How to Make Hazel Eyes Look Greener (2024)

Hazel eyes are a combination of browns, yellows, and greens. The inner ring is usually brown and the outer ring green. There are often flecks of gold as well. Depending on what you wear and how you do your eye makeup, you can make your eyes appear very green. Because Hazel eyes are a mixture of green and brown, the color that we see is more of an olive green than an emerald green. Therefore it is best to wear olive green. For Blue Green eyes, turquoises and sea greens can be best.

In the same way, if you wear other colors your hazel eyes will change color slightly to match. They will appear grey if you wear blue, for example. If you wear brown, then the green in your eyes will become duller. For blue green eyes, wearing grey will bring out the blue in your eyes.

Do you have hazel eyes and want them to make them appear more green?

1. You can make hazel eyes appear more green without makeup, simply by wearing olive green colors.
2. You can also wear a coral orange if you don’t want to wear makeup. Be careful, though, that it is the right shade of coral for your skin tone.
3. If you prefer to wear makeup, then you can use a green eye pencil to outline your eyes.
4. Wearing a coral lipstick will also make hazel eyes look more green.
5. The best green to wear for hazel eyes is olive green. This is because the hazel eyes are a green mixed with a brown, and they appear to be olive green.
6. Olive green earrings also pick up the green in the eyes.
7. If you are willing to use natural henna on your hair, this will also make the green in your eyes pop.

Wear a green jacket, or something green on the top half of your body will draw out the green in your eyes. It does, however, need to be more of an olive green.

A coral orange or coral pink lipstick will draw out the green of your eyes. A lipstick is the best option.

If you henna your hair either orange or pinky red, your eyes simply pop! The best my eyes ever looked was when I dyed my hair a bright red. It didn’t look good on my skin, though, so it’s best to stick with the kind of red that is good with your skin.

Eye shadow, mascara, and eye pencil can all be used to draw out the green in your eyes. However, for a more natural look, I would stick with a thin green line outlining the eye. Unless you’re going to a costume party, don’t use green eyeliner, plus green shadow and green mascara. That’s too much. Use a black mascara with a green eyeliner or a green shadow with black mascara, or green mascara with green eyeliner. Too much of a good thing isn’t good!

Also, there are different shades of green. Experiment to see which one works for you. Generally, you have to find the correct shade that works with both your skin tone and your eye color.

Olive green earrings also pick up the green in the eyes.

“Only 2% of us have green eyes and only 5% have green eyes. Some 3% have blue-green eyes, and 8% have blue eyes.”

So why do cosmetic consultants tell you that that purple makes green eyes stand out? I have no idea. On a color wheel, purple is one third away from green. Coral (or orange), on the other hand, is the opposite green. Therefore coral will make your green eyes flare while purple will do very little

A good point to remember about contrast is that for it to work there must be sufficient of one color to draw out the other color.

In other words, when there is only a small amount of green in a coral landscape, the green is lost. The degree of color in your eyes is very small compared to the rest of your face. The last thing you want to do is drown your eye color with another color.

So the way to use coral is to wear a coral lipstick. When I started using a coral lipstick, I lost count of the number of people who told me that I was looking prettier!

When it comes to green eyeliner, I use any shade of green. I’m particular fond of emerald greens, but I vary the shades of greens. I happen to like Nyx eyeliners, but what you wear in terms of eyeliner is up to you. I will say that I prefer a thicker line to a thinner line as per the illustration below. You can also use green eye-shadow. As you can see, it is particularly effective in drawing out the green in this lady’s blue/green eyes.

You probably don’t want to wear green clothing all the time — after all St. Patrick’s Day only comes once a year. So it’s a better idea to have a routine that will always draw out the green in your eyes.

For that, the best products are simply going to be a green eyeliner and a coral-orange or coral-pink lipstick.

I use Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick (Cinnamon Bon) but before you buy the same shade as I use, you need to look at the shade of your skin. All coral-pinks and coral-oranges will draw out the green in your eyes. However, you need to look at your skin tone as well and make sure that the particular shade works with your skin. Fortunately there are many different shades in corals, you you have a choice. I also recently tried out one from Clarins, but for me, I prefer the Revlon one. You will find your own shade. Just look around.

