So if you’ve felt chained to your powder eyeshadow palettes and crave a simpler makeup routine like I did, please tiptoe into the cream-eyeshadow world for me, k? Below are the 13 best cream eyeshadows I highly recommend for both your low-key makeup days and your bold makeup trend days.

Sounds too good to be true, but trust me-I'm a full convert now.

Not only can I easily tap them on with my (clean!) finger, but I don't need to spend 10 minutes buffing and blending, since today's formulas are silky, blendable, and surprisingly long-lasting. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I finally gave cream eyeshadows a second chance and realized that these formulas have gotten way better since my middle-school days. They were sticky, greasy, and creased on my eyelids in exactly three minutes (eye primer wasn't really a thing back then-dark times, I know). I have blue eyes, and it's my number one makeup staple and smudges nicely for extra definition.Confession: My very early makeup days (circa 2008) turned me off of cream eyeshadows for basically an entire decade. It has the perfect amount of warmth in it to really flatter blue eyes. Or you can use blue mascara instead of blue eyeliner.'ĭempsey is also a fan of enhancing blue eyes with a dose of eyeliner and is a big fan of rich brown: 'I love to use my Rich Brown Khôl Eyeliner. It’s like a double trick to make the eyes pop. Her fave tip? Do a little bit of both! 'I love to use a complementary color like coral on the lids and then line the eye with a blue eyeliner. If warm eye shadows aren't your vibe, Greenberg says the next best shades will be something similar to your actual eye color, like blues or a light purple.

Blue’s complementary color is orange, so she and Dempsey both recommend prioritizing eye shadows with warm or blue-based tones: ruby-rose, peach, apricot, coral, copper, bronze, and even something like a beige-pink shimmer. 'Any complementary color on the color wheel is going to make your eye color pop,' explains Greenberg.

Red mac eyeshadow