9 Makeup Tutorials That Will Make Your Blue Eyes Look Electric
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While we often talk about tailoring your makeup to fit your face structure, skin type, or eye shape. But there may be one important factor you've been overlooking when customizing your routine: eye color.
Each eye color can be enhanced by shadows, liners, and mascara in a different way. And this is especially true for blue eyes, which can appear wider and brighter. For example, while brown eyes are best accentuated by blue tones, blue eyes respond better to warmer reds and oranges.
Take a cue from these pros — and their YouTube tutorials — to better understand the shades, products, and techniques that help ensure your blue eyes are always looking their best.
Lauren Curtis covers all the bases of accentuating blue eyes in this tutorial. She breaks down color theory and the technique behind it to help you understand how to copy the eye-popping look she demos.
By using bronze shadows, Rachel Leary explains how warm tones can be used to complement blue or green eyes. Since orange and blue are across from each other on the color wheel, she used them in a look that takes advantage of the way these tones work together.
In addition to orange tones, Sonia Opala adds in some darker purple shadows that can be adjusted in pigmentation and depth for a variety of occasions. The full-face tutorial is ideal for beginners, as it’s an easy-to-follow routine.
Instead of focusing one style, naturallybellexo offers five separate eye makeup looks that help to help your baby blues stand out. Whether you’re looking for something natural and daytime-appropriate or something more dramatic and sultry for a night on the town, you can find it here.
ItsMandarin was inspired by a photo of Kylie Jenner in which she wears blue contacts for this video. Amanda changes her eye shade and demos a look that helps highlight the vibrant shade (even if it's faux!). The full-face tutorial includes demonstrations of Amanda “baking” her powder and highlighting, in addition to the plum and dusty-rose-colored shadows that bring out the blue hue of the contacts.
For this tutorial, Savannah Skeffington shows off her everyday makeup routine. From start to finish, she explains the products (mostly drugstore) and techniques that help her achieve a beachy, youthful, and glowing look that highlights her gorgeous blue eyes.
This routine was inspired by the Makeup Geek Cocoa Bear eye shadow, a red-orange tone that perfectly complements blue eyes. Amy Macedo lets this product shine by applying it in the crease — without a lid shadow — as well as on the lower lash line.
A red smoky eye — created from all Sephora products — takes center stage in this video from Sammy Robinson. The routine would work well for any any color, but the warm shadows and application techniques are specifically geared toward other blue-eyed beauties.
In this "no makeup, makeup" video from Sona Gasparian, she demonstrates flawless-yet-natural makeup on her blue-eyed friend. By using multifunctional products (such as a concealer that doubles as a primer and highlighter), the finished face feels fresh and light. Her technique of lightly bronzing and highlighting the eyelids helps brighten and open them up.