What’s the best eyeshadow color for hazel eyes? You’re in luck—hazel eyes are incredibly versatile, with a mix of tones to enhance. Beautiful!
With countless eyeshadow shades available, choosing the perfect ones can feel overwhelming. This blog will guide you through the best colors for hazel eyes and share tips to make your stunning eye color pop.
You know you've wonderded, “Do hazel eyes look better with certain eyeshadows?” The answer is a resounding YES! Hazel eyes can pull off a variety of shades, but some colors naturally flatter them more than others.
To find the most flattering hues, let’s first understand what makes hazel eyes unique. Once we uncover their distinctive tones, selecting the best eyeshadows becomes a breeze!
Hazel eyes pair beautifully with shades that work well for both brown and green eyes. Think warm browns, rich greens, purples, plums and glowing golden hues—these colors effortlessly enhance the natural tones in hazel eyes.
Why Choosing Eyeshadows for Hazel Eyes Can Feel Tricky
Hazel eyes are a stunning mix of colors—brown, green, and golden hues—which can make deciding on the right eyeshadow seem complicated. But this variety actually gives you endless options to match your mood or occasion!
A common tool for picking eyeshadow shades is the color wheel. But how does it work for hazel eyes? The answer depends on whether you want to subtly enhance your natural tones or go bold to make your eyes pop.
And, professional makeup artist Danessa Myricks says that Purple and Plum Eyeshadow colors are the best complement for Hazel Eyes
Hazel eyes are less common than blue or brown eyes and are uniquely captivating. Their color varies depending on lighting, surrounding colors, and even the viewer’s perception.
Hazel eyes feature a blend of brown, green, and golden hues, with one tone often appearing more dominant.
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Want to subtly enhance your hazel eyes or make them stand out? Below are tips to highlight specific tones:
Opt for shades of brown, green, and gold. Choose eyeshadows lighter or darker than the green in your eyes for contrast and definition. Be sure they are lighter or deeper shades than the green in your eyes.
Stick to neutral or brown eyeshadows. Select shades lighter or deeper than your eye color to avoid blending too much and to create depth.
Choose golden or neutral eyeshadows with yellow or gold undertones. These shades add warmth and enhance the golden flecks in your eyes.
For a sultry look, browns are ideal for creating a smoky effect. Meanwhile, bronze and copper tones work beautifully to amplify both brown and golden hues.
Pro Tip: Avoid matching your eyeshadow exactly to your eye color—it can make the tones blend in rather than stand out. Contrast is key for creating dimension and enhancing your natural beauty.
Choose colors like bronze, reddish-browns, reddish-coppers, maroons, burgundies, and mahogany. Even pink shades will be great to make a gorgeous contrast that will make those tones pop.
Use a color wheel chart and find the color green. Now, look at the color directly across from it, on the opposite side. You will see the color red.
The best complementary eyeshadow shades that will make the green tones in the eyes pop will be red or those with reddish undertones.
So, the best eyeshadows that will complement and make the yellow, or golden, tones in the eyes pop will be purple shades of eyeshadow.
Go for shades like violet, eggplant, and plums. Pretty much any shade of purple will look great on this shade of eyes, but even more so the ones that have more of a reddish undertone to them.
Using again the color wheel, this time find the color yellow. If you look directly across on the other side, you will find the color purple.
These ones will also work well for the green hues in these beautiful eyes.
The following are just some of our Red Apple Lipstick eyeshadow picks that will look amazing on hazel colored-eyes. However, you can also try our recommended eyeshadows for brown and green eyes as well.
Bronze Bombshell Eyeshadow- warm, deeply pigmented medium bronze eyeshadow with a golden sheen.
Down to Earth Eyeshadow- a rich medium terra-cotta copper with a beautiful golden sheen.
En Pointe Eyeshadow- a soft, muted, dusty rose, matte eyeshadow.
Olive This Color Eyeshadow- dark, muted, earthy green eyeshadow with a soft light golden metallic sheen.
Sage Rage Eyeshadow- matte, medium, muted, earthy, khaki green eyeshadow. Hazel eyes can wear this shadow as long as it’s lighter or darker than their natural eye color for contrast.
Sugar & Spice Eyeshadow- a matte, medium, warm, spicy, brown eyeshadow with a reddish-orange undertone.
Vamp Eyeshadow- a deep red color that reminds of aged red wine.
Violet Vintage Eyeshadow- muted, soft, grayish-purple eyeshadow that leans towards being taupe with a faint shimmer.
Violet Vixen Eyeshadow- slightly muted lavender purple eyeshadow with a metallic sheen and slight pinkish undertone.
Here are our top neutral RAL eyeshadow picks for hazel eyes. Feel free to also try our picks for both brown and green eyes as well as those will also look great on hazel-colored eyes.
Brownie Points Eyeshadow- matte, medium brown with a warm undertone.
Champagne Eyeshadow- a light golden frosty taupe.
Chocolate Martini Eyeshadow- rich, dark chocolate brown with golden bronze shimmer.
Dirty Girl Eyeshadow- medium, mushroom, earthy, khaki taupe with shimmer.
Golden Ticket Eyeshadow- a beautiful shimmering gold that looks gorgeous on those with any golden flecks in their eye.
Like U Latte Eyeshadow- a soft, light, rosy caramel tan with an ever so slight shimmer.
Yes You Canyon Eyeshadow- matte, medium reddish brown tan eyeshadow.
Shimmer Eye Shadow Palette for Hazel Eyes- A super fun, energetic shimmery eye shadow palette to harmonize with hazel eyes. 4 luxurious eyeshadows: Buttercream, Dirty Girl, Olive This Color, and Yes You Canyon.
Matte Eye Shadow Palette for Hazel Eyes- The perfect matte eye shadow palette to synergize with your hazel eyes. 4 luxurious eyeshadows: Heirloom, Sage Rage, Earth Girl, and Espresso.
The Best Matte Eye Shadow Palette- 9 new, vegan, mineral pressed, matte eyeshadows. She’s Spicy, Earth Girl, Hush Hush, Heirloom, Tip Taupe, Blondeshell, Hello Darkness, Made You Wink, and Plum’s Up.
Of course, we know that not everyone wants to always wear bold colors to make their eyes pop. Some may even not feel comfortable wearing too much color.
If that is the case, try a combo using more neutral eyeshadows for your main eye makeup to enhance your hazel eyes. Then, simply add a pop of color with your choice of a bolder eyeshadow shade to make either the greens or golden tones in your eyes pop.
This is a great way to incorporate some color for a daytime look. Try one of the following to do so:
If you have hazel eyes, give these tips a try and try some of these beautiful eyeshadow shades to make those gorgeous eyes pop. Share your thoughts in the comments and if you have tried some of these eyeshadows, let us know which are your favorites!
Red is complementary to green. So, eyeshadow shades that are reddish in color, or that have reddish undertones, will make the green hues in hazel colored-eyes pop.
Yes! Wearing green eyeshadow is a great way to bring out the green hues in hazel eyes. Just make sure that it’s either a lighter or a darker shade of green than that of the eyes.
A dark green or richer shade of green, like olive an emerald, will look great and make the green hues in the eyes pop. Try a green smokey eye makeup look!
There are actually a few colors that will make hazel eyes pop. The 2 main ones are purples and colors with a reddish undertone, such as maroons and reddish browns. Make sure to read this article for more color options.
