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Eye shadow primer
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ELF works for me for a while and then starts creasing. UDPP is seriously expensive but worth it I guess! I might bite the bullet some day!
Nishu
www.lipsnberries.com
Nishu
www.lipsnberries.com
I love love love love love LOVE love love love.. The smashbox eyeshadow primer. The best one i have ever used.. As you can tell from all the loves! Haha
Its just so dreamy to blend, nice and easy wearing and long lasting. It is a bit pricy, but is definitely a must have (its pretty good as doubling as your eye concealer too!)
Its just so dreamy to blend, nice and easy wearing and long lasting. It is a bit pricy, but is definitely a must have (its pretty good as doubling as your eye concealer too!)
What I found that worked best isn't actually a primer by name but its the Maybelline Eye tattoo eyeshadows in the little pots..
It is by far the longest lasting eyeshadows I have used, and the white (pearly colour) and silver colours work amazingly as a primer and make any eyeshadow you wear really pop on your eyes.
You can blend them out really well too, so for example with the white, if you dont want the eyeshadow on top to pop as much, it wont.
At $14 per pot, they last for ages and I love them! Highly recommended :)
It is by far the longest lasting eyeshadows I have used, and the white (pearly colour) and silver colours work amazingly as a primer and make any eyeshadow you wear really pop on your eyes.
You can blend them out really well too, so for example with the white, if you dont want the eyeshadow on top to pop as much, it wont.
At $14 per pot, they last for ages and I love them! Highly recommended :)
I actually brought my Urban Decay 2nd hand from Trademe! I know it sounds weird, but because mine is in the squueze tube I didn't have to worry about contamination. I've had it for over a year, use it fairly regularly and I would say i've barely made a dent. It is so amazingly fantastic and worth the price!
I highly recommend the Jordana eye primer its in a little black screw top pot and is a pale pinky beige shade and it is matte. It is fantastic and you can get it at $2 shops and other cheap variety stores. Alternatively Maybelline color tattoo in 'barely branded' does a really good job of holding shadow in place all day but it is slightly metallic in finish but doesn't really show up under shadow which is fine.
I have quite oily eyelids and found that I would have such nice eyeshadow just to have it sink into all my creases an hour later then I got recommended to try the lime crime shadow helper and seriously it is amazing!! I put a bit of that onto both my eyes then use a mac fluidline as a paint pot base (works better then using as an eyeliner lol) and then apply my eyeshadow on top and it stays perfect until I take it off at the end of the day
My first ever eyeshadow primer now works as a concealer, it's the Nyx skin coloured eyeshadow-primer, I didn't think it did anything against creasing or for lasting-power, nothing different than without! I've read an article about what you can use your eyeshadow primers for on the internet and for the skin colored ones it said they're really good as concealers, and were they right?? Yes, they were!!:) (Happily the color melts nicely into my skintone too)
Hey, thought I'd revive this helpful thread and see if there are any new ideas out there.
I've been trying out different primers and find almost all of then make my eyes water or the lids get hot. When my lids heat up all product over the vein on my lid disappears, no matter what I used on it, and a bare patch of eyelid shows. I tried UDD, Lime Crime, Art Deco, Elf. It's really frustrating because before I realised that my eyes were sensitive I bought 5 Chichi eyeshadow pallets. Also I think my eyes don't like many of the glittery shadows so am experimenting with that at the same time.
The best luck I've had so far is in using cream eyeshadows or color tattoos, then adding some shadow, but it's really not the same as a pretty blended eyeshadow look.
So anyway, has anyone with sensitive eyes tried anything other than above? What news is out there on eye primers & bases now?
Someone commented on Clarins above - do they let you trial products before purchase?
I've been trying out different primers and find almost all of then make my eyes water or the lids get hot. When my lids heat up all product over the vein on my lid disappears, no matter what I used on it, and a bare patch of eyelid shows. I tried UDD, Lime Crime, Art Deco, Elf. It's really frustrating because before I realised that my eyes were sensitive I bought 5 Chichi eyeshadow pallets. Also I think my eyes don't like many of the glittery shadows so am experimenting with that at the same time.
The best luck I've had so far is in using cream eyeshadows or color tattoos, then adding some shadow, but it's really not the same as a pretty blended eyeshadow look.
So anyway, has anyone with sensitive eyes tried anything other than above? What news is out there on eye primers & bases now?
Someone commented on Clarins above - do they let you trial products before purchase?
I have an Elizabeth Arden eye primer that is quite good and lasting, come in a tiny white tube and is skin coloured sort of. I have tough as nail skin I think so can't comment on sensitivity. My daughter has sensitive skin, I could Guinea pig her and do a test patch(She's at school at the moment) which is not as bad mum as it sounds-I'm issuing her as a model for something in a couple of weeks so I'll have to test a few of my items to make sure - right before family photos I used a moisturiser on her that I use everyday and she went red like a Beetroot! So I do need to test stuff and I comment if no reaction tomorrow.
Haha! That would be great if she doesn't mind.
Today I tried 2 new ones at Makeup Direct (both unpleasant, and with names I don't remember) and then went to Farmers for a tester of Clarins, which was possibly ok, though it had a strong fragrance. Silly me went out into cold wind afterwards so can't tell if eye watering was due to product or wind. Will do that experiment again in a mall.
Today I tried 2 new ones at Makeup Direct (both unpleasant, and with names I don't remember) and then went to Farmers for a tester of Clarins, which was possibly ok, though it had a strong fragrance. Silly me went out into cold wind afterwards so can't tell if eye watering was due to product or wind. Will do that experiment again in a mall.
I wish they would sell smaller tubes to allow for a longer testing period. I find that I tolerate some of them once but 2 or 3 days in a row and my eyes start watering again.
Decided to get Chichi primer after testing next to a NYX one today. Found a 98% new one on TM for $10 so that's a cheap experiment
Decided to get Chichi primer after testing next to a NYX one today. Found a 98% new one on TM for $10 so that's a cheap experiment
Thought I would update this thread as it is a useful resource....
the Chichi primer made my eyes water immediately so had to stop that trial.
After that I gave up for a while. Last week as a last ditch attempt I bought some ELF mineral primer from iheal on Trademe, and it's OK. Like the other ELF primer I tried, it didn't make my eyes water but I had doubts about it sticking.
The first time I tried it, I used quite light shadow and it seemed to have creased. today I went with bolder shades and allowed the primer some time to dry before applying shadow, and lo and behold , it has stayed on my eyes all day! It seems too light to survive a sweaty gym session but it will make a nice change for the weekend.
So, I definitely recommend trying this primer, but you'll likely only find it at a couple of sellers on TM, as Kmart only have the other variety which I have already condemned for my purposes.
good luck, and hope my findings were helpful :-)
the Chichi primer made my eyes water immediately so had to stop that trial.
After that I gave up for a while. Last week as a last ditch attempt I bought some ELF mineral primer from iheal on Trademe, and it's OK. Like the other ELF primer I tried, it didn't make my eyes water but I had doubts about it sticking.
The first time I tried it, I used quite light shadow and it seemed to have creased. today I went with bolder shades and allowed the primer some time to dry before applying shadow, and lo and behold , it has stayed on my eyes all day! It seems too light to survive a sweaty gym session but it will make a nice change for the weekend.
So, I definitely recommend trying this primer, but you'll likely only find it at a couple of sellers on TM, as Kmart only have the other variety which I have already condemned for my purposes.
good luck, and hope my findings were helpful :-)
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