I have found that the best way to draw out the green in hazel eyes is to use an olive green item of clothing near your face. So that would be a jacket, a scarf, a beret, or a top of some sort. Other shades of green are simply not that effective.

An olive green jacket is a must for anyone who has hazel eyes and wants to draw out the green. Remember that hazel eyes are a combination of yellows, browns, and greens. Olive works with hazel eyes because it is a combination of emerald and brown.

If you were to use a color wheel, you would note that these shades are directly opposite the coral pinks and coral greens, and that is why they emphasize each other so beautifully. The particular shade of green and coral will be dependent on your skin shade. If you have a lot of blue in your skin, then you will seek out greens and corals that have a more yellow composition. And if you have more yellow in your skin, then you will seek out products that have more blue in them. That way they compliment both your eyes and your skin tone.

I wear small olive green studs regularly. However, the impact of earrings doesn’t have as much of an effect as coral lipstick, an olive green jacket, and red or henna’ed hair.

I use these eye pencils.

The effect of red hair on hazel eyes is stunning. Only a picture can demonstrate this.

I bought some hair color from a shop in San Diego, California. I needed that nice tinge of red to cover some sneak-through grey hair so that I felt confident. I was supposed to leave the color on for half an hour.

As it turned out, I was busy writing and forgot about it. The dye stayed on for two hours. When I remembered, I rushed to the bathroom to wash it out. I became more and more frantic as I tried to remove it from my hair. My hair was virtually deep scarlet with a touch of maroon. I frantically called my daughter to tell her that my hair was the color of a red crayon, then I rushed to the hairdresser to ask them to wash it and cut it. The first thing they said as they saw me was that they loved the color of my hair.

When I got my home, my daughter was looking around the bathroom with amazement. In my rush to get it out, I had splashed red dye on the shower curtains, bath, basin, floor, and towels. It looked like a red modern art painting gone wrong.

And the upshot? I’ve never had such amazing green eyes in my life!

I tend not to use anything but henna on my hair. That’s because my hair dries out from dyes. Henna is obtainable on the web and in most Asian stores.

Green Contact Lenses

In addition to makeup, if you have brown or blue eyes, then green contact lenses are a great option. Kontaktlinsen color contact lenses make a nice green. If you want to change our eye color to green in a photo you are sending to someone, there are apps that allow you to do that.

Blue Contact Lenses

Conversely, if you have hazel eyes, and you wish to make them blue, if you wear grey or blue you will limit the amount of green that shows up. If you want to make them really blue, you will have to wear blue contact lenses.

Green blue eyes are different to hazel eyes which comprise browns, yellows, and greens. However, they are just as rare.

Blue eyes have a rarity factor of 8% of the population and are also highly unusual. Most people have brown eyes.

So it’s a tossup whether to emphasize the blue or the green. In this case, the idea would probably be to wear shades of blue/green simply to make the eyes pop. The best way to do that is to use one of the following shades below — either for eyeliner or clothing. For lipsticks, orange corals and pink corals work.

Even if your goal is to make your eyes look green, you have to consider your skin tone when choosing colors to wear. Different people have different undertones in their skin. My undertone is yellow, and I have olive skin. A person with rosy skin will most likely have a blue undertone. For yellow undertones, clear greens look best. For blue undertones, more olive colors look best.

That said, I don’t think this rule is absolute. By that logic, I shouldn’t wear olive greens, but the color looks great on me. The trick is that while olive green generally has a yellow undertone, I have learnt to recognize when a blue undertone is present, and I select the right olive green.

When whether selecting green or coral (orange) items, make sure that they complement your skin tone.

You don’t want to look like it’s St. Patrick’s day! The trick is to use two or three of these methods to emphasize the green in your eyes. Combine green eyeliner with green earrings and a green necklace. Or use green eyeshadow with black mascara, a light green scarf, and a green jacket. What colors can green be combined with? You can wear green with black, pink, blue, white, and beige.

So next time you want people to comment on your beautiful green eyes, you know exactly what to do!

Eyes are, of course, more than their color. In ways we do not understand, our eyes often reveal our emotions and tell other people what we are really thinking. Nobody has ever figured out how that is possible, but eyes are frequently our connection to other people.

If you are lucky enough to have green, hazel, or blue-green eyes, then there is every reason to go forth boldly and show them to the world!

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