February 2015 Monthly Favorites

Short but genuine favorites this month, all of these are products I love and use all the time, or products I didn't expect to love but now reach for regularly.

Benefit Gimme Brow

This is starting to dry out now, which is unfortunate, because that means I might need to pick up a new one (20$ is way expensive for little hair patches on my face). They came out with another new brow product at the drugstore which I may try out first. 

Julep Luxe Lip Conditioning Treatment 

This is the first time ever that something that looks like a gloss has been non-sticky on my lips. Basically, while I don't think this has done anything magical for my lips, it has allowed me to have a gloss without actually having to wear a gloss.

It isn't worth the 20$ price tag I think, although they have a lot of backing as to why it works. I do think it is worth the $8 per item of getting it in a good Maven box. So if you are a Maven subscriber, or are okay with canceling by phone, or are good at skipping things on time, swap this in sometime.

Orly No Bite

I have a serious love-hate relationship with this stuff, but it is going on my favorites because the only time I bit my nails in the past several weeks was when I got sick and stopped staying on top of this. On the one hand, it works, it stays on me for 2-3 days even with showers, and it looks pretty and shiny when applied. On the other hand, it tastes terrible (the actual point), and sometimes if my nails touch things then they also taste like bitterant (think of trying to eat fresh fruit).

Fortune Cookie Soap Eat Me Perfume Sample

I had no intention of even actually wearing this, I completely expected to hate everything about this because I hated the last perfume oil I got from them. However, it is really good, it smells like pineapple upside down cake, though the pineapple note can be a little artificial if you are actually smelling your wrist (some of my layering experiments have also brought out this artificial smell). The throw is perfect, where I can smell it but it isn't invading the nose of people bravely trying to stick to a diet, and it lasts all day. I stuck it behind my ears and I guess it absorbed into my hair from there because wow it smells so good.

Cindy-Lou Manizer

 I wasn't expecting to like this product that much, I don't tend to get particularly excited about highlighters, but I received it in a trade because it was shattered, fixed it up, and have been using it ever since. Going into the spring time and a very busy time of year for me this product is the perfect blush and highlight product for my face when I want something subtle yet glowy. I still hold a firm belief that The Balm is all about packaging, but that doesn't stop me from continuing to buy their things. I will be in search of a dupe for this product because I don't want to purchase it full price, since I'm not particularly in love with the packaging on this product anyway. BUT, if I can't find a dupe I will definitely repurchase. 

Deep Midnight Perfumes- Sherlock Holmes Sample Set

I thoroughly admit to being actually intrigued by only three of these scents, but they were given to me from my wishlist in a Valentine's Day Exchange and I nonetheless squeed like small child with candy when I saw these. 

Shipping and Packaging

I can't tell you how they came packed or how the shipping was, but this product presentation is lovely. A midnight blue bag, a well designed and befitting business card, and nice labels with an interesting but easy to read font. 

Though I do have to say that these bottles are impossible to open. They have these strange seal types things on them. My Blushie perfumes had a similar seal on them, but they were not so impossible to open. I have to use my silicone jar grips to pry the lids off, and even then it requires quite a bit of force. 

Price

Full size perfumes are 17$

Most samples run 3$ a piece (they come in sets of 5, 10, and then in themed sample packs) 

Scent Reviews

Professor M. ★★☆☆☆

 Company Description: Follow the trail of rich leather, bay rum and pipe tobacco, with a sexy hint of Egyptian musk. 
In the Bottle: No noticeable difference between my skin and the bottle.
On the Skin:  I recognize this smell but I can't tell you what it is, I get some tobacco and then this masculine leaning version of when sweet things dry. Like manly rotten fruit, in a way that is okay. Non-Blind commentary: Oh! I think that's rum, I'm thinking of how fruit smells when it is fermented.
Sillage: ✦✦✦✧✧ 

221 B ★★☆☆☆

 Company Description: oakmoss, tanned leather, hardy woods, crisp basil, amber, and lavender
In the Bottle: Tobacco and flowers, mostly tobacco (I think though what I may actually be smelling is woods and oak because this perfume does not list a tobacco note.)
On the Skin:  On the skin it very much mellows down and morphs into this super complex scent. There is a green aspect, a crisp aspect, the tobacco is always what I smell first but then it fades out and you can get the tanned leather and this elegant floral smell. It is very interesting.
Sillage: ✦✧✧✧✧ At least on my skin the sillage is pathetic, that may be because my skin amps up the sweet in everything so the base notes aren't coming through, but it has a three inch throw. 
Lasting Time:

