16 Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes Blonde to Brunettes

Makeup enthusiasts, makeup artists looking for the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes and fair skin, blonde hair, red hair or brunettes – you’re exactly where you need to be today!

I’ve had in mind to create a few specific makeup guides to the best makeup for blue eyes, brown eyes and the best makeup products for green eyes for quite some time now.

I’m really excited I’m finally getting around to it, as I’ll start with helping you find the best eyeshadow palette for blue eyes, then move on to lipstick, blush, eyeliner colors…

Whatever you’re looking for in terms of eye makeup and color theory, you’ll find all you need here today.

16 Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes Blonde to Brunettes

Before we get started with the full guide to the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes, a little bit of color theory, so you understand why I have chosen these palettes, and not some other ones.

For starters, as usual, I have chosen high end eyeshadow palettes as well as drugstore makeup brands, so any budget can find beautiful makeup products.

I believe that makeup should be accessible, and that the only thing characterizing an expensive eyeshadow palette for blue eyes or brown eyes should be an otherworldly product texture and formula.

What eyeshadow colors look good on blue eyes?

When you look at the color wheel, you’ll see that the blue color faces orange.

As you get towards a more warm-toned kind of blue, more green, the color faces more reddish shades.

As you get towards a more cool-toned, more purple kind of blue, the color faces more yellowish shades.

Find your eye color, find your undertone (the devil lies in the details, and our most beautiful self lies in the undertone!), and you’ll find what eyeshadow color will look good on your blue eyes.

What eyeshadow colors look good on blue eyes and skin with cool undertones?

Skin with cool undertones can look good with all types of really cool-toned orange, almost red eyeshadows.

That means you’ll be able to make burgundy and purple eyeshadow work, as well as mauve eyeshadow.

For people with really fair skin with cool undertones, I’d probably lean towards pink eyeshadow (the kind that doesn’t look that you’ve got pinkeye!).

You can also try mauve colors, cool-toned oranges and coppers, silver eyeshadow, and pastel eyeshadow colors, like lavender.

What eyeshadow colors look good on blue eyes and skin with warm undertones?

Although it is rarer to find a medium to dark skin with blue eyes than it is to find a fair skin blonde with blue eyes, it does still exist, and the skin undertone is really often warm.

Warm skin tones look amazing in all kinds of really warm eyeshadows (breaking news), which goes from copper eyeshadows to terracotta shades and gold eyeshadows, or even really simple brown eyeshadows.

If you want to go for a cool-toned eyeshadow, try to make it as bright as possible to hide that cool-undertone, or go dark.

For instance, instead of a really cool, indigo purple blue, I’d go for a plum eyeshadow. Or instead of a sky blue eyeshadow, I’d go for an electric blue color.

Metallic eyeshadows also look stunning on skin with warm undertones (cool skin as well, to be honest), and you can definitely try plenty of different shades by getting an affordable rainbow eyeshadow palette to try out new things!

In the meantime, I’ll tell you in this guide which are the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes and fair skin, dark skin, medium skin and anyone from blondes to brunettes – ready?

Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes: Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Dreams Palette

Let’s kick off this guide with one of the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes ever – the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Dreams quad!

I’m yet to write about the best Charlotte Tilbury palettes – although I have had fun creating my imaginary Charlotte Tilbury eyeshadow palettes a while back, and Pillow Talk Dreams is that amazing warm-toned palette perfect for blue eyes.

It follows the same kind of light-to-dark color story as the other Charlotte Tilbury quads, with two bright, metallic eyeshadows and two more satin to matte eyeshadows to create depth in your looks.

Perfect for cool skin tones and warm skin tones, the Pillow Talk Dreams palette is that perfect travel eyeshadow palette that will never let you down, and stunning whether it’s daytime or date night.

Wear with some 90s brown lipstick or some burgundy lipstick for an even more sophisticated look!

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Best Eyeshadows for Blue Eyes: Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette

It would feel off to write about the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes without mentioning the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette.

It was indeed one of my very first Urban Decay palettes, and I have loved it, even if I was better known as a colorful makeup artist than a lover of nude lipstick and nude eyeshadows.

The Urban Decay Naked 3 palette offers all types of perfect eyeshadows for blue eyes and fair skin to medium skin, and looks gorgeous on blondes to brunettes.

Just a really beautiful, classic palette filled with pink and mauve eyeshadows, with your handful of champagne and plum shades to help you add depth to your looks.

Wear with mauve lipstick or a pink matte lipstick like the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk lipstick or MAC Mehr!

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Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes: Zoeva Together We Shine Palette

So sad that Zoeva stopped making many new eyeshadow palette collections – I used to love them, especially the Matte and the Mixed Metals palettes. Oh well, life changes, doesn’t it?

What’s interesting about the Zoeva Together We Shine palette is that it’s really made to resemble an eye contouring palette.

Really easy to wear whether you’re looking for eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes or green eyes, really, as the pink to warm-toned eyeshadows would definitely suit both.

