Maybelline Eye Studio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner: Save The Drama For Your Mama!

Vee

Maybelline Eye Studio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner has gotten some good buzz around the beauty blogosphere for being similar to Bobbi Brown gel eyeliners but without the expensive price tag.  I'm always up for a drugstore dupe so I picked up a pot in Espresso a few days ago and gave it a whirl. 

I should have remembered that I hate whirling, twirling or spinning in general. 

Birchbox Treats: Eyeko London Skinny Liquid Eyeliner

Pinky McLadybits

We all know that I suck at being a girl. I can't keep my nail polish on my nails. I can only walk in certain types of high heels. I like playing with makeup, but I'm no expert. So I've always been afraid of liquid eyeliners and what sort of mayhem they would create with my unsteady hand and inability to draw straight lines. Especially one in a bold color like purple.

Imagine my fear and excitement when my July Birchbox arrived with Eyeko London Skinny Liquid Eyeliner in Purple! I was happy that I hadn't shelled out the cash for something I might hate (well, I paid the $10 monthly Birchbox fee, but the eyeliner retails for $15, so I called it a steal!). I was afraid that I would be passing along another high end product to someone better able to use it.

Hot Tip: Sharper Idea For Avoiding Messes!

Vee

Via

Don't you hate it when you sharpen your eyeliner or lip pencil and the back pops off and gets shavings everywhere? 

Here's an easy fix: Wrap a rubber band or hair elastic around that baby and it'll keep the lid and the back securely in place. Ta-da!

All Day, Every Day: Urban Decay 24/7 Pencil Eyeliner

Rusty

Pencil eyeliner is inherently scary. You’re holding an object with some sort of point right above your eye and attempting to smear pigment in solid form on the very delicate upper eyelid.

If you’re the sort of person who lines your waterline (the tiny lip of skin along the bottom lid next to your eye and above your bottom lash line) then you’re getting even closer to what seems line inevitable eye irritation disasters. Having an eyeliner with pigment that spreads smoothly while maintaining it’s pencil shaped integrity makes it a lot less scary.

This is why I love Urban Decay’s 24/7 pencil eyeliners.

Lise Watier Feline Eyeliner HD: Sexy Eyes for All! (even the clueless)

Park

When I was a kid I went through a lot of “stages”. There was the stage where I was obsessed with dinosaurs, there was the stage where I wanted to be a firefighter, there was the stage I wanted to be a firetruck (I was a weird kid).

However, my longest phase of all was my obsession with Egyptian history. They seemed so cool and smart and glamorous and I wanted to be just like them. Well, minus the use of slave labour, which was something my “Let’s Learn About Egypt” book forgot to mention.

Prove Your Commitment to Sparkle Motion!

Author: Rusty

Just in time for Halloween parties and nights spent partying until dawn, Rusty has a tutorial on how to apply and effectively use glitter on your eyelids!

Liq-squid? How NOT to apply Aqua Liner.

Author: Metric Jenn

This particular item was bought on a whim. I was on vacation, shopping with a friend, and we went into Sephora - my friend just desperately needed to pick up ONE THING. Well of course this leads to disaster on my otherwise fiscally responsible day. I’d already blown $300 - $200 less than my usual splurges - so I was feeling pretty good.

Which brings me to the eye-liner section. I am always on the lookout for a really gorgeous henna/kinda brown-kinda plum eyeliner. I am not usually a fan of liquid liner due to the time-consumption if you screw it up; which is inevitable for me no matter how practiced I become. I am truly a pencil liner girl. Never-the-less, Make Up Forever’s Aqua Liner #11 Diamond Burgundy for $23 caught my eye.