DIY eyeshadow primer

How many of you have ever used eyeshadow primer?  Am I the only one who hadn't ever tried the stuff??  I have always wanted to but then I hear that if you want to use one you need to buy a higher-end brand and my curiosity ends at that.  My husband still has 5 years of school people!  We don't buy anything that's a higher-end brand.  If we did we'd have to eat the gum off the bottom of our shoes.  Then I found this blog.  First off, I fell in love with all of her tutorials.  I do NOT consider myself to be very good at hair and when I try something different with my makeup it almost always ends in a disaster that looks very much like what my 18 month old niece would create given paper and crayons in the colors puce, dirt, and dark dirt.  However, I decided to go out on a limb and try her makeup for every day (I believe she calls it her "mommy makeup").  It was a radical success!  Hubby loved it and I felt gorgeous all night!  I ran out of some makeup pretty soon after I started looking through her blog so when I went to buy new stuff I only bought stuff that she had used and loved.  Can I say again how much I love her blog?  I looooovvve it!  Anyway, I found this recipe to make your own eyeshadow primer and it only costs a few bucks so I figured I'd give it a try.  Boy do I love it.  First off, it was beyond easy and cheap to make.  Second off, it really works.  Now I know I don't have anything to compare with but let me just tell you why I love it.  I have pretty oily skin.  It's all good in the morning but by mid afternoon I usually want to put a light dusting of powder all over to mattify my face.  Eyeshadow is no exception.  I will have creases in my shadow way before being done for the day.  This primer has changed that!  I have worn it every day since making and I have never had creases!  Even the day that I had to get up early and didn't get in the shower until around 11:30 that night my eyeshadow still looked like I had just put it on.  It also helps with pigmentation.  I have to use less eyeshadow to get a darker or more dramatic look with the primer.  It really is just awesome.

Recipe for Eyeshadow Primer:

• 1/2 teaspoon all natural chapstick
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch
• 1 1/2 teaspoons liquid foundation

Run the chapstick under some warm water so it mixes well.  Mix all three ingredients in a clean container (I used a really small tupperware container so I had a good lid).  You're done!

I ended up mixing it all together and then microwaving it for like, 5 seconds so the chapstick was really mixed in.  The wax in the chapstick is also what is good about this stuff so I made sure to get one where wax was pretty high on the ingredient list.  I even used two different kinds of foundation because I was using an old one and it ran out so I just finished it off with my new stuff.



It looks like this!  Nothing special really.  I was super skeptical when I made it but like I said, it has transformed my eyes! :)

 

You can find her original post here.  She explains lots and the comments were pretty helpful.

 

Let me know if you try it and if it works for you.  I hope it does!

 

-Megan