All This Time I Thought They Were Hazel. Turns Out I Was Nuts.

Hey Y’all! 

It’s my turn to hop into Carmindy’s virtual chair and see what her advice about eye make-up does for my look.  Now, eye make-up has never been a strong suit of mine, really.  Somehow I can never get it just right.  I either end up looking like I don’t have anything on at all, or else I look like Mimi from the Drew Carey show.

I have one other little issue, too.  (Whispers) I am not always perzackly sure what color my eyes are.  Some days they look grey, some days they look blue, and some days they look green.  But you know, you sorta need a short answer to "What color are your eyes?" so I’ve always just lumped myself into the hazel category, because I thought hazel was sortof a catchall color for those of us with eye-color identity issues. 

Now Carmindy says hazel eyes look incredible paired with green shadow.  Her personal favorite is a sparkling forest green applied across the lid and under the lash line.  This shade deepens the brown tones while bringing up the green.   (Uh oh.  First clue:  I don’t have any brown tones in my eyes!)

But I am a die-hard Carmindy fan, and when Carmindy says "Slather on the green."  I say, "How high?" 

I did what she said.

First I hadda do a little shopping though because GREEN EYE SHADOW?  In 2008?  YEEKS!  Don’t hab dat!

Behold Revlon’s ColorStay 12-Hour Eye Shadow in Spring Moss

Then I applied it.  With, as Carmindy instructed me to, a line of sparkling forest green across my lid and under my lash line.  Then I blended the moss green tint up to the crease of each lid and finished from crease to brow with a shade I already had – a sparkling khaki color – because somebody once told me, and it may have been Carmindy herself, that one should never put a color above the crease, only a neutral. 

And here’s what it all looks like on.

My assessment is this.  I like the very dark shade around my eyes.  That’s sortof a risk I’ve never taken and I think it adds drama and it also sorta camouflaged how tired and weak my eyes look these days what with all the not-sleeping I’m doing. 

But I’ma no likey the green.

And I don’t think it’s because Carmindy is wrong.  Carmindy says green shadow looks good on HAZEL eyes.  But you know what?  After all the time I spent putting on this shadow and taking these pictures and staring and staring and staring at my eyes?  Turns out, my eyes are GREEN.  It’s me who’s been wrong.  For forty one years!

So what I’ve BEEN doing, which I learned from Carmindy a long time ago on What NOT to Wear, namely wearing purples and burgundies around my eyes, has actually been right all along.  BUT, I will likely apply the darker shades in those pallettes more liberally now that I have experimented with the same look in the greens.  Here’s me in my usual color pallette, but applied less dramatically:

See?  I think they’re green.  I think they’ll look MORE green when I darken up the burgundies and do as Carmindy suggests with them on my lid and my lower lash line.

Thanks, Carmindy!