I chose to debut the honey shade for a date with the guy I've been seeing. He noticed right away, and after pointing out an "orangey glow" (always a tough sell, that gent), he grew to like it. He wasn't the only one.
After my roommates figured out what I'd changed about my look — "no, not my hair" — even Shari, who had originally challenged my experiment ("colored contacts, like from high school?), warmed up. She told me she liked the way the shade made my hair color stand out.
Blame it on my obsession with Twilight, but this ended up being my favorite shade of all — far enough from my usual eye color to make a difference, yet too close for people to call it into question.
Like my own little secret, I also appreciated how well the honey played with my makeup. I'd typically stuck to earth tones with my green-like eyes, but the honey lent itself to a wider range of colored eye shadows and liners, specifically metallics, teals, and greens.
