Do you prefer colored or neutral eyeliner? Which kind do you seem to use most often?
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I’m definitely a colored eyeliner gal myself. I’ll use black, but I’ll often pair it with another colored eyeliner/eyeshadow on the lash line anyway!
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Black counts as neutral? Then neutral, ha.
Always color!
I prefer a neutral eyeliner on a daily basis and a colored one when I’m going out or feeling a fun look for that day.
This reminds me of a question for your Christine! I am pretty good at lining my upper eye lid – colors or neutrals, but I just can seem to line my lower lid. I can either do the waterline or below my lash line…kind of under my eye technically. I have a horrible time getting color on my lash line though. My lashes get in the way and the color just won’t deposit. Any tips? A random question…
I often find lining the lashline difficult, too…
Have you tried filling them in with powder?
black for me. sometimes i’ll do colors…but usually those tend to be on the waterline and smudged into the lower lashes
I almost always use colored. I wear glasses and can’t always do the fun eyeshadow looks, so it’s a quick and easy way to make my eyes pop without overdoing it.
I probaly opt more for neautral shades but I defiantly dont shy away from color liner! I wear ud’s deviant probaly 1/week
Both? On makeup-lite days I’m usually wearing a dark bronze, but I wear a lot of green and teal liner too.
I always wear black eyeliner! Sometimes I use brown–only because my mom bought a Bobbi Brown gel liner set from a duty free store that came with both colors. 🙂
I typically wear black, but I love gold eyeliner!
it depends
mostly i prefer black
but can change to blue or purple
Black or brown, depends on the shadow shades.. but with fashion shoots, anything goes! Christine, this is unrelated question. Wasn’t there Penultimate liner in brown shade?
I have a wide array of colours
Always black on top, but sometimes I like wearing colored liner on my bottom lashline! It’s a fun little punch of color.
neutrals. Brown or Black for me
I mostly wear a neutral eyeliner. I am starting to branch out though.
I would say I use all my eyeliners quite frequently because the color I use depends on the look I want; its usually inspired by the color I’m wearing that day.
I usually wear Bourbon from UD, I like that its a natural color with a tiny bit of sparkle =) But colored liners are fun too for going out.
i use always a black eyeliner for the upper lashline, but I like colore eyeliner and also glitter eyeliner for lower lashline 😉
if black is neutral i love that but also brown 🙂
colored and usually bright colors or a dark purple.
Black is my solid, go-to. A thick black wing is my typical, everyday liner. But I have no qualms what so ever when it comes to wearing a bold, colored liner out and about.
colored!
Usually neutrals, because most days I have to work.
I love colored eyeliners though. Matching them with eyeshadows is always fun.
I always use a charcoal color on weekdays and black on weekends.
it depends on my mood
Coloured for me! 🙂 Usually a lilac or aqua one. When I wear the aqua colour, I don’t wear any other eye make-up apart from mascara and soft colours on the rest of the face to prevent me looking like my ex mother-in-law. 🙂
I prefer colored (navy or turquoise) when I feel energetic and fun 🙂 Black is always the safe choice.. for both make up and clothing
Black! But at the moment I wear Rosemary&Thyme a lot.
More color the better!
Black for the inner rim of the lash line and the rest colored!!!!!!
I use to wear Neutral sinds I started reading your blog I started using
colored eyeliners, I do have now dark green, dark blue and purple
am very found of colored ayeliner .
You was my inspiration 🙂
Color! Pretty much ANYTHING but black, to be honest. I don’t think black eyeliner looks good on me at all.
My favorite eyeliner colors to use are purple, green, gold, and brown. 🙂
Oh, I love my eyeliner – mostly metallic dark brown or purple for me. Does that count as coloured?
I hardly ever do black – though for a smoky eye, it’s hard ot beat!
So coloured mostly, I guess….
I have to say, I woke up yesterday morning having washed of my previous days makeup, including Industrial Pearglide and I had a completely bare face except for these tiny wonderful lavender blue sparkles all over my cheeks.
I like using both!
But more than likely I’ll use black. 🙂
If by neutral you mean black then I do wear that alot But I prefer to wear colored if I can get away with it.
