

'Start lightly at the base of the eye, right where your eyelashes grow out. Utting shared her tips for getting the best pigment out of your shadow regardless 'Gradually build up a purple shade and use a good quality blending brush such as the MAC 224s brush,' she explains.

Instead it's a mix of blue and red, and taking into consideration some further purple-specific complexities with formulation, this can sometimes mean purple shadows are less pigmented than it's colourful counterparts.

That's because, without getting too deep into the science, purple does not have its own wavelength of light (violet does, but that's another conversation for another day). If you were part of the Youtube beauty community in the heyday of the 2010s (welcome home, friend), it's pretty likely you heard the frustrations over difficult-t0-blend purple eyeshadows. Luca Cannonieri Imaxtree Is purple eyeshadow harder to blend? For example, a plum eye with a more violet shade of nude on the lips will create a harmonious monochromatic look.' You can also combine a more monochromatic colour combination, so wearing a range of purples on the face. 'Yellows, golds and ambers work particularly well as they are seen as being "complimentary” to purple. 'As a make-up artist, we use a lot of colour theory when selecting which colours to use the correct combinations of colour can really enhance each other,' explains Utting. 'Purple looks gorgeous with a red lip,' says Soleimani. Thought including more than one vivid colour in your look might take it into unintentional drag-queen territory? Think again. If you've got both, you're a middle ground neutral. If your veins are green, you're likely to have warm undertones if they have more of a blue-ish appearance, your skin will have a cooler hue. The classic shortcut to check your undertones is by looking at your wrists.
