Fashion Eyes: Smokey or Rose - Black or Pink?

Rose Shadow with Lavender Liner

There are some really beautiful eye make-up choices out there.  See 25 Best Eye Makeup Tutorials for  a few of those. A really bad idea that came out some years ago was using green mascara along with the lid shadowed in either the same shade or slightly lighter shade of green.  This style looked like mold dripping from the wearer's eyes. Whereas a dark blue mascara can provide a more elegant evening look.  Best advice for dramatic eyes, skip the new mascara colors that can make you look sickly and stick with classic black or dark browns.

A few years back it was the smokey eye,  which started out as soft browns and a little smudging of liner.  Somewhere along the way, people overdid this style to enhance the goth look with thick black rings all around the eye.  Instead of looking mysterious, it looked more like they were in a fight and left with a black eye.  I assume the  sunken and sullen look caused by the black eye was supposed to give a more walking dead zombie look. So maybe it still works for Halloween, but otherwise it is an outdated look.

Now the smokey eye has moved into the rose eyes look, using pink or peach tones instead of brown or black.  Smudging may be soft blues or purples under the eye, caution if using dark pinks or reds is not a good look.  Unfortunately, when overdone by circling all around the eye, this look makes one think the person has pinkeye.  That is contagious disease most people would prefer not to catch.