A Study In Brown ★★☆☆☆

 Company Description: A scented story of aromatic copal, nutty tonka bean, oak wood smoke, and toasted sugar. Reminiscent of both far away travels and the comfort of enjoying a warm fire in your favorite library chair.
In the Bottle: A surprisingly nice mild smoke scent, a lot of spice, a little sweetness.
On the Skin:  It smells like a cigarette on me up close, from a distance though it is this very subtle waft of nose singing camping smell. It reminds me of being by the fire and eating some way over-spiced backpacking food while out on the trail.
Sillage: ✦✦✦✧✧ 
Lasting Time: 4 hours

Save the Queen ★★☆☆☆

I am terrified of this supposed fresh grass note. I happen to be very allergic to grass and I am highly concerned that it will either give me a rash or bring back terrible memories. 

 Company Description: A veritable feast of three different and rich honeys (clover honey, basswood honey, raw honeycomb) tempered with dark tea, bergamot, and a faint note of fresh grass.
In the Bottle: FLOWERS with a rich sweetness in the background
On the Skin: During the dry down it briefly smelled like tons of honey, sickly sweet. Then it became a mixture of florals and honey sweetness, which I still found quite cloying.
Sillage: ✦✦✦✦✧ 

No lasting time on this one because my wrist swelled up and itched and hurt. I may very well be insane, or I may actually be allergic to grass scented perfumes.

Miss Sherlock ★★★★☆

 Company Description: Main notes are: Orris, lemon verbena, geranium, musk, white tea, and woods.
In the Bottle: mostly soap, with mint, and a little floral. I am getting the white tea and a bit of greenness too. Trident did this white tea and mint gum, and it tastes like this smells, but without any of the green or soapy aspects.
On the Skin:  So it smells similar in the bottle to how it does on the skin, but on the skin it started to grow on me. It is very unique and eccentric, but it does give off this vibe of a strong intelligent woman. Honestly though, I think this would smell great on some men and I can see this being a signature scent for some people.
Sillage:  ✦✦✦✦✧ it goes about three feet, if you're having a conversation or sitting next to someone they will probably smell your perfume a little. 
Lasting Time: 4 hours

The Woman ★★★★☆

 Company Description: A feminine and enticing blend of seductive Mallow blossom, jasmine, peony, honeysuckle, and sultry Egyptian musk, blended into a sexy opium accord. 
In the Bottle: A very faint baby wipe smell, florals, a bunch of other stuff I have no idea about, but in a really good way? I quite like it.
On the Skin:  Similar to in the bottle.
Sillage: ✦✦✦✧✧ 
Lasting Time: 4 hours

Final Thoughts

These are such beautiful, unique, and interesting perfumes. The lasting time is average, not bad, but average. I expect to have to apply perfumes at least twice in one day, but I am super impressed with the sillage, some of these even surpass my mainstream perfume roller balls. 

Now, for me personally I won't wear a lot of these scents but this was such a wonderful foray into a world of perfumes I would never have picked out for myself. I will most definitely be ordering more from her in the future.

I learned several very valuable lessons: I hate tobacco/smoke scented anything, I'm not into woods scented things, jar grips will never be useless, and I am allergic to grass even in perfume form.

Also, while a lot of these perfumes got two star overall ratings, they probably deserve three stars. I rate them based on my personal preferences and, while I do take into account practical aspects like sillage and lasting time, ultimately at least one star comes purely from how much I enjoyed the scent.

Maybelline Baby Lips Electro

 Yet another collection from Baby Lips, I think there is 4 now if you count the originals.


These are only 4 of the six shades because, as I have mentioned before, I am allowing myself no more hot pink lippies. Every time I say this though it seems like pink would have been a good option to swatch, but it is what it is.




The tubes with a little product rolled up so that you can see what I am putting on my lips:

The MSRP on these is $4.




Here is the product swatched on my hand (I also discovered that they look beautiful on a tissue but that is not an accurate representation of this product so it isn't here), the yellow and the green are very sheer, only the orange and the purple seem to have any real pigmentation.

It was this difference in pigmentation that made me wish I had bought the other two pinks, because I can't say how those would react.







Fierce N' Tangy (Yellow)- There is nothing fierce about this product. I do get a slight yellow sheen, but it is so sheer that the only thing its going to do is make you look jaundiced. It does smell lemoney though, so that is pretty fun.

Minty Sheer (Green)- it is sheer alright, basically a clear lip balm. There is almost zero pigmentation to this one. This one smells minty, like spearmint.






