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What’s the Eyeliner You Can’t Stop Wearing lately?
Share your pick! And don’t forget to share why 🙂
It’s gotta be Marc Jacobs Beauty Intro(vert) — I keep reaching for it!
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UD Perversion Ink for Eyes
Inglot AMC eyeliner in 77
MAC Coffee eye pencil! I wonder where it was all these years when I struggled to find my perfect eye liner!!
Urban Decay LSD. I love it.
Agh! Jealous. It’s always out of stock at my Ulta.
Stila 24-Hour felt tip liner in black all day every day!
NYX Golden Olive or Turquoise Blue Retractable Eye Liners @ $4.50. I love a pop of color on the lower lash line. I also like Stila Moray.
OMG, GOLDEN OLIVE ALL DAY ERRDAY!
Milani Eye tech perfection. so easy for me to use
The only eyeliner I wear on a regular basis is black liquid liner and I’ve been using LORAC Front of the Line PRO since it’s the only one I own.
I don’t wear eyeliner every day, and I tend to vary mediums, but L’Oreal Lineur Intense has been the one that I have *never* gone even one day without for over 25 years. I wouldn’t call it “HG”, but it’s the closest I’ve ever found. I’ve tried others, but have always come back to this, and usually even have an unopened backup at all times.
Stila Stay All Day liquid liner in black – love how dark it is and it doesn’t budge!
Mac Fluidline in Blacktrack
UD’s 24/7 Liquid Liner in Perversion and UD’s 24/7 Eye liner in Freak! I love pairing them together for a pop of color along the lash line.
I’ve been wearing a THREE flash performance eyeliner (in one of the four shades I have) for the past three weeks straight, I think! Love the formula – it’s effortless and so pigmented – and the shades are unique and beautiful.
Woohoo, another THREE lover! What’s your favorite? Mine is the non-dupeable #07 Eye Doll, kinda reminds me of M·A·C Patina in pencil form, awesome!
Along with Addiction, Three is my favorite Japanese high end makeup brand. I think both brands are so underrated!
I wish it’s easier to purchase them (without the ludicrous markups or expensive shipping cost).
Nars larger than life eyeliner in via veneto! Boring old black but it’s the perfect pencil for my upper tightline – even against my oil lids and watery eyes! My must-have for a fuller looking lash line! 🙂
Sounds like I need to try this *scratches chin* 😀
Hard Candy’s Walk the Line Liquid Eyeliner in Asphalt! I have yet to find an eyeliner, drugstore or high-end, that can replace this one!
Definitely a tie between Urban Decay Mushroom and Tarino Tarantino Spark of Envy! I like Mushroom for more subtle or smoky looks and Spark of Envy for a brighter eye!
Sephora all the way, baby! The one I use most often is Diving in Malaysia. It is the perfect every day colour – a dark brown with no traces of red. It’s almost as dark as black but a bit softer. I’ve got several other of these pencils in a variety of shades so when it’s colour I’m wanting, Surfer Babe, Tango Nights or Eccentric Diva (thanks, Christine and Temptalia) are the ones I turn to. I used to use GOSH Metallic Brass every day and I still have and use it (I’d bought so many pencils that I have to use them up) but Sephora’s pencils are now my “gold standard”.
Essence cosmetics gel eyeliner. Only $4 a pop, and it. doesn’t. budge.
MAC Uniform! With bold bright lippies. 😀
I’m such a miser– elf’s $3 cream eyeliner is what I usually use, haha. Not the most opaque in the world, but does the trick!
so glad to hear your current fav 🙂 and as i also managed to pick this am dying to get it in my hands ASAP 😀
mine would be by default MAC Minted kohl ..i adoreeee the shade , play it with black and navy and use it in transition way 🙂 looks fab
i recently picked Smashbox cabana and am hoping it would be good if not exceptionally great 😀
teals are my fav too 😀
I’m loving the peach for the lower lash from Sephora’s Samba collection
Tarina Tarantino Tommy Jet and Spark of Envy, UD Mildew, MUFE 12L.
