Blue eyeliner is all the rage right now but don’t be scared, we have come a long long way from the electric blue rimmed eyes of the 80s (I was guilty of it myself at age 13). The new blue is dark as night with just a hint of color. I have gotten no less than 10 different midnight blue eyeliners in the last year but love the presentation of the Luxe Eye Definer from La Prairie best (for $50 you get a super fancy pencil sharpener and pretty box). But how does it perform? The color is fantastic, the best I’ve tried but the pencil is not soft enough (when I was in 4th grade, my friend’s older sister used a lighter to heat up her Maybelline liner, she’d then apply the hot melting liner to the inner rims of her eyes. Visions of her doing it still frighten me to this day). I made it slightly better by rubbing it along a tissue before applying and hoping it will soften with time. Anyone else tried this?
La Prairie Midnight Blue Luxe Eye Definer for $50
I warm up hard eyeliner pencils by holding the tips for a few seconds in the hollow of my palm. Then rubbing them there a bit to get the pigment flowing. I believe that much warmth is enough. The lighter idea sounds very scary :-O
Most of the time, Beauty Snob tips us off to interesting and useful ideas. But this time, you’ve gone too far, even for a hard-core makeup addict like me. $50 for an eyeliner pencil? $50 for an eyeliner pencil? In today’s economy, that’s a week’s worth of food for many people. In honor of this post, I plan to donate $50 to the Eye Bank for Eyesight Restoration [ http://www.eyedonation.org/ ] and make myself happy with one of the great >$10 options available in my local drugstore. (Almost all eye makeup pencils are made by about three factories in Germany, anyway.)