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 in her new book, get positively beautiful, that 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 camouflages how tired and weak my eyes look these days what with all the not-sleeping I’m doing.
But I’ma no likey the greeny.
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! Identity crisis solved!
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They DO look more green!! How interesting!
You look beautiful both ways though. 🙂
I like your eyes with the dark around them too. You know what else I like – your haircut. I think you look cute as can be!
Now – I have green eyes too and what color shadow do you suppose I’ve been wearing? Green. Guess I better be getting some purples and burgundies!
You are so beautiful…love the hair and the eyes!
You look so nice- I actually really like the green! 🙂 But both look nice. And nice haircut, too. 🙂
Holy cow you look good! You have beautiful features you know . . .
Hey FriedOkry! Yes, I think you can pull off dark eye make-up. Go for it!
You’re so beautiful! How do you look that good with everything I know that’s going on in your house right now?!
I always thought your eyes were an aqua/teal colour but they really do look green with the burgandy shadow! Have you tried using whatever she suggests for blue eyes? I wonder if it will make your eyes look more blue!
Loving the shorter hair too, makes you look even younger than you already do!
You hair looks great =)
I like your hair. And I DO have brownish hazel eyes but have never been able to figure out how to use the green shadow. I will look into this…
You’re so pretty! And you have GORGEOUS eyes.
I kind of DO like the picture of you with green eyeshadow, though – it really does make your eyes pop.
Wow! In the 2nd picture you look just like that lead actress in CSI (the original). You’ve probably heard that before….
I like the green too! A WHOLE LOT!!!
Maybe it looked different to you in person, but I love the green on you. How exciting!! I’ve never really experimented with shadow either. I’ll have to try it out! xoxo Julie
Ya think Carmindy can help me? Better send Maha too and maybe a big paper babg.
ughhh and a spelling teacher too! That’s supposed to be BAG
First of all, girl, you look hawt! Secondly, I love the haircut. And thirdly, I must confess I have the eye color confusion too. Somedays they look book, somedays they look green. When my hubby and I were dating, I distinctly remember him taking a second look one night because my eyes all of the sudden looked green but two days earlier they were blue? Freak of nature I guess? But, I just figured out the purple thing too – and I love it. Will have to try the green.
Ha–I’m the same way! My eyes can be a bright greenish turquoise, or a grey, or more of an acqumarine. . . .
I used to always say Hazel, too, but then I did figure out that hazel usually referred to a more brownish green.
I do love using browns and even before reading this, just bought some burgandies the other day!
Love the new ‘do – when you’re a new mom, anything that makes you look PERKIER is a good thing, right? But both pics are beautiful.
Speaking of perky, my eyes don’t have much of it left in ’em anymore. One of these days when the kids are grown, educated, and married, I am getting an eye job. Be gone, droopy lids! And thermage – be gone, droopy jowls! I have a few more things that droop, as well, but I don’t know if I’m into messing with some things, if you know what I mean. We shall see how things proceed. 😉
Maybe I need some color – I’m so boring, with my neutrals. I have the same problem you do with my eye color – only I always say blue. Nobody else can really say, though – are they green? blue? hazel? It depends on what I wear. I can understand the confusion!