Metallics are associated with luxury and elegance. Whether you’re going for subtle glamour or all-out dazzle this spring, metallic accents are a great way to heat up your look!
The best way to tell whether an eyeshadow you’re buying is metallic is to test it on the back of your hand – simply looking at the color won’t do the trick. Metallics have exceptional reflective abilities and superb coverage. Rubbing it on the back of your hand should look like a thin layer of foil has been painted onto your skin – think the gold leaf effect.
The results you can achieve with a metallic eyeshadow are truly stunning. Dip a thin, wet brush into the powder and use it as eyeliner or paint the entire lid for a mesmerizing liquid gold effect!
Gold eye & lip accents at John Galliano’s
Bronze eyeshadow with leopard overlay
Cintia Dicker’s metallic star
Win 3 metallic shadows from Lime Crime
To win, tell me about your favorite metallic beauty product. Winner will be picked at random the night of Sunday, March 8th!
That leopard eyeshadow is amazing.
I have some metallic liquid eyeliner and I love it :) Might have to invest in some more metallic make-up!
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I love this trend. I love metallic silver, especially, around my eyes to give me that 80′s rock-star look. ;) Besides, I love anything sparkly, shimmery, etc. and metallic is in that same glamorous family!
I don’t own any metallic beauty products…yet! Although I will confess to experiments with my dear friend tin foil…I guess anything can be a beauty product if you try..hehe!
My favorite metallic beauty product is a gorgeous steel colored effect powder from GOSH! It is sooo incredible!! <3
I have a metallic bluish green eyeliner that I’ve been dying to try out–maybe someday, when I have the clothes to go with it! :DDD
I recently purchased a kryolan aquacolor palette, and I’m in love with the gold and the silver inside it. It’s a little bit hard to use because you have to get it wet, but the results are fab.
Color Design Eyeshadow – # 501 Silver Shines, is my favourite metallic product in my collection. It has amazing colour payoff and lasts all day. Gotta love the metallics, you can create some very bold looks with them.
I used to have this absolutely delicious soft gold metallic eyeshadow that I was obsessed with! I have been dying to find a new one just as good with no luck, but yours look just as divine!
CURRENTLY my favorite metallic beauty product is a little set I bought from Charlotte Russe — it has 3 little pots that stack on top of each other — one has a silvery cream shadow and another a purple metallic cream shadow and the third has a loose silver glitter. :) I LOVE to give myself that silver metallic base and then pack in the glitter on top for special occasions — usually concert going because the glitter pops in the dark with low lighting. :)
Suddenly I’m feeling like my metallics collection is a bit underrated… right now the closest/best I have would be this gunmetal/greenish color by MAC. I love how thickly it goes on, the unusual color, and how I can seem to wear it with anything…
I love the Mac xCreme metallic shadows..
Treasure chest looks the best to me, bright golds are just so stunning, and they seem to bring back the warmth, even in this time of year.
My second favorite is Mirror Mirror, but since I’m yearning for some heat I’ll give my vote to the gold.
My absooolute favorite metallic make-up is this kryolan set I bought, it came with a gold, bronze and silver lip gloss set that came out true to color, and the best part? The watercolor metallic that came with it! I wear the silver almost every single day wet, either by itself or with my eyeshadow over it. It enhances the color of the eyeshadow and its my favorite base and eye make up!
my favorite metallic makeup product is this NYC cosmetics eyeshadow pot in silver, its sparkly and glammy and i love to wear it with some black eyeliner for a smokey effect :)
At the moment, my favourite product is a gold eyeshadow by Bobbi Brown which gives a nice understated shimmer. I don’t really have any strong metallic colours but the new Lime Crime ones definitely look as if they’ll do the trick!
I have this new liquid liner by Kat Von D… it is a shade of metallic purple. It takes a few coats, which sucks, but once done looks freaking awesome!
