Laura Mercier Eye Basics

[IIOY]

Does anyone use this?  It's supposed to be a base for eye products but in certain colors can also act like eye shadow.

I've actually had this in Peach in my possession for many months, but it's *so* peachy that I used it once and put it away for warmer weather.  Today I pulled it back out and love it.  I used way too much and learned the hard way that it's insanely pigmented, but I managed to tone it down with a couple ColourPop shadows. It gives me a "glowing" eye look that I really like.  I can't wait to see what it looks like when I use a normal amount of product.  Does anyone have any other color and, if so, what do you think?

[kristie]

No but I have it in my cart in linen. I am debating between it or bareminerals 5 in 1 cream shadow.

[IIOY]

I have both and like both. The 5-in-1 has shimmer while the Laura Mercier doesn't. I can't speak to the Linen color but Peach is definitely brightening; the 5-in-1 also brightens, although I haven't tried the darker colors and assume they don't.

You get more product from LM for the money than you do with the 5-in-1, and yesterday I found it for $23.40 at Nordstrom (versus $26 at Sephora), which means you would get even better value there.

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But looks really pretty. Hmmmm.

[IIOY]

Top to bottom:

5-in-1 Blushing Pink*
LM Peach
5-in-1 Soft Shell

*(I accidentally smeared too much of this on and tried to sheer it out a bit, hence the much larger swatch)




ETA: The Blushing Pink shade has the rather odd quality of not showing its shimmer until after it sets. You can't see any shimmer in this photo and I didn't see any when I took the photo, but now that I have let it set on my arm for 10 minutes or so, the shimmer is quite apparent. Unfortunately, I can't take a photograph with my phone that actually shows the shimmer.

[kristie]

I actually read that about the bareminerals shades. I think they all do the shimmer appearing when it sets thing. I grabbed one of each. I want the bareminerals for SPF in the summer. It's safe on my eyelid and spf 15. I don't think I have anything that does that. Lol.