Virtual Makeup Try-On: Find Your Prom Look by Dress Color
This virtual makeup try-on shows a complete prom makeup look for every popular dress color, right next to a Jovani gown in that shade. Pick your dress color, see the eyes, lips and cheeks that suit it, and copy the exact shades. Then see how the same looks change on light, medium and deep skin.
Your dress color decides your makeup
Choose one star feature, eyes or lips, and keep the rest soft. A red dress loves warm gold eyes. Black takes a cat eye and a red lip. Blue glows with coral. Open your color below to see the whole look on a model, next to the gown.
Find your prom makeup by dress color
Open your dress color. You will see the full makeup look next to a Jovani gown in that shade, the exact colors to shop for, and one pro tip.
Red dress
The look: Warm gold eyes, a soft brown wing and a soft rose nude lip.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: wispy natural strip, black-brown. Pro tip: Let the dress carry the color. Skip a second bold red unless your eyes stay bare.
Black dress
The look: A smoky cat eye with a bold black wing and a classic red lip.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: cat-eye strip, longest at outer third, black. Pro tip: This is the one look where dramatic lashes belong. Keep cheeks soft.
Bright pink dress
The look: A metallic gold lid with a warm brown outer corner and a pink lip.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: fluttery medium strip. Pro tip: Gold keeps a saturated pink from turning into one flat color.
Soft or pastel pink dress
The look: Soft neutral eyes, a thin liner and a rosy lip.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: wispy natural strip. Pro tip: Pastels look best with soft makeup. A bold eye can overpower them.
Gold dress
The look: A bronze metallic eye and a berry lip for contrast.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: medium volume strip. Pro tip: Let the dress do the shining. Keep skin fresh rather than frosty.
Purple dress
The look: A pale gold lid, a soft brown crease and a plum lip.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: medium volume strip. Pro tip: Gold sits opposite purple, so it makes the gown look richer.
Yellow dress (option 1)
The look: Purple shadow for contrast and a nude gloss.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: wispy medium strip. Pro tip: One strong color is enough. Here it is the shadow, so the lip stays soft.
Yellow dress (option 2)
The look: A bronze eye and a deep red lip.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: medium volume strip. Pro tip: Choose a deep red rather than a bright one next to yellow.
Blue dress
The look: A champagne and brown smoky eye with a coral lip.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: fluffy volume strip. Pro tip: Coral sits opposite blue on the color wheel, so it glows next to it.
Emerald dress
The look: A brown crease, a bright gold lid and a red lip.
Eye colors
Liner, lips and cheeks
Lashes: medium volume strip. Pro tip: Use green on the liner or the lids, never both, or it will match too much.
The same looks on light, medium and deep skin
Every shade shifts with your skin. Deeper skin takes richer lip colors and more saturated gold; lighter skin takes softer versions. Here are the red, black and blue dress looks on three skin tones, next to the bare face.
Light skin
Medium skin
Deep skin
How to adjust for your skin: on deep skin, pick lip colors at least as deep as your natural lip so they never look chalky, and choose golds with a warm, saturated tone. On light skin, sheer the same colors down so the eye stays soft.
Watch the red dress look, step by step
Ninety seconds from bare skin to the finished look, ending in Jovani style 48994.
AI illustration of a typical prom makeup routine. Not a real customer. All 15 steps are written out in the prom makeup guide.
Want the full guide?
For fabric tips, an all-night makeup timeline and fixes for melting foundation, white flash photos and lipstick on teeth, read our prom makeup guide. Ready to choose the gown first? Browse Jovani prom dresses.
About these images: the models are AI-generated, and the makeup is a digital preview made with our try-on tool. Real products, skin and lighting vary, so test shades in daylight before prom.