eyeshadow question

MLE

I wear a small bit of eyeshadow to work.. subtle like!

Anyway, how do I stop it from riding up and forming a line in the crease of my eyelid?

Larianne

You need to get rid of the grease already on your eyelid. You can dust a bit of powder over it.

Also, do you use a creamy eyeshadow? If so it will tend to crease a little bit. Eye primers will help stop this. Most make-up ranges carry them.

Pythia

You need a good base! You can try Urban Decay's Primer Potion. I generally just use foundation and powder. You could also try using a skin coloured matte eyeshadow as a base if you don't use foundation.

smares

You can use a primer but if your skin doea not need a primer don't get it used to one. Very simple just make sure you apply your foundation on your eyelids and if use powder put some of that alond the grease of the eye.
Stick to matte eyeshadows no glitter or sparkle ones as it is less obvious. Hope this helps:)

moonflower

Urban Decay's primer. Seriously if you use this you will not get creases. I've had my eyeshadow on through showers, rain, sleep and dancing with this under is and had no creasing at all.
Other options are MAC paints/paintpots, Maybelline's mousse eyeshadows, Too Faced and Benefit do eyeshadow primers too. Any cream or mousse eyeshadow as a base should help, or if you don't want to buy anything new try putting concealer or even a creamy eyeliner on your lids.

Larianne

I wouldn't recommend putting foundation on your eyelids.

smares

Larianne wrote: »

I wouldn't recommend putting foundation on your eyelids.

If you go and get your make up done they never skip over your eyelids foundation is applied to the whole face including eye lids, it's like some places if doing make up that needs to last will put foundation on the lips it keeps the lipstick/gloss on

*Dallas

Larianne wrote: »

I wouldn't recommend putting foundation on your eyelids.

is there a specific reason you wouldnt recommend this?

i usually dabb a little bit on my eyes if there's some left on my finger or foundation brush

ps: on that Urban Dacay potion, i went in to debnams looking for a consealer and the idiot on the counter recommended using this. When i put it under my eyes, and then lightly blend it with my foundation, it starts to form a skin and come off (maybe its just the skin on my eyes)... but it does work great as an eyeshadow primer

Larianne

smares wrote: »

If you go and get your make up done they never skip over your eyelids foundation is applied to the whole face including eye lids

I was never trained this way. I've always used either a matte neutral tone powder/shadow or eye primer.

I have seen beauticians do this though.

*Dallas wrote: »

is there a specific reason you wouldnt recommend this?

You'll be putting grease on grease so it defeats the purpose really. If you feel eye primers they have a powdery finish. Also, foundation can be quite heavy and not good for the thin skin on your eyelids.

SarcasticFairy

If you're going for an eye primer, I wouldn't go with Urban Decay Eye Primer Potion. It's a great product but the packaging is useless and you have to cut the bottle apart to get at the majority of the product, which is a bit of a pain. I haven't tried it, but I have heard that Two Faced Shadow Insurance is just as good, only much easier to get at! I'm going to get it as soon as I run out of UDPP.

Larianne

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

If you're going for an eye primer, I wouldn't go with Urban Decay Eye Primer Potion. It's a great product but the packaging is useless and you have to cut the bottle apart to get at the majority of the product, which is a bit of a pain. I haven't tried it, but I have heard that Two Faced Shadow Insurance is just as good, only much easier to get at! I'm going to get it as soon as I run out of UDPP.

Yeah I've heard that too. Worth checking out I'd say!

moonflower

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

If you're going for an eye primer, I wouldn't go with Urban Decay Eye Primer Potion. It's a great product but the packaging is useless and you have to cut the bottle apart to get at the majority of the product, which is a bit of a pain. I haven't tried it, but I have heard that Two Faced Shadow Insurance is just as good, only much easier to get at! I'm going to get it as soon as I run out of UDPP.

Don't cut it open, just take the stopper out with a tweezers! You get pretty much all of it out that way and then you can cut it just to get the very last of it out.

MLE

Thanks for all the advice, I might try the foundation first as I dont have or wear a lot of makeup, so will only buy something else if that doesn't work.

My foundation that I wear to work is tinted moisturiser so hopefully that will do the trick.

SarcasticFairy

moonflower wrote: »

Don't cut it open, just take the stopper out with a tweezers! You get pretty much all of it out that way and then you can cut it just to get the very last of it out.

Does that work? I've heard that you still miss out on a heap of the stuff in at the curve?

moonflower

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

Does that work? I've heard that you still miss out on a heap of the stuff in at the curve?

You do still miss a bit, that's when you should resort to cutting it. It's not much though really. But if you cut it while there's still lots left it'll dry out unless you put it in a completely airproof container and open it as little as possible.

SarcasticFairy

moonflower wrote: »

You do still miss a bit, that's when you should resort to cutting it. It's not much though really. But if you cut it while there's still lots left it'll dry out unless you put it in a completely airproof container and open it as little as possible.

Yeah, I heard a lot about that too! Enkore makeup on youtube had a video about it a while ago. He suggested putting it into lip gloss pens... But your way sounds a lot easier

Bluebells

Yes I think a base is the way to go. As the others said Urban Decay do one (a matt light beigy liquid/cream), as does TooFaced (white/golden shimmer cream) and ArtDeco is a great alternative (light beige with subtle shimmer). Its much cheaper at E10.50 and gets great reviews. You can get it in Debinams on Henry st Dublin but its usually out of stock because its so popular.

Dust a good quality light neutral shadow or powder over the base and follow with usual powder eyeshadow. Or put cream eyeshadow directly over the primer and press a similar powder eyeshadow over it to set. Its a lot of effort but it will make a huge difference. Just dont use too much of anything and build up in layers. Make sure you moisterise the right amount for your skin type beforhand so it doesnt compleatly dry out you eyes!

Pythia

Bluebells wrote: »

Make sure you moisterise the right amount for your skin type beforhand so it doesnt compleatly dry out you eyes!

And don't over moisturise and grease up the lid either!

It's a fine art isn't it?!

moonflower

Bluebells wrote: »

Yes I think a base is the way to go. As the others said Urban Decay do one (a matt light beigy liquid/cream), as does TooFaced (white/golden shimmer cream) and ArtDeco is a great alternative (light beige with subtle shimmer). Its much cheaper at E10.50 and gets great reviews. You can get it in Debinams on Henry st Dublin but its usually out of stock because its so popular.

Do you know if Art Deco is available anywhere outside of Dublin? I've always wanted to try it because I've heard it's great but I've never seen it anywhere.

jenizzle

I got the Art Deco base in Debenhams last weekend. I've yet to give it a good try though. I've seen the brand in random chemists outside of Dublin. Boots don't stock it, so look for other bigger chemists, one of them is bound to have it.