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.

Smoky ShadowBlast is a double-sided eye shadow stick. One side is the light colour with a fat tip, the other side is the dark colour with a thin tip. You use the light colour form lashline to brow bone, and the dark colour on the lashline and in your eyelid crease. It comes in few colour varieties, but I bought it in Onyx which was pearly white on one side and black on the other because I wanted a classic smokey look.

My first complaint was the shadow is VERY dry. It did not blend well at all, even after applying an eye shadow primer.

The 2nd complaint is that once I got the eye shadow to look decent, it only last a couple of hours before creasing majorly (again, even with the use of an eye shadow primer that has worked every other time I've used it).

This product made my eyes look smokey for a very short time. Smoky ShadowBlast failed big time.