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Smashbox has a set of very nice palettes customized for different eye colors and, if you are looking for the best shades for your blue, brown, or hazel eyes (green appears to be missing, although the Hazel eye set would work very well for green eyes), they offer a nice selection. But, before you get too hung up on the best eye shadow for blue eyes, brown eyes, etc., keep in mind that rules as far as that go are not set in stone. I am a big proponent of women wearing what they like, and taking suggestions of the best shades for eye color or skin tone as just that-suggestions. You are certainly free to wear something different. Indeed, among the Smashbox Photo Op palettes, I rather like the one for brown eyes best, and I have blue eyes.

Anyway, here they are and all really do have some nice shades in them.

Smashbox Photo Op Eye Enhancing Palette for Brown Eyes.

Smashbox Photo Op Eye Enhancing Palette for Blue Eyes.

Smashbox Photo Op Eye Enhancing Palette for Hazel Eyes.

These palettes are all exclusive to Sephora.

Se also our previous posts on the best makeup for your eye color:

Best Makeup for Blue Eyes

Best Makeup for Green Eyes

Best Makeup for Brown Eyes

Best Makeup for Hazel Eyes

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About the Author: Carleen Pruess Coulter

I met up with representatives of NARS Cosmetics and some fellow beauty bloggers last week to see the NARS 2010 Summer Collection. NARS Cosmetics has a great selection of new products for this collection, including new primers, new lip items, and some very neat multiple tints that I will be covering separately. Today looks at the new eye shadows, blush and multiple bronzer.

For eye shadow, NARS Duo Cream Eyeshadow Burn It Blue is simply gorgeous. It is extremely pigmented and I love how the duo cream shadows wear. They are cream to powder, so they smooth on beautifully, but then dry so that they have staying power. The swatch doesn’t show just how luminous the lighter of the two shades is. It really glows, without looking overly sparkly. If you wear blue shadow, this is a must have in my opinion. Heck, I don’t wear blue shadow and am thinking about starting just based on this item!

There is also a pretty new cream to powder blush: NARS Cream Blush Enchanted. The blush also wears nicely and is a very flattering peachy shade. Think of a cream and lighter intensity version of NARS Orgasm.

Swatches of Nars Burn it Blue and Enchanted Cream Blush are below (the blush swatch is above the eye shadow):

Also included in the NARS Summer Collection are a dark brown cream eye shadow which is also great for eye lining, NARS Cream Eye Shadow Cayenne, and a new cream to powder multiple that is perfect for creating a bronzed look, NARS The Multiple Lamu. The multiples are quite buildable and blendable, so you can wear the makeup with high pigment or blend it out for a much more sheer look than what is shown in the swatch. Swatches of both products are below, with the Cayenne swatch first and the Lamu swatch second.

The Summer Collection also had a pretty new nail polish: NARS Nail Polish Versailles. I didn’t get a chance to swatch it, but here it is in the bottle. I love champagne nails, so I might pick this polish up next time I am at Sephora.

Nars also has some great new Multiple Tints and two new primers that I just love. I’ll cover those in separate posts this week and next week. In addition, they have new lip items, including NARS Pure Sheer SPF Lip Treatments that are great tinted balms with sun protection. To see those, head on over to Girl Gloss: NARS Lip Treament Balms.

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