Each eyeliner in this set is close to, if not more than, half the size of the original product. At Sephora this is $36 CAN and is listed at being a $96 CAN retail value. If you ask me this is an amazing deal. I find that spending over $20 on an eyeliner is steep, especially since I have such watery eyes. Almost everything smudges in my waterline. This set allows me to try out a bunch of eyeliners for a reasonable price so I can decide which ones I would like to repurchase in the future.
This set includes two sample-sized liquid eyeliners: The Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liner in Dark Brown and the Kat Von D Tattoo Liner in Trooper (black). There are three sample-sized pencil eyeliners: the Marc Jacobs Highliner in Black (which I believe is a gel eyeliner formula), the Nars Larger Than Life Longwear Eyeliner in Via Vaneto (black) and Sephora Collection Contour Eye Pencil 12H Wear in Black Lace. The set also comes with full-sized duo from Urban Decay of Perversion (their blackest black) and Rockstar (a dark metallic purple). I cannot find this duo on the Sephora or the Urban Decay website so I believe it is exclusive to this set. I have wanted to try both of these liners for a while so I think this duo is fantastic!
Stila Stay All Day Liner, Kay Von D Tattoo Liner, Marc Jacobs Highliner, Nars Larger than Life, Sephora 12H, Urban Decay Perversion & Rockstar swatches |
Although I am intrigued by the Stila Stay All Day Liquid Liner in Dark Brown, I do wish this set had come with a brown pencil liner. I love how soft a brown liner can look and think it would be an added value to this set. It's interesting that they included a brown liner in liquid form and I am kind of excited to see if I can make it work. Generally when I wear a liquid liner it is because I love how dramatic it looks. I wonder if it will still look cool in brown. Although this brown is a very deep dark brown, as you can see from the image. But then I wonder if it will defeat the purpose of wearing brown instead of black.
Liners set for 10 minutes and then rubbed | Liners wiped with a baby wipe |
I then took a baby wipe and wiped the swatches with it. At this point basically everything faded. I was shocked and amazed by the Marc Jacobs Highliner in Black. It did not budge. This is most likely because it is a gel formula. I am very impressed and cannot wait to test this more along with lash line. I have super watery eyes and everything smudges on me so it looks like this may end up being my favourite. Both liquid liners pretty much disappeared, as did most of the eyeliners. The Urban Decay eyeliner is the one that smudged the least (aside from Marc Jacobs).
I don't plan on rubbing water on my eyes so this doesn't discourage me much. All of these liners stood up to the rub test and that is what I am more likely to face. I think this set is a phenomenal deal and for anyone that is looking to dabble in some high end eyeliners, this set is for you. I can't wait to play around with this set more and see which liners stand out.
Wow, I need to try that Marc Jacobs liner! That's quite impressive, and I love how black it is.
ReplyDeleteI was definitely most impressed by the Marc Jacobs. So resilient too!
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