These Are The Most Amazing Eyeshadow Sticks We’ve Ever Tried. Ever.

 

These Are The Most Amazing Eyeshadow Sticks We’ve Ever Tried. Ever.

WHAT: Ilia Eye Stylus Shadow Stick

WHY: We barely write about eyeshadow in any form because, well, we hate it.

For anyone with hooded eyes, it creases by 2pm.

For anyone with mature skin, it makes us look older.

For anyone with(out) any makeup skills, it makes us look like a clown.

Net net: we stay away from eyeshadow pretty much exclusively which is why we don’t write about it.

But.

BUT!!!

We were browsing the aisles of Sephora to ferret out any fun new product releases and we came upon a giant Ilia display of ... eyeshadow sticks.

Our first impulse was to ignore. We’ve been down this road before. But something deep within our soul forced us to smear a bunch of them on our hand. The shades did look … intriguing.

 
 
 

Guys. We are about to say something very bold right now.

These are the creamiest, softest eyeshadow sticks we have ever experienced.

Ever.

These are the two colors that felt wearable in an everyday way, so we snatched up the last two in the store:

 
 

The shimmer is called Adorn. And the matte color is Faun.

Here’s the “stylus” as they call it, up close:

 
 

And here’s the two shades in bright light so you can really gauge their beauty:

 
 

The design of the tip itself is so brilliant—it’s angled so the application is gloriously easy, even for total beginners. We smeared some on our lash line in the car (no the car wasn’t moving) and we looked like a hazy eyed 90s supermodel. Sort of!

It sort of feels like you can’t make a mistake with the colors, though we actually wrote a whole thing about which shades to wear with your particular eye color HERE.

And here’s the full shimmer swatches because who doesn’t love staring at swatches:

 
 

And the matte shades:

 
 

We’re always on the hunt for ways to make our eyes pop with basically zero skill or time in the morning. And we’ve now had about a week to play around with these and we can attest that they are so supremely easy, we don’t feel intimidated. And the 12-hour claim is absolutely real. The glide is sooooo lovely and easy to manipulate with fingers only. And truthfully, they wear so long and are so unbelievably crease-proof, we needed to use our waterproof eye makeup remover at the end of the day. Which is a small price to pay for a lovely, hazy wash of color that looks gorgeously undone and perfect and lasts all day.

Price: $32

 
 

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