All about makeup for brown eyes: instructions in detail

Brown eyes are naturally warm and deep, but they can be exquisitely accentuated with the correct makeup application. Knowing how to play with colors, shadows, and highlights can make all the difference when creating a dramatic evening look or a subtle everyday look.

We’ll walk you through the process of enhancing the best features in your brown eyes in this article. You’ll find tips that are simple to use and appropriate for any occasion, from selecting the ideal eyeshadow shades to perfecting the blending technique.

Let’s explore the world of cosmetics and learn how to accentuate those gorgeous brown eyes!

Step	Description
1. Prepare the Eyes	Cleanse your face, apply a moisturizer, and use an eye primer to ensure the makeup lasts longer.
2. Apply Base Shadow	Use a neutral shade as a base all over the eyelid to create an even tone.
3. Define the Crease	Choose a medium brown shade and blend it into the crease to add depth to your eyes.
4. Highlight the Brow Bone	Apply a light, shimmery shade just under the eyebrow to highlight and lift the brow area.
5. Add Eyeliner	Line your upper lash line with a brown or black eyeliner to define your eyes. For a softer look, smudge the line slightly.
6. Apply Mascara	Finish with a few coats of mascara to enhance your lashes, making your eyes look bigger and more defined.

10 rules for beautiful makeup for brown eyes

Use concealer first before applying makeup; this is a general rule that applies to girls of all eye colors.

Make sure that all of the "problems" are resolved before you begin applying makeup because dark circles under the eyes detract from the eyes themselves. After that, respond appropriately to the circumstances while keeping the following aspects in mind:

As a result, consider your eyes’ size and shape in addition to their color when selecting makeup (we will cover this in more detail later).

As a result, you can draw attention to them with little makeup. Apply taupe-colored, pink, peach, or gray-brown shadows to "open up" your appearance a bit. In the first instance, start by reading our guidelines on applying pink cosmetics shades correctly.

The simplest options for evening makeup on brown eyes are bronze, copper, gold, or even pink with shimmer; these shadows actually make the eyes pop. In a different post, we’ve gathered five more stylish suggestions for brown eye makeup for the evening.

You can quickly make your eyes sparkle with this easy trick. Use light pink, gold, or champagne-colored shadows for this purpose if you have brown eyes. Another option is to use a highlighter with a subtle sheen.

For a subtle makeup look, tint your cheekbones and lips with dusty rose.

Because brown-eyed girls typically have fairly dark lashes by nature, they can wear mascara other than the traditional black shade. Try experimenting with different colored mascaras, like eggplant or blue.

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Whether you have light or dark eyes, the rule still applies. Brown eyes appear much brighter thanks to the contrast created by these shades. Among the newest trends in eye makeup is a bold sapphire arrow.

• Tip: if you are not yet ready to do all your makeup in such bright shades, just line your lower eyelid with bright shadows or a pencil.

Try caramel and warm brown makeup for a subtle look during the day without any dramatic accents.

All of the nude shades are also safe to use on brown eyes. In this instance, you might want to change your mind about how boring they are—a light coat of beige shadows can really bring attention to brown eyes.

To achieve a smoky effect, highlight the entire eyelid with a rich gray color and accentuate the inner corners of the eyes with light gray and silver shadows.

If you usually use brown shadows for your makeup, go for shades that complement your eye color, either lighter or darker.

To slightly update your look, load your brush with hot chocolate, bronze, or ocher shadows and apply beige shadows to the inner corners of your eyes.

How to choose makeup for brown eyes in different shades?

Generally speaking, selecting makeup for girls with brown eyes is the least difficult because nearly every shade works well on them. However, if you want to draw attention to your distinctive eye color, follow the tips below (also, don’t forget to look through our selection of products for girls with brown eyes).

Makeup for dark brown eyes

Dark colors work best on you if you have dark brown eyes. The ideal colors for you would be chocolate shadows and eyeliners, plum, cobalt, lilac, dark green, and deep gray. To intensify your eye makeup, try blending the black eyeshadow in the crease, using whichever shade you like.

Makeup for medium brown eyes

Almost any shade goes well with medium brown eyes, but green, purple, and bronze work best. You can mix these colors safely and use them even for daytime makeup. Try combining muted eyeshadow with a shimmery copper or bronze pencil shade to create a well-balanced evening look.

Makeup for light brick eyes

Light brown eyes beautifully capture the range of yellow hues, from gold to lemon. Also, you look great in a dusty rose hue. If your golden is strewn throughout your rainbow shells, consider using similar-colored shadows. But only apply them to the fold so as not to draw attention away from the primary color. Excessive "smoky" makeup will make all your hard work go unnoticed, and lovely overflows will go unnoticed.

