They’re easiest as lid colors or as eyeliner/layering shades over eyeliner. I also like taking more glittery formulas (with less base color) and patting on top of the center of the lid or using as an inner tearduct highlighter.
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Some of them – like MAC’s Paint Pots – I will use as a base, to prevent creasing of powder shadows and also to enhance the colour of what I put on top. Or I will use them as a “one and done” shadow that I can swipe on, blend a bit and then get on with my day without having to think too much about an “eye look”. I espcially love the Lise Watier and Sephora creamy shadow sticks for this, along with Clarins’s and Watier’s “cream-to-powder” shadows (in the little jars) for this.
I usually just put them all over my lid. I’ll use NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk as a base, but the rest are great on their own.
I don’t, for the most part. They tend to crease on my oily, somewhat hooded lids, even if I use primer.
*I use ColourPop creams, as they’re hybrid. I use them all as I would regular eyeshadows. They are the only cream shadows that I use as actual shadows.
*I sometimes use Maybelline Color Tattoos as a base, because they dries down completely.
*I’ll use the few liquids I own on the lid only, for sparkle, or as a liquid eyeliner. Liquids need to dry down completely to be useable.
It depends on which type of cream we’re talking about!
There is the ColourPop SSS cream-to-powder variety. Those work just fine used in conjunction with standard powder e/s, no lifting or disturbing of the powder.
Then there’s true cream formulas such as MAC Paint Pots, Pro Longwear WP Color Stick, or Maybelline Color Tattoos. I typically use these as a base, because they will make any powder I apply on top of them last through even a monsoon downpour or a swim!
Or, liquid cream types. I don’t have very many, because allergy tearing can break these up fairly immediately. However, since discovering Nyx Proof It! WP e/s primer through a fellow reader, Seraphine, I can at least use those few I do have with some semblance of confidence! These I usually apply only after I have applied my browbone and crease work with powder e/s’s. Always as either a halo pop or my lid shade.
I don’t use liquid eyeliners at all and have very few cream ones. I just use the cream eyeshadow as a base and layer any other eyeshadows I want to use on top.
I need help for my dried up, E.L x V.B Blonde Gold Eye Foil, in the pot. Should I use mixing medium like Inglot Duraline, or MAC mixing medium shine? I also have the water based, Face and Body mixing medium. Any advice is welcome! Thanks!
You could use duraline if you have it or just a bit of facial oil will be fine. Just add a tiny bit at a time though
Thank you, I used Duraline, but the consistency did not return to its original form. At least, maybe I can use it.
I’m not very imaginative — I tend to use them as one-color looks, except some matte ColourPop shadows which I use as base to a more complicated powder look.
I love my Colourpops super shocks even on my hooded eyes they stay put and I have tons of those just love them! Liquid I have never dared to use not skilled enough to mess with those. I have two of those I keep forgetting to try they were included in my Flight of Fancy kit and haven’t experimented with them yet but should. Colors are pretty.