The Infamous Winged Liner Solved

It's taken awhile but I'm finally making good on my promise to you in my post about the "Infamous Winged Liner". I gave you some tips and tricks (even though I'm still struggling with it myself) and promised you a picture of my own winged liner attempt. So here it is:



As you can see this time I chose to go with a nice, thin liner. But honestly I've seen lots of techniques in many Youtube videos for this but they always end up saying sometimes you just get lucky. And that's exactly what happened to me this time. I got eye liner lucky and I'm not mad about it! As always (because I'm not as good yet) I line the lid of my eyes with just a regular black eyeliner pencil then just use my liquid eye liner pen to wing out the edge. Like I said before, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Next time maybe I'll try this really thick look. It's almost Cleopatra-like. This seems to definitely be the look you get when you use gel liner.

 

 But I have been trying many different brands and types of eyeliner on my quest to find my perfect one. The one I seem to like the most right now for a thin liner is L'oreal's Infallible Blackbuster liquid eye liner pen. I love that it has almost a sharpie thick end and is pretty hard to take off (so Lord forbid, you won't cry it off). This liquid liner goes on really smoothly and if I ever make a mistake a wet q-tip will do. Or you can even just go back and adjust it since this liner just goes on so smooth and precise.

 

Now I've used Mac's liner before and you can see that the tip of this one is just way more skinny. For someone not as experienced as me, that just makes it really hard to control. That just basically means you have to really know what you're doing or get it right the first time because it is hard to adjust and correct with this thin brush. Also this liner dried up on me quickly. I had it closed for about a month and when I went to go back to use it it was already dried up. So maybe if liner is your specialty this will be perfect for you. But I have not given up on the gel liner and brush. I am still practicing. Hopefully when I get good enough I can take another picture once I've mastered it and post it on here for you guys. Hopefully by then I'll have some tips and tricks of my own to share for mastering that gel liner. Until then just know I understand the eye liner struggle. Because this couldn't be more true...