My skin is cool toned, so the pinky, nude beige Painterly is a perfect fit.
I know these used to come in a wide variety of shades, but Mac now offer just 9 on their official site. Finally, a concealer (that isn’t a concealer), that doesn’t make pores look even bigger or praise be, settle into them!
Now, this is everything to me! It’s great at covering up enlarged pores around the nose, pat it on and they literally disappear in front of your eyes. The skin tone shade allows you to use your liner to even up your lips and help lock in lipstick. I also pat it around my lips to prep them for lip liner and slightly fill in vertical lines. But I have seem some reviewers say a damp Beauty Blender type sponge works well too, so I’ll try that next.
Because it is so creamy (but not overly soft), I’ve found it’s best applied with clean fingertips rather than a brush. You need only the tiniest amount to conceal. I have a few broken veins on my cheeks from rosacea and a fair bit of redness there too, Painterly covers them up like magic. I tried it first on the dark inner corners of my eyes and yes, it was fine, but not as good as Bobbi Brown Corrector and Too Faced Concealer. Old make up techniques and accessories are reinvented, given fancy new names and updated as the latest big thing eg using powder to set your make up is now baking, and shaped foam sponges are now Beauty Blenders. After a bit of Googling, I discovered it was first used as a concealer way back in 2010. A flattering nude beige that’s polished looking, never bland.Ĭontrary to what you might believe, using Painterly as a concealer is actually not a new idea. I wouldn’t normally recommend putting eyeshadow on your face, but Paint Pot hasn’t caused my skin to break out, it doesn’t oxidize ie change colour (essential for a concealer), doesn’t cake up or settle in pores (the opposite in fact).Īlthough it has a faint sheen in the pot, once applied it’s very definitely matt. Will not streak or crease.Īs a standalone eyeshadow, eyelid primer or base for other shades, it’s perfect and exactly what I was looking for.īut everything covered under the bullet points above also make it an ideal candidate as a ‘safe to use on your face’ concealer. Seamless, buildable coverage without looking heavy or cakey.
I bought Pro Longwear Paint Pot in shade Painterly, because I was looking for a neutral lid shade, and I was intrigued by a flurry of Pinterest posts calling Painterly the best concealer that wasn’t really a concealer.Ī highly pigmented, long-wearing eye shadow that goes on creamy and dries to an intense, vibrant finish. I didn’t bother again, not that I could ever master lining my eyes with a brush anyway. It dried out within a week, even though I followed the sales assistant’s instructions to the letter and replaced the lid as soon as I loaded my eyeliner brush. I was put off by their gel eyeliner (also housed in a glass pot). "Continuous Almond" resisted creasing for about 6 hours but the shadow faded after only a few hours.I’ve never owned a Mac Paint Pot, even though they’ve been around for donkey’s years and are considered a bit of a cult classic. "Painterly" does a better job of getting eyeshadows to stick but it does crease on me after only a few hours. Ultimately, the test came down to how these two wore. Both "Continuous Almond" and "Painterly" allowed shadows to be more vibrant and true-to-color and wear longer. Both are matte and I'm tempted to say that "Continuious Almond" is actually a little more pigmented.
"Continuous Almond" was a little more resistant to rubbing and water but didn't wear off as evenly. While you wait for it to set I recommend keeping your eyes closed as it can cause your lid and stick together. "Continuous Almond" takes a little longer to set (around a minute). The texture of the MAC and the Jordana is identical as far as I can tell. I think that "Painterly" is a much closer match to my skin color but ultimately it doesn't matter much when you're only using it as a shadow base. Jordana 12HR Made to Last Eyeshadow Pencil in "04 Continuous Almond" ($3.99 on Jordana /Walgreens ): This is far more yellow-toned and is a closer dupe for the Paint Pot in "Soft Ochre" which I don't own.