This combination of violet, bronze, or brown airliner and shadows with a hint of champagne shimmer will be accentuated well by the walnut shade of the eyes. Moreover, keep in mind that you look good in all the "autumn" hues in this situation.

Have you noticed that your eyes are a mottled color, with flecks of gray or green mixed in? The best options will also be olive, dark green, copper, copper-red pencil, or shadow for light brick eyes with a green pigment.

Another crucial piece of advice for girls with light brown eyes is to swap out your black eyeliner for dark brown. On the other hand, brown-eyed girls look great with colored eyeliners; you can read about those options here.

• Tip: Your skin tone plays a huge role and affects how your eye makeup looks in the end. Remember that muted pastel shades will look great on fair-skinned girls, but will be lost on a dark-skinned face. And dark purple tones, on the contrary, go well with dark skin, while on pale skin they can look like black spots. Well, brown eyes in combination with fair skin are the ideal "field" for gray, blue, light blue and emerald eyeliner. By the way, the task of how to choose brown shadows under the tone of the skin, we devoted a whole article.

Makeup for brunettes with brown eyes

There are specific makeup guidelines for girls with dark hair and eyes, but you should also take your skin tone into account when selecting makeup.

• If you are a brunette with brown eyes and fair skin, choose black mascara, which provides a delicate makeup: perhaps in your case, the spider-leg effect is not the best option. You can also outline your eyes along the contour to draw additional attention to them. Your best beauty friends include pink, peach, beige, purple, light brown and blue eyeshadow.

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Brown eye makeup provides countless opportunities to accentuate their inherent beauty, and comprehensive guidelines make it easier to select the appropriate hues, application methods, and makeup for different looks. Knowing how to make brown eyes pop with makeup can easily transform your look, from everyday looks that are subtle to bold and dramatic effects.

Makeup for blondes with brown eyes

Dark eyes and blonde hair are an extremely uncommon combination that always draws attention.

If this describes you, take into account the following details when applying makeup:

• Use brown mascara for daytime makeup, as it will provide a more natural result.
• Line the mucous membrane with a dark brown or black pencil (depending on the saturation of your eye color) so that your eyes do not look like artificial "beads" on your face.
• Your eyeshadow palette should have different shades of brown (from sand to coffee), peach, soft pink and purple. Make sure that these products do not have an orange or yellow undertone, which will immediately make your face look sickly.
• Do not neglect the highlighter: add it under the eyebrows to create a beautiful glow that will emphasize the beautiful color of your hair.
• If you have dark skin, eyeshadows of copper, golden and noble green shades will suit you. But girls with pale skin should, on the contrary, refuse them.

• Tanned blondes should take a closer look at pink and turquoise shadows.
• Gray shadows suit blondes with brown eyes, but they should not be too saturated: limit yourself to a light "haze" on the eyes, properly shading the product.

How to use popular makeup techniques for brown eyes?

Naturally, the shape of your eyes should come first when selecting a makeup look rather than their color. After selecting the appropriate tones for your mascara, eyeliners, and shadows, take inspiration from the images in our photo collections below to create your own artistic masterpieces.

Makeup using shadows

Here are comprehensive guidelines for applying shadows based on eye shape. In this content, we’ve gathered a different assortment of brown eye makeup ideas. Next, use your creativity to create and experiment, concentrating on stylish pictures from television series.

• Advice! It is owners of brown eyes that can be safely played with a fashionable red color now: purple shades will decorate your image if you handle the right.

Makeup with arrows

Depending on the shape of the eyes, choosing eye arrows is also preferable. Bright colors, like plum, cobalt, and even red, go well with brown eyes, as we have already mentioned. Take advantage of this to replicate the boldest makeup choices: sweeping arrows in odd shapes, as well as graphic and "smoky" arrows.

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Smoky eye makeup

"Smoky" makeup is one of the techniques that can easily emphasize the beauty of brown eyes. To create a daytime look, use a combination of muted shades: for example, delicate gold and green or copper. Distribute the first shade over the entire surface of the eyelid, fill the crease with the second and carefully blend so that the boundaries of the transition from one shade to another are not visible. Give up the arrows and complete the makeup with a layer of mascara on the eyelashes. If you are planning an evening makeup, use bolder and brighter shades: blue, emerald and silver. Read about the best combinations of shades when creating smoky eyes in this article.

