Maybelline Eye Studio Color Explosion Review

Hey guys. Here's my first review. It's a little choppy because I'm learning how to use blogger all over again (nope, it is not like riding a bicycle) so please bear with me on this. It gets better, I promise.


So the other day I ended up at WalMart as I seem to do many times a week, sometimes multiple times a day (is there something in the air there?) and found myself in need of a makeup 'fix'. (Now doesn't that sound bad?)

Anyhow, I saw these little  compacts. They caught my eye immediately because of the GLITTER COAT (on the right on the blue compact and on the left on the green compact) I know, the pictures I got of these compacts do them little justice.


The glitter coat on these is just gorgeous.  There wasn't a question in my mind, I grabbed the green (Forest Fury) and the blue (Blue Blowout)

The lines are not on the product, they are shadows from the window screen. Oy, Karla.

Now, the website promises that  the "Exclusive illuminizer combines with pigments for PURE
IMPACT, ...Exquisite color. Ignited by light. Now explosive eyes are born. "

It looks gorgeous on the model but then again they have photoshop and she's beautiful in the first place. I tried these on my eyes and was less than impressed.

First, the colours were highly pigmented in the pan but as soon as they went on my eye, they blended together much too easily leaving me with muddy shadow. I used my stand by shadow primer under this, Too Faced Shadow insurance. I also out of desperation tried  a MAC Paint Pot in Painterly in an attempt to make this colour STICK to my lids  nicely.

I also tried various brushes. A sweep to apply the product to my lid, a pencil brush for the crease, a paddle brush for my brow highlight but it was just not happening. they would not blend nicely. They kinda just muddied together into a blue or a green blob at the suggestion of blending.

Eventually I just ended up using a paddle brush (MAC 220) to pack the colour into place. Any attempt at blending made the colours muddy. Plus, the glitter coat flew EVERYWHERE.

These aren't cheap, by drugstore makeup standards. I think at WalMart they retail for around $9.96.


Unfortunately, I was pretty disappointed in this product. I definitely wouldn't buy it again or try the other colours.

Here, for kicks are my arm swatches.

Forest Fury:

Blue Blowout