How to Not Make Your Eye Shadow Melt in Your Eyelid

An eye shadow brush helps to distibute a powder eye shadow over your eyelids.

Whether you use one, two or more shades of eye shadow on your eyelids, it can instantly accentuate your eyes. However, over the course of the day, your eye shadow may crease, or disappear and melt into your eyelid. Oily skin, hot weather, facial moisturizers and creamy eye shadows are often to blame for this. To keep your eye shadow from fading, it's essential to create an oil-free base for it to adhere to.

Things You'll Need

• Paper tissue
• Eyelid primer
• Powder brush
• Powder
• Eye shadow brush

Instructions

1. Pat a paper tissue over your eyelids to remove any oil from them. Avoid applying face lotion or cream to your eyelids, because this may create a greasy film that smudges your eye shadow.

2. Squeeze a pea-sized amount of eyelid primer on your clean fingertip. Close your left eye, and apply the primer to the left eyelid using light patting motions. Keep patting your eyelid until the eyelid appears completely dry. Repeat this on your right eyelid. Eyelid primer fills in the lines on your eyelid and forms a base that your eye shadow can adhere to, so it lasts longer.

3. Dip a powder brush in translucent powder, and dust it over your eyelids. The powder helps remove any remaining oil and creates a matte base.

4. Apply a powder eye shadow in the colors of your choice to your eyelids. Avoid cream-based eye shadows, because these melt and crease quicker.

5. Dust translucent powder over the eye shadow to set it and keep it in place.

Tips & Warnings

• To keep a cream eye shadow from slipping and fading, apply a layer of powder eye shadow over it. Use a powder eye shadow in a similar shade as the cream eye shadow. The powder eye shadow absorbs greasiness and keeps the cream shadow in place.

References

• Bella Sugar: 7 Tips to Prevent Eye Shadow From Creasing
• Cosmopolitan: Stay-Put Shadow Tricks