Oh! Orange-  Finally something with pigmentation. It makes my lips a very subtle coral color, nothing particularly electrifying about it. I think they tried to do an orange scent with this one, and then failed miserably. The scent is weak a little weird like they couldn't be bothered to choose between Orange Crush and True Orange.

I don't know how you mess up the smell of oranges, especially when you clearly understand the smell of lemons.

Berry Bomb (Purple)- This was what I was expecting from all of them. It has the traditional Baby Lips scent and a sort of electric sheen to it.

To the right are swatches of the Clinique Baby Tint in Flowering Freesia. Clinique's runs a bit pinker, which is why it is not as electric, but they look similar enough that if you want that very sheer wash of moisturizing color without the 17$ price tag, you could pick Berry Bomb up instead.

Final Thoughts

Overall, the collection seems okay. I did go ahead and do some searching for lip swatches of the pink and red colors, and those ones looked pigmented as well, so they just happened to completely fail on the two most interesting and unique shades in the whole collection. I would recommend these to young girls (they have coordinated scents, and bright packaging, but are so sheer it's pretty difficult to screw up) and people who like the idea of a truly sheer moisturizing lip color but not the price tag of higher end products

Let's Talk: Two-Step Liquid Lip Color

A few years ago I discovered the joys of the two-step lip color. I have been using Maybelline and Revlon's lippies interchangeably for quite a while. I tend to lean towards Maybelline because it has a balm on the other side instead of a gloss like the Revlon.

Recently, I have been intrigued by Covergirl's Outlast, and as I have been needing a coral lippie, I was able to justify purchasing it. Upon doing this, I realized that I had never really put any of the brands head to head. Thus, this experiment was born. All of these brands are similar in cost, running right around $7- $10 each at my Walgreens and intended to do the same thing.

We are testing multiple things

- Application
- Staying Power
- Reaction to Lip Liner
- Comfort



 Bare lips for reference above and a showcase of the products I used on the left. For the record, while I would usually use my Elf Lip Lock pencil, the Lord and Berry one is thinner. I am certain they are basically the same thing otherwise.

 Revlon Colorstay  and Rimmel Provocalips have an up to 16 hour wear time, while Maybelline Super Stay and Covergirl Outlast supposedly have up to 24 hours of wear time.

Test #1

Revlon Constant Coral, Covergirl Coral Sunset, Maybelline On and On Orchid

This photo was taken at approximately 5:45PM, just after initial application of color and top coat. I specifically chose three very different colors in order to more easily determine which was which on my lips.

At 6:00 PM I begin eating pizza- pizza is greasy to this is a true test of resilience

Now, at 6:50 PM after having nearly made myself sick on pizza and chocolate, the areas where the lip liner was have come away, and there is inner lip wear, but it is still there.

My conclusion is that two-step lip colors are intended to be used without a lip liner for best results. 

At 8:30 PM I noticed my center lip color, especially on my bottom lip was crumbling away.

When I went to bed at 11:00 PM this is what my lips looked like



And finally, this is what my lips looked like at 9:45 the next morning. The Revlon was the only color I would say lasted for the entire stated time. It is still patchy, but I would count it.

Test #2

Revlon Bare Maximum vs. Rimmel Provocalips in I'll Call You

These brands both have the same lasting time, and I have yet to be able to showcase the Rimmel lippie. At 4 PM I put on one single coat of each of these lipsticks.

At 4:30 PM I started sucking on a lollipop. Minor color transfer from Rimmel onto the stick but no appearance change on the lips





6:30 PM after having eaten dinner: some fading, but it is minimal enough that I think just reapplying the top coat would be fine









9:30 AM the next morning, after a lovely evening of vomiting (TMI I know, but both the colors stayed pretty well). These products both won hardcore, Rimmel is cheaper but I like the top coat the least, the color selection is quite limited, and it is quite a bit patchier as well.

Final Thoughts

So every brand has a different idea of corals. Nudes I understand, most brands have hopped on the bandwagon of making many nude shades because hey, people don't all have the same skin color. Coral though, I get that it is a personal preference, and I agree that there is some shade range but the red Revlon lippie I used is supposed to be coral, and that is not coral, it is a bright red, maybe orange if you want to go there. 

None of them actually lasted 24 hours on my mouth, or even 16 really. I didn't expect them to, at least not on an actual human who eats and talks and occasionally rubs at their mouths.

