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by Shirley Bragg
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Top 10 Top Colors For Golden Skin and Dark Brown Hair

Guide Picks

You most likely have chestnut, dark brown or black hair. Your skin could be olive or golden and your eyes anywhere from a hazel to any variation of brown. Here are your top ten colors.

1) Olive Green

This makes a great color for both eye liner and shadow. For additional shades, mix with browns for a variety of shades to work with.

2) Red Clay

This makes a good cheek and lip color.

3) Golden Brown

A surprising interesting color for lips, especially when the eyes are dark and smouldering and you don't want the lips to compete.

4) Buff

This pale yellow/brown shade works well as a shadow or a highlighter.

5) Peach

Use peaches for shadows, blushes and lip colors. A very versatile color for you.

6) Gold

Another color that you can use as a shadow, over another lip color, a highlighter, even an eye liner. Don't forget to add a little to your blush as well.

7) Teal Blue

A smoky teal will give you that smoky eye that is so popular from one season to the next.

8) Copper

This color makes an amazing eye liner, but I'm sure that you will find lots of uses once you start playing with it.

9) Hot Chocolate

A great lipstick color. For that matter, most browns will work for you.

10) Stay Away From Pinks

There are very few shades of pink that you can pull off.

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