Just Add Water: Should you use your eyeshadows wet?
updated the 6 October 2015 à 22:22
Find out how you can mix your dry powder eyeshadows with water, face mist or mixing mediums to create intense eye colours.
Applying your eyeshadow with the help of water sounds like a simple enough concept, but many women still won’t dare to wet their brushes and dip them into their precious palettes. We’re here to tell you there really isn’t a big science behind it – anyone can do it and you won’t ruin your eyeshadows, we promise!
CREAMS, LOOSE PIGMENTS AND PRIMERS
If you’re as big a beauty junkie as we are, you’d probably notice that eyeshadows on the market don’t just come in pressed powder form anymore. Better intensity can be achieved from an eye colour when it’s mixed with a liquid or cream product. Cream formulas are becoming increasingly popular, professional makeup artists love using loose pigments with water, and many beauty brands have come to make emollient eyeshadow primers a common purchase.
HOW TO APPLY
The options are aplenty. Dip a dense eyeshadow brush with good old water until damp (wipe the excess water off a towel if you must), spritz a facial mist onto the brush or drop a liquid mixing medium on the back of your hand and mix your powder into the solution for an intense, creamy finish. For a solid all-over lid colour, start packing on the product on your lid and extend slightly into the crease. Once dry, take a blending brush and pick up the dry powder, swiping it back and forth in the crease for a seamless blend of colour. You can even use your eyeshadow wet to create an eyeliner that can either be smudged out for a sultry effect, or a crisp colour with an angled brush.
So if you’ve got some loose pigments or unused eyeshadows lying around, it’s time to bring life into them again. Just add water.
Nur Syazana H.
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