Making Your Eyes Dominant

1) Complimentary colour contrast 

Once you have found your favourite eye enhancers that reflect your eyes natural colour, the next step is to find the complimentary colour to make the eyes pop. By offering a balanced opposite colour you are finding the highest level of contrast for your eye colour. This will intensify the colour of your eye and be the most striking choice. This is a good choice for lipstick, blusher, jewellery, scarves and clothing.

Find the nearest colour to the dominant colour in your iris on a colour wheel and look at the colour directly opposite: 

Colour wheels are only 2 dimensional, and only display a small selection of colours you will find in make-up brands and in clothing. This is just an initial guide to start your search for your perfect colours.

If you don’t like the colour that is your complimentary one, then you have options. You always have options. This is about your personality and personal taste, more than it is about your natural colours. A colour analyst can show you a range of colours that will make you look vibrant, healthy and younger, but you bring yourself to the table. Choose from the palette the colours that reflect you and your lifestyle, or challenge the analyst to find them in the best colours for your skin tone. It’s two way. 

2) Triadic colour contrast 

If you found the complimentary colour too contrasting, or unflattering then your next research is based on a triangle on the colour wheel. This offers you two extra colours to test out.

Find the nearest colour to the dominant colour in your iris on a colour wheel and look at the colours at the two other points of the triangle: 

Colour wheels are only 2 dimensional, and only display a small selection of colours you will find in make-up brands and in clothing. This is just an initial guide to start your search for your perfect colours. A personal colour analysis session will find seventy colours to flatter your skin tone and make your eyes shine.

Choose from the palette the colours that reflect you and your lifestyle, or challenge the analyst to find your favourite colours in the best version for your skin tone. Remember - it’s a two-way process. 

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Frame Your Eyes

Eye brows direct attention to your eyes. They are like picture frames – they shouldn’t dominate but help draw attention to the work of art they outline. They set the focus point - your eyes.

Eye brows are fashionable at the moment. No more virtually plucked to baldness thin pencil lines, but bold and thick dominant brows. I am lucky enough to have naturally well shaped and thick eye brows, so until I started ‘my colour stylist’ I was unaware that I was lucky – or that for many clients, eye brow pencils are as important as lipstick to define the face.

On one of my first appointments when doing the make-up colours for a client she was still looking expectantly when I had finished. She wanted defined eye brows – I had one choice in my kit – and of course it didn’t work for her colours at all. Nikki from Prism xii recommended this product to me, and now I am passing that on to you all – it’s great. It seems to adjust according to the colour of the client’s own brows and suits most people – I just need a lighter one for very white blondes, and a darker one for deep brown/black. 

IT cosmetics, brow power universal pencil in universal taupe 

Why I love it:

It is easy to apply in small hair like strokes – the oval tip lets you draw thin or thick brows

It is long wearing and doesn’t smudge

It looks natural and is easy to blend in with natural eye brows

It looks good on blonde, soft browns, mid brown and grey eye brows – a good tip is never to use an eye brow pencil that is darker than the roots of your hair.

It contains anti-aging ingredients and conditioners It costs £18 and can be find on line from £16 

My Favourite Eye Liners

One of the products that my clients buy first is a new eye liner. I like to use eye liner at the base of the upper lashes and choose a colour that will draw attention to the eye, not the eye liner.

My favourite product by far is Urban Decay 24/7 glide on eye liner. My favourite two shades are: 

2) Smoke – for blue, grey/blue or grey/green eyes. This is the number one for my clients.

This is a great eye enhancer for every day. 

1) Demolition – for brown or hazel eyes. This is the one I wear every day.

This is a great natural every day shade. 

Why I love it:

It is easy to apply and blend
It is long lasting and waterproof
It has a velvety soft texture – the creamy texture is due to 50% moisturising ingredients There are 41 shades to choose from
It is forgiving on older skin with crinkles
It is not tested on animals and many shades are vegan
It is £15.50 and available in many UK stores – Boots and all major department stores 

Other shades I recommend: 

4) Corrupt – for golden brown or soft brown eyes This is the number one for my clients.
This is a great eye enhancer for every day. 

3) Perversion – for very dark brown eyes. This is a great matt black.

This is a great shade for night time. 

On my shopping list: 

Sabbath – for blue eyes at night time 

Mainline – for blue eyes with little grey 

Invasion – a dark green matte for deep hazel eyes 

Loader – for teal/ green eyes with a sparkle. 

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