Well, I don't think there's an unfair war going on or anything. Some people are sick of neutrals and some are sick of color, and some just hate everything. Me, I'm one who favors colorful eye looks over lips. These are my opinions and not assertions of fact:

Eyes should be the focal point of the face, lips should be secondary, and the nose last (which is why noses are minimized makeup-wise and not given anything to enhance it...which also makes me think someone should try it for fun.) I think it's imbalanced to wear emphasized lips by a bright/dark/shiny color and be minimal on the eyes, particularly if your lips are prominent already. I only wear nude lipstick for this reason, but I think people with smaller lips and bigger eyes could pull bold lips off more. Eyebrows should be visible enough to make the proportions of the face correct. They should not be so dark that they distract from the eyes, the most important part. As to bright colors aroujd the eyes, most of it is flattering. The melanin in your eyes can show up as a range of blacks, browns, hazels, greens, blues, and greys. Eyeshadows can enhance these colors and also not run the risk of switching focal points (eyes always first). Unnatural color on lips is a lot more risky. It can switch the focal point. Lips also indicate the health of your complexion, especially for lighter skin tones. Putting blue lipstick on immediately sucks a visual indication of health from the face. A warm and rosy skin tone can counter that, but if it's too warm you can look too yellow. Basically I think most people look bad with it, but a minority of the population can make it look attractive, especially if it doesn't draw too much attention from the eyes. As for strange colored blush, you are giving your cheeks too much focus. It's a nonharmonious blotch of color that can't blend off on the edges because green does not simply fade in saturation to the natural red tones, but a totally different hue. Eyeshadow is not as so much of a risk for being unattractive for his because a) eyes are harder to overdo than the rest of the face, and b) eyes have a bunch of contrast naturally and eyelids do not have to smoothly transition in color from eyelid to eye. That would look very strange...

But these are just my personal opinions. They may seem offensive to some, but I am not trying to put others down for their opinions!