What is the name of the bold eye shadow?

Answer 1

There are a few. As far as brands go? Revlon sells an inexpensive line called HIP--means "high intensity pigments." MAC and Smashbox have expensive lines of bold shadows.

But try this first before you buy special "bold" shadows: apply some of the shadow you have now with a bristle brush you dipped in water. You'll get a lot more product on your eye. What you have might be bold enough.

You might be thinking of kohl, the bold, black cosmetic used, mainly by women, for thousands of years to darken the edges of their eyelids. The use of kohl is recorded back to the Bronze Age, and is considered to go back further than recorded history. Kohl use was common in Southern Asia, Arab countries, the Mediterranean, Egypt, the Middle East and Africa.

Examples of implements used in its preparation and application have been discovered

by archaeologists, and similar tools are still in use. While kohl has always been used as a cosmetic it also is considered traditionally to have health benefits.

Kohl is still used today in some countries.

(If you want some kohl and you live in the US, go to a Muslim grocery store. The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) told his people to use kohl all the time. He said "Use kohl made of ithmid on the eye for it brightens the eyesight, and strengthens and increases the growth of the eyelashes." It may do those things, but its real use is to keep the sun out of your eyes, kind of like a football player's eye black. In Muslim culture everyone--men, women and children--uses kohl, but in Western countries most men only wear it to mosque because, well, it's eyeliner.)