The fight with liquid eyeliner

Liquid eyeliner makes a huge difference and is a gorgeous make-up look. But everyone who uses eyeliner probably has (had) a battle without honor or humanity with it. Finding the exact right liquid eyeliner and the most important thing: being able to apply it. Surprisingly, I got used with applying eyeliner pretty fast and it didn’t took me very long with finding the right one.

I used ‘the Rimmel London exaggerate eyeliner’ in black 001 (€7,49) for about three years. This one is so good, because it gives a beautiful thick pigmented black line en dries very fast. Apart from that it makes it so easy to apply. The applying stick is a sort of stylus, so you have a lot of control over your hand. But for the last three months I wasn’t so flattered by this one anymore, because it dried out really fast and it literally crumbled when I put it on my eye. This eyeliner is great for beginners though, because you can really get used to the applying very easy.

So those months I had to find another eyeliner that I would fall in love with. I didn’t have to look far, because I saw the’ Rimmel London Glam’ eyes professional liquid liner’ (€7,49) and wanted to try this one out. I’ve never regretted that decision, because I am really happy that this one draw attention to my eye. It’s really pigmented, deep black and doesn’t crumble at all. You can make very thin lines and thicker ones. The only drawback is that this is a professional one and the stick consists of a little brush, so it’s a little bit harder to apply the eyeliner. But I think everyone can get used to the applying.

How I apply my eyeliner:
In the first period when I started using eyeliner, I really had to get used to the way of applying it. What I thought was the easiest way. For this way, you’ll need an eye make-up remover of your choice, a cotton pad and of course your favourite eyeliner.

You just start with applying the eyeliner on your eye. It makes it a lot easier when you rest the elbow of your ‘drawing hand’ on a sink, crane or table or something. This ensures that you have a lot of control over your arm. Start with drawing a line on the inside of your eye and stop when you get to the outside. You can make it end with ‘a wing’ or without one. Make sure you draw the line as close to the eyelashes.
If the line isn’t beautiful and there is some eyeliner above, then you can easily use this way to remove those ‘outliers’ or to make your line straighter.

Grab a cotton and put some eye make-up remover on it. Then fold it in half and now you’ll have a nice point with remover, so you can easily remove the remains on your eye and get a straighter line when you go along the drawn line. Hopefully, a beautiful line is the result.

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Mariska