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title: "Makeup Color Palette Generator by Eye Color | Petal Glimmer"
description: "Get matching eyeshadow, liner, lip and blush colors from your eye color, any color or a photo, with the color theory behind each shade explained."
url: https://petalglimmer.beauty/makeup-color-palette-generator/
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# 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.

## 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:

- **Complementary**: opposite colors, the most contrast. Copper against blue eyes is the classic example.
- **Split complementary**: the two neighbors of the opposite color; contrast with less clash.
- **Triadic**: three colors a third of the wheel apart; playful.
- **Analogous**: close neighbors; soft and blended.
- **Monochrome**: one color family, light to deep.

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

- Björn Ottosson, [A perceptual color space for image processing](https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/) (2020): the OKLab color space and its conversion from sRGB, used for every calculation here.
- W3C, [CSS Color Module Level 4](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/): the OKLCH form (lightness, chroma, hue) of OKLab.
- [Color scheme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_scheme) and [Complementary colors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors) (Wikipedia): the harmonies (complementary, split complementary, triadic, analogous, monochromatic).
- [Eye color](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color) (Wikipedia): why irises vary, and why blue and gray eyes owe their color to light scattering rather than blue pigment.

## 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.