Review NYC Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil

Hi lovelies,

My search for the perfect black kohl liner continues. Finding a decent one seems to be harder than you'd think. There are a couple of boxes that need to be ticked : 

                                              - cheap / drugstore prices

                                              - readily available aka in my local Kruidvat

                                              - smudgeproof

                                              - doesn't crumble during the day

                                              - doesn't get in lines

                                              - lasts all day

                                              - needs to be pigmented 

                                              - needs to be soft to apply

Me picky? Nooooooooooooo?!

 Contestant of choice : NYC waterproof eyeliner pencil. You may now enter the ring. Let's see how it will do. Let's start with the good : The pigmentation is great, is has a a great deep black velvet finish. It looks gorgeous when swatched and on the eyes. It's soft to apply and the price is great, 2.99€ a piece in my local Kruidvat. Meaning that it also ticks the box of being readily available. Sadly that's were the good part ends.

 Onto the bad part: It starts as soon as you apply. I started my eyemake up with a light layer of the maybelline color tattoo in permanent taupe as a base. After that I applied the eyeliner around my eyes but when i looked up to do the waterline, the liner on the upper lashline had already left a black line in the crease which turned out to be incredibly hard to remove. Micellair water just doesn't cut it, which makes it hard to remove any smears during the day or at night when you remove your make-up. My eyes were still black the next morning.

When I came home at the end of my school day and looked in the mirror I was horrified. I looked like a panda. Black smears everywhere, my entire under eye area was one black stain. The picture below doesn't even show how badly it really was. The kohl crumbled in some places, smeared on other. It definitely isn't waterproof or stays all day. It managed to get into every fine line it could possibly find. It looked horrendous, let's be honest. It was so disappointing especially because it swatched beautifully and was completely smudgeproof on my hands.

As illustrated by the photos above it will probably be clear that my search for the perfect kohl pencil continous. Any recomendiations?

Goodbyeeee

- Nikki

What's on my face #21 - Blue eyes

Hi lovelies,

For the last couple of days I've been wearing the same make-up look, which is unusual for me. The focus is mainly on the blue eyeliner.

I started with my trusty MUA undress me too palette. I used a cooltoned light shimmery shadow over the entire eyelid and a dark brown in the crease and outer corner. I applied a thick winged liner using the NYC pearlised black liquid liner on the top lashes. On the bottom lashes I applied a blue kohl liner from L'oreal in color 138 blue denim and blended that out. It's a cool toned blue colour that makes your eyes look very smokey without being to harsh as a black can be. Although it's a bit less bright than on the picture. I topped things of with lots of black mascara and done.

Goodbyeeee

- Nikki

Mermaids do exist

Hi lovelies,

How do you do? I'm currently at the seaside to celebrate that my exams are done. This means pre-written-posts for a while but at least there are blogposts right? Today I'm talking about the new Zoeva eyepencil I showed you in this blogpost.

So let's break things down. For this day I only wore eyeliner and mascara because most days that's all I fancy and have time for. You do not need a full face of make up on a day to day basis. As much as I love make-up that's just not the message I want to send to people who read my blog but also to people who have to look at me during a normal day. Okay that being said, today I wore the Zoeva Graphic Eyes+ eyelinerpencil in Good Karma. A bright mermaid green with golden glitter that retails for 5.20 euros on the Zoeva website. The texture is so smooth and it is in fact waterproof! The finish is a more green than teel like in these pictures but it really is the perfect mermaid colour if you ask me. I paired it with the Maybelline Cat Eyes mascara for natural fluttery lashes and voila done with my make-up for today.

Goodbyeeee

- Nikki

Life is tough but so are you

Hi lovelies,

Usually when I wear make-up I only use mascara and eyeliners. I'm glad when I can get to there without having to sacrifice sleep in the morning. I just won't put more effort in make-up in the morning and I'm completely fine with that. For this look I did put a little bit more effort in it and used not one but three eyeliners. I used the usual black megaliner by Bourjois on the top of my upperlashline and tried to make a wing. On the bottemline I used my mossgreen eyepencil in colour 60. On my waterline I used an off-white-goldy eyeliner from Guerlain, I also used it in the inner corner. Lastly I used the volume mascara by Hema on my upper and lower lashes.

Anyone else that doesn't bother with eyeshadow in a daily basis?

Goodbyeeee

- Nikki