#eyeshadow fallout

[jennifermerrilloffical]

Seriously, this works like a freaking CHARM!! I hate when my makeup is ruined by eyeshadow falling off my brush and onto the upper part of my cheek. I had no idea it was THIS easy to clean up. 

[wrenwitting]

All about Fallout

We've all been there: you finish a flawless makeup and glorious smokey eye and then you see it.  Fallout.  Little flecks of eyeshadow that fell off your brush and onto your undereye and cheekbone.  You can try to clean it up, but it just smears and ruins your makeup and makes you look like you have Night of the Living Dead bags under your eyes.  Ugh.  The worst.  So what can you do to prevent it?  Well, there's a couple things...

Numero uno.  You can do your eye makeup first. Before primer and foundation and powder--before everything else.  Apply that perfect smokey eye, grab a makeup remover and clean up all around the eye.  Then put on the rest of your face.

            PROS: Easy cleanup.  No worries about smudging or leaving holes in your concealer or foundation.

            CONS: Be careful applying foundation around your perfectly blended smokey eye...you don't want to smudge that baby.  Doing things out of order may throw you off (don't laugh--that's a serious con for me.  I'm a stickler for routines.)

Number two. Apply a heavy dusting of transluscent powder in the fallout zone.  Then do your eye makeup.  Then sweep away the powder and all the fallout with it!

            PROS: Cleans up the fallout, I guess.  Sets your concealer maybe?  I know very talented people that swear by this method, but honestly, I don't think there are enough pros to outweigh the numerous cons.

            CONS: Messy.  SOOOO messy.  I hope you're wearing a makeup  cape to keep all this powder from falling on your clothes and all over the floor when you sweep it off.  Can make your face look powdery and dry.  Some fallout can slip through the cracks and leave streaks on your cheeks.  Actually, probably just don't use this method.  It's dumb.  Who came up with this?

Third.  A damp tissue.  This is an easy one.  Got tissues?  Got water?  Okay, great, you're good to go.  Lightly dampen a tissue (If you've got a spritz bottle or an Evian spray, that'd be the best way.  If not, the sink is a fine place to get water.) and stick it to your face in the fallout zone.  It should stay because wet tissue sticks like velcro (ever walk out of a bathroom with TP on your shoe?).  Do your eye makeup.  Remove tissue.  Viola!  (You can also use a dry tissue and just hold it in place with your non-dominant hand.  But sometimes you just don't have enough hands for that!)

            PROS: Cheap, easy, neat, leaves your hands free to do makeup.

            CONS: Sometimes the tissue falls off and you go to catch it and forget there's a makeup brush in your hand and you jab yourself in the face.  (Not that that's ever happened to me...cough.) 

Number D.  "Eyeshadow fallout protector."  It's a little flexible rubber paddle that you hold under your eye while you do the makeup.  I have one--I rarely remember that I own it, so it doesn't actually get much use.  Full disclosure, there's a video of me doing a review of this thing on youtube.  I was at a networking dinner and, after SEVERAL glasses of sangria, I found out I could get a free one if I did a video review for them.  It's awkward.  But I got that free fallout protector, damnit!

            PROS: Easy to use, keeps your face clean

            CONS: Costs money (unless you're sangria-buzzed and willing to  make a dumb video), takes up one of your hands, has to be cleaned.

The best thing you can do is try them all and see what works best for you.  I know lots of pro makeup artists and they all come at things in different ways.  It's all about figuring out your style and the methods that work for you.  But hopefully this gives you a place to start because no smokey eye deserves to be ruined by fallout.

[beautymarx-blog]

Tip of the day:

So, you guys know when you use shimmery/glittery eyeshadows and you've already applied your foundation; and there's glitters and flecks all over your face from the eyeshadow? Yeah, not cool.

I ALWAYS apply my foundation prior to my eye makeup. Just my personal preference. When I use really glittery shadows, and a majority of those glitters end up on my face - I like to grab my tape (you know, like scotch tape or any clear tape you have laying around) and I lightly apply the tape to the places that have glitter fall out.

The tape picks up the glitters anywhere you don't want them to be, and is a nice, cheap, and SIMPLE method to clean up your face from eyeshadow fall out.

This method also works really well if you use your fan brush to get rid of the fall out and miss the spots that are a little harder to clean up.

I always have a roll of tape in my makeup drawer. :)