My favourite metallic product is GOSH’s Velvet Touch / No7′s Metallic eyeliner pencils.
I love them because I can either be lazy and wear a neutral shadow with the liner as a dazzling pop of colour, or I can use them to make a smokey eye more interesting.
I think coloured metallic liners have more.. dimension than usual kohl ones.
I love my Mac pigment in Silver Fog. The silver is so intense that in bright sunlight it reflects like metal
Hmmm… I guess my favourite is an eyeliner I bought with a friend of mine. We both liked that colour so much that we decided to both buy it :)
She recently came over to my place and brought her eyeliner too. It’s not even a quarter of the size it used to be :D And mine was as big as hers! We both use it almost every day :)
So this is not only my favourite because of the beautiful bronze colour, but also because of the memories and the fact that we both have the same one :)
My favourite metallic beauty product is the ‘Dazzle Me!’ Eye Dust by Collection 2000 in ‘Bedazzle.’ It’s a fantastic light golden colour, but the effect is hard to put into words, so I wrote a poem instead :D
Thin as pixie dust, light as air,
Bold in colour, yet barely there.
Like a sunrise on a winters day,
Smooth and golden, like a sun ray.
Dazzle me eye dust is the way to go,
That’s a thing everyone should know.
More shades, that’s the only thing I lack,
Once you try Bedazzle, you’ll never go back!
There you go! I’d love to upgrade my metallics to Limecrime, so wish me luck!
JayeLouise xx
I have a bunch of GOSH metallics. Anytime I bother with eyeshadow, they’re in there somewhere.
I haven’t had the pleasure of trying any of the Lime Crime metallic products, but I would definitely say that my favorite metallic product that I have right now is a Lancome color that is a deep, high shimmer bronze that is too dark to use as a bronzer for my all-over skin, but looks absolutely amazing when used in contrast with a lighter champagne sparkle eyeshadow that I have. Depending on whether its evening wear, or I’m just looking to spice something up for the daytime, it makes an EXCELLENT base, or contrast color. I have strawberry blonde hair with cinnamon/hazel eyes, so especially when I use it in the crease of my eyelid with a lighter color it really makes my features pop. Love it!
my favourite metallic product is a trio by Bourgeois. it’s a white, pink, and dark pink trio of shadows that looks absolutely stunning when blended together!
I absolutely love ben nye’s metallic shimmer powder, they can be applied wet or dry and are super vibrant! kroylan also has some neat products, who cares if their meant for the stage ;)
I love metallic nailpolish, the kind that makes your nails look like they are covered in gold leaf or aluminum foil.
My favorite metallic beauty product would actually have to be Siren magic eyedust! I have never seen such a red in my life! It just looks sooo other worldy,shiny,sexy, and exotic!
I had a nail polish that I bought at a Sanrio store a long time ago. It was a gorgeous silvery neon green that I’ve never been able to find again ): It was a tiny bottle too, so I used it up really fast.
My favorite metallic product is an eyeliner in green. It is vibrant, which I love, and gives a very glamorous look to any ensemble.
I haven’t tried any of the Lime Crime products, but have been wanting to for a while now!
I ordered some Go Glam shadow shades from The She Space, and some of them probably are pretty close to metallic. I also got some metallic shadow palettes for cheap to play around
I’m turning 30 this year and for my birthday I’m having an 80′s party and what brings back the 80′s more than metallic makeup!!!
My favorite metallic cosmetic would definiatly be Rimmel’s Stir It Up cream eyeshadow in No Way! It’s an amazing silver with lighter and darker tones mixed in, with amazing shine. My favorite eyeshadow so far, but that’s only because I haven’t bought any Lime Crime yet ;P
Metallic is definitely my favorite beauty trend right now! I have a fierce bronze eyeshadow from Maybelline that came in a brown eyeshadow combo. It surprised me how vibrant it was when I put it on wet – I even prefer it to my MAC shades of gold :)
MAC eye pencil in So There Jade.
