Makeup for your features
Makeup for redheads
Red hair is already a strong colour, so your makeup can repeat its warmth or contrast with it. Copper, bronze, peach and terracotta repeat it. Plum, olive green and navy contrast with it. Red hair often comes with fair skin, freckles and pale brows and lashes, but redheads have every skin tone, and the same choice works on each.
The pictures show our looks on a woman with fair skin, a few freckles, auburn hair and hooded green eyes. Christmas Makeup sets cranberry shimmer against a thin emerald liner on the lower lashes, and Prom Glam puts a plum outer corner next to rose-gold glitter. Try them on your selfie to see each colour next to your own hair.
Looks on red hair
11 looks
Douyin Makeup
Siren Eyes
Classic Red Lip
Goth Makeup
Cut Crease
Pakistani Bridal Makeup
Prom Glam
Christmas Makeup
Y2K Makeup
Festival Glitter
Graphic EyelinerMakeup tips for redheads
- Match your brows to your hair, not darker. A soft auburn, a warm taupe or a light brown with red in it looks like real hair, while a dark brown pencil looks drawn on.
- If your lashes are pale, use brown-black or auburn mascara in the day and black at night. Wiggle the wand right at the roots so no pale base shows.
- For contrast, put plum, aubergine, olive green or navy on the eyes. For a softer look that repeats your hair colour, use copper, bronze or peach.
- Blush in peach, apricot or soft coral sits well with red hair. Build it up slowly if your skin is fair.
- Let your freckles show through a skin tint or a sheer base, with concealer only where you need it. Douyin Makeup even adds painted freckles on top.
- For an everyday lip, a coral or warm nude is the easy choice. Pick one place for bright colour, the eyes or the lips, since your hair already adds a strong one.
Questions
- What eyeshadow colours suit red hair and green eyes?
- Plum, burgundy and aubergine bring out green eyes and contrast with red hair. Copper and bronze repeat the warmth of the hair. Christmas Makeup on this page uses cranberry shimmer and an emerald line under the eye on a redhead with green eyes.
- What colour should redheads fill their brows with?
- A shade close to your hair or a little lighter, in a soft auburn, warm taupe or light brown. Avoid dark brown and black. A tinted brow gel in a warm shade colours pale brow hairs without any drawn edge.
- Can redheads wear red lipstick?
- Yes. A warm brick red or a red with a little orange in it sits close to the hair, and a blue-based red or a berry gives more contrast. Classic Red Lip, a true blue-red, has a picture on red hair on this page.