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Eyeshadow palette & makeup color tools

Makeup color palette generator

Start from your eye color, a color you love or a spot in a photo. Get a whole look (inner corner, lid, crease, liner, lips and blush) with the color theory behind each shade.

Start from
Your eye color

Pick the nearest. Real irises have flecks and rings; these are typical averages.

Color scheme
Emphasis

Steers the lip, blush and highlight. Not sure? Try the undertone quiz.

Your look

Complementary look for brown eyes: opposite colors: the most contrast. Soft, everyday.

Screen colors only: real products look different in the pan, on skin and under different light. Treat these as a direction to shop or swatch, not an exact match.

  • Inner corner & brow bone

    pale dusty rose

    #F6E0F3 · shimmer

    A pale dusty rose that catches the light without adding color; a pink-pearl tint suits the cool lid.

  • Lid

    blue

    #5F9ABC · satin

    Brown eyes sit in the orange part of the color wheel (brown is a deep, muted orange). This blue sits opposite on the color wheel, and that contrast makes the iris color look stronger.

  • Crease

    indigo

    #5A5D7D · matte

    A deeper, more muted version of the lid color, nudged slightly toward brown. Lower lightness and chroma make it read as natural shadow and add depth.

  • Liner

    deep brown

    #4B2D18 · matte (powder or pencil)

    A very deep shade from the iris color's own family frames the eye; the lid then supplies the contrast.

  • Lips

    pink

    #A9607C · satin

    The color this scheme points to for the lips is a cyan-blue, outside the red-to-pink range lips usually wear, so the lip comes from the berries and blue-reds that suit the cool lid instead. Medium depth for an easy everyday balance.

  • Blush

    rose

    #D38E9C · matte or satin

    From the same family as the lip, lighter and softer, so cheeks and lips read as one look.

How the look is built

Choose where to start. Eye color places your iris on the color wheel and picks a lid shade from it. A color puts your own color on the lid. A photo lets you click any spot of an image, or one of its main colors, and uses that.

The color scheme decides how the shades relate on the wheel:

The crease is a deeper, more muted version of the lid so it reads as shadow. The liner is very deep, close to black but with a hint of color. Lips stay in the red-to-pink range people usually wear, pulled toward corals, rosewoods or berries to suit the lid or the undertone you chose, and the blush comes from the same family, lighter. Emphasis follows the old rule of letting one feature lead: statement eyes keep the lip soft, statement lips keep the eyes quiet.

Example: blue eyes with Complementary and Soft give a soft bronze lid, a brown crease, a deep navy liner, a terracotta lip and a coral blush.

Hues are worked out in OKLCH, a color space where equal steps look roughly equal, so “deeper” and “softer” mean the same thing for every color. Each card explains its choice; copy any hex code, or send the six shades to the palette maker.

Sources

Questions

Which eyeshadow colors make blue eyes stand out?

The opposite of blue on the color wheel is orange, so coppers, bronzes, peaches and warm browns give blue eyes the most contrast. For a softer look, the analogous scheme suggests blue-violets and teals, which harmonize with blue eyes instead of contrasting with them.

What about green or hazel eyes?

Green sits opposite red-violet, so plums, mauves, burgundies and berry shades contrast with it most. Hazel eyes mix green and brown; the generator places them near amber, which points to blue-violets and purples for contrast, and bronzes and olives for a blended look.

And brown eyes?

Brown is a deep, muted orange, so blues and teals give the strongest contrast, while golds, bronzes and warm browns harmonize. Because brown has little chroma, almost any color shows up well against it, which is why every scheme is worth trying.

Why isn’t the lipstick the exact opposite color?

Lips are usually worn in reds, pinks, corals, berries and browns. When a scheme points outside that range (a teal lip, say), the generator keeps the lip inside it and leans toward the colors that suit the lid or your undertone. The card says when this has happened.

Do I have to follow color theory?

No. Color harmonies are a useful way to find combinations you might not think of, not rules. Your skin, the light and the formulas you use change how colors look, so swatch real products and keep whatever you enjoy wearing.

Is my photo uploaded anywhere?

No. The photo is drawn on a canvas in this page and read by your browser. It is not sent to any server or saved, and it is gone when you close the page.