Review: Cut Crease Canvas by Revolution Makeup

Have your makeup needs ever changed where you found your ride or die product no longer meets your needs? That's what's been happening with my only eye primer as of late. With my foray into using pressed pigments and using more advanced makeup techniques came a need for a more opaque and useful base.

While I do still like my Milani Eye Primer and have written about it many times on this blog, it doesn't work that well at intensifying pressed pigments.

If you're familiar with pressed pigments, you know that they're not the easiest products to work with. They can be really soft and hard to build up without the right base or stiffer and pigmented but hard to blend out.

It does require a bit more experience and brush skills, and I definitely won't recommend them to a beginner. Finding a base that's sticky enough to hold onto the pigment but dries down to allow seamless blending is half the struggle to me.

So when I heard about this product and how it's also really good at making pressed pigments pop and stay put, I decided to go out and try it.

The Product

This product wasn't easy to find in the Philippines so I had to preorder it via houseofkeezelle. This product comes in different colors to accommodate a lot of skin tones. So even if you're a pale princess or a melanin maven, there's a shade for you in this range. I'm using "Illustrate" at the moment, as it's close to my skin tone and hides the veins/stains on my eyes.

This makes carving out a cut crease with a base a one-step process, or if you want to create unique shapes with your makeup, this makes it a lot easier too.

It has a rose gold cap and clear packaging so you can see the progress you make on the product. The main difference is that the cut crease canvas has a synthetic brush instead of a huge doe foot applicator. Before I go on, I need to point out that this product is not vegan. It contains beeswax, which is animal-derived.

Application and Testing

At first, I just used this product on both eyes as my regular eye primer and also used it to cut creases. I thought it looked nice and worked fine. But I wanted to see just how much of a difference this product made, so I tried it on one eye with the Milani Eye Primer on the other eye. I used the Revolution Makeup x Tammi Clarke Tropical Carnival Palette for this:

Left Eye: Milani Eye Primer - Right Eye: Revolution Makeup Cut Crease Canvas

That's with a flash on, here's what eye looks like in natural lighting and no artificial illumination:

So as you can see, the colors pop out even with the blending on the side where I used the Cut Crease Canvas. It clearly does make a difference in the vibrancy of the colors, and mind you, the Tropical Carnival palette's matte shades were made to be buildable over vividly pigmented. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but when you need it to be in-your-face pigmented, it's nice to know that Revolution Beauty made a product to work well with this palette.

MOONWLK Photoshoot (August 2019)

So, I decided to really take this product out for the ultimate test drive when was asked to do MOONWLK's makeup for a photoshoot they did. It was pretty last minute so I did have to scramble to put my kit together.

When you do other people's makeup, you obviously have to use tried-and-tested products that you trust. But I wanted to be a little reckless. My weapons of choice were the Tropical Carnival Palette and the Blush Tribe Paulina Palette for this one.

I can also say that it works pretty well on the skin because it still dries down, even if it's a known fact that the skin on your face is oilier and sweats more than the skin around your eye. I used it on the gradient blocks of colors on Nick and Charles below:

(If you're wondering who shot these, Jeremy Caisip did it. I will link his information below.)

My Final Thoughts

I really like this product, it does everything that it says it does and is slowly beginning to become my everyday eye primer. It makes buildable pressed pigments INSANELY vibrant and makes cutting your crease really easy to do.

Since it's a different product, I do have to do things a little differently as opposed to when I use my Milani Eye Primer. I have to make is to use some kind of makeup tool to spread this out, and I have to start with the darkest color eyeshadow first and then blend it out so it looks more seamless. It also stains your lashes but it's nothing that mascara or falsies can't hide and fix afterward. And the results speak for themselves:

This works for matte shadows, foils, and glitter too!

Cut Crease Canvas doesn't have the lasting power that Milani Eye Primer has for sure. It's not waterproof or sweatproof either, so I suppose that's one downside of this product. My eye makeup really starts to run when I get rained on or splashed with water. The makeup I put on Nick and Charles also began to run a bit when they started sweating during the shoot too. I didn't really have those problems when I used the Milani Eye Primer.

But I think these aren't huge issues, and it's not like powder eyeshadows are made to last through water and sweat anyway. You can totally still use your regular eye primer for your crease and just use this to cut your crease or make your lid shades pop, and I think that's the beauty of this product. It's a versatile product that just works well.