"And anything purple will make [the eyes] pop, as that's a complementary color to brown eyes," she adds of shades ranging from Burgundy to deep purple. As with your go-to black mascara, when you're using a brightly colored formula, your wand does most of the lash-enhancing work.
A purple mascara will not only emphasise the whites of your eyes but make them appear larger. This deep shade will give a subtle contrast of light and dark and add definition to your lashes.
"If you're fair-skinned and have blonde or red hair with naturally light lashes, brown mascara is the most natural way of emphasizing your lashes. Anyone with darker hair, regardless of skin tone, should stick to black mascara so the lashes don't fade into the rest of the face."
With rich brown eyes, the contrast of shades like cobalt blue, teal and turquoise will make your eyes instantly pop. While coppery golden tones are great for highlighting and enhancing your natural brown eyes, particularly when paired with a neutral base.
2. To Brighten Your Eyes. A rich brown shade of mascara can enhance your natural eye colour, brightening blue and green irises and deepening brown and hazel eyes.
For a more dramatic look, voluminous mascaras with thicker brushes can help add to a dark, smokey look or classic, simple statement. For women with darker skin and more colored eyes, the blackest black mascara usually complements well.
Tip 1: Use a blue mascara
Blue mascara has the ability to brighten the whites of your eyes making you look more awake and alert (and who doesn't want that?!). It also looks great with every eye colour so it doesn't matter if you're a hazel eyed beauty or a green eyed queen, blue mascara will look great on you!
Red and orange seem to be the clear winner when it comes to eye-catching colors. These colors tend to stand out and are therefore used on many warning signs or safety equipment. Yellow is another color that comes in a close second to red and orange in popularity.
Red is the color of power. It gets people's attention and it holds it, which is why it's the most popular color for marketing.
Adding mascara to your lower lashes will also open up the eyes for a wide, doe-eyed look: For a softer look, you can use brown mascara, or even colored mascara if you like. Adding a little eyeliner to the outer corner of your lower lash line will also help to elongate your eyes.
Coloured mascara not only adds a welcome twist to any makeup look, but also enhances your eyes, making them appear brighter and more awake upon application. Plus, these beauty arsenals are dramatic yet wearable, providing minimal effort, with maximum impact.
"It is a fashion trend to wear lighter and black mascara for day wear to give a more natural and light look, and very black mascara in the evenings to give a more mature, grown-up, and darker look. Very black mascaras are used to give a 'smoky look'," adds Hahn.
"Mascara enhances the eyes in a number of ways. It not only darkens lashes, but can lengthen and volumize for brighter, bigger-looking eyes. Fuller-looking lashes can help to give a more youthful appearance to the eye area," said Claudia Soare, president and creative director of Anastasia Beverly Hills .
Apply A White Or Flesh Toned Eyeliner
Apply a flesh-toned or white kajal pencil to the waterline and then follow it up with black kohl beneath the lower lash line. This trick creates an illusion of bigger eyes. This is an off-white shade that adds a subtle glow to your eyes.
Try White Eyeliner.
The easiest way to awaken eyes is with pure white eyeliner, like our shade Snow. Apply it to your waterline and the inner corners of your peepers for a brighter look—make sure to slightly blend it so it doesn't appear too stark.
Red and orange seem to be the clear winner when it comes to eye-catching colors. These colors tend to stand out and are therefore used on many warning signs or safety equipment. Yellow is another color that comes in a close second to red and orange in popularity.
Of those four, green is the rarest. It shows up in about 9% of Americans but only 2% of the world's population. Hazel/amber is the next rarest of these. Blue is the second most common and brown tops the list with 45% of the U.S. population and possibly almost 80% worldwide.
Red-green and yellow-blue are the so-called "forbidden colors." Composed of pairs of hues whose light frequencies automatically cancel each other out in the human eye, they're supposed to be impossible to see simultaneously. The limitation results from the way we perceive color in the first place.
Studies have shown that men and women do naturally gravitate toward different color choices, with men preferring blue, red and green, while women tend to favor purple, yellow and red.
These colours (yellow, green, orange) are in the middle of the visible spectrum (the range of colours that our eyes can detect) and are the easiest for the eye to see. Our eyes are not as receptive or sensitive to the colours at the extreme ends of the visible spectrum (e.g., blue, violet/purple, and red).
Blue mascara is flattering for pretty much any eye color when used with the right products (we'll get into that below), but is especially gorgeous on brown eyes, blue eyes, and black eyes.
Gold and hues with tints of red and yellow, like orange, copper, and warm, brownish tones are perfect for emphasizing your blue irises. The contrast between these pigments and the blueness of your eye will really make them pop! So, as you can deduce, warm shades brighten up blue eyes and make them dazzle and shine.
It looks particularly good on green eyes
Green and red are on opposite sides of the color wheel and are complementary to one another. Putting burgundy, which is in the color family that sits opposite green, to frame your green eyes makes your eye color seem brighter and more sparkly.