Of course, that’s also an affordable option for people with brown eyes, albeit more classic – on blue eyes, you can really imagine that beautiful everyday result and those soft smokey eye looks!

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Best Eyeshadows for Blue Eyes: Huda Beauty Purple Haze Obsessions Palette

I have a feeling that when Huda Beauty releases new eyeshadow palettes, you have to look alive – they get discontinued so fast, especially the Obsessions palettes!

The Purple Haze Obsessions palette is another one of the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes and fair skin to medium skin, and if you’ve got blue green eyes, it’s bang on too.

The texture of the Huda Beauty eyeshadow palettes is otherworldly; really pigmented and blendable, and when it comes to the 9-pan palettes, they’re really great value.

In the Purple Haze Obsessions palette, you’ve got a good mix of warm toned berry eyeshadows and cool toned purple shades, as well as a handful of neutral eyeshadows to use as transition shades.

The perfect palette to couple with winter MAC lipsticks, or a brown lip liner and some clear lip gloss!

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Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes: Dior Backstage Coral Palette

There’s no way I would have written about the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes without mentioning the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette, I told you already.

But there’s also no way I was not going to talk about the Dior Backstage Coral palette – I’ve had this one in my wishlist for months now, even if I certainly do not have blue eyes.

If you’re still thinking – or were at any point thinking – that the Dior eyeshadow palettes still had this sad pigmentation we used to have a few years ago, think again.

The Dior Backstage Coral palette is filled with beautiful warm toned eyeshadows perfect for blue eyes and green eyes.

In addition, it is a stunning palette for spring, summer, and all the way through fall and winter with its beautiful terracotta and berry eyeshadow.

Definitely worth every penny, long lasting, and oh-so-pigmented!

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Best Eyeshadows for Blue Eyes: Beauty Bay Fiery 16 Palette

I remember when I received my Beauty Bay Fiery 16 palette in the mail a few years ago; I was astounded to discover just how pigmented the red and orange eyeshadows were.

Oh man.

The Fiery 16 palette is one of the best Beauty Bay palettes, but it’s also one of the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes and fair skin to really dark skin.

I would usually not think twice and use some Juvia’s Place eyeshadows on medium to dark skin tones, just because they’re that pigmented, but Beauty Bay does give Juvia’s Place a run for its money.

Beautiful warm toned eyeshadows in there perfect for skin with warm undertones, and you can create any look from a night time smokey eye to an everyday work look with that one.

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Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes: MAC Burgundy Times Nine Palette

Now, if you’re looking for an eyeshadow palette for blue eyes and blonde hair and/or pale skin to fair skin, the MAC Burgundy Times Nine palette should be a staple in your stash.

I didn’t use to like the MAC eyeshadow palettes, that’s true, but after using their Art Library collection, I thought again.

And I was a MAC makeup artist, so you know I’ve used their palettes over and over and over again.

This one is filled with beautiful dusty pink, burgundy and mauve eyeshadows, with a great balance between really light and dark eyeshadows – the possibilities are endless!

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Best Eyeshadows for Blue Eyes: Fenty Beauty Snap Shadows Cool Neutrals Palette

Another one of the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes and skin with cool undertones... the Fenty Beauty Cool Neutrals palette, from the Snap Shadows collection.

This one is more of your 90s type of palette, with some really cool toned pink, purple, mauve and greige eyeshadows.

Whatever happened to wearing greige eyeshadow, anyway?

The Fenty Beauty Snap Shadows palettes might be on the smaller side, but they pack a really good punch – they’re actually some of the best travel eyeshadow palettes in my opinion, just because a tiny little bit goes a really long way.

Wear this one with some dark red lipstick, purple lipstick, or even a beautiful black lipstick if you want to go out there wearing a statement look.

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Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes: MAC Art Library Nude Model Palette

I was talking about the MAC Burgundy Times Nine palette, and if you’re looking for a somewhat bigger palette for blue eyes and really fair skin, you’re going to love the Art Library Nude Model palette.

I still have to publish my Nude Model palette review, actually, which I got when I was still working at MAC Cosmetics in Paris, and this one is wow.

Before those and the Times Nine palettes, the eyeshadows were certainly not some of the best MAC products to have in your stash – far from it, actually.

While I would recommend the Nude Model palette and its beautiful pink to mauve and silver eyeshadows for blue eyes and pale skin, medium to dark skin tones should definitely go for the Flame Boyant palette.

This other one is filled with beautiful red, orange, gold and copper eyeshadows that are spot-on to enhance blue eyes and skin with warm undertones.

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Best Eyeshadows for Blue Eyes: 3ina The Sunset Eyeshadow Palette

I remember when 3ina started selling their products in London. I loved everything from their cream eyeshadows to their matte lipsticks, and had a couple of their eyeshadow palettes too.

They used to have a store in Covent Garden which is not open anymore, but one of the most famous makeup stores in London, Superdrug, does carry their range now.

So if you can find the 3ina Sunset palette, go for it – the 3ina eyeshadows have this really particular texture, really smooth and pigmented, almost like applying thick, colorful baby powder.

