No beauty look is complete without eyeliner. What eyeliner does is to define the shape of your eyes, and it can either create a beautiful compliment or contrast to the eyeshadow that you wear. The best eyeliner accentuates the color of your eyes, and goes a long way to create and to express a mood through your eyes. For example, you can wear eyeliner to look dark and mysterious. Or you can look like a 1950′s bombshell. You can wear eyeliner to look innocent or to just create a professional and well put-together line for your eyes.
To this end, there are different colors of eyeliner, and different formulations of eyeliner that you can wear. Here’s a list of those different formulations, and how they can help you achieve the look that you are going for.
Pencil eyeliners: These are the most common, and therefore the most popular. The price on these cost anywhere from a dollar, and up, depending upon the brand. Most pencil eyeliners are made out of kohl. This is a soft mineral that was used as far back as ancient Egypt. This type of eyeliner can line both the upper and lower eyelash line. It’s very versatile, because it’s easy to carry around, and the user has a the most control with applying this type of eyeliner. It is one of the easier types of eyeliners to apply and a simple eye make up tip for a natural look. This type of eyeliner can be used to create either a soft look, a simple conservative line, or a smokey eye makeup look. This all depends on the color of the eyeliner pencil, and the end result of the line applied. Many people like to smudge the pencil line a bit. This works to soften the line. The more that they smudge it, the more smoky of a look that they will create. On the other hand, some people want a more bold look, like when applying emo makeup. So creating a line that is heavy and un-smudged works for them to achieve this look. What’s in style now is to use eyeliner pencils in many different colors, and use the pencils to line all over the eyes. Some people use colored eyeliner pencils as a base eyeshadow color.
Liquid Eyeliners: This type of liner is the gold-standard when it comes to creating the cat-eye, which was popular in the Hollywood golden age (circa 1940s-1960s) The most common color of liquid eyeliner is black. Women love that deeply bold and deep black color that comes from using a liquid eyeliner. Liquid eyeliners most of the time come in a small bottle with a brush in the handle. It resembles an inkwell and pen, only instead of a pen, there will be a liner brush. However, many manufacturers sell liquid liners in the form of pens that look like markers. They have the same felt tips that markers do, only instead of marker ink, there is liquid eyeliner.
Cake Eyeliners: These are similar to liquid eyeliners in their end results. These were used in the olden times, but make up enthusiast still use these, and they are sold in fine cosmetic stores. These are simply cakes of eyeliner that either will have a gel texture, or they will have the texture of eyeshadow. These have to be used with an eyeliner brush. The brush is usually dipped in a little water, and then dipped into the cake. Then the line is applied to the eyelash line. This also creates a dramatic and a bold line to the eye.
The best beauty tips always suggest you experiment. So the thing to do if you are trying to decide which is best for you, is to try all three, and have lots of fun with them!
