Hello! First post here but long time lurker and honestly love you guys. I searched the sub for my question and couldn’t find much but I’m also impatient af so if this is an annoying repeat-type post, I apologize!

Anyway I love eyeshadow. I love to experiment and try new things, wear bold colors, etc. I have over 70 beautiful palettes including everything from drugstore to high end. Lately I have been noticing that no matter what I do (primer, primer powder, white primer, glitter glue, nothing, setting spray or powder, liquid eyeshadow from Kosas, just everything) I cannot get my eyeshadow to last more than an hour or two. It’s so frustrating! I’ll work hard on a look and love it, but then I go to the bathroom and I’m like what the fuck where did it GO?! It’s just gone. Faded to a faint hue. (Also as an add- all my mascara rubs off on my top eyelids all day too)

I should note I have no idea what my eye shape is and also that when I was younger I never had this problem…. But I’m almost 43 (on Sunday) and maybe that’s what’s causing it? If anyone has any experience with this or tips for me, I’d really appreciate it.

Aghhh! Help… my palettes are a ‘wastin

First of all, I’m a makeup newb. I’m using Socialite shadow stick by color pop and immediately after putting on it rubs off in spots and I am reapplying constantly! In the picture you can so it’s around the center of my eye you can see its patches where it’s rubbed off from blinking I guess.

I’ve tried putting Winky Lux eyeshadow primer on first, and I also put Urban Decay makeup setting spray on to no avail. Any suggestions?

My eyes have been what I think is reacting to something on my eyes which has been affecting my eyeshadow. As you can see in the first picture, it starts out with the corner of my eye with like lines that seem to be the eyeshadow not wanting to stick to my eye or something like that. In that photo I’m wearing colorpop’s All Amethyst pallet (shades high grade, trigonal, and sunbird) with NYX ultimate shadow eyeshadow primer, which I’ve stopped wearing. It then escalates to crumbling or sticking, whatever you like to call it. My left eye is also generally very watery when this happens, which doesn’t help. It tends to water shortly after I put my makeup on, and then won’t stop “crying” for generally the whole time I have makeup on. I don’t know if it’s a reaction or what, but I don’t know how to fix it. For the first 3-4 years of me wearing makeup, with the first 2 being with Mary Kay eyeshadow and no primer, the next one being color pop eyeshadow and no primer, and the last being color pop eyeshadow with the NYX primer, this didn’t happen at all. Then in the past year to year and a half it just started, and hasn’t really stopped. Any advice would be great, I’ve been trying to figure out why this is happening and have not succeeded so far. In the second and third photos I’m wearing Juvia’s Place The Candy Shop palette for the lighter pink (shade 5 [I can’t find the name]), and their Garden of Juvia’s palette for the darker pink (shade peony) with NYX ultimate shadow eyeshadow primer. In the fourth and fifth I’m wearing Mary Kay Chromafusion Eye Shadow- shades Sunlit Rose, Frozen Iris, and Sweet Plum, with Urban Decay Original eyeshadow primer. I used Urban Decay All Nighter setting spray for both the Juvia’s palace and Mary Kay looks. Maybe this can help with why this is happening, idk. I’ve tried removing eyeshadow primer from my looks but it doesn’t tend to help, but I’m not sure if it’s the eyeshadow brand either.

Routine: I have chronic eczema and sometimes get around my eyes, so I have to heavy pre-moisturizer with la roche-posay cicaplast mixed with double repair. Followed by super goop glow tinted screen, urban decay eye primer, concealer, then eyeshadow (tinted eyestick),followed by Eyeliner/mascara. Lastly tarte maracuja setting spray. It does not matter the brand of eyeshadow I use, it always ends up looking like this :( Also happens when instead of using super goop, I use hourglass tinted moisturizer. Please help 😩

Ok, I’m going insane!!

I cannot for the life of me keep my eyeshadow from creasing!! I’m 42f and I have hooded eyes(always have) and this has never been a problem since I started using eyeshadow primer about 16 years ago!

I’ve always used Urban Decay eyeshadow primer and Urban Decay eyeshadow with great success…but not anymore! After 2 hours it starts creasing.

I’ve tried using the most minuscule amount of primer, I’ve tried using the amount I usually use(pretty tiny amount), I’ve tried using more. I’ve tried using over the top of foundation and without foundation. I’ve tried buying new primer and eyeshadow thinking that was the issue. I just tried the Clinique eyeshadow primer and it was just as bad. I’ve tried ColourPop eyeshadow also and it creased even more.

I use Tarte Shape Tape setting spray(a good amount) and let it dry before opening my eyes.

I’m losing my mind over here! What can I use to prevent creasing?