Ultimately, once I got them on my lips, they preformed relatively similarly with the biggest variation being in lasting time.  I think it is really about what you like to see in color range, initial application, packaging, how you like to apply your lipstick, and what top coat you want that really matters here. So below are my personal pros and cons, so that if you're interested you can get an idea of what you like. 

Covergirl Outlast- $10

Pros

- Has the largest color range

- I like their lip balm the best
Cons

Two tubes for one product 

Lip balm is scented

Crumbled off easily after a few hours 

Application can be a little streaky
Product can get gloopy before drying

Actual Lasting Time- Safely 3 hours
Reccomended For- People who love to change their lip color but still want transfer-proof qualities

Revlon Colorstay Overtime- $10

Pros

Slim Packaging

Solid one-swipe coverage
Held up better than the rest

Cons

Gloss with strange brush for top coat

Most pathetic color range

Don't seem to understand what colors are- that red lippie I have been showing you is supposed to be coral.



Actual Lasting Time- safely 10 hours
Recommended for- people who like shine and staying power

Maybelline Super Stay- $7

Pros

Unscented Lip Balm

Solid one-swipe coverage

Cons

Large container size

Larger applicator

Everything leans pink in their line of colors

Scented color (but it goes away quickly)

Actual Lasting Time- Safely 3 hours

Recommended For- People who want the least expensive transfer-proof lipstick they can change up often.

Rimmel Provocalips- $7

Pros

By far the most comfortable on the lips 

Solid one-swipe coverage

Has staining power

Cons

Lacks complete smudge-proofness

Weird opening and closing mechanism

Scented top coat

Color transfers onto top coat wand even after allowing sufficient drying time.

Actual Lasting Time- Safely 9 hours
Recommended For- People who like staying power, like staining, really want comfort, and enjoy less glossy finishes

Firebird Bath and Body

Firebird Bath & Body is an Etsy based perfume and bath company. I decided to order from them because I had heard a few good reviews, but they still seemed like a lesser known brand, at least in my circles.

Also, I got a friend of mine to do these reviews with me. We have fairly similar senses of smell, but different skin chemistry. She was privy to the name of the perfume, but not to the notes of the perfume like I am.

Shipping and Packaging

 Another etsy order that came in a bubble mailer,
but the samples were still wrapped beyond that and everything arrived safely. Inside the tissue paper the samples were held inside of a black envelope and then they had all been bound together in plastic.

I like how simple, practical, and professional this packaging is. While it looks homemade, it doesn't look unprofessional.

Price

A full size rollerball perfume is 10$ (.3oz or 9mL). Samples cost two dollars a piece and come in packs of three, which is fine for me because I love to try and review multiple scents, but if you don't want samples in multiples of three I can see how this may be inconvenient. 

 Scent Reviews

Peach Tea ★★☆☆☆

 Company Description: Not a sugary, cloying peach nectar- this fragrance is more reminiscent of the subtle sweet perfume emanating from the fuzzy skin of a just-picked peach on the verge of being perfectly ripe. With a slightly bitter wisp of chilled black tea in the background, and the soft redolence of nearby honeysuckle blooms. Very feminine and summery.
In the Bottle: I'm getting the peach, some apricot but mostly peach, and then tea as the back note, but I can't really discern what type of tea.
On the Skin:  This smells a lot more like apricot black tea to me personally, but still good
Sillage: ✦✦✦✧✧ 
Lasting Time:  4-5 hours

Susannah: 
(In Bottle) "Definitely getting the tea, a little peachiness, but not overly frilly"
(On Skin) "There is a lot more peach on the skin, I get more apricot. The tea is still there, but faintly"

Almond Milk ★★☆☆☆

 Company Description: Soft, sensual, intoxicating: almond, vanilla, musk, a wisp of white chocolate. 
In the Bottle: Very similar to how it smells on the skin, but with no cream smell.
On the Skin:  It is a very full but sickly sweet fragrance. On the skin the vanilla and white chocolate do smell like a very sweet cream, I'm getting another note of what I think is supposed to be the almond, but which doesn't smell like almonds at all. Once it starts to mellow out, the vanilla gets stronger, but it is still a little too sweet for me personally.
Sillage: ✦✦✦✧✧ 
Lasting Time:  4-5 hours

Susannah: 
(In Bottle) "Its almond and vanilla-y but not very strong"
(On Skin) "Putting it on my skin ruined it- it smells like vanilla aerosol on me"

Black Cocoa ★★★☆☆

Company Description: A dark and mysterious blend of rich chocolate, golden amber, cedar, sandalwood, and a wisp of black coffee
In the Bottle: It smells a lot more like incense in the bottle, I'm guessing that is the cedar and sandalwood. There are little whiffs of the chocolate and the coffee once you move away from that.
On the Skin: On the skin it is just this very elegant chocolate scent, I can't truly recognize the other notes but they are there. I wish this perfume had better sillage.
Sillage: ✦✦✧✧✧ 
Lasting Time:  4 hours

Susannah: 
(In Bottle) "Definitely getting the chocolate, but also getting a blackness, whatever that is."
(On Skin) "On the skin its just another chocolate perfume."

