I brought this off the Lime Crime website a few months back. It was a add to the cart on a total whim!
I really like the wee tube. It's cute. It screams Lime Crime and unicorns! To remove the cap it's a twist top. It takes heaps of twists to unscrew which I really like.
Now my first and second attempts with this were a bit mucky but still worked. As the actual product is really really really thick, squeezing it out is hard! So needless to say I squeezed out to much. Anyway honestly you only need a teeny tiny amount. As I had to much I rubbed it right around my whole eye, including under it. It seemed to erase by black bags of luggage sitting under there. It does take a bit of effort to rub around.
Using this under a skin toned shadow or light colour makes the shadow show up instead of vanishing into your skin tone. Using it under a dark colour or smokey eye makes it look boom! Amazing.
Now here is where Lime Crime may not like me much, if you were figuring out if you need the Brightener or the helper, I'd go for the Brightener myself. The Brightener brightens as well as sticks to your eye. It holds the shadow stuck in place as well. It's not a sticky feel but I personally find myself that it's more of a 2 in 1 product
Now I brought this brightener as I was told that it helped to boost the Venus colours, even though I find them pigmented enough, being the fan I am I just had to get it a see what it was hyped to be.
The packaging of Lime Crime never fails to bring a smile to my face so when I was sat with this tube still encased in its box I still was happy, its pale pink with shiny foil pink dots over it, very girly, very me!! Inside the box the tube echoes the outer casing with the pale pink and foil shiny accent dots and lime crime logo, complete with a shiny pink foil type screw on lid.
First thing you need to know is that the formula is very thick and seems to be hard to get out, but this is for a reason, you don’t want to be getting heaps of this out at once, as once out you can’t put it back, and on my first attempt I popped out (after a good squeeze of the tube) the amount of other eyelid primers I have used in the past, but ended up only using about a 5th of what I had, resorting to wiping the precious liquid off my finger with a tissue and refusing it. So you may think that Lime Crime have done wrong in the packaging being too stiff to get the product out, but honestly it is a good thing as you can only get the right amount out at one time, no one likes to waste product, especially when it’s not the cheapest of make up to begin with.
So you have the tiny dot on your finger, what next? Well I applied this over my lids, up to the brow line and then under the lower lids, covering the dark circle there under my eyes, as not only does the tiny dot do both eyes, it melts slightly to the heat of your skin and blurs down quite a way, but its not totally absorbent it leaves a faint white hue over the areas you have covered, this is what sits under your eye shadow like a back light that gives the colours you then apply over top to really stand out and shine. As a secondary surprise I found that this brightener worked far better at concealing my under eye dark circles then the actual concealer I usually use, so I have now left that part out of my makeup routine, and after applying BB cream or foundation go straight to priming my eyes with this brightener potion.
It lasts all day, keeps your eye shadow in place and vibrant. Used with lesser pigmented eye shadow brands that I own I found that it also helped to up their game, so has saved a couple of palettes from being thrown away. Very worth the spend on this product it extends the life of your other makeup and hides dark circles.