My favorite green eyeshadow colors, alphabetically by manufacturer and then by color name, are:

1. Aromaleigh v1's Avalon — I was looking for a good greyed green...and found this one. I wanted something that was actually fairly well pigmented, and most companies that make an eyeshadow this shade make it a bit less pigmented. (I also ended up getting the matte version of this color, Swampthing, when the manufacturer was discontinuing this line.)
2. Aromaleigh v1's Dragonfly — The green in this color isn't as fronted as I thought it might be, because of the metallic finish...but it's a gorgeous shade!
3. Aromaleigh v1's Elysia — it's a pastel blue-green, but it's not near-invisible like lighter, softer colors from other companies sometimes are. This comes from one of Aromaleigh v1's final collections, so the colors weren't as pigmented as some of her older stock collections; but that doesn't mean it's whisper-sheer, either. This color is somewhat similar to Spectral Light, but a bit more towards the green end of the spectrum.
4. Aromaleigh v1's Jigsawfeeling
5. Aromaleigh v1's Oceanrain —
6. Aromaleigh v1's Twinkling Lights — for some reason, people either love this shadow or hate it. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of middle ground - at least, not among the people I've spoken with. It caught my attention when I first started buying from Aromaleigh, but I waited too long and the collection was no longer available. I was thrilled when the Holiday Blast collection was brought back out of the vaults. Another color from this same collection, Champagne Toast, is one of my favorite brown colors.)
7. Bare Escentuals' Jade — I snagged several jars of this color - and given that it came out into open stock just under a year later, I paid too much for the jars (one of the downsides of Ebay: when you truly know that something's HTF and you love it, you don't blink at paying twice retail.) But at that time, there was no other teal-blue-green color like this, with this much pigmentation and depth, in BE's inventory. Indie companies didn't have an exact match, either, so I just bought myself (and my mom) as many jars as I could. If you've been looking for That Perfect Deep Teal matte liner shade, and want something that deep but not blackened, this is the color to check out. While my various indie companies have close matches, none of them have yet come out with an exact match. (I could send a sample to Caitlin of Shiro Cosmetics, but she's busier than a one-legged man in an asskicking contest, and I think it would just add to her mental load. I'll wait until she expands enough to eat and breathe and occasionally sleep more than two hours a night, and -=then=- I'll send her a sample of this color for duping.)
8. Bare Escentuals' Olive Mist — a faded green that looks like a washed-out version of Avalon, in the pot...but it's got a slight silver sheen when applied wet.
9. Bare Escentuals' Oz — there's a slight blackening to this color that's only really prominent when it's foiled. Applied dry, it's a well-pigmented, lush deep emerald shimmer. I've caught hints of a prior formulation of this color, but I'm very happy with this one!
10. Meow Cosmetics' Commercialism — an instant favorite almost as soon as I saw it.
11. Pure Luxe's Luster — this is one of the amazing colorshifting duochromes (or possibly a trichrome?) that makes use of the TKB Trading Planetary Traveller micas. I was almost able to capture the green/gold/red colorshift on the "dry over primer" swatch photo for this color!!
12. Shiro Cosmetics' Bulbasaur
13. The SheSpace's Broken Mind
14. The SheSpace's Dragon Breathe — when I first saw photos of this color, I thought: eh, it's a yellow-green, that's most definitely not up my alley. But then I saw several people use it in looks...and fell in love! It's a yellow green in the pot, a greenish-gold on the skin, and surprisingly...it works pretty well with my coloring. I like using this over black liner pencil or gel liner to get a black-gold iridescence.
15. The SheSpace's Happy Hour Hazards
16. The SheSpace's Moral Enemy
17. The SheSpace's Savor the Psychosis — This color is about halfway between Bare Escentuals' Oz and Bare Escentuals' Black Emerald: there's more green shimmer than Black Emerald, but a bit more blackening than in Oz.
18. The SheSpace's Tall Drink of Water

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