Makeup for brown eyes of the Asian type

Asian girls typically have brown eyes with a unique structure to their eyelids, so when working with them, you should consider the following features:

• Choose light-colored shadows: beige, cream, sand, light green, soft pink (note that they should not be lighter than the skin tone).
• To create the effect of a crease between the movable and fixed eyelids, apply light shadows to the movable eyelid, and darker beige-brown shadows to the middle of the eyelid (from the eyelashes to the eyebrow in the middle).
• For a brighter or evening makeup, you can do smoky eyes and experiment with eyeliners and colored shadows. For example, the easiest way to turn daytime makeup into evening makeup is with a purple eyeliner: apply it along the edge of the upper eyelashes, and line the lower ones with brown.

Makeup for brown eyes with drooping eyelids

When the eyes are open, the movable eyelid may be partially or entirely "hidden" in the fold, a condition known as a drooping eyelid. You can learn more about the fundamental guidelines for applying eye makeup to people with drooping eyelids in this article. Try to repeat one of three makeup options to draw attention to the color of your brown eyes and to visually correct the drooping eyelid.

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One of the best makeup techniques for drooping eyelids is the cut crease. This is makeup that draws attention to the crease: the orbital line is sharply defined by shadows, and a gently fading haze is produced above it.

The simplest method is to first create that exact haze by "putting" dark shadows in the eyelid crease, and then use a sharp-ended brush to apply concealer under the crease to make the line more distinct.

When creating this look, consider using plum shades if you have brown eyes. By the way, you might find a regular tablespoon helpful when using the cut crease technique. Position it over your eye such that the "tool’s" curved edge is in the crease. Draw and blend darker shade shadows along the top of the spoon.

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If you are working with an overhanging eyelid, an unusual "double arrow" will also help create a harmonious appearance. Apply eyeliner in the following colors: cobalt, brown, copper, emerald, or black. These colors work best on brown eyes. It’s very simple to apply this makeup: just draw the traditional arrows first, and then add a line to their "tail" that goes into the eyelid crease.

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Put more emphasis on the lower eyelid to draw attention away from the upper one that is protruding. For smoky ice makeup, use a palette that includes every shade of brown to create transitions. Darker skin tones should be applied to the outer corner, the lower eyelid, and the very hanging eyelid. Using shadows as an eyeliner, apply dark shades evenly along the lower lash growth line.

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Universal makeup for brown eyes: step -by -step photographs

We provide basic makeup options in blue and purple because, as we’ve already discussed, these colors go well with brown eyes of all tones.

Makeup in blue tones: step -by -step instructions

Paint pistachio shadows on the inner and outer corners of the eyes, and apply dry shadows in the shade of nude in the center of the upper eyelid. As a result, you make your eyes more intense.

To give the appearance of thicker eyelashes, use it to paint the spaces between them. Draw a tiny arrow to symbolize opening up and giving the appearance of greater openness. Then, to balance the upper and lower portions of the eye, line the lower eyelid with the lash line using the same pencil. A fascinating effect is also produced by the dark blue stripe on the lower eyelid, which gives the impression that the eyelashes are so long that they cast a shadow.

Apply mascara to the outer corner of each eye, "combing" it in the direction of the temple. Additionally, using this technique will help your eyes appear more open.

Makeup in lilac tones: step-by-step instructions

1. 1 Apply a black kajal along the mucous membrane of the upper eyelid and along the lash line.
2. 2 Apply cold pink shadows with shimmer to the crease of the upper eyelid, and matte light pink shadows under the eyebrow.
3. 3 Apply brown matte shadows under the lower eyelashes, and brown-pink shadows to the outer corner of the eye. Do not shade the pigment, but “drive it in”: this way the color will be more saturated.
4. 4 to the center of the upper eyelid and in the inner corner of the eye, apply silver shadows. Bend all transitions between flowers.
5. 5 along the mucous membrane of the lower eyelid, pass with a colored cayal – for a brown eye, for example, cold green is suitable.
6. 6 matte black liner draw classic arrows.
7. 7 Under the eyes, on the T-zone, the “wings” of the nose and corners of the lips apply the concealer.
8. 8 give the eyebrows the form using a gel for fixing. The effect should be natural.
9. 9 Twist your eyelashes with a cerler and paint in mascara from the roots.

Types of makeup for brown eyes

For any event—a birthday party, wedding, or business lunch—we have brown eye makeup options.

Daily makeup for brown eyes

Even for daytime makeup, blue eyeliner looks great on brown eyes. Considering that the remaining makeup will be applied in muted hues. Adhere to our detailed photo instructions.

1. 1 Use concealer to mask any imperfections in the eye area: dark circles, “bruises” or spider veins.

