Review & Swatch: Eyeko Skinny Liquid Eyeliner in Black

THE SPECS:

PRICE: $15.00

AMOUNT OF PRODUCT: 0.07 oz.

PACKAGING: It’s packaged in a skinny, plastic, felt-tip marker.

SIZE: About the size of a standard ink pen.

CONSISTENCY: Comes out of the pen very wet and watery, like typical liquid liner.

SMELL: None that is noticeable.

INGREDIENTS: -Sodium Hyalauronate: Helps prevent color from cracking or crumbling.

PEG – 30 Dipolyhydroxstearate, Ammonium Methacrylate Copolymer, Water, Sodium Hyalauronate, 2-phenoxyethanol. May contain: CI 77499 (Iron Oxide Black), CI 77742 (Manganese Violet), CI 19140 (FD&C Yellow 5), CI 16035 (FD&C Red 40).

COMPANY DESCRIPTION: 

     *PRECISION POINT PERFECTION 

Whether you want bold drama or grown-up glamour, you can line and define your eyes in an instant with our easy-to-control Skinny Liquid Eyeliner. The preservative-free formula with key ingredient, Sodium Hyaluronate ensures that colour glides on and stays on for a long-lasting, glossy finish.

     *NEED TO KNOW:

– Sodium Hyaluronate  creates a glossy finish

– Highly pigmented colour
– No smudging or fading
– Long-lasting
– Easy application

MY THOUGHTS:

While, I liked this liner during swatching, I did not like it when using it for real. I know, I know… not what you were expecting, right? Well, see, what had happened was… it started-off working really well, but halfway through me drawing a line on the eye, the felt tip went dry! I don’t know if I received a bad pen or not, but the experience was horrible. I get halfway across the lid, everything is going great, then…

… it just stops working. I’m not holding the pen upside down or anything, either. I’m holding it paralel to the floor (as I do all felt-tip liners) and it quit working. I then proceeded to hold it tip-side down for a few seconds, went back up to the eye, and it worked for 2 seconds then quit again. It was the end of a love affair.

So, although I loved the pigmentation of the pen, I can’t deal with having to continuously pause to let liquid saturate the tip of the pen every few seconds. I don’t know if this was just a fluke of one pen, but I didn’t much enjoy dealing with it. Have any of you had a different experience? Let me know in the comments!

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