I'm a college student who wears high pigmented eyeshadow everyday. About half way through the day it is looking patchy/creasing. I use Fondation and power on my eyelids before shadow because it's all I have. Any recommendations for primers for eye shadow is appreciated. I want my makeup to last all day (about 10 hours)

I have a love/hate relationship with glitter pigments. I love the way it looks and catches the light, but I cannot figure out what combination of primer and setting spray will actually keep it where I put it. I primarily like glitter for eye looks, and I have issues with expensive pigments as well as cheaper alternatives.

For the past couple weeks I've been experimenting with different primers and setting sprays - nothing seems to work for me. I end up with huge creases and sometimes little clumps of glitter just sort of fall off my lids.

I have very hooded eyes, and my lids are fairly oily. I have tried, in order of useless to sort of okay:

no primer or setting spray at all (as a control - glitter creased in less than 20 minutes)

NYX Ultimate Shadow & Liner Primer (almost as bad as using nothing, my glitter was almost completely gone by the end of the day)

Karla Cosmetics Primer (even using it with only Karla Cosmetics glitter pigment and setting spray, I had crazy creases after work)

Elizabeth Mott Thank Me Later Eye Primer (worked a little better at keeping my base eyeshadow in place, but the glitter I put on top was basically gone)

I have tried all the above primers with Karla Cosmetics setting spray (honestly I don't understand the good reviews for this product, it was about as effective as water) and On 'Til Dawn setting spray (worked better but glitter still transfered to anything that touched it, and I don't like the mattifying affect on glitter).

I've tried layering setting spray between products, just applying it at the end, and also spritzing my brushes before picking up product.

I have tried applying glitter both heavily and lightly, with a brush and with my fingers, on its own, over powder eyeshadow, over cream/liquid eyeshadow, and it's just creases all the way down.

I'd like to try Urban Decay Primer Potion with glitter, because I know it keeps matte shadows on my eyes beautifully, but I got a bad batch or something, my last tube was really liquidy and separated. I ordered a new one, and hopefully that fixes my glitter problems, but until I have it I figured I would ask for advice.

(BTW, Urban Decay customer service reimbursed me for the bad primer even though I bought it at Sephora and it was outside the return window. A+ policy, love them forever)

I also stopped using Urban Decay setting spray because it travels horribly and I can never keep it from leaking in my makeup bag. But maybe I need to go back to it?

I just want to feel confident with my makeup at the end of the day without being forced to stick with only mattes and shimmers.

What's your secret sauce for glitter looks? What glitter pigments actually stay where you put them?

Edit to add: I left a primer off the list - I have also tried Naba Cosmetics pigment glue, and even with their own pigments, it was pretty useless.

Calling all fellow sufferers of the oily and hooded eye combo - at my wits end with this one so thought I’d throw it out here. Have had it with buying super nice palettes after hearing they are amazing (and they are, pigmented and lovely and EXPENSIVE) only for the formula to last about two seconds on my eye area. I know prep is key so I am drying the lid beforehand, using an oil absorbing base powder, then a primer (have tried countless primers at this stage) and setting spray and absolutely nothing works. So now I want to know if there are any eyeshadow formulas out there that will give me a fighting chance before I drop the cash again.

Brands I’ve tried:

• old KVD (this is by far the best formula BUT not the same since the brand shake up so I am clinging onto my old Lolita palette for dear life)
• Urban Decay (okay, but I wouldn’t get a full day)
• ABH (the worst - love the colours, but I blink and they are gone)
• Huda (also the worst - not even an hour)
• Elf I am now no longer buying for reasons we all know so that’s also out

I have also tried eyeshadow sticks, creams vs powders, you name it. I feel like I might just be relegated to the ‘bit of smudgy eyeliner as eyeshadow’ crew forever. Any tips/advice/reality checks welcome.

Hopefully the pictures are clear enough, I have a deep under eye crease and can’t seem to stop my eyeliner or eyeshadow from creasing. I have greasy lids and dry watery eyes from wearing contacts which makes it worse. I am pretty much a total noob at makeup but I’ve included a pic of my inspo so you can understand the types of looks I’m hoping to eventually achieve! I mostly use brands available in Canadian drugstores, willing to buy more expensive products from Sephora if they are really worth it! The primers I’ve used/tried include wet n wild photofocus eyeshadow primer, nyx ultimate shadow & liner primer, personelle eye & lip primer, and nyx face glue gripping primer. The eyeliners and eyeshadows I’ve used/tried include covergirl perfect blend eyeliner, revlon ColorShare crayon eyeliner, wet n wild kohl crayon, Sephora 12h crayon, wet n wild semi-matte multi-stick, the OG ABH norvina palette and I have a single black eyeshadow that I think is either rimmel or revlon. I use maybelline lasting fix setting spray. I’ve had the best results using the nyx face glue gripping primer, wait till tacky then use wet n wild semi-matte multi-stick and then dabbing with a beauty blender sprayed with the setting spray but still doesn’t last very long before creasing 😖