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Wake Up Those Tired Eyes: Colors to Use and Colors to Avoid

Wake Up Those Tired Eyes: Colors to Use and Colors to Avoid

Whatever the reason, a late night party, exams, travel or allergies – we’ve all had to do battle against tired eyes. After the cold compress, soothing eye gel and get-the-red-out drops, it’s up to our makeup to keep our late night a secret. While certain colors work for us in the fight to hide dark circles and red eyes, others shout out “Look at me. I haven’t slept in days.”

Try these color and concealer combos designed to match your skin tone and the symptoms of your tired eyes.

Red Eyes

Red rimmed and bloodshot eyes are neutralized with golden eye shadows and liners for warm skin tones. And shadows and liners with blue undertones for cool skin. These will help reduce the appearance of red discoloration against the skin. Begin with a gold-tinted cover-up to neutralize the red-blue hue around the eyes. Apply all eye makeup sparingly at first – you can go back and add more if you really need it. The goal is to make your eyes look their best without standing out. Stay far away from any color on lids and lips with a pink, violet or red base.

Warm tones apply a shimmery champagne shadow over your lids and browbone to help open your eyes. Line the outside corner with a gold shadow or liner. Use a mocha shadow in the crease to make your eyes pop. Use black mascara to contrast with the whites of your eye minimizing the bloodshot look. Dress up your lips with a chocolate liner, a tawny sunset-orange/red lipstick and a light pink gloss.

Cool tones begin with a shimmering white shadow over the browbone. Add a soft grey shadow to the lids and line the center of your lids with navy or smoky grey to open the eyes. Add black mascara to bring out the whites of your eyes. Make your lips your standout feature of the day with a plum liner, berry lipstick and clear gloss.

Dark Circles

Vow from the very beginning not to overload your eyes with foundation, concealer and color. This is not a fix; it’s a sure way to end up looking and feeling worse. Begin with well moisturized skin around the eyes and apply your concealer (in yellow and green to hide the circles) and foundation.

To minimize the effects of dark circles, you want to cast a shadow along your browbone to draw attention up and away from your lower lashes. You also don’t want to line your eyes all the way across your lids with the same color. Either apply liner only to the top lid or apply liner to the top and a softer smudge of liner or shadow along the outside lower lashline. Avoid eye colors in apricot, purples and dark rich tones.

Warm tones use gold with a hint of shimmer along the browbone and a sand shade along the lids. Line with warm brown or sage. Use brown-black mascara on top lashes only. The darker your lower lashes the darker your under-eye circles will appear. Curl lashes to help cast that shadow on your browbone. Add a second sweep of mascara to the upper outside lashes to open your eyes even more. Make your lips stand out with a gingerbread liner and light beige toned gloss.

Cool tones use cinnamon eye color across your browbone and a medium sand shade on your lids. Line with sable tones and apply soft black mascara as explained above. Give you lips a boost with a neutral liner and toffee lipstick and gloss.

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