This is one is perfect to create really summery looks, and one of the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes and skin with warm undertones – especially during fall!

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Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes: BH Cosmetics Passion in Paris Palette

The way things are going, I’m going to be including the BH Cosmetics Passion in Paris palette in each and every guide that I write about palettes – lol, no lol.

Passion in Paris is a palette I discovered last year while browsing the Superdrug racks; on a shopping spree, you never know what you’re going to find.

This one is probably my favorite, favorite out of all my favorite eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes, period. Doesn’t matter whether you’ve got fair skin or super dark skin, the pigmentation is top-notch.

From blue eyeshadows to bright red and indigo, from dark green eyeshadow to lavender and silver, this is one of the most beautiful cool toned eyeshadow palettes I’ve ever seen.

And you should feel the texture of the eyeshadows, too! It’s incredible, and to think that this BH Cosmetics palette retails for well under $20 is simply astonishing.

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Best Eyeshadows for Blue Eyes: Violet Voss Hashtag Palette

Another one of my favorites, and from none other than Violet Voss, a master in terms of eyeshadow pigmentation… the Hashtag palette!

Even if we now talk more about Juvia’s Place and other indie makeup brands than we do the Violet Voss eyeshadow palettes, let’s not forget that the quality of her products is incredible for both makeup artists and makeup enthusiasts.

The Violet Voss Hashtag palette is really, really – really one of the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes on the market today.

You’ve got fair skin with cool undertones? Medium skin with really warm undertones? Super dark skin?

It does not matter with this palette; you can make each and every shade in there work on you.

Remember how I told you that you were going to want to go for reddish or orange eyeshadows if you’re looking for an eyeshadow palette to enhance your blue eyes?

That’s the one – and a perfect palette for green eyes and brown eyes too.

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Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes: Huda Beauty Rose Gold Palette

When Huda Beauty released her Rose Gold palette, makeup lovers across the world jumped on that Huda Beauty craze – and they were right to do so.

That came at a time when the Morphe eyeshadow palettes were still all the rage, and when we felt those buttery matte eyeshadows and astonishing metallic shades, we were all in awe.

From berry to terracotta, from hot pink to bronze eyeshadows, and from black to gold, you’ve got here a winner.

Indeed, you do have to put the price when you’re looking to buy the Huda Beauty products, but anyone after new eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes should take a look at this one, as it’s a perfect everyday and night time pick.

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Best Eyeshadows for Blue Eyes: Makeup Revolution Maxi Reloaded Big Shot Palette

The Makeup Revolution Maxi Reloaded Big Shot palette is one of my favorite rainbow eyeshadow palettes, and I included an affordable option here in case you’d like to try out different shades and various finishes.

I’ve had three of the Maxi Reloaded Makeup Revolution palettes, and I’ve loved them. They retail for under $20, and they’re super pigmented in a way that is still wearable for work and everyday situations.

While I wouldn’t necessarily recommend green eyeshadow on blue eyes, you can still make it work as a smokey eye.

Plus, in the rest of the Big Shot palette, you’ve got plenty of neutral eyeshadows, and orange, red, pink and purple eyeshadows to combine to enhance the blue in your eyes.

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Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes: Melt Cosmetics She’s in Parties Palette

The Melt Cosmetics She’s in Parties palette is one of my favorites out of this whole guide – I don’t know if you’ve ever tried any kind of Melt Cosmetics products, but they’re just incredible.

I can’t seem to find another word for it.

In the She’s in Parties palette, you’ve got an amazing selection of champagne, red eyeshadows and burgundy eyeshadows perfect to contrast those blue eyes beautifully.

And since purple also looks amazing with green eyes, if you’ve got blue green eyes, it’s a palette you should get for real.

Perfect for really fair skin, medium skin, olive skin, dark skin – and everyone in between.

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Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes: Byredo Fetes Noires Palette

The debate goes on still – do we apply black eyeshadow on blue eyes? For everyday looks, maybe not – you might want to go with soft, romantic eye looks instead of fully black shades.

However, one of the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes when you want to create an overly dramatic black smokey eye is the Byredo Fetes Noires palette.

It’s one of the only luxury eyeshadow palettes I’ll mention in this guide, but it’s definitely, totally worth it.

I actually considered including the Dior Black Bow palette that I wrote about in my guide to the best grey and silver eyeshadow palettes.

Yet, the combination of glittery black, grey and almost khaki eyeshadows in the Byredo Fetes Noires palette adds some otherworldly dimension to blue eyes – even green and brown eyes, it’s just a winner all around.

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16 Best Eyeshadow Palettes for Blue Eyes Blonde to Brunettes

There you have them, all the best eyeshadow palettes for blue eyes and fair skin, pale skin, dark skin, and blondes to brunettes!

I’ve tried to pick a good selection, both in terms of color stories and budget – hopefully, you’ll have found here all your new favorite eyeshadows to enhance your blue eyes!

Until next time!

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