Ingredients:
ISODODECANE, TALC, CYCLOPENTASILOXANE, TRIHYDROXYSTEARIN, HYDROGENATED POLYISOBUTENE, BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA BUTTER), TRIETHYLHEXANOIN, SORBITAN SESQUIOLEATE, DISTEARDIMONIUM HECTORITE, PEG-40 HYDROGENATED CASTOR OIL, PROPYLENE CARBONATE, CAPRYLYL GLYCOL, HEXYLENE GLYCOL, TRIETHOXYCAPRYLYLSILANE, PHENOXYETHANOL, CI 77491 (IRON OXIDES), CI 77492 (IRON OXIDES), CI 77499 (IRON OXIDES), CI 77891 (TITANIUM DIOXIDE).
I try to mark the sunscreen ingredients in red and other possible irritants in lilac. Ingredients thought to be good and useful for skin I mark green. Learning as I go, google is my friend etc...
Thoughts:
- I think if used several days in a row without a proper eye cream, can feel drying. Maybe even slightly irritating, but I'm not sure if it's the primer or something else, I've noticed the Essence eye brushes irritate my eye lids a bit for example. :(
- I do wish it would make my makeup last even longer than 6 hours. It's still not the full day.
+ Helps the eye shadow to last about 6 hours before it creases/fades on a normal day, if it's not hot at all and I don't move at all, at least 8 hours.
+ The eye shadow sticks easily to the slightly tacky finish the primer leaves. The primer dries quite quickly.
+ I feel the primer's color disappears well to my skin color, doesn't really "brighten" so it's not necessary to cover the full lid with eyeshadow or do any tricks to make it look more natural. It still does some color correcting.
+ The tube is hygienic and very easy to use. You can squeeze out a very precise amount at a time. No waste. You can cut the tube at the end.
+ No scent.
- I do wish it would make my makeup last even longer than 6 hours. It's still not the full day.
+ Helps the eye shadow to last about 6 hours before it creases/fades on a normal day, if it's not hot at all and I don't move at all, at least 8 hours.
+ The eye shadow sticks easily to the slightly tacky finish the primer leaves. The primer dries quite quickly.
+ I feel the primer's color disappears well to my skin color, doesn't really "brighten" so it's not necessary to cover the full lid with eyeshadow or do any tricks to make it look more natural. It still does some color correcting.
+ The tube is hygienic and very easy to use. You can squeeze out a very precise amount at a time. No waste. You can cut the tube at the end.
+ No scent.
* If I compare Essence's You Better Work! Gym Proof Eye Primer and Etude House's Proof 10 Eye Primer, Essence is the winner. I don't think it's perfect, but it actually helps. I do wish I could find even better primer for oily eyelids, something that could help my make up last about 10 hours (the full day including trips to work/school and back home and grocery shopping etc), but I can manage with Essence while I'm searching. Also the price point is very good (3,5 €/10 ml) but Etude House at about 5 €/10 g is cheap too. I feel the staying power was slightly better when I used also Innisfree's No Sebum powder lightly to set things. With Etude House's primer, the extra little dust of powder didn't change things at all.
* Comparing Essence and Etude House more, I think Essence feels ever so slightly oilier and Etude House lighter. Etude House dries smoother and faster. Essence is stickier, but the eye shadow lasts longer and feels maybe a tiny bit more intense. For very dry eye lids Etude House is a better choice, Essence is good for oily eyelids and might make very dry eyelids worse. With Etude House the creasing started at around 3-4 hours in and with Essence 6 hours.
* My eyelids are very oily and usually nothing lasts on them. So my experiences are probably quite extreme when it comes to eye make up.
Price:
3,5 € / 10 ml
Bought from:
Supermarket
Buy again?
Maybe?
Worth the money?
Absolutely! Especially if you do not have extremely oily eyelids, I believe Essence's Gym Proof Eye Primer helps the eye shadow last 10+ hours. I honestly feel that it's impossible to find another eye primer with such a good performance for the price. Obviously my eyelids are a challenge so I will keep exploring options, but Essence's primer works good enough for now.
Absolutely! Especially if you do not have extremely oily eyelids, I believe Essence's Gym Proof Eye Primer helps the eye shadow last 10+ hours. I honestly feel that it's impossible to find another eye primer with such a good performance for the price. Obviously my eyelids are a challenge so I will keep exploring options, but Essence's primer works good enough for now.
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