I really like the Rimmel Scandaleyes eyeliner (which I reviewed on my blog). I also really like the Inglot gel liner in 77.
MAC FluidLine gel liner in Macroviolet. It’s the only liner I’ve found that doesn’t melt or crease on my oily lids.
LA Girl Glide Pencil in Dark Brown – flawless! (Deep Bronze is gorgeous too!)
Maybelline eye studio in blackest black, wow I’m boring
Funnily enough (given my penchant for bright colours and glitter), it’s been Urban Decay’s matte, dark brown Demolition liner. It’s just such a great one to toss on when I don’t have a lot of time, even if it’s just in the waterlines to give my lashes a bit of a boost. Not quite as severe as black, and lasts all day 🙂
UD Black Velvet 24/7 Pencil. I love the consistency and it wears really well.
Urban Decay Rockstar. I’m not a fan of regular black eyeliner on me, I think it looks too harsh. I love me some dark plum, close to black, eyeliner!
Exactly! Rockstar is my go-to several times a week because I can’t do black eyeliner either.
Oh man, I would’ve said the new Urban Decay cream eyeliner, but I don’t know now. It’s perfect — as long as you get it right the first time. If you try to apply it over itself, it does that dry erase deal. As for color eyeliner, Urban Decay Freak. It brings out the greens in my hazel.
Urban Decay Liquid Liner in Siren. I am addicted to that color, and it literally won’t come off until I use makeup remover.
NARS Black Valley Eyes Paint. I love it!
Definitely Physician’s Formula Eye Booster Liquid Liner in Ultra Black and NYX Slide On Pencil in Golden Olive or Jewel! Oh and Rimmel Soft Kohl Kajal Eye Pencil in Sable Brown has kinda replaced my Too Faced Perfect Eyes in Perfect Brown! But that could be because I misplaced my Too Faced. 😛
UD 24/7 liner in Whiskey & MAC fluid line in Dipdown
My staples are the Korean/Japanese eyeliners like Clio Gelpresso & Kiss Me Heroine.
But I love my Rimmel Scandaleyes in Turqoise on a fair skin day!
TT Spark Of Envy
UD Roach
Sephora Surfer Babe
Sephora Fairytale
Three variations of teal and a brown. I think I’m ready for Tealaholics Anonymous now…
UD Black Velvet!
My favorite eyeliner is UD Mushroom. I wear it the most. Lately, I purchased the Smashbox Santigold double ended eyeliner in mint green and yellow. I’ve been liking that for pops of color.
MAC Prunella. 😀 (Soon…the and we will change! 😉 ) *Haul! 😀
There’s nothing I wear as often as Urban Decay Perversion. If I want to do a winged look (which I frequently do), I use Illamasqua Precision Gel. Those two have spoiled me for all other black liners.
I tend toward basics and usually wear a gel liner on upper lid. YSL is my ultimate favourite and I like shades 3 and 5, a dark mossy green shimmer and a burgandy black.
Summer I reach for coloured liners a little more, specifically on the lower lashline. This week I wore UD Deviant a beautiful medium blue.
I always tightline my upper lashline and my favourite at this point is MAC blackest black. I like it better than my OCC black pencil which just doesn’t have the same staying power and tends to transfer to lower lid more.
Stila Smudge Stick WP in metallic umber. The perfect taupey, gray metallic neutral color for me.
Loreal Lineur Intense Felt Tip Liquid Liner in Carbon Black or Brown on the upper lash line. I never go without wearing one of those two for any makeup look for the past few years.
I’m an eyeliner addict and have been sporting either Tonly Moly’s Backstage Gel Liner in Brown or the Etude House Choco Liner in Dark Chocolate every day!
Smashbox Santigold Azurite Is Never Wrong Double-Ended Eyeliner. It goes on so smoothly and makes it easy to create bold, summery looks with the bright blue and light gold shades
Chanel Stylo Waterproof in Gris!