It depends on what look I’m doing. I like black, but definitely don’t shy away from coloured liners. I love UD’s 24/7 liners and own almost every colour, so I probably use coloured liners 5-6 times a week and black 1-2 times.
both! sometimes i like black or brown, sometimes color, like yesterday i wore teal on my uppper and a bit of my lower lashlines
Neutral mostly
my go-to color would be brown but i’ll also usually do black or other “neutral” blue and purple e/l’s that would look dark from afar. when i’m feeling it, i like to bust out my Undercurrent from MAC which is my most colorful e/l and is pure <3!
I love colour!
But I can’t wear it for work =(
So most of the times I wear neutral
I typically wear neutrals for work everyday. I can get away with a bit more color on fridays. I’m still working on building up my colored eyeliner stash. I have navy, greenish teal, purple, gold, and silver along with brown and black and I have bronze and UD Stash. I really love UD Gunmetal, but I can’t find it, I might just have to repurchase it!
Definitely colored! I only use black on the lashline. I must have about 40 colored liners, and that’s not counting liquids and creams!
My bad. I meant I only use black on the water line.
I don’t have any colored ones 🙁 Exept some glitter stuff….. but I want colored ones
I pretty much always have to wear dark liner on my upper lid and at least a little smudge of it on the outer corner of the bottom. If I wear colored liner, it’s in conjunction with black or brown, very dark, or just on the waterline.
I like both! It just depends on how I’m feelin’. =)
I always use black liner but never a blue or green, this summer i’ll be looking into that.
I love colored eye liner! Purple, teal, burgundy, blue, all of them are awesome! Although lately I have been doing a lot more neutral looks with black “flicked” eyeliner to give myself more of a pin-up look :)I still have to perfect that flicked eyeliner technique though, I can never get them to quite match each other even though I’m using one of those liquid eyeliner pens.
definately coloured 🙂 i love love love lining the lower lashline in a really bright blue, green, purple.. anything bright basically haha i do love tightlining in black though, it really makes my lashes look thicker 🙂
Neutral. I usually wear MAC Rich Ground which is a copper but looks like a neutral on me (I’m a redhead). Sometimes I’ll try a purple or green but I think I look prettier in coppers.
Neural – black, grey, white, brown, gold
I really mix it up. I mean black liner mostly, but for the office I have a deep, taupe liner that is perfect with brown eyes. it’s just a touch of purple but not too vibrant and crazy for work. Then I’ll sometimes wear a teal liner with a thin line of black liner over it. teal liner is kind of amazing because if you have pink tones in your lips it somehow makes your lips pop more when you wear it.
I am afraid I always use black, (Mac feline is my favorite).
I love colored eye liners. They are one of my favorite things. I probably spend more on eye liner than anything else.
Colored!! I love colored eyeliners!
I prefer coloured eyeliner, especially purple but I like brown and black as well. It really depends on the look that I’m putting together.
neutral eyeliner on top, colored on the bottom!
I don’t wear eyeliner a lot, but when I do, I use brown because it looks the most natural for me.
neutral, definitely
lighter nuetrals, like khaki, bronze and olive green
i am colored eyeliner person!! i use my shadows with a wet brush as a liner on a very neutral lid….
I like both, these past few years I’ve been breaking out of my neutral rut.
I love wearing the color pencils but if I had to choose one pencil it would be a black eye liner.
Brown, Black and Grey so yeah neutral.
Definitely colored.
I 98% of the time will just use black. It makes my eyes stand out more.
Colors for sure. I have a hard time with neutral liners not showing up if it doesn’t have any glitter or shimmers in it.
I guess it depends what look I’m going for and what mood I’m in. Like if I’m in a hurry and I don’t wanna put on eyeshadow I put on black eyeliner. Now if I’m in daring mood I would put on bright blues or other colors. But I mostly prefer my black eyeliner =)
I love colored eyeliner. I usually will pair black eyeliner with a colored one on my bottom lash line.
Colors! I think black eyeliner is boring. The only black eyeliner I even have is a little travel-sized one, but I have almost every permanent UD 24/7 liner.
I guess black would be considered as neutral but I would add some color from time to time.
Always black. Never brown but sometimes gray (rarely).
I read on AOL that men hate colored eyeliner, most prefer black. Lucky me I’m so neutral ha.
Since I always wear a neutral color on the lids, i always go for color on the water and lash line .. All the way!!!
I prefer coloured, it just makes my whole face look more interesting 🙂
I wear neutral eyeliners because of work but I think that the colored ones are fantastic for looking awesome and not try too hard!