When creating winter eyeshadow looks, it’s important to keep your eye color in mind. While you can 100% rock any shade you choose, certain colors and application techniques will make your eyes pop more than others. Take brown eyes, for example. They seriously sparkle with nude, copper and champagne hues. If you have brown eyes, keep reading because we’re sharing our natural eye makeup for brown eyes tutorial, smokey eye makeup for brown eyes tutorial, and youtube eye makeup tutorial for brown eyes that’ll emphasize your brown eye color, below.

natural eye makeup for brown eyes tutorial

Apply a Matte Eyeshadow All Over the Lid

Matin recommends using a matte eyeshadow as a base for any shimmers that will be applied on top. “This goes all over the skin on the eyes from the lash line all the way to the eyebrows,” he says. “This creates a halo around the eyes.”

Use a Warm Brown Eyeshadow to Add Depth

“The one thing that I always enjoy doing is to play with the color of the eyes and use a contrasting tone in order to bring out the color,” explains Matin. To define the crease, he recommends using the Kjaer Weis Eyeshadow in Transcend ($27)—which is a “playful” reddish brown when compared to a neutral brown—as it contrasts brown eyes better. Depending on the shape you want to create, you can apply this shade either in the crease or the corners of the eyes, as well as underneath your lash line to create a faded halo effect.

Flick a Teal Eyeshadow Up From the Lashes

Next, take a bright teal blue eyeshadow on a flat liner brush. “Instead of lining the eyes, flick the color up from the lashes,” says Matin. “As you get closer to the inner corner of the eyes, most of the color is gone from your brush so it automatically creates a faded look.” If the shade is too bright for you, you can tone it down by mixing in some of the reddish-brown shade you used in the crease.

Go Day to Night By Lining the Waterline

To take the look from day to night, Matin uses Urban Decay’s 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in LSD ($22) to line the entire lash line. “This is so easy to use because the color is there but it doesn’t read as a blue eyeliner, so it’s very wearable,” he says. Then, liberally apply the pencil along the upper lash line to define the eyes. Use an eyeliner brush to lightly blend the product into the skin.

Apply a Shimmery Blue Eyeshadow to the Eyelid

Using your finger and an electric blue shimmer eyeshadow, apply all over the lid above the liner. It looks purple in the pan but when the light shifts it has a beautiful, duchrome blue-to-purple finish.

Redfine Outer Corners

After applying shimmer to your lid, Matin says to go back to your teal color and add smokiness along the lashes. And when it comes to the rest of your makeup, he says to ensure there’s balance. “You can pick and choose how much fun you want to have with this look, but the one important thing is that if you’re playing that much with the eyes, you’ll want to keep the lips nude. If you’re doing a bright or dark lip, you’ll want to keep the eyes as clean as possible. That way, the baalnce is there, you look modern and fresh, and never overdone,” he says.

easy eye makeup tutorial for beginners brown eyes

Classic Brown Eye Makeup

Classic brown makeup look that is ideal for everyday wear – from weekdays at the office to off-duty on the weekends. This routine is straightforward and easy to follow, even for beginners.
Here is an eye makeup look that is ideal for everyday wear – from weekdays at the office to off-duty on the weekends. This routine is straightforward and easy to follow, even for beginners.

Best of all, the colors perfectly match natural brown coloring. With a combination of neutrals, here is a color palette that will make you fall in love with your brown eyes.

Here’s how to get the look:

• As always, start off by covering the delicate eye area with a natural primer. These usually come in a nude base color and help to prepare the eyes and set the skin for the darker colors to come. It will also help your makeup stay on for a long time.
  Next, apply a light brown shade of eyeshadow to just the outer corner of the eyes.
  Now draw a thick line along the upper lashes with dark brown eyeliner and gently smudge, fading the color upward.
• Line the lower lash line and repeat the smudging effect.
  Top off the natural effect by applying mascara to your desired effect.

Green eye makeup

Green eye makeup is one of those perfect pairings that go hand in hand with brown eyes. The earthy, rustic hues of olive green, in particular, really pick up any specks of gold and honey brown present in the iris.

Choose a sparkly metallic finish for a night out or, for a more subdued daytime look, olive green matte eyeshadow is just stunning.

Here’s how you get it done:

1. Start by covering the entire eyelid with a primer and then a light neutral shade close to your skin color. If you’re unsure which color to use, look for an eye shadow set that includes three or four complementary colors. This will help take the guesswork out of which colors to combine.
2. Take particular care to blend the color into the crease of the eyes too. You’d hate to have a solid line of color that stops suddenly just under the brown bone.
3. Next, using a dark green color, fill in the lower half of your eyelid. Follow this up with a lighter color and apply it all over the eyelid, ending right beneath the crease. The two shades of green should now be blended into a uniform color.
4. For an evening event, you might want to add some extra sparkle to your look. Apply a dab of metallic highlighter to the inside corner of your eye as well as right on the brow bone. Be careful to blend this into the skin though, or it might be a little over the top.
5. Next comes the crease of the eyes. To achieve that sexy smoky effect, apply a dark gray color along the crease of the eye, blending it gently from left to right as well as onto the outer corner of the eyelids.
6. Round off the look with dark eyeliner all around the eyes plus lashings of mascara.

Blushing Pink Eye Makeup

Blush around the eyelids makes them sparkle. A soft rosy pink is a perfect way to bring a subtle feminine glow to the entire face.
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Here’s a top tip for brown-eyed girls straight from a professional makeup artist.

Amy Nadine, the makeup guru to celebrities like Lauren Conrad and Rachel Bilson, often uses blush around the eyelids to make them sparkle. A soft rosy pink is a perfect way to bring a subtle feminine glow to the entire face.

Let’s start:

• Start by looking at your skin tone. If you have a cool complexion, dust your eyelids with a dark gray eyeshadow. Warm-toned ladies – choose a bronzed brown color to fill in your entire eyelids, taking care not to color in above the crease of your lids.
• Next, using a tapered liner brush, run the same color eyeshadow along the lower lash line.
• Now take your eyeshadow brush and dip it into your most beloved shade of blush. Apply the color straight into the crease of the eyes, working back and forth. You should notice the color on your lids blending gradually into the pink on your crease.
• The eyeliner comes next. Apply your favorite dark shade to the inner rim of your eyes, followed by the outside upper lash lines too. Cool skin tones look great in black kajal pencil while dark brown works well for warmer tones.
• Complete the rosy look with a coat of black or brown mascara.