NYX Liquid Crystal Liner in Crystal Silver: Review + Photos

This liner is perfect for decorating black eyeliner, or better yet, using on top of eye shadows. This product comes in a lot of colors, but the only one I picked up was the Crystal Silver one. I'll probably go back and purchase a gold one as well!

So this is just a clear liquid with a lot of high quality, finely milled silver glitters. The clear liquid base adds to its shine and texture. One outstanding thing about this is that its not thick or sticky. It's super smooth and has the consistency just thin enough to glide along very easily. It dries pretty quickly, I'd say about a minute's time.

This is really good for decorating black eyeliners if that's your thing, but I personally use it a lot more often to layer on top of shimmery eye shadow. I used this a few times over some of my silver shadows just because I didn't feel like the eye shadow was vibrant enough on its own. This added the most beautiful finish. Although I definitely think this adds a lot to my eyes, this isn't perfect. If you're trying to cover a large area than just a thin line, this won't fill all the areas and usually leaves a lot of gaps. It's not a very noticeable thing, so it doesn't bother me that much. If you try to layer it, it'll just get thick and goopy and won't make a difference, if anything, worse. This is also meant to be a liner so technically speaking it really does do the job it was intended for very well.

L'Oreal Voluminous Smoldering Eyeliner: Review + Photos

This eyeliner comes in three shades which include Black/Noir, Black/brown, and Gray. I have the one in Black/Noir. I can see immediately that this black goes beyond standards.

The texture of this is surprisingly very smooth and very creamy. Since its summer where I live, the weather has gone up quite a few degrees. One hot day when I used this, I had to constantly stop to clean up this eyeliner because as I was applying, it kept melting around and it formed chunks at the tip. I had to remove them with a tissue, then blot the tip. In cooler weather I did not encounter this problem.

Because of the design, this is very easy to apply and get a straight line. I think this kind of eyeliner is best for use with smoked out or blended liner application, rather than clean definition. It blends very easily. It also dries quickly. This is not long-wearing at all I find, because after just three hours this ran and was smudged all over my undereye (I didn't apply any eye makeup under my eyes), and smudged on the outer corner of my eye. When I wore this on my waterline, it didn't stay put for anymore than an hour, and all of it seemed to transfer from my waterline to gunked up, moist eyeliner residue straight underneath.

This eyeliner has great pigmentation and an ergonomic design, but it simply has no sustainability in the least, which is a dealbreaker for me when it comes to pencil eyeliner.