Gingerale ★★★★☆

 Company Description: This fresh and citrusy perfume smells just like a glass of gingerale- you can even smell the bubbles!
In the Bottle: It smells somewhat like gingerale in the bottle, but on the skin it really brings out the scent.
On the Skin: morphs into magical gingerale-from-the-can scent, carbonation and all. Like I just opened up some Canada Dry, bubbles included.
Sillage: ✦✦✧✧✧ this one stays close to the body, but I think that is for the best. It would be odd to smell gingerale from six feet away. 
Lasting Time: 5 hours, it is still there, but wearing down.

Susannah: 
(In Bottle) "This is gingerale, ginger but with a sparkly lightness. It smells carbonated."

(On Skin) "It smells similar in the bottle but it intensifies on the skin in a good way."

Grapefruit Ginger ★★☆☆☆

Company Description: Tart and fresh and full of bright citrusy sparkle and zing, this scent combines juicy grapefruit and zesty lime with the spicy kick of ginger. 
In the Bottle: I smell more of the lime than the grapefruit, but the citrus mixes nicely with the ginger.
On the Skin: If the scent that was in the bottle was what came out on the skin, I would be golden. On my skin is morphs into the deep floral with the vaguest hint of grapefruit.
Sillage: ✦✦✧✧✧ 
Lasting Time: 4 hours

Susannah: 
(In Bottle) "Oh! That's nice, first I get the grapefruit and then the ginger"

(On Skin) "There is a lot more grapefruit, it loses the ginger almost entirely. Later it morphed into a floral and grapefruit scent."

Sugar ★★★☆☆

Company Description: Orange blossom, vanilla, berries, a hint of anise- but "Sugar" really describes it best
In the Bottle: Very fruity, with a clean tinge to it. Not like detergent to me, but as Susannah enjoys cleaning I can see how she would get there
On the Skin: On my skin it sweetens up a bit but still very much has that clean smell, it isn't that different from the bottle. I much preferred how it smelled on Susannah.
Sillage: ✦✦✦✧✧  1-1.5ft from the skin, my preferred sillage. 
Lasting Time: 4 hours

Susannah: 
(In Bottle) "Not sugar at all, almost citrusy. Like citrus laundry detergent."

(On Skin) "There it is! It's a very light fruitier sugar. If you don't want to smell like a prostitute, but still want to smell like sugar this is the perfume for you."

Final Thoughts

Quality perfumes at reasonable prices, they all wear pretty close to the skin but not so close its pointless. I am incredibly impressed with this brand and I will be ordering from them again. They have less than a page of scents in their shop, but from the samples I got I feel they put a lot of hard work into making good blends while still having a decent selection. 

Pixi Shea Butter Lip Balms

I'm fairly certain I mentioned these in a favorites at one point, and I discovered they carry the whole line at Target, so it's not even difficult to go get them. While I was tempted to buy the entire collection my wallet and vast lippie collection has thanked me for not doing so. Instead I have almost the entire collection, minus Pixi Pink because I told myself I was not allowed to buy more hot pink lippies.







Price: 8$ per lippie
If you are really into them though they do a set of three (comfort clear, honey nectar, and ripe raspberry) for 16$.

They also do sets of 4 on Birchbox.com for 28$, but that is only a 4$ savings where the set of three for 16$ you actually get one free, so its cheaper (even if you want the whole collection actually)

Scent: They have a sweet scent to them, which I personally find absolutely delicious.

Feel: They go on smooth and don't have any of the waxy feeling you get from original Chapstick or EOS, but they still feel quite moisturizing.





Colors and Swatches:

Left to right; Ripe Raspberry, Coral Crush, Natural Rose, Honey Nectar

Comfort Clear- clear, it is weirdly pink in the tube, but goes on completely clear, and without any noticeable formula change.







Honey Nectar- a pink nude, my personal favorite as it is my go to MLBB color.








