Bobbi Brown Forest Shimmer Ink Gel Eyeliner ($21.00) is a new shade as part of Bobbi Brown’s Ivy League Collection. Forest Shimmer Ink is a deep, olive-brown green with soft golden-olive shimmer. It’s a very dark green-brown, and it is not lat all forest green to me (which is a bit brighter, more fervently green). The addition of brown to the green makes it incredibly wearable, even to the office. It has good pigmentation, goes on smooth and creamy, and then dries down and lasts me all day (on the lower lash line–not the waterline).
Product: 8/10
Value: 8/10
Ease of Use: 8/10
Packaging: 7/10
Recommendation: For gel liner fans, this is an excellent shade to add to your stash. It goes well with other greens, but it works with golds and browns, too, making it a versatile shade. It even works well as a base — particularly under greens to give them a little more oomph!
The shade itself has a metallic-frost sheen, and the color is intense without being too bold or dark (and thus looking more black-green than like a green). It’s even prettier when layered over Forest Shimmer Ink Gel Eyeliner, actually! It turns it into a darker, fiercer green.
Product: 9/10
Value: 7/10
Ease of Use: 8/10
Packaging: 8/10
Recommendation: If you’re a green fiend like I am, this is definitely a must-have forest green. It’s vivid without leaning too green nor too black, and it has just enough shimmer and gold sheen to make it easy to blend and use.
