Glam up a smoky eye with silver! You can rock a sexy, silver, smoky eye as part of a Halloween costume (sexy pirate, sexy ice queen, sexy cop, sexy janitor…wait, what?). Or, you can glam up a fancy holiday party dress with smoky silver.

Here are my fave cruelty free silver shades (pictured above from L-R):

1. MAC Electra Frost – a cool silver with lots of shine
2. NYX Casting Call Palette – the second two swatches are from NYX’s Runway Collection. A warm silver with a dark gold overtone and a cooler silver. The palette has 10 shades with every kind of silver, grey and black you could ever want.
3. NYX Casting Call Palette in Casting Call.
4. Hard Candy Eye Def Glitter Eyeshadow - a liquid shadow that comes in a tube with a doe foot applicator – you can use it alone or over a powder shade. It has large glitter bits. Disco has a light purple tinge (shown above). Robot is a shimmery, traditional silver.
5. bareMinerals High Shine Eyecolor in Luster – I love this color! It’s exclusive to the Spotlight On: High Shine Eyecolor Kit. It’s called a “gilded chrome” which is a pretty accurate description – it’s somewhere between a gold and a silver. A really interesting color. Make sure to tap the applicator like crazy before applying to prevent fallout. Or better yet – skip the applicator and use your own brush.
6. bareMinerals Prime Time Primer Shadow in Midnight Silver – this is a colored primer that you can use alone or under other colors. Love.
7. bareMinerals Rock Star Eyecolor – also part of the Spotlight On: High Shine Eyecolor Kit. This gorgeous, super-shimmery smoke color is the reason I bought the kit – an amazing color. The pic makes it look black, but it’s really a sparkly grey.
8. Alima Pure mineral eyeshadow in Catwalk. Part of the Fall 2011 Runway Collection, Catwalk is a soft black when used dry. You can use it to darken any color. Or you can use it wet as an eyeliner. Bonus: Alima Pure is Leaping Bunny-certified and they donate $2 from each collection sold to the Global Fund for Women!

Jen