I don’t mind light to moderate fallout for the right shade/finish during application, but I only tolerate very little fallout during wear as the last thing I want is enough that it irritates my eyes!
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No thank you! I also don’t mind a bit during application (and if it’s easy to remove/lift off, that’s important too) but I really don’t want the kind that continues to sprinkle down onto my under-eye area and cheeks all day long and is essentially “stuck” to my skin. Two UD shadows – MCRA and Mauie Wowie (both long gone now, I think, since UD redid their eyeshadows) are the worst offenders that come to mind and both are heartbreakers because those 2 shadows are SO beautiful and wouldn’t have been any less beautiful without the impossible glitter fallout that, for me, made them unwearable and unusable.
As much as I thoroughly hate it, I recognize that there are times where it’s a “necessary evil”. Definitely something that I don’t want or expect from any matte, satin or straight up shimmer/metallic! And good quality formulas of such almost never give me any issues with fallout. However, sparkly shadows, especially many multichromes and other very dimensional, loosely pressed types of eyeshadows can and often do. This is where a sticky primer like Nyx Glitter Primer or wetting one’s brush after loading up the eyeshadow in question can totally mitigate that problem!
Getting irritating stuff in my eyes is my least favorite part of wearing makeup around them (sentiment probably shared by opthalmologists), beating out even my lazy distaste for removing it. Mid-application fallout is the reason why I am a tried-and-true eyes before face loyalist. Fallout during wear…eh? Getting eye makeup on my cheeks hasn’t been a huge problem for me post-application.
I despise fallout! I don’t get it with matte shadows bc I tap off excess and build opacity but I have hooded eyes so even with a glitter glue, I’d end up with sparkly fallout from shimmers. It’s not much of an issue anymore as I switched to using mostly cream and liquid metallics. They’re easier to use and no fallout!
Hate it, don’t want it near me. I’m not going to do my face makeup after my eyeshadow, nor clean-up after. I am not tolerating any fallout, I am not buying eyeshadow formulas difficult to work with.
It’s not that I can’t be bothered, but any eyeshadow prone to fallout “falls” into my eyes during the day, so it ends up irritating them.
I get really irritated by it, because I apply and set my concealer before I put on shadow, so fallout has the potential to be a disaster.
HI Lisa Marie! So like you profile photo! And fits the reply. Ha!
If I think an eyeshadow is going to give me a bit grief that way, I dampen the brush. Initially the Pixi Beauty Reflex light palette shades had a bit of fallout, so I dampened the brush and it was OK. After I used the palette a bit, that issue disappeared.
It would annoy me if it were a constant happening because you are just wasting your eyeshadows.
Fallout can be a deal breaker for me….I hate the mess of cleaning it up during and after application and, as a contact lens wearer, the irritation from loose eyeshadow can be intense.
With age, I’d prefer virtually none, but since I’m not going to throw out beautiful or pigmented shadows solely due to fallout, I’ve learned to cope by lightly brushing off and then applying my undereye concealer after doing my eyes.
I dislike it, I really, really do.
I can deal with fallout during application as long as it isn’t a lot, but I find it sticks to my skin so generally I have to remove it with some sort of remover and use serum, moisturizer and SPT on the areas I had to fix. Maybe I should use powder prior to foundations that would probably make it easier to just brush off.
Fallout during wear is a deal breaker for me. It happens even though I use primer and setting spray as well as a wet brush. I think if all of these things doesn’t help, the eyeshadow will stay unused in its palette, if it’s a single, I toss it.
Same as you, Christine. And I don’t mind a little fairy shimmer fallout landing on my cheekbones.