The Universally Flattering Eyeshadow Colour
If you want to experiment with your eyeshadow colours and stray away from your beiges, browns, greys and blacks - find a purple shade. It's also universally flattering, no matter skin tone or eye colour. As long as you pick a real purple, where it's not leaning too fuscia or blue - then you'll be safe.
Depth or darkness of the purple may be up for debate in terms of what the occasion is and where you intend to place the colour on your eyelids- as a base or overall colour, or as a contour. A mid tone one would obviously be the most versatile in terms of being dark enough to be a subtle contour and build up intensity if needed, light enough without looking like you are doing a heavy smokey eye if you use it as an all over base colour. That being said, you can always overlay the purple over a white or very light coloured base to take away some of the darkness, or add a bit of your darker browns or blacks to add some depth in contouring.
A rule of makeup is you can always add colour but hard to subtract once you've got it on. So I would err on a lighter purple colour if you were only choosing one accent single shadow and not purchasing a larger palette.
The Valentine's Day Look
Anyhow I've come up with a universally flattering look for Valentine's Day for you ladies that want to add some gentle romantic colour accents instead of going for a nude/neutral everyday look. So yes, it's going to involve peach and purple eyeshadows, soft pink cheeks, dewy foundation with added highlights for glowing healthy looking skin, brown eyeliner for a soft but defined effect, peachy nude gloss lips with subtle shimmer.
