Essence I love Stage Eyeshadow Base Review

I had heard great things of this primer and as someone with oily eyelids I was excited to try this affordable primer! However this base was far too yellow and dark for my skin to work, when I tried it something looked off. Instead I gave it to my sister who enjoys it

I've come to accept that I have the worlds oiliest eyelids and this primer, like many, just couldn't withstand my oils. My eyeshadow would crease terribly every time I used it. If you have a darker complexion and normal eyelids this will probably work well for you.

This primer comes with a handy doe foot applicator and an awesome stopper that ensures you don't pull out too much product on the wand, and it means it doesn't get messy around the lid - I really like the packaging! The product itself is a yellowy-orange shade, which is awesome for cancelling out veins and discolouration on the eyelid, but it's much darker than my NC15-ish skin tone so I always had to wear shadow over it, there was no way I could wear it on its own.

One day my undereye circles were looking extra dark so I thought I'd try this guy out as a colour corrector. I placed some directly under my eyes, only where there was darkness, blended it out then put my normal concealer on top and it helped conceal the darkness more than my concealer on its own does. I was worried it would dry out the area during the day but it didn't affect my undereye texture at all. I've been using it daily as a colour corrector since to use it up - it doesn't perfectly hide the darkness, but it definitely helps!

Ok.so. I have used really expensive eye primers that seem to work the exact same as this. Like to be honest...we all know you can just use concealor to act as primer. BUT the other day I brought this to use on wedding clients. I tend to use everything I buy first to make sure I don’t get allergies as my skin is sensitive. If I have a reaction, I won’t use it on clients. This stuff was itchy AF! But I used it anyway because I thought it was just me. It was that constant itchy nipple itch that wasn’t too bad but PRESENT enough to be annoying! Then my clients started saying their eyes were itchy so NOPE. Good primer product but dodgy formula.. Maybe just stick (lol) with primer potion U. Decay.

I don't know how to use this product properly but it makes my eyeshadow look much better. Plus, it's soft and would make my eyes look great without eyshadow.

Love this product!

I just bought it because it was cheep and wanted to try something new!

I love the wand that you apply with it makes the product super easy to apply and blend out with fingers. I must say its a little dark for my skin but once i put my eye shadow on its unnoticeable and just makes my choice of eye shadow pop!

For the price i think this is a great product and it does what its meant to do!

I actually loved this product. I did find it was quite pigmented, which one on hand, for dark shadows, is great and provides a flawless base and coverage, however, for lighter shadows I found it slightly altered the colour. This wasn't enough to put me off though, as I do find it helps keep my eyeshadow, and liner, stay put all day, and hide all of my discolouration over my eyelids.

This was the second eyeshadow primer I ever used. I'll admit, I got it for the price and seeing how it's so cheap and accessible for me, why not?

It has a doe foot applicator which makes it very easy to use. One swipe on each eyelid, blend in and apply shadow!

I must say, it does a brilliant job of holding onto my shadows. I have oily monolids for reference. It will hold onto my gel liner (little other stays on) for up to 10 hours or so and my shadows will stay almost exactly the same while other stuff on my face would have faded or become oily and look like it needs to be removed. I have a palette of cheaper elf shadows and it holds onto those wonderfully too despite reviews of that saying it's not very pigmented.

For me, the only real downfall of this primer is that shimmery pastel shades don't show up quite as well. Still, unless you have eyeshadows like that you use on a very regular basis, I'd just keep buying and using this since it's such a great product for so low a price.

This is the best eyeshadow primer! I use this and like it far better than my Urban Decay and Smashbox primers - and it is so inexpensive compared to the others I just mentioned.

I really like the colour of this as it completely covers any discolouration on my lids. It has a nice matte finish and doesn't feel sticky or tacky which I have experienced with some other brands and am not a fan of.

It blends nicely - and most importantly it does make a noticeable difference to the brightness of colour and longevity of my shadow.

The little applicator makes this really easy to apply as well. I dab it onto my eyelids then blend out with my finger.