Beauty

[Regal Bee]

The Milani eyeshadow primer is my all time favorite...my shadow never creases. Bonus:  it is not expensive. 

[Icegoddess]

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@Shanus wrote:

@Icegoddess   Most stick shadows that say waterproof or long lasting also are a great primer. I use a cream colored one from Laura Mercier, but I can also wear it alone on "no makeup makeup days". Any light neutral shade that you find in Ulta, drugstore or Target, etc. will work fine. I also use MAC Painterly in a pot like @JudyL .

***I will put a light dusting of setting powder over it if using powder shadows.  If I put a cream shadow it isn't needed.

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@Shanus So, you're saying the Painterly needs a powder over it if using powder shadows?  What does it do if you don't?   Does it grab and not blend well?  That's the problem I'm having with the NYX.  I mostly wear powder shadows.  @JudyL do you have a problem with powder shadows with it?

[JudyL]

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@Icegoddess wrote:

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@Shanus wrote:

@Icegoddess   Most stick shadows that say waterproof or long lasting also are a great primer. I use a cream colored one from Laura Mercier, but I can also wear it alone on "no makeup makeup days". Any light neutral shade that you find in Ulta, drugstore or Target, etc. will work fine. I also use MAC Painterly in a pot like @JudyL .

***I will put a light dusting of setting powder over it if using powder shadows.  If I put a cream shadow it isn't needed.

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@Shanus So, you're saying the Painterly needs a powder over it if using powder shadows?  What does it do if you don't?   Does it grab and not blend well?  That's the problem I'm having with the NYX.  I mostly wear powder shadows.  @JudyL do you have a problem with powder shadows with it?

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@Icegoddess  - I don't have a problem with powder shadows but, like Shanus, I have always lightly powdered my eyeshadow primers whether that be the Milani or the Painterly.  Just feel that the shadows will blend easier but I've seen people not do it too.  Sometimes I'll take a light shadow from the palette I'm using and use that instead of a translucent powder.  Think it's a matter of personal preference.

[ccassaday]

I also have the Moira crème eyeshadow pot in beige. Much cheaper then the MAC. Between this and the glitter glue my eyeshadow lasts really well. I will take a little loose powder over it in the areas I don't use shimmer. Then the glitter glue goes where I use a shimmer.

[Icegoddess]

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@JudyL wrote:

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@Icegoddess wrote:

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@Shanus wrote:

@Icegoddess   Most stick shadows that say waterproof or long lasting also are a great primer. I use a cream colored one from Laura Mercier, but I can also wear it alone on "no makeup makeup days". Any light neutral shade that you find in Ulta, drugstore or Target, etc. will work fine. I also use MAC Painterly in a pot like @JudyL .

***I will put a light dusting of setting powder over it if using powder shadows.  If I put a cream shadow it isn't needed.

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@Shanus So, you're saying the Painterly needs a powder over it if using powder shadows?  What does it do if you don't?   Does it grab and not blend well?  That's the problem I'm having with the NYX.  I mostly wear powder shadows.  @JudyL do you have a problem with powder shadows with it?

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@Icegoddess  - I don't have a problem with powder shadows but, like Shanus, I have always lightly powdered my eyeshadow primers whether that be the Milani or the Painterly.  Just feel that the shadows will blend easier but I've seen people not do it too.  Sometimes I'll take a light shadow from the palette I'm using and use that instead of a translucent powder.  Think it's a matter of personal preference.

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@JudyL Thanks, I tried that yesterday with the NYX primer and it was still too grabby and hard to lblend.  Didn't help that I was using a Juvia's Place eyeshadow which is highly pigmented.  

[JudyL]

Well shoot @Icegoddess  - It may be the NYX primer is a really "grabby" primer.  Usually if I use a powder or eyeshadow, I don't have a problem.  Maybe try the Milani primer? 

[Shanus]

@Icegoddess   Most of the time I wear a beige or nude powder shadow, so using that over Painterly kind of sets it. Used on it's on, it's OK but I don't have oily eyelids. If you do, I'd set it w/ a neutral shadow or setting powder.