It is sooo turquoise and shimmery that it makes my brown eyes and red hair totally pop. Its so unusual and yet so quick and easy. I can look fabulous in like, 30 seconds.
Glitter. End of story. I love the little MAC pigments to death, I use them for EVERYTHING, from eyeshadow to hiliter to eyeliner, they’ve got such a punch for such a little amount of product. And they’ve got stuff from the legitimate glitter looking stuff to the loose powder, all of which are equally metallic. Plus, mixing and matching colors? All the way! Not to mention, very easy to control.
The only problem you run into is when you get stuff like Teal which is not safe for your eyes… I learned that one only after I’d been using it on my eyes for a while… Oops.
My fav metallic product was this no name duo with this amazing true gold and beautiful olive green color that I had when I was 17. I havent been able to find it, or a better gold since. It made my blue eyes pop!
I absolutely adore the coloured eyeliners from GOSH. They’re very bright AND metallic. How awesome is that? I have one in dark green and a very light green that has a little bit of gold in it.
ooh! my favorite metalic product would have to be mac paintpot in rubenesque. its a lovely peachy gold color.
My favorite is a Bobbi Brown metallic eyeshadow I recently received as a gift in the loveliest light plum color!
I have this uber old max-factor eyeshadow trio, and they are these incredible, metallic shades. one is called caribbean, and it’s this green-blue color, there’s a colour called sable, and it’s a purplish metallic brown, and the last one is violet, and it’s… well, violet. :P yeah, they looks so nice together, i love them!
I love my MAC Metal-X Cream Shadow in Goldspice and my Urban Decay liquid liner in Honey, but I just got Too Faced’s “Girls Dig Pearls” lip gloss in Mermaid and it is my favorite product ever. It’s pinkish with gold glitter and I know it doesn’t create the metallic foil look like the other products, but it makes my mouth look like a gemstone or something.
Favorite. Ever.
Some of my favorite metallic products are those beautiful, metallic eyeshadows! MAC has great shadows but i’ve been dying to try LimeCrime!!!
Kryolan aqua colors in silver is my fav! espically on stage, it’s stunning!
I love metallic eyeshadow, especially in silver. Using it as eyeliner gives my dark eyes that shimmer to make them pop!
Loving the LimeCrime line! Such fabulous items you continue to cook up for us! :)
My fav. metalic make-up product is the Lime Crime Empress eye shadow mixed with a bit of water. It turns in to the prettiest metalic purple when applyed wet. And it stays shiney all day. So many people notice it!!
(and I am not writing this to kiss your ass…its just true :) )
I, also, am not trying to kiss ass, I love my Lime Crime eyeshadow in Diva, it’s perrfect, I haven’t used another metallic product that’s anywhere near as good!
I love any and all metallics! I can’t have my eyeshadows or pigments without some sort of shimmer. Honestly I love my highlight colour the best, its a loreal pigment in a frosty white shade that I have had for years and it definitely gets its use!
Right now my favorite metallic products are Kryolan aquacolors that I use as eyeliner. I have the silver and the gold one..well..HAD them. I think that someone borrowed them as I have not seen them in awhile! I also dig MAC pro pigment in Gold. Very lush!
I’m in love with a grey metallic pigment from Barry M which is so incredibly reflective when I put it on my eyes! I’m a big fan of the smoky eyes and this pigment is amazing over a wet black eyeshadow, it just magnifies my eyes. I’ve not yet tried any Lime Crime makeup because I’m only a student and I’m really quite poor, but I really hope to buy pretty much all of the pigments one day when I’m a rich artiste! (:
I love gold eyeshadow.
I haven’t had the money to try the Limeyshadows yet, so for now my favorite is Milani’s liquid gold liner. Cheap and so pretty! even my boyfriend notices and always comments on how much he loves it, and he’s a boy who can’t tell shadows from shinola, so that’s impressive.