I tried the product and I wear make every day and I use Covergirl as well as other companies. The application was very simply and fast which is awesome. I wore the make up all day then removed it at night, the next day I woke up and could barely open my eyes they were so swollen and red. I don't have any allergies to make up and had some kind of reaction to this product. A week after my reaction, my skin has actually became so dry from the reaction is cracking and bleeding, it's very irritated and sore.

I have green hazel eyes and I LOVED the colour combo called 'citrus flair'. This is a perfect set of colours for the summer for me, though I am not even trying to do a smokey eye. I love the eye-brightening citrus green along my lash line for day time - makes my eyes pop. And for a more sexy subtle colour, the bronze is great... again it highlights the gold in my eyes.I have problems with the lack of staying power and I am not in love with the more greasy feel of the shadow. I would recommend it only for the great colour combo

I like this product. It's not amazing but it gets the job done. It cuts my make-up time in half.

After seeing the commercials, I was excited to try this and use it for a special occasion I had coming up. It looked simple enough to use, so I thought it was going to be an awesome product. I was wrong. Even after following the instructions exactly on the package, I couldn't get the two colors (I got the white/silver and gray/black) to blend, and after an hour, the color was gone except for a crease on my eyelid. If there was a tip guide and it had a longer lasting formula, it would be a good product, but for me it failed on what I needed it to do. I have used other powder eye shadows for a smokey eye and turned out wonderfully, so I will just stick to those unless the ShadowBlast makes some serious changes.

I was very excited when this product came out as i had never been able to achieve the perfect smoky eye. I tryed the onx colour. It was hard to be accurate when putting it on. As both ends were so large. once one end wears down it really becomes usless so i just began using the one end as a simple eyeshadow instead.

I also had higher expectations for this product.

Firstly, the colors come off much more brightly in the package. Once on the skin, though.....they are kinda disappointing. Might be good for an extremely understated eye look, maybe for the day. It's just far too sheer.

Secondly, I bought one in every color. After the first use, the pink end of one snapped off at the base. Ditto for the green one. They both got taken back. This happened before I even twisted them up at all.

Thirdly, the colors were also what I would consider to be crappy. The one that looks bronze shows on the skin as very orange, as well. Hate that.

In addition, there is also very little control over them. For example, try laying down a line on your top lid as a liner, or god forbid, under your lower lash line. Good luck to ya, girl! Always comes off like you were drunkenly applying it. NOT a good look. Unless that was the look you intended......the narrower side, which you should be able to use for lining your eyes is useless. Too thin, therefore it snaps off at the base as well. It also doesn't give a clean line. More mess to clean up.

The only thing I have found them good for is using them as a base for powder or mineral eye shadows. They definitely increase staying power and make your eye makeup show it's full potential. You can foil minerals over these sticks as well. Apply a good coating of your shade stick, foil with a little bit of water and your pigment over top. Works well under the eye too, in the case of the white and the beige crayon, to highlight or to lay a base to smudge some powder over. But have a q-tip handy to clean up the mess. Likewise for highlighting the brow bone, although not much of a mess to clean up there.

When I apply them, I find it works better if I use the stick first and then spread it out evenly with my finger tip. Then apply shadows over top, mineral or solid compact shadows, packing it on rather than swiping it over the lid. Once it's packed on, I blend it out to even things up. You need a good brush or two for this.

Anyways, yeah, not as spiffy as they make them out to be. Nowhere near. Thank god I got them with 2 for 1 coupons, or I really woulda been DISPLEASED (an extremely polite word for it).

If you want a good shadow stick that works well as an eye shadow and a powder eyeshadow base, buy a Rimmel Eye Twist, if they still make them. One side is a thin liner, the other a fat shadow stick. They both work phenomenally, and double as a base really well. Another good Rimmel product that walks all over this Cover Girl one is the Eyeful Eye Glistener, another fat shadow stick, but one ended in this case. It's very soft, doesn't pull at your eyes, a tad shimmery and glossy, and is an excellent base for shadows, as well as giving some nice, soft color. Far better than these ShadowBlast sticks. I'd be more likely to name them ShadowCrap, to be quite honest. Nothing worth buying.

pros- affordable
good variety of colors
easy to use

cons- not enough pigment
a bit greasy for someone with oily skin
not long lasting

overall I was less than impressed with the shadowblast. although easy to apply, not much longer later it was sliding off my face & i had raccoon eyes. it might would work better with a good primer or perhaps on someone with non-oily skin. also you have to layer it on because it is not very pigmented despite how it looks in packaging.

I honestly had much higher expectations for this product. I actually didn't like it so much that I feel compelled to come here and warn other readers and I want to message the company.

First of all, the colours are beautiful. That, I love. However after an hour (I'm not kidding, by 9:30am my eyeshadow was toast) all of the colour had creased like crazy. I like to think that this problem could be solved with a little primer but I don't have any and can't find any anywhere!

Second, I actually had a reaction to this product! After using it for two days I noticed that my eyelids had gone puffy and red. I didn't use the shadow today in an effort to get rid of this reaction. My eyes are still puffy and they sting a little. This is the reason why I wanted to contact the company.

Honestly, I would really not recommend this product. Don't be fooled. I'd say its just as worth it to learn how to do the smokey eye with a good powder shadow. Not to mention that there are plenty of smokey shadow quads on the market that are better than this.

I would recommend this product for a couple of reasons, and I would not recommend this product for a couple of reasons, and this is why:

1. the colour choices are excellent, everything from soft greens, dark blacks and maroons...

2. the design of the product, makes it really easy to achieve the smoky eye look, plus some helpful hints on package.

3. price! you can't beat the inexpensive price

4. Ease of use....it comes in a double ended tube.....one end has the lighter, all over shade of shadow and is rounded...the other end is more tapered and has the darker shade of colour...both blend very well together in creating the smoky eye effect. You apply the shadow directly to your eye lids, no brushes needed....

What I didn't like about the product was the lack of colour saturation, I found you really had to put a lot on to create the smoky look, and after only a few hours it was all in the crease of my eyelids anyway. So the over all quality I look for in a shadow just wasn't there. Now, having said that, I would definitely use a shadow primer the next time I use this and hopefully that will help keep the shadow in place longer.

I also found the colours to be a bit too sparkly when I put them on, something I didn't notice when looking at the colour choices in the tubes. I don't think I will be buying the product again, it is a little too gimmicky for my liking, but it was fun to try.