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As I rooted around and experimented some more I discovered something that I had never heard of: eye shadow primers. At first I did not really think that this sort of thing was necessary, but after becoming more and more annoyed at the lack of color payoff on my eyes I looked into what it is that eye shadow primers do.

Finally, after weeks of practicing and trying to find out ways to use something else as a base to my eye shadow I gave in and decided to shell out the money for a shadow

Basically what you do, is apply a bit of this before you put on any eye makeup and distribute it into a thin layer over your entire eye lid. Once it dries is when you can start applying your eye shadow as you normally would. I immediately noticed that my makeup was staying on and did not crease at all.

Also, because I like to use brightly colored pigments on my eyes, I noticed how much more vibrant the colors were appearing on my skin after using the primer potion, rather than just applying them to my bare eyelids. This stuff looks a bit like ...

For those who have not seen it, it comes in a fancy curvy purple bottle with an equally curvy silver-gray top. It almost resembles a genie bottle, and I really thought that was a cute idea. However, the packaging of the Urban Decay Primer Potion is one of my biggest problems as well.

As many of the youtube reviewers will point out, the packaging definitely prevents you from getting all of the product inside of the bottle; and, if you are paying $15 for a small bottle of product you want and expect it to last you a long time. However, once you think the bottle is empty (as in, you stop getting a good amount of primer on your applicator), you fail to realize that there is a HUGE amount of missed product caught in the curves of the bottle. That is a LOT of product

There IS a way to get the product out, but it involves essentially sawing the bottle open and scraping the rest of the product into a separate container. This is a time consuming effort and also pretty dangerous since you are dealing with a sharp knife and could not only cut yourself on THAT, but also the sharp edges of the cut plastic bottle. I supposed in closing I would say that I love the quality of the product and now will never apply eye shadow without it.

However, the quantity is what bugs me. There are other primers out there, and I will probably try a different one after I’m done with this but I would recommend this to people because it is not too expensive and it will last you a while. I bought mine at Sephora in the Urban Decay section, but if you don’t have one near you buy it at either sephora’s website or Urban Decay’s.

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