Finding the right shade for your eye shadows isn’t always as easy as it seems. It’s true that every season has its best shades but it doesn’t always suits everyone. The appropriate shade of the eyeshadows should be considered carefully with a few factors: the color of your clothes, your natural skin tone, the color of your hair and of course with the color of your eyes.

The perfect eyeshadow colors for blue eyes

Shading and highlighting can add dimension to your face apart from just correcting your flaws.

Makeup is a game of adding shadows to and lighting areas of the face to accentuate your features or hide your flaws. This is done to create balance and an illusion of proportion and shape. Areas that are usually shaded are the hollows of the cheek, along the hairline and jaw line, the crease of the eye (to define the socket’s shape), the sides and the tip of the nose, the area under the chin and the temples, the sides of the neck for length, the collar bone and the cleavage.

• Eyebrows shouldn’t be overlooked. Brows frame and bring focus to the eyes. If yours are sparse, defining them can enhance your eyes dramatically: brush the hair down, draw a line along the base at the roots with an eyebrow pencil, then brush the hairs up again.
• If you have deep set eyes, keep your eyebrows thinner to show them off more. If you have widely spaced eyes, make them look closer by drawing your eyebrows in nearer together, extending eyeliner beyond the inner corners of your eyes and blend in eyeshadow towards the nose. Anyone over 18 should avoid wearing foundation at the outer corner of the eye where it bunches up into lines: just dust with powder instead.

The most flattering of the colour cosmetics – that not only accentuates the cheek bones but gives the impression of a soft healthy glow, is the blusher.

Selective and clever usage omits the needs for shaders – especially during day time. Use two shades of the same colour-a light and a dark to shape the face.

• Blusher strengthens and livens the face
• Deep shades are more suitable for evenings
• Rose-pin and coral colours are fresh looking and give flow for natural day-time look.
• Soft coral and warm rose tints suit pale skin
• Warm pinks suit olive skin