by shading with a pink base.
• Also highlight the lower eyelid with purple shadows.
• Finish your makeup with eyelashes.
  

Older women are not suitable for the use of dark cosmetics in large quantities, as it insidiously emphasizes wrinkles.

smokey eyes

Smokey Eye makeup is universal. Suitable for women with different color types and appearance. In addition, it looks good at any time of the day. At the same time, the color of the day version should be softer than that of the night version.

Smokey ice is done in the following sequence:

• Apply base or foundation.
• On the moving eyelid, apply the foundation under the shadows.
• To create a matte surface, lightly powder the skin of the eyelids and eyelashes.
• Using a soft black pencil, draw arrows along the eyelids. Blend them out with a brush. In this case, the color is slightly stretched and a smooth gradient is created.
• Color the moving eyelid with shadows of various shades from light gray to dark graphite. Use the darkest tone at the eyelashes, and the lightest one under the eyebrows. There should not be clear transitions between colors.
  

• In the darkest tone, paint over the outer edges of the lower eyelids.
• With black eyeliner, paint over the space between the eyelashes on the lower eyelids.
• Apply black mascara to the eyelashes in several passes.
• Apply nude lipstick on your lips.
  

For a spectacular haze, use matte shadows. You can also use mother-of-pearl or sparkles, but in small quantities.

“Cat’s eye”

Cat eye makeup is one of the most popular techniques. It helps to create a mysterious and cunning image.

Step-by-step instruction:

• Prep your eyelids for makeup with a beige eyeshadow base. Blend matte nude shadows on top with a fluffy brush. This extra step before using the eyeliner will prolong the wear of the makeup and prevent the lines from etching on the eyelids.
  

• Start drawing arrows by drawing their tips. From the outer corner of the eye, draw a long thin tail of the arrow towards the temple.
  

• On the upper eyelid, draw a line along the eyelashes from the very beginning of the eye to the end.
  

• Underline the entire lower eyelid with eyeliner, moving along the row of eyelashes.
  

• At the last stage, draw the inner corners of the arrows. Make sure that they also turn out sharp, like the outer ponytails. Then paint over the mucous membranes of the eyes both above and below. Thickly paint over the eyelashes with black mascara.
  

• No need to make a bright accent on the lips, just moisturize them with a transparent balm or gloss, or add a trendy effect of kissed lips.
  

To graduation party

To make the makeup bright, with dark hair and light eyes it is not at all necessary to use bright colors. Look for cool shades: lilac, blue, peach, silver or gray. They emphasize the eyes and are ideal for dark curls.

Step-by-step instruction:

• Apply foundation to prepared skin.
  

• Treat the area under the eyes with concealer. Don’t forget to apply the product along the sides at the base of the nose, where it “connects” to the inner corners of the eyes. Highlight the cheekbones with a dark cream contouring product, blend it well.
  

• Underline the eyebrows with a pencil a tone lighter than the color of the hair and be sure to comb them with a brush so that there is no clear contour left.
  

• With a fluffy brush, apply a gray-brown shadow to the entire mobile eyelid and orbital line.
  

• With the same shadows, emphasize the lower eyelid. Bring the mucous membrane of the eye with a black pencil.
  

• Apply golden liquid shadows to the center of the moving eyelid and blend well.
  

• Add light satin shadows to the inner corner of the eye, add light beige shadows without shimmer under the eyebrow, make up the eyelashes.
  

• Apply a rich berry shade to your lips.
  

• Add some light blush to the top of the cheekbones. At the final stage, fix the makeup with powder.
  

For a wedding

Blue eyes are as easy to emphasize as they are to make faded: it all depends on the chosen shade. If the makeup is too dark, its base color will become overwhelming compared to the color of the eyes. This should be taken into account in wedding makeup, because there is no room for error – the bride should look irresistible.

Step-by-step instruction:

• Apply a light moisturizer with a non-greasy texture to your face, otherwise the makeup may float. For lips, use a balm to smooth the skin and prepare it for applying lipstick.
  

• Apply foundation.
  

• Apply concealer under the eyes, corrector – locally on redness. Go over the eyelids with an eyelid primer.
  

• Blend a cold pink blush onto the apples of your cheeks. The result should look natural.
• Correct the shape of the eyebrows with wax.
• Line your eyes with a light shade of plum brown.
  

• Apply soft pink shadow with golden shimmer on the mobile eyelid and a little higher, in the crease, and blend well.
  

• On top of cream shadows, apply dry – pinkish-brown shade to the mobile eyelid, and slightly blend. To add sparkle to the eyes, mark the inner corners of the eyes with golden beige shadows.
  

• Underline the growth line of the lower eyelashes with light shades of golden brown.
  

• Line your eyes with black liquid liner.
  

• Coat your lashes with black waterproof mascara.
  

• To make the lip makeup more resistant, go over their entire surface with a contour pencil. Apply a warm caramel pink lip gloss over the lip gloss.
• The final touch is the application of a transparent fixing powder. Spread it properly over the T-zone using a fluffy brush.
  

For fair skin

One of the most common beauty mistakes is the effect of a mask on the face: girls often choose tonal foundations that do not match their skin tone. The problem is that they do not know an important rule: this remedy should not be tried on the wrist, but on the lower part of the cheek, almost on the front line of the chin.

