The Best Eyeshadow Colours & Palettes for Brown Eyes

Discover which eyeshadow colours make your brown eyes pop! Explore the best eyeshadow palettes for brown eyes and learn how to use them to create beautiful, brown-eyed makeup looks!

Darlings, discover the best eyeshadow palettes for brown eyes! Eye makeup is the perfect way to instantly enhance the natural colour and sparkle of your eyes, whether you’re looking for eyeshadow colours to make blue and green eyes pop or the best eye makeup for hazel eyes, tailoring your shades to different eye colours is an easy way to make your makeup stand out.

Whether your eyes are a light chocolate shade or coffee coloured, brown eyes always make a statement and pretty purples, gorgeous greys and sultry silvers will make them brighter than ever before.

Discover Charlotte Tilbury’s range of eyeshadow products to complement your brown eyes and create the perfect mesmerising makeup look…

Discover Eyeshadow Makeup Looks for Brown Eyes

MESMERISING METALLICS

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HOW/WHY IT MAKES BROWN EYES POP

Washing a shimmering shade over your eyes will emphasise your natural eye sparkle. Eyes to Mesmerise Cream Eyeshadow in Star Gold is a dreamy, creamy, hypnotising, bronze-copper eyeshadow that will instantly light up brown eyes. Golds and warm metallics pick up the different tones in brown eyes, making them glisten.

WHEN TO WEAR IT/BEST EYESHADOW LOOK FOR BROWN EYES

Apply this gorgeous shade with your fingers for a soft, smooth and natural day look or use Charlotte’s Eye Blender Brush for a shimmering sunset finish to dial up the magical colour for evening! It takes you from desk to date to disco – minimum effort with maximum impact!

AMPLIFY YOUR LOOK

To dial up the intensity, apply it with the Eye Blender Brush and use the Eyeshadow Smudger Brush to run the eyeshadow under the lower lash line. For flirtatiously fluttering lashes, finish the look with lashings and lashings of Charlotte’s Legendary Lashes Volume 2. It gives you 507%* more volume after one application!

PERFECT PURPLES

Pillow Talk Hypnotising Pop Shot Ultra Violet Close Up Eye

HOW/WHY IT MAKES BROWN EYES POP

Make purple eyeshadow one of your go-to shades – the colour contrasts with brown, so it instantly makes your eyes pop. Purple eye makeup is surprisingly wearable! Charlotte’s Hypnotising Pop Shot in Pillow Talk Ultra-Violet is a shimmering pop of purple that will transform the look of your eye makeup in seconds!

WHEN TO WEAR IT/BEST EYESHADOW LOOK FOR BROWN EYES

This is the perfect purple eyeshadow to take you from desk to dusk to disco! Pop a little in the inner corner of your eyes for a soft shot of shimmer, or tap all over your lid for the perfect purple eyeshadow look.

AMPLIFY YOUR LOOK

If you want to amp it up for night time, create a sultry, smokey eye with my Super Nudes Easy Eye Palette, then tap violet eyeshadow on top with your ring finger to create a dramatic, dimensional purple smokey eye that makes your brown eyes POP!

SULTRY BRONZE-BROWN

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HOW/WHY IT MAKES BROWN EYES POP

That’s right, brown shades can bring out brown eyes even more, even though they are the same colour! The combination of the two intensifies your eye colour, making it the perfect everyday eyeshadow to wear. Smooth, chocolatey tones like Charlotte’s Eyes to Mesmerise in Chocolate Bronze help to bring out the golden hues in your brown eyes.

WHEN TO WEAR IT/BEST EYESHADOW LOOK FOR BROWN EYES

Create the perfect, mesmerising date night look by applying Chocolate Bronze across your lash line and blend upwards and outwards with your finger. The magic shimmer creates a beautifying veil on the eyelids, gliding on like a dream to create an easy, one-eyeshadow look. For an easy daytime look, line your eyes in The Classic Eyeliner in Classic Brown to add subtle definition.

AMPLIFY YOUR LOOK

Apply matte brown shades from The Super Nudes Easy Eye Palette to the crease of your eyelids to add depth to your eye makeup! Finish off your look by applying Charlotte’s best-selling Full Fat Lashes Mascara for curl, separation, volume, length and drama!

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Charlotte Tilbury

Founder, President, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

With over 30 years experience, Charlotte Tilbury MBE is the world's number 1 makeup artist and British beauty entrepreneur. Charlotte established Charlotte Tilbury Beauty in 2013, which is now a record-breaking beauty brand that has won over 400 awards.

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