Quick Tip: Dealing With Eyeshadow Fallout

Today's Quick Tip: Dealing with eyeshadow fallout! 
Lots of techniques, pick the ones that work best for you:




1) Pile on a LOT of loose face powder under your eyes before doing your eye makeup. Any fallout will be caught on the powder and can be harmlessly dusted away when you're done.

The loose powder technique

2) Hold a tissue or soft paper towel under your eye while you do your eye makeup to catch any falling pigment

The tissue technique

3) Use a primer! Eyeshadows/pigments/glitters need something to stick to and primer really helps. ELF makes good cheap ones. You can also use cream eyeshadow as a base, or even creamy eye pencil or gel liner.


4) Build your color in layers rather than trying to slap on a whole brushful of color in the first swipe.

Wellcrap.

5) Use a product like "eyeshadow shields" under your eyes. Basically a fancier version of #2 above.

Shadow Shields

6) Do your eye makeup FIRST. Then do your foundation and concealer, etc. That way if you do have any fallout, you can just wipe it away with makeup remover and carry on. 


More tips from one of my favorite MUAs: Wayne Goss

Do you have a fallout preventing technique that works great for you, or do you already use any of these? Let me know about it in the comments!