Talk about love/hate. The following are things I have to take into
account when using eyeliners:-
I have hooded eyelids.
Growing older is a privilege but I am
not loving my newly hooded lids. This
has made it impossible for me to do a fab wing or flick now. I literally have to draw a lightning bolt
shape on the outer corners so when I open my eyes, the line looks all joined
up. What a palaver.
The best I can do with hooded lids
I have oily eyelids.
Even though I use an eye primer on my
oily lids, my skin becomes like blotting paper when I use an ink liner for my wings
and flicks. I get a blob instead of a
point. Sigh.
I have small eyes with small eyelids.
My eyes are tiddlers (even my favourite
eyeshadow brush, MAC 217, is a little too big) so I do need a liner to enhance
them but I have to make sure that my upper lash line is done thinly with a gel liner or pushed into the roots with a pencil.
If the pencil is too fat then the line practically covers my tiny lids, which in this case looks daft on me.
I have watery eyes.
I can never get my lower lash liner to
stay put due to soggy eyes (they’d win the London Marathon if I let them run)
and once I get to my destination, I swiftly need to check the mirror in the
Ladies to make sure I haven’t got a gap where my liner once was. And yes, I normally do have a gap even with a
waterproof pencil eyeliner (my tears must be corrosive).
With pencil eyeliners, I find them
either too hard or too soft (OK, so I can add ‘Goldilocks’ to that list
then). Even after warming them up with fingers,
some pencils create a hard line that looks like one’s stepped off a Human
League video set, not to mention you can’t smudge to soften them. The pencils that are too soft continue to
smudge throughout the day so I’m left with panda-eyes (I’d much prefer looking
like I’ve had a romp on the beach…with Daniel Craig as James Bond, to be honest).
Anyhoo, what I have at home is a lovely
green liner bought from KIKO last year, Glamorous Eye Pencil in Forest Green
#413 (€4.20) and I was really surprised that it stayed on for the whole day and
I’m even talking about my squelchy waterline. Admittedly, it did smudge underneath my lower lashes a bit (which is
normal for me) but it didn’t stop me from buying 3 more Glamorous pencils (in blue,
black and plum), a Smart pencil (taupe, half price €1.20) and a gel liner (€8.90)
in Lisbon. Oh and I bought one of their
Crystal Pencils too in a fab glistening grey colour #06 (it was in the sale at
the till and now it is out of stock). I
wasn’t thinking when I sharpened it recently - turned out it wasn’t encased in wood
but in plastic and I got a shard of plastic in my eye when I used it so I will
pull it out of its casing and mash it down in a pot so I can apply it with a
brush instead. I still have to touch up
with these pencils but compared to a load I’ve tried (cheap and pricey), they
stay on as well as they can do on such a person as me.
KIKO Pencils
Another product I bought is in fact a
stick eyeshadow but can be used for lining the eyes too; Long Lasting Stick in
Black #20 (8 Hour No-Transfer Eyeshadow, €6.90). This is a matt shade and different to the
metallic colour I bought last year (in Rose Brown #5). Actually, #5 went into my pro-kit as
it was too shiny and the colour disappeared into my own skin tone so it didn’t
look great on me. I haven’t yet worn the
#20 properly (only tried it in the comfort of my own home) but it smudges
nicely and if it is anything like the #5, it will stay put. A good thing for me is seeing as I have hooded
lids, I can concentrate more on my lower lash line and these sticks don’t need
to be sharpened so you can get a great grungy, smoky look going on with them
with a flatter nib. Note to self: I need
to organise a night out (with Daniel Craig obviously) so I can wear it.
After doing a Make Up For Ever course
and trying their gel liner and liking it, while I was in KIKO, I bought their
black gel liner and have been applying it as a very thin line on the upper
lashes with my Sigma E11 brush. I like
it. It's a black, black.
I have my Catrice Made-to-Stay Inside
Eye in Nude which is nice to brighten my small eyes and I recently
bought a Barry M Bold White Waterproof pencil for the inner corners seeing as
the nude one quickly disappears into my skin tone. Also I have the Maybelline Big Eyes too which
I like due to the consistency and the size of the pencil for my lower lashes.
I do like fine felt-tip liner pens
too. Got given a Catrice one (very fine nib) in green
and loved the finish and it lasted all day.
Topshop also do a great fine nibbed one.
Last but not least, the best thing for
my watery, hooded, small, oily eyes is eyeshadow powder (and if I use an angled
brush, I am able to do a small winged look too). Whatever I am wearing on my lids, I bring it
down onto my lower lash line as well.
Sometimes, I might use a pencil and then go over with the eyeshadow to
set it and voilà!
It can last the day although I can’t blame Daniel Craig now, can I?
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