In most cases, a cream that really blends into the skin of the hands becomes too dark on the face. This is why fair-skinned girls often fail at makeup. When the face is porcelain, almost white, the first thing you need is the “correct” foundation tone.

Once you’ve found your desired foundation, the next step is to make your already even skin radiant:

• fair-skinned girls need a light pink or peach blush;
• choose a blush with shimmery particles to make your skin glow and avoid painful pallor;
• do not use bronzers or contouring products instead of blush;
• gray powder used to emphasize the cheekbones does not help improve skin tone – on the contrary, it becomes lifeless.

For dark skin

Tanned skin usually has a smoother tone and less visible blemishes, which means you won’t need much makeup.

About the features of harmonious makeup for dark and tanned skin:

• try to choose light and comfortable products – in summer a thick layer of foundation is not needed, the best solution is a cream with a caring effect;
• tanned skin is the key to a new, fresh look; cosmetics with a radiant texture will help restore and enhance the effect;
• bright colors look great on tanned skin, use colored eyeliner or mascara to highlight your eyes;
• It will not be superfluous to focus on the lips, you should choose a matte or creamy lipstick with rich colors.

Under the blue dress

Picking up a makeup palette for a blue dress is inherently difficult. Therefore, we can only talk about the main recommendations, and on their basis, choose the best palette of eye shadows and lipsticks for yourself.

The choice of shadows is best done according to the color of your eyes.

There are a few important rules to keep in mind:

• Skin tone. Any makeup should start with skin preparation. It should look smooth and matte. Brunettes in blue dresses should choose a foundation that is a shade darker than their skin tone. Suitable brown, terracotta or peach blush.
• Eye makeup. In makeup for a blue dress, you can make only one bright accent: either on the eyes or on the lips. For the eyes, it is best to choose a contrasting color, such as gold, sand or copper. Finish off with black mascara.
• Lip makeup. If you have focused on the eyes, then you should choose warm-colored lipstick for lip makeup. Also, brunettes can use lipstick in bright colors.

For evening makeup, you can use a highlighter with mother of pearl and brighter blush.

With the impending century

The problem of the impending century must be taken into account when applying makeup. This feature of the facial structure puts a lot of restrictions for those who like to focus on the eyes.

Important makeup tips for the impending eyelid:

• No primer anywhere. Usually the movable eyelid is in contact with the hanging eyelid. Consequences – shadows, eyeliner, traces of mascara on the skin. For the same reason, cosmetics can roll and smear. And this means that all efforts to create an image will be in vain. The base will help to avoid these troubles.
• No shine. The use of shadows with a shimmer is prohibited. Shimmer creates a volume effect, visually increasing the overhang. The problem will only become more obvious. The way out is to use matte rather than shiny textures.
• “No” chart. People with impending eyelids are not recommended to draw graphic arrows. When you open your eyes, even the smoothest neat lines will turn into broken curves. Instead of arrows, choose smoky eyes, focusing on the folds.

Options to consider:

• Soft arrows. Everyday option – eyeliner of the upper eyelid with a soft pencil of a dark blue hue. Lightly shading the line will create a smoky effect that will add depth to both azure blue eyes and light green.
  

• cutcrease. This technique is ideal for the impending century. The bottom line is to use a dark shade of shadows to draw a fold, which, due to overhanging, may not be visible at all. As an accent on the crease, you can use smoky eyes made with shadows.
  

• Smoke at the outer corner. It is not necessary to make classic smokey. You can apply brown shadows with a matte texture at the outer edge of the eyes, and then blend them upwards so that the dark color “eats” the volume. This will visually hide the overhang.
  

Bright makeup

Blue eyes are perfect for creating colorful and vibrant makeup. Even in everyday life, you can safely use bright shades in such variations:

• plain bright makeup for the entire eyelid;
• colored arrow;
• bright accent: for example, along the lower eyelid, in the corners of the eye, along the crease of the eyelid and not only.

Bright juicy colors will accentuate blue eyes best, so feel free to use this technique. Suggestions for choosing a shade are the same: warm, pink, fuchsia, purple.

Pink color is especially suitable for delicate blue eyes. In this case, you can use different tones: from soft to bright and saturated. In 2021, monochrome blush makeup is popular when you apply it on the cheeks and on the eyelids. Add mascara to this makeup, and makeup for the day will be ready.

Helpful Hints

For any appearance, there are the most important and necessary tips when using makeup. Useful tips for blue-eyed brunettes:

• Don’t forget about proper care. After all, healthy skin is the best decoration for a woman. No matter how good makeup is, if you have peeling or acne, foundation or powder will never be able to “lie” on the skin properly.
• Take care of your lips. Even with Chanel lipstick, weathered, bitten lips will not look attractive. Use balm and scrub regularly.
• Avoid using chemical shades. Shades of yellow, red, green and blue significantly worsen the appearance, making it unhealthy and dull. The same applies to terracotta, orange and brick tones.

Cosmetics provide many benefits, with its help you can create a new image every day. But the most important thing is to choose products that will make the appearance more beautiful. Makeup with blue eyes and dark hair has its own nuances, and everyone who has a similar appearance should know them.