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Check out our video tutorial for another gorgeous brown eye makeup option for the day.

Evening makeup for brown eyes

You’ll need shimmery eyeshadow to create a gorgeous evening look. Try utilizing multiple shades of gray, for instance, as seen in the picture tutorial below. So, take a look at this selection if you’re looking for makeup ideas for a special occasion (like graduation).

1. 1 Use a soft black pencil to outline the upper lash line and blend.

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Wedding makeup for brown eyes

With just eight steps, you can have the ideal wedding look!

The steps of cleansing, moisturizing, and massaging the face set the skin up for makeup application. They also make it easier to apply foundation, which helps you achieve a more even and long-lasting layer—a crucial aspect of bridal makeup. Apply a light moisturizing serum after using micellar water (which doesn’t leave a sticky film, doesn’t require rinsing with water, and doesn’t dry out the skin).

Apply your typical foundation to your skin, such as BB or CC cream, mousse, or cream. Use a sponge, your fingers, or a medium-sized duofiber brush to apply it as you normally would, starting in the T-zone and blending it outward onto the rest of your face.

• Advice! If you use long-lasting products and apply them sparingly, do not fix the makeup with powder. It will most likely be long-lasting anyway – due to the massage, the skin will absorb all the products more actively.

One of the most crucial phases of wedding makeup is this one since it makes the entire image appear lighter and more youthful. Apply eye makeup first using natural shades, such as the hues of your own shadow, to get precisely this effect. Light brown is the color to go with if you have dark skin (it will also bring out the brown in your eyes). Using a natural bristle brush, apply shadows, then blend the loose pigment over the area with a fluffy brush.

With the aid of eyeliner, you can visually enlarge your round eyes. After using an eyelash curler to curl your lashes, apply a rich black mascara.

Use a concealer to fix mistakes made when applying shadows. Don’t forget to apply it to the inner corner of the eye, where the vein runs, as it will help conceal dark circles under the eyes and eliminate crumbled highlighter particles.

Apply medium (closer to strong) intensity blush on the "apples" of your cheeks, then extend it to your cheekbones, nose bridge, and chin to achieve a look that is equally stunning in person and on camera. Try a tinted blush instead of a traditional one for the most natural-looking makeup; use a brush to apply the product after blending it with a highlighter in your hand.

Apply another layer of highlighter since the previous one has already been absorbed by the skin. In order to prevent the blush from being covered by the highlighter layer, only emphasize the shine on the upper line of the cheekbones.

Your job is to fill in the spaces between the hairs and give the eyebrows shape, not to sketch them. Select a product that is three to four shades lighter than the color of your eyebrows. This rule also applies to brunettes with brown eyes: the eyebrows should be slightly lighter than the hair color to soften the appearance. First, comb the eyebrow. Next, highlight the curve by using a pencil to fill in the "gaps" between the hairs. It is preferable to avoid touching the nose bridge, which is the base of the eyebrow.

Given the striking eye makeup, a neutral lip color should be chosen, such as a glossy pink lipstick.

Natural makeup for brown eyes

It’s simple to achieve a subtle everyday look for brown eyes if you use the advice below.

1. 1 Apply matte green eyeshadow all over the eyelid.
2. 2 Blend the dark green shade of eyeshadow in the crease of the eyelid. It is better if these shadows are also matte – they are more appropriate for daytime makeup. Note that when working with the crease, you should keep your eyes open, otherwise it will be difficult to see the shade (especially if you have an overhanging eyelid). Paint the crease, slightly raising your eyebrows.
3. 3 Use a brush with the same dark green shade to go along the outer corner of the eye, continuing to blend the edges well.
4. 4 Blend the greenish-gray shade of eyeshadow (taupe) under the lower lashes, creating a light haze.
5. 5 To emphasize the color, take a little eyeshadow on your fingertips and apply it to the movable eyelid with patting movements.
6. 6 If you use shimmery eyeshadow in daytime makeup, spread eyeshadow with a light shimmer over the upper eyelid. This will help create a delicate glow.
7. 7 make eyelash in mascara.

The key to enhancing brown eyes with makeup is to use the appropriate shades and application methods to make them pop. Warm browns, purples, and golds are some of the best hues to use to create a gorgeous look that accentuates your inherent beauty.

You can find the mascara, eyeliner, and eyeshadow palette that works best for your eyes by experimenting. The secret is to draw attention to your distinctive features, whether you’re going for a subdued daytime look or a striking evening statement.

Keep in mind that applying makeup is an artistic way for you to express who you are. Enjoy yourself and confidently embrace your brown eyes!

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