Favorite black pencil for waterline=Bare Minerals Round The Clock (discontinued, but bought extras). This glides on like butter and stays put ALL day, like no other!! I have no clue why it was discontinued recently:( As far as gel goes, I always go back to Mac Blacktrack for upper lid cat eye and also great for waterline, it also lasts all day and doesn’t look too harsh. I am excited to try the Inglot gel that everyone is talking about. Felt tip marker type =Loreal Infallable is great and I also liked a sample of Kat Von D Trooper.
Pixi’s Endless Silky Eye Pen in Copper Glow.
Urban Decay Demolition, but it’s been my go-to since it came out in the Naked set, so that’s nothing new
Giorgio Armani Eyes to Kill Waterproof Eye Pencil; and
Urban Decay Sin 24/7 Glide-On Shadow Pencil on my waterline (oh why does UD discontinue this??? It’s THE ONLY bulletproof pencil that wears like magnet on my waterline. Argghh!).
Rimmel Scandaleyes in Taupe, it’s the perfect colour to add some definition around the eyes without being as harsh as black!
I have two eyeliners on rotation: Lancome art liner (I have them in brown, blue,& green.) and Ysl liquid eyeliner – both are easy to apply and long wearing.
UD Rockstar that came with the Glida palette.. so gorgeous..
Essence waterproof Liquid Ink eyeliner
Why? It’s sooo 1) cheap, 2) pigmented 3) matte finish 4) not greyish 5) easy to apply (far easier than gel or pen for me) 6) lasts for 24+ hours 7) easy to remove with non-soap foam I use daily
A winner to me, I have used it daily since I don’t remember when, even bought a backup
Chanel Stylo eyeliner in Espresso, gives the perfect amount of definition that isn’t black!
Covergirl Liquiline Blast in Brown Blaze, I can’t go past it. I don’t tend to wear coloured eyeliner much, though I’m partial to a bright blue 🙂
Finals week, I’ve just been using NYX wonderpencil on my water line to look vaguely awake! Once I”m back to the land of the living I’m going to be winging out all my brightest colors though.
Urban decay eldorado! With a neutral eye and bronzy skin <3
For more than a decade, my holy grail eyeliner is Maybelline Ultraliner Waterproof in Black – it´s liquid with a brush (not easy to use in the beginning, but it´s worthy to keep trying).
For my oily lids, is just perfect! Not a single one of the pencil eyeliners from UD survives for more than 4 hours 🙁
Milani Eye Tech Extreme Liquid liner in Blackest Black. I carry it in my makeup bag and use it the majority of the time.
I have been wearing Nars via veneto eyeliner on my waterline everyday this month 🙂
The black from Physicians Formula’s Hazel eyes trio of automatic pencils. This is odd for me, because I usually don’t wear black liner, and then, it’s usually liquid. But I’ve been wearing looks using the Electric palette lately, and I want that tiny black pop of contrast. And that pencil is especially good for getting a very thin, opaque line without hauling out my gel liner and precision brush.
NARS Via Veneto and Via De’Martelli and Chanel’s Khaki Precieux (the last one is a limited edition but I love it so much I have three spares… For someone who almost never finishes anything, that’s saying a lot.)
Chanel La Ligne de Chanel ! Simply perfect !
Tarte SmolderEYES in Purple Garnet. Per my usual luck with Tarte,the color was a limited edition released in December. I’m at my wit’s end with Tarte and their limited editions. 🙁
Prestige Total Intensity eyeliner in Deepest Black. It’s a straightforward black pencil liner from the drugstore at only $5 ^^. It glides on well with barely any tug, a bit creamy but sits well on the skin and just like it’s name, it is quite intense. Available in an array of dark colors!
I’m obsessed with Pixi’s Endless Silky Eye Liners, especially Bronze Beam and Oyster Glow.
I love Pixi’s Endless Silky Eye Pencil, you can smudge it before it sets if you want to make it a smokey look, or keep it crisp 🙂 Black and Copper Glow are lovely, but I will sometimes use True Teal for more drama!
Stila Stay All Day. Seriously, every single day since I bought it.