While we often talk about tailoring your makeup [1] 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 [2] 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 [3] 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 [4] 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 [5] 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 [6] 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 [7] 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 [8] 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 [9] 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 [10]. 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 [11], 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.