Controlling oily eyelids?

After you apply eyeshadow primer, try setting it with an eyeshadow that's close to your skintone, and then after applying eyeliner, set that with an eyeshadow of the same colour.

In addition to the help shellygrrl provided, try a MAC Paint Pot over your eye primer. As an everyday shade most people use either Painterly or Soft Ochre. Then go ahead and put on your shadow. That should help. 

I always use a painterly paintpot over my UDPP and my eyes look fresh even after a 16 hour long day, my eye makeup looks the same as when I went out the door

for comparison, if I only put UDPP, my e/s start to crease after 10 hours or even less

I swear by Mac Paints & Paintpots. They are the only products that help me keep oily lids at bay. I agree with the girls, use a paint or paintpot over your regular primer. Groundwork matches me perfectly. HTH

paint pot

Apply a face primer, foundation and powder. then apply a good eyeshadow primer and MAC Paint pot / Shadesticks / Cream Colour Base or NYX jumbo pencil and smooth it out with a brush, or either your fingers and put a shadow over

that works perfectly for me. :)

Edited by anne082 - 8/24/12 at 12:02pm

I have oily T-zone and eyelids. I use a combination of NARS Smudgeproof primer followed by a cream base - either a MAC Paint Pot, an eyeliner smudged and blended all over, or any other cream shadow - then only do I apply my powder eye shadow.

 

For your nose, a good oil free primer will definitely help. If you can get samples, some of the good ones are Bare Escentuals Prime Time (the original one, I haven't tried the oil control version), Estee Lauder's Matte Perfecting Primer (it's quite new I think), or Laura Mercier's oil free primer. You only need to apply really little, like a pea size for your whole face. So if you're spot-priming, you might need even less.

 

Good luck! :)

 

..forgot to mention that you could set your eye area (after you apply your liner, etc) with transparent powder. I use MAC's Prep+Prime usually to set my eyeliner after I've smudged it. But I'm a pencil eyeliner lover :)

i cant live without urban decay's original primer potion!!!! aslo i find the paint pots work really well too!!

I guess I am officially the owner of The World's Greasiest Eyelids.
I've tried the UDPP + Paint Pot+ powder combination, and I still have the greasy creasies by mid-day.
I've tried the following primers: UDPP. Blinc, Victoria's Secret, Mary Kay, NARS, Lime Crime, and Tarte.
NARS and Tarte have performed best for me, so far, but even they're far from perfect.
I'm close to waving the white flag.

 

I am right there with you.  at least in the summer/humidity.  there is nothing that can stand up too the oils. 

Wow. It's that bad? Have you tried Too Faced Shadow Insurance? What about MUFE's new primer? I haven't tried either of those so I can't review them but I guess if those in addition to all the ones you've tried doesn't work, then I just don't know what else would work. Good luck to you. I hope one day you'll find that perfect miracle product that'll help you.

Does the Milk of Magnesia work for the lids as well? I've heard that it controls facial oil very well

It's funny you ask this because I was going to ask/suggest it too but didn't for some reason. Didn't know if there are ingredients that may not be safe for the eyes or not.

TFSI works great for me, as do the MAC paint pots and paints to prevent the other products from "slipping off".

I use Lime Crime Candy Eyed Helper, its the best I have come across for me and all my clients. Eyeshadows dont budge, crease or fade for oily lids.

Have you tried Too Faced Shadow Insurance, Smashbox Lid Primer ?
Maybe ask for a sample first :)

Yes, you should definitely try milk of magnesia 1st, then prime.

Paint Pots. I use Painterly mostly, but Groundwork's also pretty nice for a smokey-eye base. I have very oily eyelids but this product never lets me down!

I posted elsewhere, but the Maybelline color tatoo e/s are on par with MAC paint pots.  They are a great base that lasts all day with no creasing, fading, or slippage.

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I have fairly oil lids and have to use a primer or its crease city and the Maybelline product works great as a base, no slippage.  Ditto with Paint Pots by MAC, MAC Paints, the Laura Mercier eye basics, and the MUFE Aqua creams.  Other products that work as just a clear primer for me include Too Faced Eye Shadow Insurance and the Mary Kay eye primer.  UDPP works for me too, but something in there irritates my delicate skin of my eye and I can't use that one anymore.

 

HTH

I really like NARS Eyeshadow Base, it's amazing! MAC Paintpots sometimes crease on me...

I tried the Nars Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base for the first time recently, and it's the best primer I've tried so far. Not perfect, but outlasts every other primer I've tried.

I need to put mine back into rotation. I've been testing NYX HD Primer, UD, and Too Faced and they work just okay for me.

I have oily lids as well and nars smudge proof eyeshadow base has been my lifesaver

Elf mineral eyeshadow base worked well on my oily eyelids.. and it's cheap :) The only thing isn't there for me is that it doesn't cover some veins on my eyelids..so I use paint pot from MAC. At first I thought it wasn't that good but then I started letting it to sit for a bit bfore I apply an eyeshadow and I think it works pretty well that way.. so my choice now is MAC paint pot :)

I tried that one, and while it works better than most, it's still no match for my oil-gusher lids. :(