Then I purchased a magazine...aaaand it came with a free Eyeko skinny liquid eyeliner. I didn't buy the magazine for the eyeliner and I didn't really have any intention of using it, but that little cosmetics freak inside me couldn't help but have a little intrigued "ooo what's this".
So, here is the Eyeko Skinny liner photographed above and you can see it is (dum dum dummmm) a felt tip pen. Traditionally, I've been a massive snob towards pen eyeliners. I think they dry out wayyyy too quickly, and I used to use one back in sixth form before I (after years of practice) mastered a gel eyeliner. In my head they were something you used if you hadn't yet graduated to the world of gel eyeliner. and I had.
First things first, I just want to say that I wasn't impressed with the Eyeko liner. I'd have ben gutted if I had actually spent money on it, and safe to say it's currently mooching around somewhere at the bottom of my make up box, probably never to be seen again.
But it was the ease of application that took me by surprise. The nib was tapered to a very thin point and had a good mix between sturdy and flexible, meaning I could get right into my lash line and achieve a good even thin line.
The second thing I loved about this was how fuss-free it was. The lazy little hobbit inside me absolutely loved that there was no brush cleaning needed. I hate cleaning my eyeliner brushes. I'm always in a rush and there's that annoying point where you're like "damnit I need to clean it so the bristles don't splay, but wow I can't be bothered." The pen had none of this. It had a lid, and lids I can do.
Downsides of this eyeliner though, in my opinion, was the major problem that this dried out...constantly. My first eye would be all strong, black, inky line and then my second eye would literally be like "hello?" You know when you were a kid and your felt tip pens ran out and went all faded before you'd finished colouring in your picture? Well this is what this eyeliner was like. Every. Time. The next day when I'd come back to it, the 'ink' (I call it ink, I mean the eyeliner) was flowing fine again, but one eye down and we're back to a pathetic faded line. Not good. I'm not sure if it's because mine was a free sample, but either way, I thought this was bad.
But nevertheless, it peaked my interest and less than a few days later and oh hello!
Enter into my life, the L'Oreal Super Liner Perfect Slim. I'd seen this given glowing reviews by Youtube make-up gurus such as Tanya Burr, so I thought I'd give it a punt. At £5.99 it wasn't a bank breaker.
And oh my, I can now stand up and proudly say I am a felt tip eyeliner convert. This liquid eyeliner is so good. You can see (sort of) from the photo that the nib is quite long, tapered to a very fine point and I can confirm it is the perfect mix of sturdy and flexible.
I find this such a breeze to apply. The nib gets right into the lash line and gives such a fine line that you can do a really subtle eyeliner effect that I haven't really ever managed with the gel eyeliner. Yes, this does do that annoying pen eyeliner thing, where it spits out tiny 'branches' sometimes where you have eye wrinkles or creases, but its massively improved on the old pen eyeliners I used to use and it's barely noticeable.
The intensity of the colour is awesome, and this pen hasn't dried out on me once. It's still going strong and I bought it over a month ago. You don't get any of that frustrating brush splaying that you get with gel eyeliner, and no cleaning!! Hoorah!
I recently introduced by Mum to liquid eyeliner and she started off with the gel eyeliner and found it so difficult to control. I bought her one of these and she loves it, so I'd definitely recommend this product to both the seasoned professional and to the beginners out there. I don't think it will stop me using gel eyeliner as sometimes you just need that gel effect, but it's definitely a fantastic alternative and so much quicker and easier. If you're a gel convert I'd implore you to give it a go, you may surprise yourself.
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