Product Focus: Cream Eyeshadow by Trisha S.

Reanamation Studios is starting two new post series: Product Focus and Brand Focus. Our Brand Focus posts will talk about a specific brand and put it in the spotlight for the entire post. What do we like or dislike about this brand? What are the price points? What products MUST you have and what can you probably skip? Product Focus will take a particular product, usually one that is a bit unordinary, and talk about our experience with it from different angles including brands, consistencies, colors, textures, and ease of use. You have already read Reana's Rock & Republic Brand Focus and now it is time for our very first Product Focus, a review of Cream Eyeshadow by our very own Trisha! Hope you enjoy, and feel free to e-mail us through our website to suggest a brand or product for our review.

Cream eyeshadows… if you’re like me, you either love ‘em, or you don’t!! I have long been a cream eyeshadow skeptic so I decided to put a few popular brands to the test.

Too Faced: This line of cream Shadows is called Lockdown, and I must say... it’s true! These creams are smooth and easy to work with. They stayed with me for HOURS and no creasing! I was amazed! I like to use these as a base and then use some eyeshadow over them to get the wild looks I adore!

Dramarama: Dark Brown. Chocolate brown with a coppery gold shimmer

Bondage: Light Brown. Gold with gold shimmer

Bedroom Eyes: Medium Brown. Tan with gold shimmer

Prisoner of Love: Pink. Medium pink with shimmer

Jail Bait: Light Pink. Very pale pink with shimmer

I’m Guilty: Aqua Blue. Beautiful shade of aqua with silvery shimmer

I would love to see some more colors in this line because as of now, there are only six and three of them are brown shades and two of the six are pink.

Urban Decay: These cream shadows are also amazing! I love the wide range of colors that are available and the staying power that I got from them. There are twelve colors to choose from so I am sure there is one just for you!! I only swatched seven of them because my hand was running out of room and the lady at the store was watching me like a hawk!! LOL!!

Sphynx: Light pink with iridescent and silver glitter

Moonshine: Pale silver, almost white, with silver glitter

Asphalt: Black with tons of shine. Silver and iridescent glitter in his made it my favorite almost instantly!

Radium: Metallic blue with lots of shine

Midnight Rodeo: Pinkish gold with lots of silver glitter

Grass: Super shiny, metallic grass green. I love greens and this one is awesome!

Delinquent: Purple with tons of shine! This is a metallic shadow and the purple is kinda on the dark side but not real dark.

The colors are super pigmented and since there is such a wide variety, you don’t need to use eyeshadow with them. I found it helped me if I put a little foundation or powder on my eyelids before applying them. This helped with the creasing which I only got if I wore them for 10 or more hours.

Benefit: I have heard so many good things about these “Creaseless Cream Shadows” that I HAD to run out and get some. I found them to be super soft and very easy to work with. That was as far as my WOW went. There are 16 shades to choose from but most of them are fairly similar. Pinks, corals, and golds, with a few dark colors thrown in.

I loved “Skinny Jeans” so much that it almost broke my heart to return it. It was a soft grey with gold, red, and green glitter in it! It made the perfect base for a sultry smoky eye which is one of my favorite looks.

I tried three times to make this stuff work for me and failed each time. At the end of the day... creases. Now I don’t like to be negative about products but here’s the fact. If it says creaseless in the name, then I expect it to be creaseless! I tried setting it with powder, tried using a primer, and tried putting it over foundation or powder. Each time I was disappointed.

Hopefully these tips help you in your decision to use, buy, and try cream eyeshadow. I had fun testing all of the products and hope you stay in touch with me at trisha.reanamation@gmail.com. I would love to hear of any success stories and how you made it work for you!!

Love,

Trisha