How To Use Eyeshadow Sticks 7 Ways

Eyeshadow sticks can be used as an eye primer to create a super-smooth layer for eyeshadow to apply onto. Priming your eyes with an eyeshadow stick or cream eyeshadow is a useful trick for smoothing the look of skin texture and blurring the appearance of visible veins and discolouration while giving your eyeshadow something to grip onto. Applying a matte eyeshadow stick that’s close to your natural skin tone works as an effective eye primer, prepping your eyelids for the rest of your eyeshadow look.

Tilbury Tip: My Exagger-Eyes Easy Eyeshadow Sticks have a self-priming formula that allows them to behave as an eye primer. The creamy formula sets down and is long-lasting, performing as a priming layer that won’t budge. They look super-smoothing on the eyes and are the perfect starting point for every makeup look.

Use eyeshadow sticks to create the easiest eyeshadow looks that feel like you’re painting by numbers! Eyeshadow sticks make eyeshadow so simple – just scribble them onto your lid and smudge them out for an effortless, elegant, eye-enhancing effect. You don’t even need a brush, darlings… It’s really that easy! Something as simple as a matte eyeshadow through your crease and a pop of shimmer on your lids can create a full-glam eyeshadow look that looks instantly put-together. No stress and no mess, eyeshadow sticks can get you the wow effect you’re looking for in seconds! Discover my Exagger-Eyes Easy Eyeshadow Sticks and play with colour, try different finishes and combinations, and feel confident you’ll create a super-flattering eyeshadow look every time!

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Don’t want to spend too long perfecting your eyeshadow but still want your eyes to pop? Eyeshadow sticks are so quick and easy to apply – just choose your favourite shade and scribble it onto your eyelids for an effortless colour veil that makes your eye colour sparkle. Darlings, eyeshadow sticks are a godsend for anyone that wants their eye look to be flawless in seconds! You can smudge out my Exagger-Eyes Easy Eyeshadow Sticks with your fingers – they’re perfect for one-and-done eyeshadow looks with zero fuss.

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Being strategic with your eyeshadow sticks can help your overall eye shape appear more sculpted and defined. Taking the same principles of contouring your face, you can use a matte eyeshadow stick to carve out your crease, add dimension to your lash line, and wing out your outer corners for a more lifted look. This is called eye contouring, darlings… It’s all about creating the illusion of sharper contours and chiselled structure. I like to go in with a contour shade first to map out the shape I want to create, then add a shimmer shade to the centre of the lid for the perfect balance of light and shade.

Tilbury Tip: A matte eyeshadow stick can also work as a face contour shade. Try using a neutral-brown shade of eyeshadow stick that’s slightly deeper than your skin tone to carve out your nose bridge or softly pinch the look of the tip of your nose.

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You can use shimmer eyeshadow sticks like your own personal spotlight! To get a strobing effect, take a shimmering eyeshadow stick like my Exagger-Eyes Easy Eyeshadow Stick in Satin Diamonds and apply it to your inner corners, brow bone and the centre of your eyelids. These precise little pools of shimmer catch the light from every angle and create a lifting and brightening effect. My shimmer eyeshadow stick formula is powered by Colour-Boosting Technology which is engineered to deliver high-pigment colour payoff, giving your lids a beautiful, seamless, satin glow. If you want your eyes to pop, darlings, this is the way to do it!

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As well as acting as an eye primer, eyeshadow sticks can also work as a dream eyeshadow base. Eye primers are designed to create a smooth texture for eyeshadow to apply onto, whereas an eyeshadow base works to lay down pigmented base colour that intensifies the look of any eyeshadows you apply on top. My Exagger-Eyes Easy Eyeshadow Sticks can do both, darlings… Laying down one of my eyeshadow sticks gives your eyelids intense pigment off the bat – the Colour-Boosting Technology makes them appear vivid and true to tone in one swipe! They build and layer flawlessly; use your favourite shade as your eyeshadow base, then reach for soft metallics or eyeshadow toppers from your favourite Luxury Palette to tap on top. Trust me, darlings, this will give your eyes a major wow effect!

Tilbury Tip: One of my favourite eyeshadow combinations is to use my Oyster Twilight eyeshadow stick as an eyeshadow base, then tapping the sparkle topper shade from my Exagger-Eyes eyeshadow palette on top.

Some eyeshadow sticks like my Exagger-Eyes Easy Eyeshadow Sticks are suitable for use in the waterline. Adding eyeshadow to your waterline is a beautiful detail to add to your makeup look; tracing a lighter shade of eyeshadow stick like Satin Diamonds through your waterline can create the optical illusion of brighter, wider-looking eyes, or if you’re looking to add dimension or create a more sultry, smouldering look, reach for a deeper shade like Chestnut Sculpt and smoke along the bottom lash line to add definition and intensity. This formula is comfortable, non-drying and long-lasting – everything you want when enhancing your waterline.