Natural Rose- a semi-mauvey pink and a close color match for UD's Revolution Lipstick in Rush. When I was working through a lipstick sample of it, I brought along Natural Rose to be my lip balm touch-up color.



Coral Crush- An orange leaning coral.

Ripe Raspberry- A raspberry red. I was concerned about the hand swatch, because it looked very pink, but it is subtly raspberry colored, like after you've eaten a whole bag of frozen raspberries (no? just me? okay) except that it is evenly colored.

Show Us Your Eyeliners!- OBT Prompt #1

"This week's prompt from OBT network is 'show us your stash of eyeliners'!  Our Beauty Talk is a beauty forum community where we talk about subscription boxes, beauty skincare and more!"

As a part of OBT's Blog Network I will do my best to participate in these prompts at least half the time. So, without further ado, the picture to your left is all of my eyeliners. I'm going to break them down by category and swatch them all for you. 

Urban Decay's Black Magic Collection

 I swear I own these just for swatching sometimes, because they get swatched more often than actually worn.  This set I think is no longer available but they make other sets which are an easy way to try out this product and get multiple colors to use for a good price. 




 Each two swatches are their own pencil, because the Black Magic collection is a set of dual ended pencils.

Left to right, Demolition and Zero, Smoke and Black Velvet, Tornado and Black Market, LSD and Perversion

Colored Eyeliners

Starlooks Olive Green, Mally Beauty in Pink, Julep Eye Glider in Smokey Taupe Shimmer, Sumita in Gold, Pacifica in Silver and Brown. I'm hoping to find a better silver and gold one, the brown pencil does its job for the time being, the pink is a good quality because it is an eyeliner I use often which I have been meaning to test out in my waterline, and the olive green and smokey taupe shimmer are just very unique colors I received from subscription boxes. If I could buy a box that just sent me pretty colored eyeliners from different brands, I would subscribe for at least a few months because I like to pretend I am too frugal to buy weird eyeliners for myself. 

Glitter Liners

You may remember these from my Jcat Beauty post a while back. I think I like them more now than I did then, so I'm glad I kept them around. 

Compared to my original swatches these have become much more vibrant as they have settled.

Elf Eyeliners

sharpener top

Brightening Eyeliner
Shimmer Black Eyeliner
Waterproof Eyeliner Pen

I have a few of these, and given how cheap they are, I thought people might care to know how much quality you get out of such a small price tag. The answer is that these are okay and will function in a pinch.  

What I will say I enjoy though is the sharpener on top of the pencil liners, it is absolutely brilliant. 

Below are the swatches, the first two are of the glitter black liner to try and capture any sort of shimmer (there is none). The second one is the brightening liner, and the third is the waterproof liner pen.

  The brightening liner is nice to have around, I use it for marking off my brows when I shape them, on the lower lash line, and for highlighting my cupid's bow, but I will be looking for better in the future.






Finally, the waterproof eyeliner pen. I've had it for a few months, it is starting to dry out. Also it isn't waterproof, it isn't even smudge proof.  The left image is the result of me rubbing my finger over it a few times. It both flakes and smudges, which I find odd because it is usually only one or the other. 

All My Other Black Liners

Here is the pile of the rest of my eyeliners, including my one gel eyeliner and the swankie silicone brush I use to apply it. 

You may see the edges of other lines on the top portion of my swatch photo, that is because I labeled them with corresponding letters as my own personal cheat sheet for writing this post. 

Left to right; Hourglass eyeliner, Maybelline Master Precise, Benefit Push-Up Liner, Rimmel Scandaleyes, Eyeko Liquid Liner, Unknown brand gel eyeliner. 

The Hourglass eyeliner is my HG waterline eyeliner. The master precise does not give a consistently even line, I find the tip overly flexible, and it is beginning to dry out (things I hate about liquid liners). I have a mixed relationship with the push-up liner, I liked it more than I expected considering the reviews I have seen.

  I looove  the Scandaleyes liner, I'm fairly certain I've spoken about it before, and that it will be mentioned in future posts. The Eyeko liner was something I got in my Birchbox, and I had no idea it would be so intense and glossy, I kind of like it. Finally, the unknown gel eyeliner I own. There are no labels, it is poor quality, but I like having it around for practice. 

And, that's it. You have now looked at every eyeliner that I own. 

The Weekly Roundup

Because this is a part of a blog network, other people do these prompts too. The weekly roundup is a collection of all the blogs that did the same prompt, because you know you want to stalk everybody else's eyeliner stash. 

The Makeup Monologues