L'Oreal Studio Secrets Professional Color Smokes Eye Shadow in "Lavender Smokes"

"Lavender smokes" is a collection of warm purple/brown shades that combine to create a sexy, smokey purple eye which complements brown eye colors.  I tried it on my own brown eyes, and I thought it looked nice, but I was disappointed at how the vibrant dark purple showed up--it just looked sort of grayish and boring, when it looks so interesting in the pan.  The light purple color hardly shows up at all.