How do you use cream eyeshadow in a look?
I’m most likely to use one on the inner tearduct to brighten or to smoke out the lower lash line.
— Christine
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If it’s a deeper shade I like to use it on the outer parts of the lids and crease as a base then use a lighter shade
If it’s a good one that doesn’t crease on me (like MAC Painterly), I’ll use it as an eyeshadow base in place of something like UDPP. I use Painterly a lot as a “no makeup” shadow to cancel out redness and veins on my lids. Other darker shades (Lise Watier’s Sortilege or MAC Constructivist) I will use on their own or as an enhancing base to “supplement” a powder shadow I’ll be putting over top.
I use cream shadows as a base, as a topper, if they are lighter in tone on the brow bone, or tear duct. Sometimes as a liner if they are viable in that capacity.
Usually as a mid-lid halo, inner lid shade or in the tearducts. I used to do entire eye looks using my repertoire of CP SSS’s, but hardly ever do so now.
If I use cream eyeshadow, it’s only on my main lid and is applied after I’ve put on my deep-set/transition shadows. I avoid applying any cream shadow too close or on the crease; the reason is that I’ve found that cream shadows don’t blend well with anything else. My blending experience has also resulted in my not buying or using more than one cream shadow at a time, especially in using a second one in the V-crease. This means that all cream shadows I own are ones that can be applied to the entire lid.
I follow up the whole-lid cream shadow with powder shadows for inner eye (if needed) and V-crease.
If it sets down and doesn’t crease then I will use it pretty much anywhere on the eye except through the crease. I try not to use anything shimmery in the crease.
Quasi off-topic, but I would really like to know (all small caps) what brushes/ brush styles to use to diffuse the Sydney Grace creams. I was highly psyched, but they all look bright, metallic, blinding. If I caught the eyes of another driver, they’d be blinded and run off the road. The Sonyas I have pack it on like a trowel, and even the fluffy Waynes don’t calm them down much. I picked neutrals, like down the coast and cliff jumping, iirc. Christine’s diffused swatches look fine, but I find myself trying to drab them down with setting powder, etc. I’ve had that effect rarely…CP Koosh comes to mind. I hate to give up on them, because, uh, Sydney Grace.
Something like IT #112 Airbrush Precision Shadow Brush or Real Techniques Blend Eye Brush (I think it’s only sold in a duo).
Thanks so much. Next Ulta sale?
I don’t really have any cream eyeshadows, but if I did, I would probably use it on my lashline.
I have oily, somewhat hooded lids, so I rarely use them. Almost all formulas crease on very quickly.
ColourPop SSS don’t crease on me. I usually use them for a pop of shimmer or metallic on the mobile lid, but I’ve used them for entire eye looks (all finishes), and eyeliners.
Maybelline Color Tattoos are the other formula that doesn’t crease on me. I used them on the mobile lid as a base for a powder shadow.
I mostly use cream aye shadows as a base. Right now I think the only one I have is Painterly. Years ago I tried using cream eye shadows and the creased like mad, before primers everything creased, but cream products more than others, and I still have that in the back of my mind, I think, so I don’t really buy anything in cream formulas, except said Painterly.
I’d most likely use it in a single shade look or as an eye liner.