Eyeshadow primer for hooded eyes

Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Amplifying Eye Primer has the best record for hooded eyes: 19 of 19 shoppers said it kept their shadow from creasing, transferring or fading in the lid fold, though that rests on a smaller group than the runner-up's. Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion follows at 38 of 40 and is the best pick sold on Amazon, close enough to the leader to treat the two as a tie, while NARS Pro-Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base has the weakest record at 18 of 25. Each record counts just shoppers who said they have hooded eyes.

  • 139 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Jul 2017 to Sep 2026

Updated . How we count

Did it keep shadow from creasing on hooded lids? What shoppers said
  1. Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Amplifying Eye Primer 19 said either way
  2. Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion 40 said either way
  3. Smashbox 24 Hour Photo Finish Eyeshadow Primer 26 said either way
  4. NARS Pro-Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base 25 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for creasing. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

Best record Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Amplifying Eye Primer 19 of 19 say it kept shadow from creasing, transferring or fading in the lid fold
Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion Best pick on Amazon Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion 38 of 40 say it kept shadow from creasing, transferring or fading in the lid fold See price & reviews on Amazon

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points reviewers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1

Fenty Beauty

Pro Filt'r Amplifying Eye Primer

Best for vivid shadow color

19/19 say it kept shadow from creasing, transferring or fading in the lid fold

More vibrant color comes up in 20% of its 25 reviews, and 12% say shadow blends easily over the primer.

What buyers praise

  • Makes colors more vibrant 20%
  • Shadow blends easily on top 12%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 19 of 19
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination10 of 10
  • Oily4 of 4
  • Dry3 of 3
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light13 of 13
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 4

How often it comes up: about 1 in 19 of this product's 473 store reviews mention creasing.

Share of 25 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

2 Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion

Urban Decay

Eyeshadow Primer Potion

38/40 say it kept shadow from creasing, transferring or fading in the lid fold

More shoppers with hooded eyes stated a result for this primer than for any other here. Patchy shadow comes up in 11% of its 53 reviews, and 4% call it too expensive.

What buyers praise

  • Makes colors more vibrant 8%
  • Tube lasts a long time 6%
  • Shadow blends easily on top 4%
  • Smooth on mature lids 4%
  • Good value 4%

What buyers complain about

  • Makes shadow patchy 11%
  • Too expensive 4%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 16 of 18
  • Sephora 22 of 22
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination13 of 13
  • Normal4 of 4
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light12 of 12
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 5

How often it comes up: about 1 in 100 of this product's 24,220 store reviews mention creasing.

3 Smashbox 24 Hour Photo Finish Eyeshadow Primer

Smashbox

24 Hour Photo Finish Eyeshadow Primer

23/26 say it kept shadow from creasing, transferring or fading in the lid fold

A tube that lasts a long time gets praise in 10% of its 31 reviews and good value in 6%, while 6% say the product is hard to get out.

What buyers praise

  • Makes colors more vibrant 10%
  • Tube lasts a long time 10%
  • Shadow blends easily on top 6%
  • Good value 6%

What buyers complain about

  • Hard to get product out 6%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 1 of 1
  • Sephora 22 of 25
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination11 of 13
  • Oily4 of 4
  • Normal2 of 3
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light13 of 16
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 3

How often it comes up: about 1 in 27 of this product's 1,053 store reviews mention creasing.

4

NARS

Pro-Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base

18/25 say it kept shadow from creasing, transferring or fading in the lid fold

Its 7 misses mostly said shadow still creased or transferred in the lid fold. Of its 30 reviews, 13% say it controls oily lids and 10% call it too expensive.

What buyers praise

  • Controls oily lids 13%
  • Makes colors more vibrant 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 10%
  • Makes shadow patchy 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 18 of 25
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination8 of 12
  • Dry6 of 7
  • Oily4 of 6
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light14 of 19
  • Light-medium to medium2 of 3

How often it comes up: about 1 in 39 of this product's 2,639 store reviews mention creasing.

See price & reviews on Amazon

Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

Where these numbers come from

The 4 products ranked here carry 28,385 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for creasing and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Jul 2017 and Sep 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Amplifying Eye Primer Sephora (25 reviews counted)
  2. Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion Ulta and Sephora (53 reviews counted)
  3. Smashbox 24 Hour Photo Finish Eyeshadow Primer Ulta (31 reviews counted)
  4. NARS Pro-Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base Sephora (30 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

Which eyeshadow primer works for hooded eyes?

Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Amplifying Eye Primer has the best record (19 of 19), followed by Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion (38 of 40), Smashbox 24 Hour Photo Finish Eyeshadow Primer (23 of 26) and NARS Pro-Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base (18 of 25). The first two are close enough to treat as a tie.

How many shoppers are behind each record?

The second number in each record is the group size. It runs from 19 shoppers for Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Amplifying Eye Primer to 40 for Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion. Group size is already built into the order, so a card's rank reflects both its share and how many shoppers stated a result.

Which of these eyeshadow primers are sold on Amazon?

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion and Smashbox 24 Hour Photo Finish Eyeshadow Primer are sold on Amazon by the brand or Amazon itself, and Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion is the best pick sold on Amazon. We could not confirm the exact Amazon listing for NARS Pro-Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base, so its button searches Amazon for it. For the leader, Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Amplifying Eye Primer, we could not confirm an Amazon listing, so it has no buy link here.

Do these records test what is in each primer?

No. The counts are what shoppers with hooded eyes said after using each primer, not a test of ingredients or of how skin reacts, so follow the label directions.

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